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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
    Largest price increases in 16 months today
    (1/30/2007) With an eye to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) actually cutting another 500,000 b/d beginning on Thursday 1 February, and the slow to come winter weather in the Northern Hemisphere driving up demand...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (1/31/2007) Russia outlines draft laws on foreign investment
    (1/31/2007) Addax oil worker kidnapped in Niger Delta
    (1/30/2007) Turkey warns against oil exploration offshore Cyprus (update)
    (1/28/2007) Cyprus rejects sharing oil & gas with Turkish Cypriots (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/31/2007) Brinx to drill offset well at Oklahoma's Owl Creek
    (1/31/2007) South Texas taps into Colorado DJ Basin pay
    (1/31/2007) Gulfsands contracts rig to drill Syria Block 26
    (1/31/2007) BP suspending 1 Tcf gas discovery well off Egypt (update)
    (1/30/2007) BP makes discovery of 1 Tcf gasfield offshore Egypt
    (1/30/2007) BP makes 12th discovery in Angola's ultra-deep Block 31
    (1/30/2007) PTTEP chalks up 3 gas finds in Gulf of Thailand
    (1/29/2007) Eni scores 2 discoveries in Tunisian Sahara
    (1/29/2007) Wyn completes Prophet River exploratory well
    (1/29/2007) Petromir discovers 2 new Irkutsk gas condensate fields
    (1/29/2007) Cooper Basin Wilpinnie well cased & suspended for testing
    (1/29/2007) Gulfport's successful East Hackberry well in S. Louisiana
    (1/29/2007) Toreador finds oil & gas with Romanian exploration well
    (1/29/2007) Emerald's Aureliano-1 in Colombia has hydrocarbon shows
    (1/29/2007) Murphy makes deepwater gas discovery off Malaysia
    (1/29/2007) Ascent scores with oil discovery 80 km from Rome
    (1/29/2007) Austin spuds Louisiana St Gabriel I prospect
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/31/2007) Statoil to employ Maersk Inspirer for Volve drilling
    (1/31/2007) Essar adds Transocean Wildcat to its fleet
    (1/30/2007) Cairn drilling 3 new Sangu wells in Bangladesh
    (1/30/2007) Oilex kicks off India's Cambay re-entry program
    (1/30/2007) Radial to re-start Peru Ucayali Basin drilling
    (1/29/2007) Green Dragon to conclude current CBM drilling
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/31/2007) OMV hikes output from Pakistan's Sawan gasfield
    (1/31/2007) Powder River completes 11th Weesatche well in Texas
    (1/31/2007) Noble Denton loads out of Petrobras PRA-1 jacket
    (1/31/2007) ONGC putting $1.3 billion into Mumbai High
    (1/31/2007) Booming Libyan oil-services sector seeking partners
    (1/31/2007) Dragados loading out Ku-Maloob-Zaap platform
    (1/31/2007) Henjam gasfield development to commence
    (1/31/2007) Norway's PSA okays manned underwater operations
    (1/31/2007) Brigham completes 3rd southern Louisiana producer
    (1/30/2007) BP investing $2.4 billion to boost Colorado CBM recovery
    (1/30/2007) HOEC drills first PY-1 development well
    (1/30/2007) INTEC wins US Gulf Shenzi subsea development contract
    (1/30/2007) Ironhorse boosts Saskatchewan acreage
    (1/30/2007) Ensco 100 rig to drill UK North Sea Tristan well
    (1/30/2007) Roc moves to develop China's Beibu Gulf fields
    (1/30/2007) AWE prepping to drill Tui directional producer leg
    (1/30/2007) Toreador tests upper zone in Turkey's Akcakoca-4
    (1/30/2007) Heating commences at New Brunswick's Stoney Creek
    (1/29/2007) Arcan puts another northern Alberta producer onstream
    (1/29/2007) Aghajari Field gas injection set to start in October
    (1/29/2007) Timor Sea gas projects win major project status
    (1/29/2007) SSP Piranema enroute to Brazil's Piranema Field
    (1/29/2007) Triton commences winter drilling at Alberta's Sullivan Lake
    (1/29/2007) Independence Hub heading for US Gulf installation site
    (1/29/2007) UKES spuds initial gaswell in UK's Ebberston Moor
    (1/29/2007) New study puts China's Liulin Block CBM reserves at 1.4 Tcf
    (1/29/2007) Statoil boosts output from Gullfaks area
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/31/2007) Saxon farms into Kepco Texas & Louisiana projects
    (1/31/2007) Lucas acquires adjacent Gonzales-Austin Chalk acreage
    (1/30/2007) ExxonMobil buys into Texas Barnett Shale gasfield
    (1/30/2007) Guinea-Bissau 3rd Licensing Round launched
    (1/30/2007) Norway awards APA licenses & offers Barents Sea blocks
    (1/29/2007) Statoil receives six operatorships in Norway's APA awards
    (1/29/2007) Pearl granted 2nd Gulf of Thailand concession
    (1/29/2007) Mitra granted Indonesia's offshore Sibaru Block
    (1/29/2007) Repsol & Shell sign $4.3 billion Iran South Pars deal (update)
    (1/29/2007) Cairn acquiring Nepal's Blocks 3 & 5
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/30/2007) Origin completes 2D shoot offshore Kenya
    (1/29/2007) Hunt poised to shoot offshore Senegal 3D survey
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/31/2007) Statoil & Eni strengthen emergency response in Barents Sea
    (1/30/2007) Copter crashes in South China Sea with 10 aboard
    (1/29/2007) Bahrain national oil company expands oil-spill response
    (1/28/2007) Nexen bans drinkers from offshore operations
    (1/28/2007) Leaking offshore Louisiana wellhead capped in US Gulf
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/31/2007) Aker Kvaerner & BP Norge extended long term contract
    (1/31/2007) Awilco options 3rd semi from Yantai Raffles
    (1/31/2007) Flamgard providing fire safety for Gazprom Sakhalin project
    (1/31/2007) Roxar wins Mideast downhole monitoring systems contract
    (1/31/2007) Aker Kvaerner to manufacture risers in Brazil
    (1/30/2007) Marathon pegs $2.23 billion for 2007 E&P
    (1/30/2007) Venezuela claims Pride evaded and owes taxes
    (1/30/2007) Petro Andina adopts well-lifecycle-management system
    (1/30/2007) Noreq delivering 19 lifeboats for Heerema's Thialf & Hermod
    (1/30/2007) Technip contract Abu Dhabi gas liquefaction project
    (1/30/2007) FPS Ocean develops releasable riser buoy for FPSOs
    (1/30/2007) Santos increases bid for Queensland Gas
    (1/30/2007) Statoil contracts Acergy for North Sea survey services
    (1/29/2007) SeaBird charters seismic vessel in conversion
    (1/29/2007) OMNI acquiring seismic drilling service
    (1/29/2007) Hydro and Statoil adjust merger terms
    (1/29/2007) Chevron contributes $10 million to US Institute of Peace
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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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