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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
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  • World Industry News
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  • Exploration & Discoveries
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  • Drilling & Completion
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  • Development & Production
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  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences
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  • Health Safety & Environment
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  • Company News
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  • Industry Events
    •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Giant leaps in price across the board
    (1/23/2007) Prices at both the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London and at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) soared more than 4% for an average increase in our monitored benchmarks of US$2.32 over yesterday's settlements...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (1/24/2007) US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be doubled
    (1/23/2007) Insurgents set northern Iraq oilfield ablaze
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/24/2007) Operations resume at Arar's Koyunlu-1 in SE Turkey
    (1/24/2007) Eternal Energy prepping to drill North Sea Laurel Valley
    (1/24/2007) Drilling set for Superior's Trinidad Intrepid Block
    (1/24/2007) Floods delay exploration in Queensland's Wompi Block
    (1/24/2007) Tag casing New Zealand Mangamingi test well
    (1/23/2007) EnCana spuds onshore Oman exploration well
    (1/23/2007) Double Eagle finds little at Christmas Meadows so far
    (1/23/2007) Woodside's Pomboo well off Kenya expensive duster
    (1/22/2007) Rosneft & Stroitransgaz exploring in Algeria, Sonatrach in Russia
    (1/22/2007) Petronas & PNOC set to drill offshore Mindoro
    (1/22/2007) Plectrum increasing exploration activities this year
    (1/22/2007) Thai Wichian Buri discovery performs well under test
    (1/22/2007) Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ discovery not commercial (update)
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/24/2007) Advanced multilateral intelligent completion being developed
    (1/24/2007) Severe weather hampers Vermillion Basin drilling
    (1/23/2007) World's first commercial monobore expandable liner extension
    (1/23/2007) Bridge North Sea books AGR Peak's Ensco 100 rig
    (1/23/2007) Standard Drilling & UMW Petropipe form jackups JV
    (1/23/2007) Index increases position in West 1 drilling program
    (1/22/2007) Gulfport working 2 rigs in Louisiana, adding 3rd
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/24/2007) Worrisome Chinguetti produces a winner
    (1/24/2007) PEDCO talking to Saipem about Azadegan Field contract
    (1/24/2007) OMV puts New Zealand Maari Field development at 28%
    (1/24/2007) Long step-out on PA's Tunisian field taps pay
    (1/24/2007) Pearl puts Thailand's Jasmine B on production
    (1/23/2007) Turkmenistan's Sag Kenar field reserves put at 60 Tcf
    (1/23/2007) BMB Munai completes 3rd well on Kazakh field
    (1/23/2007) Allied drilling & completing wells on Oklahoma CBM project
    (1/23/2007) Global to drill Colombia's Primavera Field
    (1/23/2007) Turkey's Selmo Field back at full production
    (1/23/2007) Water injection started on Congo's M'Boundi Field
    (1/23/2007) Maersk Oil puts UK North Sea Dumbarton Field onstream
    (1/22/2007) Fortune completes 2nd pilot well In Shanxi, China CBM block
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/24/2007) Medco and Premier buy into Aceh Block A gasfield
    (1/24/2007) Hyperdynamics commences offshore Guinea farmout
    (1/24/2007) Bahrain to offer new offshore blocks this year
    (1/24/2007) Enermad bid accepted on 6 Madagascar blocks
    (1/24/2007) Oilexco farming into Ptarmigan discovery in UK North Sea
    (1/23/2007) Georgia farming into Texas' Brushy Creek IV
    (1/23/2007) Canmex farms into Range's Somali Puntland project
