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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (1/4/2006) Statoil sees Barents Sea as globally important province
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/4/2006) Stena Tay resumes drilling Zoule-1 well off Mauritania
    (1/4/2006) Nexus drilling beyond planned TD of Culverin-1
    (1/4/2006) BowLeven's offshore Cameroon well a duster
    (1/4/2006) Colombia's offshore Tayrona Block showing signs of oil
    (1/4/2006) Great Artesian's Rossco a new gasfield discovery
    (1/4/2006) Aral spuds Kazakhstan's East Zhagabulak probe
    (1/4/2006) Chevron scores another deepwater US Gulf discovery
    (1/3/2006) Timor Sea Magnolia-1 well underway
    (1/3/2006) EnCana sidetracking Nova Scotia Dominion well
    (1/3/2006) Sunshine reaches TD in Queensland gas probe
    (1/3/2006) Antrim & Nexen abandon UK Bennachie well
    (1/3/2006) Papua New Guinea's Triceratops fizzles
    (1/3/2006) Kuwait to explore non-Iranian part of Dorra Field
    (1/3/2006) Stuart plugging & abandoning Rogan well
    (1/3/2006) Total discovers new oil province in Yemen's East Shabwa
    (1/3/2006) 3.55 billion bbl reserves revealed in China's Gansu Province
    (1/3/2006) Terax spuds 3rd Texas Barnett Shale probe
    (1/3/2006) Daybreak drilling Louisiana Basal Tuscaloosa target
    (1/3/2006) Texas-Louisiana border discovery made
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/4/2006) Canyon Creek hits high pressure gas in Texas' Inez Field
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/4/2006) Petrobras expecting P-52 & P-54 hulls in March
    (1/4/2006) Altamont drilling more producers in Montana
    (1/4/2006) Total puts UK Forvie North Field onstream
    (1/3/2006) Po Valley achieves strong flow on Italian well
    (1/3/2006) Mexico pegs $30 billion for decade's developments
    (1/3/2006) DNO's Nabrajah well in Yemen has strong shows
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/4/2006) TriValley adds California Tremblor Valley properties
    (1/4/2006) Tap granted block in New Zealand's offshore Taranaki Basin
    (1/4/2006) Arawak expands Akzhar contract area in Kazakhstan
    (1/4/2006) Noble farming into Teton's Eastern Denver-Julesburg acreage
    (1/3/2006) Pancontinental farms out Kenyan blocks to Origin Energy
    (1/3/2006) ExxonMobil sells Venezuela stake to Repsol
    (1/3/2006) Lexington acquires prime Barnett Shale lease
    (1/3/2006) Nigeria cancels 2005 licensing of 29 blocks
    (1/3/2006) Falcon farms into Oklahoma's South Ridgeway prospect
    (1/3/2006) Sri Lanka to offer licenses in Gulf of Mannar
    (1/3/2006) Mitsubishi farms into China's Zitong Block
    (1/3/2006) Suriname launches licensing of 3 offshore blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/4/2006) Veritas & Eidesvik agree on charter of new seismic vessel
    (1/4/2006) New multi-client 3D survey set for US Gulf
    (1/3/2006) Roc gets good results from Angolan seismic shoot
    (1/3/2006) Veritas granted 4-year Oman land acquisition contract
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/4/2006) Hydro's Njord Field through tubing rotary drilling audited
    (1/3/2006) Ecopetrol brings sabotage well spills under control
    (1/3/2006) Statoil quickly controls fire on Snorre platform
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/4/2005) NNPC sets 2006 oil & gas sector budget at $5.77 billion
    (1/4/2005) SeaDrill set to challenge Noble for Smedvig
    (1/4/2005) CNOOC Ltd stops parent from competing for assets
    (1/4/2005) ONGC picks SapuraCrest for wellhead platform project
    (1/4/2005) Siemens adds Berwanger to augment oil & gas business
    (1/4/2005) Aker Kvaerner wins Oudna FPSO installation contract
    (1/3/2005) McDermott contracted for 3 Qatargas jackets
    (1/3/2005) Chevron & Shell order Technics compressor packages
    (1/3/2005) SembCorp's PPL to build deep drilling jackup
    (1/3/2005) Maersk contracts Aker Kvaerner for drilling risers
    (1/3/2005) Keppel delivers new Saudi AHTS
    (1/3/2005) Flowserve completes sale of services unit
    (1/3/2005) Sinvest contracted to drill for Brunei Shell
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 1/4
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 50.89
    -0.3%
    Minas 54.05
    +0.1%
    Bonny Light 54.88
    -1.2%
    N. Sea Brent 56.05
    -0.3%
    Forties 54.33
    -1.5%
    Urals/Mediterranean 51.23
    +1.6%
    Alaska N. Slope 56.20
    -0.6%
    W. Texas Intermediate 58.15
    -1.0%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 11.09
    0.0%
    UK Day Ahead** 113.00
    -11.7%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    January 11-14
    OCEANTEX International Offshore Conference & Technology Exhibition, Mumbai, India
    January 11-14
    Petrotech, Manama, Bahrain
    January 16-20
    API Tubular Goods Standards Meeting, Savanna, Georgia, USA
    January 17-19
    Offshore Asia Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    January 17-19
    API Well Cement and Drilling Fluids Standards Meeting, Savanna, Georgia, USA
    January 22-25
    GTI National Gas Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida USA
    January 30-31
    LNG Economics & Technology, Houston, Texas USA
    January 30-February 01
    Underwater Intervention Conference, ew Orleans, Louisiana USA
    ...More Events

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