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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
    Key crudes prices pop back up
    (3/18/2008) The major benchmarks among those we monitor today reversed their losses of yesterday with significant increases in price per bbl as speculators did an about-face following the US Federal Reserve's latest interest rate cut of 3/4% in expectation that the action will further reduce the US dollar...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (3/13/2008) Four killed, eight missing in China avalanche
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/19/2008) New Shoshoni finds gas in BC Sunrise Field well
    (3/19/2008) Pearl's luck looking better in Indonesia's Lengo-1
    (3/19/2008) Spartan Schwing gas wildcat in Louisiana a winner
    (3/19/2008) Roc plugs & abandons China Beibu Gulf test well
    (3/19/2008) MOL chalks up another discovery on Pakistan's Tal Block
    (3/18/2008) Nido picks Gindara prospect to drill off Philippines
    (3/18/2008) Oilex spuds 2nd of 3-well Oman exploration program
    (3/18/2008) LLOG racks up 3 US Gulf deepwater discoveries
    (3/18/2008) Essar Wildcat prepping to drill Krishna Godavari test well
    (3/18/2008) UK North Sea Cladhan exploration well to be drilled
    (3/18/2008) Hess' deepwater US Gulf Pony test well being sidetracked
    (3/17/2008) Cairn strikes out with 2 Bangladesh wells, finds gas in 3rd
    (3/17/2008) Range has oil & gas shows in Tunisia Teboursouk well
    (3/17/2008) Aminex makes substantial gas discovery off Tanzania
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/19/2008) Tethys buys Chinese rig for Kazakh & Tajik drilling
    (3/19/2008) USA Superior Energy buying cased hole horizontal rig
    (3/19/2008) Awilco takes delivery of 5th ultra premium jackup
    (3/17/2008) Baker Oil Tools installs RAM system on North Slope
    (3/17/2008) Research study shows 50% growth in offshore drilling by 2011
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/19/2008) Caspian Oil's 3rd Kyrgyz Fergana Basin well taps oil
    (3/19/2008) Beach spuds Parsons-2 producer in South Australia
    (3/19/2008) Nexus finds more Crux Field reserves with 2 new wells
    (3/19/2008) Kodiak cases Lucy well for shale gas production
    (3/19/2008) Chevron to kickoff Brazil's Frade field production
    (3/18/2008) Oilsands Quest winding down Axe Lake drilling program
    (3/18/2008) Solimar drilling Wellington Maricopa well in California
    (3/18/2008) First gas achieved from Ayazli Field offshore Turkey
    (3/18/2008) Po Valley & Edison team to develop Italy's Ossola Block
    (3/17/2008) Victory drilling 9th gaswell in its Permian Basin project
    (3/17/2008) Vicpet puts South Australia's Growler Field onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/19/2008) Today's US Gulf Sale high bids total record $3.7 billion (update)
    (3/19/2008) Island wins new Atlantic Margin license off Ireland
    (3/19/2008) Total acquires stake in Alaska's White Hills from Chevron
    (3/18/2008) Gazprom granted Bolivia's Sunchal Field development
    (3/18/2008) Harvest farms into Indonesia block buys into Gabon block
    (3/18/2008) MMS receives 1,057 bids for 615 Central US Gulf tracts
    (3/18/2008) EnerGulf granted Lotshi Block onshore DR Congo
    (3/18/2008) Total cedes 20% of Mauritania permit to Sonatrach
    (3/18/2008) Venture takes Netherlands gasfield operation
    (3/17/2008) Surgutneftegaz takes Nenets Okrug's Madagashorskoye Field
    (3/17/2008) Elixir scores stake and operation of Sierra Leone block
    (3/17/2008) Perenco wins 5 deepwater blocks off Brazil
    (3/17/2008) Dominion acquires exploration license in DR Congo
    (3/17/2008) Bayou Bend joins US Gulf Marsh Island project
    (3/17/2008) SOCO obtains Congo presidential decree of license
    (3/17/2008) Force Energy acquiring 75% stake in Wyoming well
    (3/17/2008) Matra granted new exploration license in Hungary
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/19/2008) Roxi gets go-ahead to shoot 3D onshore Kazakhstan
    (3/17/2008) TGS commercializes its Reverse Time Migration
    (3/17/2008) Investigating gas generation & Egypt's mud volcanoes
    (3/17/2008) Fugro orders newbuild geophysical survey vessel
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/19/2008) Tennessee oilwell fire raging out of control
    (3/17/2008) Saipem rig suffers explosion & fire in Gulf of Suez
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/19/2008) Kremlin sends police to raid TNK-BP head office
    (3/18/2008) Granby agrees to acquisition by Silverstone Energy
    (3/18/2008) Technip picked for Qatar's Dukhan Field project
    (3/18/2008) ExxonMobil injunction freezing PDVSA assets to be lifted (update)
    (3/17/2008) Al Thani sells stake in Sudan operator
    (3/17/2008) Shell latest to be scrutinized for Panalpina link
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    March 24-26-20
    AAPG Prospect & Property Expo, London, UK
    March 25-27
    4th Oil & Gas Asia International Exhibition, Karachi, Pakistan
    March 26-28
    Getenergy 2008, London, UK
    March 29-April 2
    AAPG Pacific Section Meeting, Bakersfield, California, USA
    March 30-April 2
    SPE Middle East Petroleum Engineering Colloquium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    March 31-April 3
    2008 SPE/EAGE Tight Gas Reservoir Development Workshop, Scheveningen, Netherlands
    April 1-2
    SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing & Well Intervention Conference & Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA
    April 3-4
    Georgian International Oil & Gas Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
    April 6-9
    Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration 2008 Conference & Exhibition, Perth, WA, Australia
    April 7-8
    China International Oil & Gas Conference, Beijing, China
    April 7-8
    EIA 2008 Data & Outlook Conference, Washington, D.C. USA
    April 7-9
    China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology & Equipment Exhibition, Beijing, China
    April 7-10
    API Pipeline Conference & Cybernetics Symposium, Orlando, Florida, USA
    April 8-10
    MCE Deepwater Development Conference, Paris, France
    April 8-11
    Oceans '08 MTS/IEEE Kobe MTS/IEEE Conference & Exhibition, Kobe, Japan
    April 9-10
    IADC Well Control Europe Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    April 9-11
    North Caspian Regional Atyrau Oil & Gas Exhibition & Technology Conference, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    April 10-11
    5th African Petroleum Forum 2008, London, UK
    ...More Events

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