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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (2/19/2006) Insurgent attacks on Iraq oil industry cost $6.25 billion
    (2/18/2006) Baluchis bomb 3 more Pakistan gas pipelines
    (2/18/2006) MEND torches Forcados terminal, seizes 9 workers
    (2/17/2006) Venezuela reconsidering imposed taxes on oil companies
    (2/17/2006) Oil companies given to midnight tonight to leave Niger Delta
    (2/16/2006) Baluchi tribesmen bomb another Pakistan gas pipeline
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (2/17/2006) Loy Yang-2 test well spudded onshore Victoria, Australia
    (2/17/2006) Stuart taps oil pay in South Australia Toparoa test well
    (2/17/2006) New Mexico San Juan Basin probes planned
    (2/17/2006) BMB Munai begins drilling Kazakhstan's Kariman Field
    (2/17/2006) Cabot scores gasfield discovery in NW Alberta
    (2/16/2006) ONGC gets approval to drill shallow water GS Basin
    (2/16/2006) Daytona drilling Mississippi's Selma Chalk
    (2/16/2006) Hungary's Pusztaszer-1 gaswell reaches total depth
    (2/16/2006) Beach spuds Middleton probe in South Australia
    (2/16/2006) Repsol makes 7th oil discovery in Libya's Murzuk Basin
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (2/19/2006) Ocean Spur & Ensco 105 to drill off Tunisia
    (2/17/2006) Noble contracts Songa Saturn for Equatorial Guinea
    (2/17/2006) Ironhorse spuds 1st of 8 Saskatchewan gaswells
    (2/16/2006) Petronas contracts UMW for rig & workover services
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (2/19/2006) NIOC weighing development options for North Sea field
    (2/18/2006) DNO's latest Yemen well a dry hole
    (2/18/2006) Stealth completes Nova Scotia acreage CBM assessment
    (2/17/2006) Petrobras putting Seillean FPSO to test
    (2/17/2006) Chevron exiting Nigeria's Brass LNG project
    (2/17/2006) Mirage-2 joining Mirage-1 as South Australia oil producer
    (2/16/2006) Transmeridian drilling 2 more producers on Kazakh field
    (2/16/2006) Shell shuts in 37,800 b/d due to Nigeria well fire
    (2/16/2006) Shell shuts in 37,800 b/d due to Nigeria well fire
    (2/16/2006) Iran's North Pars potential output set at 3.6 bcf/d
    (2/16/2006) Texas' South Weslaco dual wells reach TD & tap gas
    (2/16/2006) Argentina's Palmar Largo well goes onstream
    (2/16/2006) Statoil's Tyrihans development wins Storting approval
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (2/18/2006) Shell seeks to convert Iraq tech contract to development pact
    (2/18/2006) Ministers to mediate ExxonMobil-Pertamina Cepu talks
    (2/17/2006) Hydro granted 2 E&P blocks offshore Mozambique
    (2/17/2006) Tunisia okays farm-in on Ksar Hadada Block
    (2/17/2006) CanArgo withdraws from Georgia Republic's Samgori Block
    (2/17/2006) CNOOC granted block offshore Equatorial Guinea
    (2/16/2006) US MMS cancels Cook Inlet lease sale
    (2/16/2006) Revus farms into Lundin block offshore Norway
    (2/16/2006) TransAtlantic awarded 3 production fields in Romania
    (2/16/2006) Georgia offering 5 blocks to highest bidders
    (2/16/2006) Northern Petroleum awarded 6 new Italian licenses
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (2/17/2006) GSI Admiral returns to complete Falkland 2D shoot
    (2/16/2006) Seismic over Yemen prospect being reprocessed
    (2/16/2006) Rock Solid Images adds OpenSpirit data integration
    (2/16/2006) I/O releases new version of cable-based land acquisition system
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (2/16/2006) BLM pulls protested leases from pending Utah sale
    (2/16/2006) Fire on UK Rough Field sends 2 to hospital
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (2/19/2006) Ortolan & A.K. Suda in jackup barge joint venture
    (2/17/2006) Semi Thule Challenge sold to AMOS
    (2/16/2006) AMEC wins extension to Malampaya service contract
    (2/16/2006) Venezuela says Total only company refusing to pay taxes
    (2/16/2006) Venture picks Petrofac Brownfield for Goosander FEED
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 2/17
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 57.17
    0.0%
    Minas 59.87
    -2.0%
    Bonny Light 60.66
    -2.0%
    N. Sea Brent 59.64
    -1.8%
    Forties 60.06
    -2.0%
    Urals/Mediterranean 55.16
    -2.1%
    Alaska N. Slope 59.54
    -1.3%
    W. Texas Intermediate 61.84
    -1.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.53
    -0.4%
    UK Day Ahead** 51.50
    -7.2%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    February 21-23
    IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, Miami, Florida USA
    February 26-March 1
    Middle East Corrosion Conference, Bahrain, Bahrain
    February 28-March 2
    Subsea Tieback Conference & Exhibition, Galveston, Texas USA
    March 5-6
    Gas Arabia, United Arab Emirates
    March 5-8
    New Zealand Petroleum Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
    March 6-7
    CERI North American Natural Gas Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    March 7
    2006 Global Energy Forum, Houston, Texas USA
    March 8
    IADC Spring Meeting, Houston, Texas USA
    March 8-9
    Asia Upstream 2006, Singapore
    March 9-10
    China Oil & Gas Summit 2006, Beijing, China
    March 12-16
    NACExpo Annual Conference & Exposition, San Diego, California USA
    ...More Events

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