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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
    Week begins with key crudes significantly up
    (2/4/2008) Trade at both the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) kicked off the week with a resumption of price increases at least in the key crudes among our monitored benchmarks, sending them up more than US$1 over Friday's closures...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (2/4/2008) Gunfight at Niger Delta oil hub ends with 11 dead
    (2/4/2008) Pirates seize ice-breaking tug bound for Sakhalin II project
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (2/6/2008) 3D set to drill 2 Bass Strait wells off Australia
    (2/6/2008) Petsec drilling onshore Louisiana Moonshine Project
    (2/6/2008) Arktikshelfneftegaz to drill Pechora Sea test well
    (2/6/2008) US Gulf Terrebonne test well comes up dry
    (2/5/2008) Chevron drilling appraisal of Nigeria's deepwater Aje prospect
    (2/5/2008) Aurelian's Energia Zachod testing Poland's Trzek-1
    (2/5/2008) Matra suspends Horvatkut well in Hungary's Inke Block
    (2/5/2008) Aminex resumes drilling Kiliwani-1 in Tanzania
    (2/5/2008) Pemberton gets go-ahead to drill Peace River Arch well
    (2/4/2008) BP JV discovers oil in Egypt's Gulf of Suez
    (2/4/2008) Ascent to drill appraisal well in Switzerland
    (2/4/2008) Empire gets go-ahead to drill Moriary exploration well
    (2/4/2008) Pacific Rubiales test well shows 27.7 milion cf/d
    (2/4/2008) Coastal Energy scores Thai gasfield discovery
    (2/4/2008) Texas' Padre Island prospect test well spudded
    (2/4/2008) Roc drilling 2 test wells off Western Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (2/6/2008) Global contracts Saxon rig for 2 wells in Colombia
    (2/5/2008) Norway's PSA rejects Rowan Gorilla VI for Norway work
    (2/4/2008) BowLeven contracts Trident IV to redrill Cameroon well
    (2/3/2008) Helmerich & Payne building 11 new FlexRigs
    (1/31/2008) Helmerich & Payne building 11 new FlexRigs
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (2/6/2008) Gazprom to complete Prirazlomnaya Pechora Sea platform
    (2/6/2008) Victory spuds another West Texas Canyon Sandstone well
    (2/6/2008) Delta logs 1.2 million cf/d in Utah Greentown Project well
    (2/6/2008) Tethys ops in Tajikistan & Kazakhstan thwarted by heavy snows
    (2/6/2008) Greentree drilling 5 Rodney infill wells in Ontario
    (2/6/2008) StatoilHydro restarts output from Njord A platform (update)
    (2/6/2008) Total suspends production from North Sea fields
    (2/5/2008) Caspian coaxing Kyrgyz well to production
    (2/5/2008) Candax's El Bibane Field off Tunisia going onstream
    (2/5/2008) East Texas Cason gaswell on production, another drilling
    (2/5/2008) Genesis Energy to operate Inner Mongolia oil and gas field
    (2/5/2008) Gulfsands to develop Syria's Khurbet East Field
    (2/4/2008) Kuwait & Saudi Arabia to heft output from Neutral Zone
    (2/4/2008) Michigan's Orion Field producer has record output
    (2/4/2008) Newfield putting $1.28 billion into developments
    (2/4/2008) McMoRan puts US Gulf Flatrock Field onstream
    (2/4/2008) Canoro puts 2 more wells onstream in northeast India
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (2/6/2008) Chukchi Sea Lease Sale goes ahead despite protest (update)
    (2/6/2008) Bangladesh to launch 3rd licensing round
    (2/6/2008) ExxonMobil denies Natuna-D Alpha Block talks ended
    (2/6/2008) Northern adds more Bakken acreage in North Dakota
    (2/6/2008) Granby & Petro-Canada swap stakes in North Sea licenses
    (2/6/2008) Faroe Petroleum buys into Norwegian North Sea license
    (2/6/2008) Paco acquires Little Fox Oklahoma leases
    (2/6/2008) Colombia proffering 43 blocks in new licensing round
    (2/5/2008) Rosnedra offering 4 Nenets blocks to highest bidders
    (2/4/2008) Portrush acquiring Petromark stake in California field
    (2/4/2008) Libya gives official sanction to $900 million BP deal
    (2/4/2008) Sinochem buys Soco Yemen operations for $465 million
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (2/6/2008) Pantera reprocessing vintage 2D over Paraguayan block
    (2/6/2008) PGS completes multi-client 2D offshore Cote d'Ivoire
    (2/4/2008) VGS expands Western Canada 3D seismic database
    (2/4/2008) Gran Tierra shooting 2D in Colombia & Peru
    (2/4/2008) Cairn contracts SeaBird for 2D shoot off India
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (2/6/2008) StatoilHydro & ONGC link for carbon capture & storage
    (2/4/2008) Fire shuts down StatoilHydro's Njord A platform
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (2/5/2008) Expro & Aker joining for light well intervention services
    (2/5/2008) Roxar donates reservoir modeling software to Heriot-Watt
    (2/5/2008) Island Offshore's X Bow construction vessel launched
    (2/5/2008) IKM granted Gjoa platform operations contract
    (2/4/2008) KBR wins role in Total's Angola Pazflor FPSO project
    (2/4/2008) Fairstar's Fjord passes submersion tests
    (2/4/2008) BJ completes Sakhalin II pipeline project
    (2/4/2008) Total & PDVSA agree on 2 heavy oil study projects
    (2/4/2008) DeepOcean wins UK subsea decommissioning contract
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    February 9-13
    SPE Heavy Oil Challence, Completion Design & Production Management Forum, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
    February 10-12
    SPE Unconventional Reservoirs Conference, Keystone, Colorado, USA
    February 12-14
    International Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management, Houston, Texas, USA
    February 13-14
    Subsea UK 08, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    February 13-15
    SPE International Formation Damage Control Symposium & Exhibition, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
    February 16-19
    Texas A&M Middle East Turbomachinery Symposium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    February 18-19
    Gas Arabia 3rd Annual International Conference for the Middle East Gas, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    February 18-20
    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2008, Abuja, Nigeria
    February 18-21
    IP Week, London, UK
    February 20-24
    Pipeline Contractors Association Annual Conference, Maui, Hawaii, USA
    February 24-27
    AAPG Southwest Section Meeting, Abilene, Texas, USA
    February 24-27
    Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
    February 25-27
    Texas Tech University Gas Well Deliquification Workshop, Denver, Colorado, USA
    February 25-27
    SPE Intelligent Energy Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    February 26-27
    IADC Drilling HSE Asia-Pacific Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    February 27-March 8
    4th International Tube & Pipe Industry Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
    February 28-29
    13th Asia Upstream 2008, Singapore
    ...More Events

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