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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
    Weak dollar & strong equities heft crude prices
    (2/16/2010) Coming off the US and Asian holidays (Presidents Day and Lunar New Year respectively), transactions at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London were a bit heavy today as traders acted upon the US dollar's drop against the euro and other international currencies and the significant build in equity markets that has been triggered not only by the dollar's slippage...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (2/11/2010) Argentina blocks pipe shipment believed bound for Falklands
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (2/17/2010) Reliance drilling new Bay of Bengal test well
    (2/17/2010) Brooks Range to set casing & test Alaska Sak River well
    (2/17/2010) Petrobras sees oil shows in Colombia exploration well
    (2/17/2010) Newfield chalks up a duster offshore China
    (2/17/2010) EOG wildcat a major Weld County discovery in Colorado
    (2/16/2010) Pemex scores 900-million bbl discovery offshore Campeche
    (2/16/2010) Jubilant strikes gas in Assam, India discovery
    (2/16/2010) OMV's scores southern Tunisia gas & condensate discovery
    (2/15/2010) Salamander gearing up to drill onshore Laos
    (2/15/2010) Yolboyu exploration well spudded in Edirne, Turkey
    (2/15/2010) PDO scores new oil & gas field discoveries in Oman
    (2/15/2010) Max makes 2nd discovery on Kazakh E Block
    (2/15/2010) Neptune spuds exploration well in Uganda
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (2/17/2010) Ivanhoe taps down 15 delineation wells at Tamarack
    (2/17/2010) Ten companies to bid for drilling 56 wells in Iraqi field
    (2/16/2010) East Texas Haynesville/Bossier well hits 14/1 million cf/d
    (2/16/2010) Sperry Rand to drill Peng Lai production wells off China
    (2/16/2010) Statoil extends Odfjell, KCA Deutag & Seawell drilling contracts
    (2/16/2010) West Alpha approved to drill Centrica Norwegian Sea well
    (2/15/2010) FOGL joins Desire Petroleum in Ocean Guardian rig share
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (2/17/2010) TNK-BP to invest $1.7 billion in Uvat & Verkhnechonskoye fields
    (2/17/2010) Shell to develop gasfields in northern Kuwait
    (2/17/2010) Petro-Hunt competes & tests its 1st Bakken horizontal well
    (2/17/2010) Belarusneft putting Iran's Jofeir Field onstream
    (2/16/2010) Eastern Star ups contingent resources at Narrabri Project
    (2/16/2010) Vermilion chalks up 4 successful wells in Netherlands
    (2/16/2010) Third Bigoray well set for fraccing
    (2/16/2010) Apache puts Australia's Van Gogh Field on production
    (2/15/2010) Petrominerales puts Colombia's Candelilla-2 on production
    (2/15/2010) BP brings in big producer in Egypt's Gulf of Suez
      Licensing & Concessions
    (2/17/2010) BP & Rosneft relinquish license for Sakhalin 5 block
    (2/17/2010) PA swaps 3 UK licenses for 2 license extensions
    (2/17/2010) Providence awarded option on Baltimore heavy oil block
    (2/17/2010) Jamaica launching new licensing round 1 March
    (2/17/2010) Oman to award 11 E&P contracts in 2010
    (2/16/2010) EGAS makes last year's awards official
    (2/16/2010) Africa Oil taking over Platform Resources' Kenya blocks
    (2/16/2010) Brinx joining 09-3 Oklahoma Project
    (2/16/2010) Anadarko farms out Marcellus Shale stake to Mitsui
    (2/16/2010) ERHC Energy granted 2 blocks of Sao Tome & Principe
    (2/15/2010) Farm-in into MEO Australia gas block nearing finalization
    (2/15/2010) Forum converts Philippines service contract into license
    (2/15/2010) Maurel & Prom farming into Dominion's Tanzania blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (2/17/2010) Knowledge Reservoir releases deepwater US Gulf database
    (2/16/2010) CGGVeritas nearing completion of Peru 3D shoot
    (2/16/2010) WesternGeco shooting 3D over Brazil's Santos blocks
    (2/15/2010) HP & Shell developing hi-res wireless land seismic system
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (2/16/2010) Peru LNG picks Wood Group for service and maintenance
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (2/17/2010) Oilfield workers injured in Oxy California well gas release
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (2/17/2010) Scorpion taking Gazprom to arbitration over unpaid rig fees
    (2/16/2010) Novatek acquisitions add new Yamal Nenets licenses
    (2/16/2010) Magnum Hunter buys US Appalachia operator
    (2/15/2010) ExxonMobil picks Praxair for Texas EOR project
    (2/15/2010) Technip contracted for Spanish Mediterranean fields
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    February 23
    SPE Unconventional Gas Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    February 24
    SPE/IADC Managed Pressure Drilling & Underbalanced Operations Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    March 2-3
    International Deepwater Drilling Conference & Exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    March 2-4
    APPEX, AAPG Prospect & Property Expo, Dallas, Texas USA
    March 7
    Middle East Geosciences Conference & Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain
    March 7-10
    DrillTech 2010, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    March 8
    SPE Hydrocarbon Economics & Evaluation Symposium, Dallas, Texas USA
    March 8-12
    CERA Week 2010, Houston, Texas USA
    March 9-10
    UKSPILL10 Marine Oil Spill Seminar, London, UK
    March 9-11
    Oceanology International 2020, London, UK
    March 16-18
    Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, Luanda, Angola
    March 16-18
    Turkish International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 16-18
    Oil & Gas Africa Exhibition & Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
    March 16-18
    Gas Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    March 21
    GPA Annual Convention, Austin, Texas USA
    ...More Events

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