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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
    (3/15/2006) Oz alliance targets greater oil & gas benefits
    (3/14/2006) IEA forecasts drop in global oil demand
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/15/2006) Afghanistan has up to 36.4 Tcf in gas reserves - USGS
    (3/15/2006) Woodside drilling 1st Kenyan exploration well in 30 years
    (3/15/2006) Kirkleatham-4 confirmed as gas discovery
    (3/15/2006) Hoang Long JV's TGT-2X testing completed (update)
    (3/15/2006) Husky to drill China's 1st deepwater well
    (3/15/2006) Aral successfully flowtests Kazakh onshore well
    (3/14/2006) Mexican President Fox claims giant deepwater discovery
    (3/14/2006) Lakes' Petro Tech approaching TD in Loy Yang-2 well
    (3/13/2006) Petrobank to P&A all-wet Ojo de Tigre well in Colombia
    (3/13/2006) Test well spudded on Louisiana's North Edna Prospect
    (3/13/2006) Uganda's Waraga-1 exploration well has 45-meter payzone (update)
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/14/2006) Gorilla VI contracted for back-to-back North Sea drilling
    (3/13/2006) Blackford Dolphin wins 3-year contract
    (3/13/2006) Shell extends Pride Hawaii contract off East Malaysia
    (3/13/2006) GP drilling South Dakota North Short Pine Hills Project
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/15/2006) BLM approves massive Wyoming drilling program
    (3/15/2006) Petrobras putting Brazil's Albacora Leste onstream
    (3/15/2006) Petrobras spuds producer on Manati gasfield
    (3/14/2006) Repsol, Gas Natural & Sonatrach developing Gassi Touil
    (3/14/2006) Cano restoring wildfire-damaged Panhandle Field (update)
    (3/14/2006) Caspian Holdings casing & testing Zhengeldy well
    (3/14/2006) Dragon Oil puts Turkmen LAM 10/113 on production
    (3/13/2006) Santos spuds Mulberry-7 in Queensland's Cooper Basin
    (3/13/2006) Vicpet completing Mirage-3 as producer
    (3/13/2006) North Pars & India pipeline set for simultaneous development
    (3/13/2006) Kashagan oil production to transit Azerbaijan to market
    (3/13/2006) AED drilling 1st of 2 Puffin producers of NW Australia
    (3/13/2006) Ekofisk shutting down for modifications & maintenance
    (3/13/2006) Grass fires cut Texas' Panhandle Field output
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/15/2006) Noreco buying stake in Norwegian licenses
    (3/15/2006) Central US Gulf Sale 198 attracts $978,310,887 in bids
    (3/15/2006) Centurion buys remaining stake in Egypt blocks
    (3/15/2006) FAR farm-in into Hunt Oil's Senegal blocks approved
    (3/15/2006) Chevron awarded 2 blocks offshore Thailand
    (3/15/2006) Aminex farms into UPSL blocks offshore Kenya
    (3/15/2006) FAR to explore for gas on Suncor's Alberta acreage
    (3/15/2006) Total awarded new block offshore Cameroon
    (3/15/2006) Addax acquires interests in Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ blocks
    (3/14/2006) Gazprom offered control of TNK-BP Kovykta Field
    (3/14/2006) E.ON offers to swap Hungarian for Russian assets
    (3/14/2006) 707 bids placed in US Central Gulf Lease Sale
    (3/14/2006) Quest wins 2 new leases in Alberta's Acadia Valley
    (3/14/2006) Turnkey E&P farming into American's Fetter project
    (3/14/2006) Orchard now operator of California's Southeast Lost Hills
    (3/14/2006) Falcon finalizes farm-in on Texas' Hollins Prospect
    (3/13/2006) Mauritius agrees to exploration JV with ONGC Videsh
    (3/13/2006) Bronco to operate Bigstone Cree Nation oil sands
    (3/13/2006) Colombia offering 2 marginal fields for development
    (3/13/2006) Pertamina & ExxonMobil to jointly run Cepu Block
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/15/2006) Horizon 3D seismic reveals high impact Wilcox target
    (3/13/2006) Roxar & NCC developing stochastic reservoir modeling
    (3/13/2006) CNPC completes 2D shoot over Niger's Tenere Block
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/15/2006) Hydro shutting down Troll C to remove flare plate
    (3/15/2006) Statoil testing new CO2 capture technology
    (3/14/2006) Oil industry health & safety training center now in Egypt
    (3/13/2006) Enviro impact done for Main Pass Hub LNG project
    (3/13/2006) Petrojarl I passes 15 months without incident
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/15/2006) KEC-Medco JV to manage Oman's Karim Field
    (3/15/2006) Founder selling control of CHC Helicopter
    (3/15/2006) Petra wins 3 contracts from Shell & Petronas
    (3/15/2006) Arrest order for Repsol execs issued by Bolivia court
    (3/14/2006) Pride investigating alleged bribes of foreign officials
    (3/14/2006) Hallin Marine contracted for US Gulf subsea project
    (3/14/2006) Statoil contracts Bredero Shaw for Tyrihans project
    (3/13/2006) Premuda takes ownership of FPSO Four Vanguard
    (3/13/2006) Ming buying Hungary's Inke Petroleulm
    (3/13/2006) Shell & LSU establishing workforce development facility
    (3/13/2006) Lukoil buying Chaparrel Resources
    (3/13/2006) Statoil given okay to use Island Frontier
    (3/13/2006) Labroy Marine to build 2 new jackups
    (3/13/2006) A2D to offer Nigeria well logs online
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 3/15
    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
    March 16-17
    Georgian International Oil, Gas, Energy Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
    March 17
    Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    March 20-22
    Biennial Geophysical Seminar - Closing the Gap in Reserves Replacement, Kristiansand, Norway
    March 20-22
    Norwegian Petroleum Society Biennial Geophysical Seminar, Kristiansand, Norway
    March 21-23
    Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, Abuja Nigeria
    March 22-24
    China Oil-Gas Pipeline Expo 2006, Shanghai, China
    March 27-29
    GEO Middle East Geosciences Exhibition & Conference, Bahrain, Bahrain
    March 28-29
    IADC/SPE Managed Pressure and Underbalanced Operations Conference, Galveston, Texas USA
    March 28-30
    International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 28-30
    Caspian & Black Sea Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 29-31
    Flowexpo China, Guangzhou, China
    ...More Events

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