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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
    All but Tapis rise again
    (3/16/2010) Traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London took prices considerably higher in their settlements today on the strength of the often off-base inventory report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) that supposed there was an increase in crude oil stocks and a drop in gasoline and distillate stocks last week - crude up by 403,000 bbl and gasoline down 3.7 million bbl, distillates by 756,000 bbl...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (3/17/2010) No changes in official output by OPEC
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/17/2010) Kea set to drill new test well in NZ's Taranaki Basin
    (3/17/2010) 11 oilfields discovered in Russia's Khanty-Mansiysk in 2009
    (3/17/2010) Southern Oklahoma drilling program finds new pay
    (3/17/2010) Petrobras investing $848.2 million in Sergipe E&P
    (3/17/2010) Dejour makes 2 discoveries at its Woodrush Project
    (3/16/2010) Americas Petrogas' Neuquen Basin, Argentina appraisal finds pay
    (3/16/2010) InterOil to redrill Antelope-2 exploration well in PNG
    (3/16/2010) Pacific Rubiales scores with new oil find in Colombia
    (3/16/2010) Petrobras finds light oil in Brazil's Sergipe Basin
    (3/16/2010) GeoPark makes new oilfield discovery in Chile
    (3/16/2010) Ivanhoe strikes heavy oil bonanza in Ecuador
    (3/15/2010) Petrobras adds another discovery in Brazil's Piracuca Field
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/17/2010) Afren picks up Transocean jackup for wells off Nigeria
    (3/17/2010) Statoil contracts Bideford Dolphin semi for 3 years
    (3/17/2010) Seadrill's West Epsilon contracted for 4 years
    (3/16/2010) AWE's Hoki well in New Zealand suspended for rig repair
    (3/16/2010) ExxonMobil taking newbuilt drillship to Turkish Black Sea
    (3/16/2010) Det Norske gets okay to drill with Bredford Dolphin
    (3/15/2010) Peneszlek well in Hungary suspended for repairs
    (3/15/2010) Chevron lines up Pacific Santa Ana drillship for US Gulf
    (3/15/2010) AGR & Chevron developing dual gradient drilling system
    (3/15/2010) COSCO contracted to construct Sevan Brasil drilling rig
    (3/15/2010) Xtreme Coil awarded Saudi Arabia contract for 2 rigs
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/17/2010) PetroLatina putting Colombia's Serafin gasfield onstream
    (3/17/2010) Mesa adds Java Field pipelines in western New York
    (3/17/2010) Total launches West of Shetland Laggan & Tormore development
    (3/17/2010) Crest ties North Chapman Ranch producer into sales
    (3/16/2010) InterAct performs challenging well abandonment for Centrica
    (3/16/2010) Statoil developing 4 Norwegian fields on fast-track
    (3/15/2010) Terre de Grace oil sands JV formed By VCI & BP
    (3/15/2010) Gulf Keystone prepping for multi-well Shaikan drilling
    (3/15/2010) Itera kicking off Apsatskoye CBM field development
    (3/15/2010) Ithaca Energy to employ FPSO BW Carmen on Athena Field
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/17/2010) Red Sky joins Resolve in CSG prone permit area
    (3/17/2010) Total takes 50% of Kazakhstan's OTG Concession
    (3/17/2010) US MMS receives almost $1 billion in Central US Gulf sale bids
    (3/16/2010) Two Bulgarian blocks being divvied up
    (3/16/2010) TG World farms into Philippines' Tindalo & Yakal Fields
    (3/16/2010) US MMS launching Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale
    (3/16/2010) Brigham buying 10,000 more acres in Rough Rider Project
    (3/15/2010) Brazil to hold non-presalt licensing round
    (3/15/2010) Mainland sells Haynesville Shale interest for $27 million
    (3/15/2010) Longford now operator of Chia Surkh Block
    (3/15/2010) Grid acquires assets in Wyoming's SE Jonah Field
    (3/15/2010) Petrohawk sells stake in Louisiana's Terryville Field
    (3/15/2010) Nevada BLM leases 81,302 acres for $372,897
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/17/2010) Apache deploying cableless land seismic system in Argentina
    (3/17/2010) New algorithm minimizes distortion in seismic processing
    (3/16/2010) Vanoil to shoot 2D over Rwanda's Lake Kivu
    (3/16/2010) Timor Sea Puffin Field 3D shoot near completion
    (3/16/2010) Hampson-Russell sells software rights to GeoTomo
    (3/16/2010) KCS kicks off 3D shoot onshore India's Krishna Godavari
    (3/15/2010) Neon prepping for 2D shoot offshore Vietnam
    (3/15/2010) PGS to shoot MC 2D over 3 Western Australia basins
    (3/15/2010) Oman 3D seismic survey being expanded
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (3/16/2010) Golar LNG terminates Gladstone LNG agreements
    (3/15/2010) Drillsearch focusing on CSG to LNG projects
    (3/15/2010) PNG LNG Project clears final conditions to proceed
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/11/2010) Rig worker evacuated after deepwater US Gulf accident
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/17/2010) Aker Solutions wins Ekofisk EPC contract
    (3/17/2010) J. Ray sub scores SURF project offshore Vietnam
    (3/16/2010) Leistritz tests 1st of 16 multiphase pumps for Pemex
    (3/16/2010) Mustang to verify topsides for open-water floatover installation
    (3/15/2010) Antitrust enquiry delaying Baker Hughes' BJ Services merger
    (3/15/2010) Dominion selling E&P business to Consol for $3.47 billion
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    March 21
    GPA Annual Convention, Austin, Texas USA
    March 21-25
    Howard Weil Energy Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    March 22-23
    LNG 2010, London, UK
    March 22-24
    CHC Safety & Quality Summit 2010, Vancouver, BC Canada
    March 22-24
    CIPPE 2010 China Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology & Equipment Exhibition, Beijing, China
    March 22-24
    Latin Oil Week & Latin Upstream 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    March 23-24
    International Deepwater Drilling Conference & Exhibition with/ IADC Drilling HSE Asia-Pacific Conference & Exhibition, Singapore, Singapore
    March 24-26
    2010 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Perth, WA, Australia
    March 29-31
    Coal Seam Gas 2010, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    April 5-8
    St Petersburg 2010 EAGE, St Petersburg, Russia
    April 6-8
    North Caspian Regional Oil, Gas, & Infrastructure Exhibition, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    April 11
    SPE EOR Conference/Oil & Gas West Asia, Muscat, Oman
    April 11
    SPE EOR Conference/Oil & Gas West Asia, Muscat, Oman
    April 12
    SPE International Conference on HSE in Oil & Gas Exploratio & Production, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    April 13
    IADC Well Control Europe Conference & Exhibition, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    April 18-21
    LNG 16 International Conference & Exhibition, Oran, Algeria
    ...More Events

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