    (1/23/2007) Perupetro launches licensing round with 18 blocks
    (1/23/2007) BreitBurn acquiring Texas Permian Basin properties
    (1/23/2007) Repsol & Shell on verge of $4.3 billion Iran South Pars deal
    (1/23/2007) Canadian Superior adds 2 offshore Nova Scotia blocks
    (1/23/2007) Devon to divest assets & terminate West Africa operations
    (1/23/2007) PTTEP picks up 3 Andaman Sea blocks
    (1/22/2007) RusAl signs to explore for gas in Papua New Guinea
    (1/22/2007) Rosneft & Gazprom to share all new fields offshore Russian
    (1/22/2007) Pakistan grants 2 new NW Frontier exploration licenses
    (1/22/2007) Ethiopia granting Petronas Blocks 11 & 15
    (1/22/2007) South Africa putting up 30 blocks for bid
    (1/22/2007) BP signs PSA with Oman for Khazzan & Makarem Fields (update)
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/19/2007) Wavefield Inseis commercializing optical 4C OBC technology
    (1/19/2007) Seismic completed on Alberta's Leismer Oil Sands
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/24/2007) Noble gaswell blowout on Wyoming field
    (1/24/2007) OPITO announces biggest single change to offshore safety
    (1/24/2007) Fire cuts output from Suncor oil sands upgrader
    (1/24/2007) Hydro drilling cuttings injection well on Fram East
    (1/23/2007) Statoil in clean-up collaboration with Russia
    (1/23/2007) Ogoni well fire extinguished, but leak unchecked
    (1/22/2007) 3,500 people evacuated due to SW China gaswell leak
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/24/2007) MIS to refurbish Arabian Drilling Rig AD-8
    (1/24/2007) Fed jury rules Kerr-McGee underpaid US Gulf royalties
    (1/24/2007) Surge seeks to acquire billion bbl of Alberta bitumen
    (1/24/2007) Cooper adds minority stake in Mosaic Oil
    (1/24/2007) Chevron ties deepwater ops to shore via multimedia
    (1/24/2007) WorleyParsons & Intec in Asia-Pacific pact
    (1/23/2007) Lukoil buys remaining interest in Geoilbent
    (1/23/2007) Superior Energy Services buys Duffy & McGovern
    (1/23/2007) CB&I awarded LNG liquefaction project in Peru
    (1/23/2007) Central Copters adds an aerial truck
    (1/23/2007) Aker Kvaerner to deliver another deepwater drilling riser
    (1/23/2007) Shell Canada's board recommends acceptance takeover bid
    (1/22/2007) Centek becomes Netherlands centralizer supplier
    (1/22/2007) INTEC wins deepwater subsea engineering for US Gulf project
    (1/22/2007) AGR & Helix acquire vessel for conversion to FPSO
    (1/22/2007) Kongsberg providing Gjoa Field control systems
    (1/22/2007) Total putting $6 billion into Indonesian E&P
    (1/22/2007) Halliburton expanding wireline capabilities
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    January 25-26
    Caribbean Energy Annual Conference, Coral Gables, Florida USA
    January 29-31
    SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, College Station, Texas USA
    January 30-31
    Horizontal Wells Summit 2007 Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    January 30-February 1
    ADC Underwater Intervention 2007 (with MTS), New Orleans, Louisiana USA
    February 1-2
    AAPL North American Prospect Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    February 6-7
    Asia Upstream Conference & Exhibition, Singapore
    February 6-8
    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2007 Conference, Abuja, Nigeria
    February 7-8
    Russia Offshore 2007 Conference, Moscow, Russia
    February 7-11
    International Association for Energy Economics Conference, Wellington, New Zealand
    February 8
    Subsea '07 Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    February 12-14
    NACE Northern Area Western Conference, Anchorage, Alaska USA
    February 12-15
    Energy Institute International Petroleum Week Conference & Exhibition, London, UK
    February 12-16
    Cambridge Energy Research Associates CERAWeek 2007, Houston, Texas USA
    February 14-15
    World Oil & Gas Executive Forum, London, UK
    February 18-March 21
    Geo-Institute of the ASCE Geo-Denver 2007, Denver, Colorado USA
    ...More Events

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