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March 10, 2005
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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
    (3/9/2005) Indonesia & Malaysia settle Sulawesi Sea dispute (update)
    (3/8/2005) Mexico's opposition nixes Fox-proposed oil industry reform
    (3/8/2005) Royalty & tax bill opposition lead to Bolivia president resignation
    (3/8/2005) Malaysia & Indonesia at loggerheads
    (3/8/2005) Ex-Sudanese rebels reassign oil concessions
    (3/7/2005) Indonesia & Malaysia to negotiate Sulawesi Sea claims
    (3/7/2005) Australia & Timor Leste resume negotiations
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/9/2005) Shell & Apache discover new field in UK North Sea
    (3/9/2005) Petsec drills 2nd successful onshore Louisiana well
    (3/9/2005) Rally discovers major Pakistani gasfield
    (3/8/2005) Vaquero makes another Pembina Nisku discovery
    (3/8/2005) OMV begins drilling Maier-1 off Western Australia
    (3/8/2005) Apache spuds Albert from Victoria platform
    (3/8/2005) New oil & gas fields discovered in southern Iran
    (3/8/2005) Tullow discovers major gasfield in Bangladesh
    (3/7/2005) NZOG weighing a test well on NZ's Mangatoa onshore prospect
    (3/7/2005) Vast Exploration seeking rig to drill Saskatchewan well
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/7/2005) Apache JV contracts Egyptian Drilling for workovers
    (3/7/2005) Remington drilling 5 US Gulf wells, testing 3
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/9/2005) Mars & Auger flexjoint replacement delayed
    (3/9/2005) Prirazlomnoye platform coming together
    (3/9/2005) Headington Oil's Halvorsen horizontal tests low output
    (3/9/2005) Second Venezuela Sincor heavy oil project gets nod
    (3/8/2005) Scalybutt-1H goes onstream in Woollybutt Field
    (3/8/2005) Sterling contracts for development of Romanian well
    (3/8/2005) BP wins Tangguh contract extension
    (3/7/2005) Oil Search well to expand PNG's SE Gobe Field
    (3/7/2005) Cheyenne puts Cessford onstream
    (3/7/2005) Roc coring Cliff Head-6 as prep to total depth
    (3/7/2005) Kerr-McGee gets go-ahead to develop Bohai fields
    (3/7/2005) Kerr-McGee gets go-ahead to develop Bohai fields
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/9/2005) NZOG adds to its New Zealand Hector interests
    (3/9/2005) Petro-Canada & Anadarko pool Alaska North Slope leases
    (3/9/2005) Brazil to establish blocks for 7th round this month
    (3/9/2005) Antrim farms out majority interest in UK block
    (3/9/2005) TGS-Nopec farms out its Gulf of Lion, France acreage
    (3/8/2005) EPL buys 50% stake in Apache's US Gulf block
    (3/8/2005) Cano adds Square One Texas acreage for EOR
    (3/8/2005) Aral acquires rights to added Kazakh acreage
    (3/7/2005) Spinnaker farming into Nigerian offshore block
    (3/7/2005) Pertamina & ExxonMobil talking Cepu extension
    (3/7/2005) Shell farms into Tharwa's Egyptian Western Desert acreage
    (3/7/2005) Occidental granted 9 blocks on and offshore Libya
    (3/7/2005) Dana does deals for added North Sea acreage
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/7/2005) TGS-Nopec releases new pre-stack software
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/8/2005) Leaking condensate shuts down Shell's Draugen Field
    (3/7/2005) China's Xinjiang NPC deputy decries drilling enviro damage
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/9/2005) Rowan sells boat leases & purchase options
    (3/9/2005) Strat Petroleum to acquire 50% of Orenburg driller
    (3/8/2005) BP grants $1.8 billion Tangguh LNG contract to KBR JV
    (3/8/2005) Saipem wins $550 in new contracts
    (3/7/2005) SNC-Lavalin contracted for Vankor Field
    (3/7/2005) Abu Dhabi's National Drilling to replace aging rig fleet
    (3/7/2005) Unocal awards Aker Kvaerner wellhead contract
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 3/9
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 40.54
    0.0%
    Dubai Fateh 37.59
    +0.2%
    Bonny Light 44.43
    +1.2%
    N. Sea Brent 44.80
    +1.8%
    Forties 44.55
    +0.8%
    Urals/Mediterranean 39.24
    +1.9%
    Alaska N. Slope 42.72
    +0.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 47.17
    +0.1%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 6.20
    +0.2%
    UK Day Ahead** 28.85
    +4.5%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    March 7-9
    SPE Exploration and Production Environmental Conference, Galveston, Texas USA
    March 7-10
    API Petroleum Measurement Spring Meeting, Phoenix, Ariizona USA
    March 8-9
    Independent Operators Forum, Aberdeen Scotland
    March 9-11
    Russia Petroleum Technology Forum, Moscow, Russia
    March 12-15
    SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show & Conference, Manama, Bahrain
    March 14-17
    GasTech 2005, Bilbao, Spain
    ...More Events

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