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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
  • World Industry News
  • Exploration & Discoveries
  • Drilling & Completion
  • Development & Production
  • Licensing & Concessions
  • Geosciences
  • Health Safety & Environment
  • Company News
  • Industry Events
  •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    US crudes fall on dollar growth against euro
    (3/20/2009) All of our monitored benchmarks kept increasing in price per bbl today as April futures ended along with the week's trade at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE), with the exception of US crudes West Texas Intermediate and Alaska North Slope, which fell on the US dollar's growth in value against the euro after having reached the year's high yesterday...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (3/19/2009) Japan & Venezuela agree to energy cooperation
    (3/19/2009) Quest predicts 12.1% annual subsea activity growth
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/22/2009) Reliance prepping for D3 appraisal program off eastern India
    (3/20/2009) Venture confirms Carna discovery in UK North Sea
    (3/19/2009) Dana test well in Egypt's Suez Gulf has hydrocarbon shows
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/20/2009) Petroceltic contracts drilling services for Algeria's Isarene
    (3/19/2009) Seadrill's West Capella goes to work for Total off Nigeria
    (3/19/2009) StatoilHydro wins consent to drill with Transocean Leader & Winner
    (3/19/2009) Ocean Rig's Leiv Eiriksson bound for Black Sea duty
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/22/2009) Connacher puts Algar oil sands project on hold
    (3/22/2009) Qatar's $5 billion Barzan Gas Project delayed
    (3/20/2009) PetroChina to increase China's Tarim Basin output
    (3/20/2009) E.ON puts UK North Sea Rita Field onstream
    (3/20/2009) Modec contracts Tupi FPSO components from China
    (3/20/2009) StatoilHydro puts Norway's Alve Field onstream
    (3/19/2009) Brazil tots up its presalt development cost at $270 billion
    (3/19/2009) Bulgaria's Deventsi Field development to start
    (3/19/2009) Tomskneft puts Nizhne-Pervomaiskoye Field onstream
    (3/19/2009) Ascent lining up new Peneszlek production wells in Hungary
    (3/19/2009) CNOOC puts Bozhong 28-2S Field on production
    (3/19/2009) Venture puts 2nd UK Chestnut Field producer onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/22/2009) Tui JV granted new Taranaki block offshore New Zealand
    (3/22/2009) Fort Hills wins extension to Alberta oil sands leases
    (3/22/2009) Jordan launches 2009 licensing round
    (3/20/2009) Total receives 2 new exploration blocks onshore Vietnam
    (3/20/2009) Vitol wins stake in Congo's Marine XIV Block
    (3/20/2009) Petro Vista acquires new Colombia block, farms out another
    (3/19/2009) BP pulling out of 2 operated Vietnam offshore blocks
    (3/19/2009) Three blocks to be licensed in northern Afghanistan
    (3/19/2009) Gold Point awarded 2 blocks in western Poland
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/18/2009) Fugro SAR study shows Dreki oil seeps off Iceland
    (3/18/2009) Offshore Sicily seismic survey completed
    (3/17/2009) Paradigm launches well planning & drilling application
    (3/17/2009) Swire Pacific Offshore orders new seismic survey vessel
    (3/16/2009) ONGC contracts OBC 2D shoot by Yuzhmorgeologiya
    (3/16/2009) Schlumberger expands reservoir imaging & monitoring
    (3/16/2009) TGS & PGS combine US Gulf surveys
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/20/2009) Search for missing WesternGeco crewman suspended
    (3/19/2009) Two injured in New York gaswell drilling operation
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/22/2009) Saudi Arabia now site of Mideast's largest pump facility
    (3/22/2009) Repsol-YPF pays $88 million in Ecuador back taxes
    (3/22/2009) 60,000 Petrobras workers set to strike tomorrow
    (3/20/2009) Crown buys Langford Worldwide for $11.9 million
    (3/20/2009) Fabricom wins Talisman topside modifications project
    (3/20/2009) Oseberg B platform EPCI contract goes to Aker Solutions
    (3/20/2009) Libya preempting CNPC to buy Canada's Verenex Energy
    (3/20/2009) Technip awarded Ekofisk VA subsea water injector project
    (3/20/2009) Remora launches unique loading & mooring vessel
    (3/19/2009) Centrica acquires 22% ownership of Venture Production
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    March 23-25
    SPE Americas E&P Environmental and Safety Conference, San Antonio, Texas USA
    March 23-26
    API Spring Petroleum Measurement Standards Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA
    March 24-27
    15th Latin Oil Week 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    March 24-27
    15th Latin Oil Week 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    March 26-27
    Decommissioning & Abandonment Summit, Houston, Texas USA
    March 26-27
    Queensland LNG Developments, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    March 31-April 2
    MCE Deepwater Development 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
    March 31-April 1
    SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing & Well Intervention Conference & Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA
    April 2-3
    Georgian International Oil, Gas, Energy and Infrastructure Conference & Showcase (GIOGIE), Tbilisi, Georgia
    April 4-8
    SPE Production and Operations Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
    April 6-7
    Excellence in Oil and Gas 2009, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    April 8-10
    ATYRAU Regional Oil & Gas Exhibition & OilTech Kazakhstan Petroleum Technology Conference, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    April 16
    GPA Mid-continent Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
    April 20-22
    SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, The Woodlands, TX
    April 21-22
    IADC Drilling HSE Middle East Conference & Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    April 21-22
    Middle East Gas Summit (MEGAS), Beirut, Lebanon
    ...More Events

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