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  • Health Safety & Environment

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  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (3/22/2004) Siberian pipeline to take Japanese route
    (3/22/2004) Iraqi police foil Kirkuk pipeline sabotage attempt
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/24/2004) Enterprise sets Cooper Basin wildcat for April
    (3/24/2004) McMoRan drilling at Garden Banks Block 625 Dawson Deep
    (3/23/2004) KNOC kicking off offshore Java exploration
    (3/23/2004) Delek & Les Iles Petroles to explore Williston & Hardeman Basins
    (3/23/2004) Stuart begins its largest exploration program with Galilee-1
    (3/23/2004) NZOP commences offshore Taranaki probe
    (3/23/2004) Samson well shedding light on Surat's Overston
    (3/22/2004) K2 Energy begins Blackfeet Indian Reservation drilling program
    (3/22/2004) Oilexco tests 4,785 b/d on Brenda North Sea discovery (update)
    (3/22/2004) Calvalley testing Al Roidhat-1 in Yemen's Block 9
    (3/22/2004) Tullow plugs Gabon's Kiarsseny Marin well
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/24/2004) Wombat-1 frac fails when detonation charge fails
    (3/23/2004) Lonestar Drilling buys 3 rigs to better bidding chances
    (3/23/2004) Industry's first data acquisition system to transmit data wirelessly
    (3/23/2004) Advanced scientific approach to well cleanout introduced
    (3/23/2004) Santos spuds Taunton-4 appraisal well
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/24/2004) Tech problems shutdown Shell's Bangladesh Sangu gaswell
    (3/24/2004) Mosaic's Waggamba-3 well spudded
    (3/24/2004) China's giant Daqing Field nearing depletion
    (3/24/2004) Wiser's Canadian Wolverine well test successful
    (3/24/2004) Meridian's Biloxi Marshlands well tests 9.1 million cf/d
    (3/23/2004) Qatar Petroleum & Sasol Chevron sign $6 billion GTL initiative
    (3/23/2004) Origin's Yolla platform installation in progress (update)
    (3/23/2004) Tanganyika beginning Syria's first horizontal well
    (3/23/2004) Transmeridian spuds 5th South Alibek development well
    (3/23/2004) Azerbaijan's Ramani Field to see 3 new wells, 16 workovers
    (3/22/2004) Woollybutt FPSO sails for Singapore (Update)
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/24/2004) Horizon farms into Texas' Spartan Field
    (3/24/2004) Clipper Energy only bidder in Ecuador round
    (3/24/2004) Centrica to acquire interest in UK side of Statfjord
    (3/24/2004) Five blocks offered in Newfoundland's Jeanne d'Arc Basin
    (3/24/2004) Loon increasing holdings at Slovenia's Petisovci-Dolina Field
    (3/24/2004) Quadra granted Egypt's Nuqra Concession
    (3/24/2004) Shell set to sign exploration pact with Libya
    (3/23/2004) US BLM awards Arkansas & Mississippi blocks
    (3/22/2004) Northern scores new license in Italy's Po Basin
    (3/22/2004) Tullow acquires remaining interests in UK North Sea blocks
    (3/22/2004) Avenue completes buy into 3 additional Turkish licenses (update)
    (3/22/2004) Omax farms into Adana acreage in southern Turkey
    (3/22/2004) Rio Alto sells Ecuador's Tiguino Block for $6.9 million
    (3/22/2004) Contact acquires Nova Scotia CBM lands
    (3/22/2004) Geocan adds acreage in Lloydminster & Tomahawk
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/23/2004) NXT begins SFD surveys in Syria (update)
    (3/23/2004) CGX begins onshore Guyana 2D shoot
    (3/23/2004) Veritas boosts its processing centers' resiliency & scalability
    (3/22/2004) Geofizyka Torun commences 2D & 3D Rajasthan surveys
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/24/2004) 10 missing in Unocal-contracted copter crash in US Gulf
    (3/21/2004) BP adopts new safety guidelines for vessel selection
    (3/17/2004) Oilwell leak east of Jakarta forces village evacuation
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/24/2004) Wintershall sees Russia as core production area
    (3/24/2004) Qatar & JDC form Gulf Drilling International
    (3/24/2004) Coffee Exchange becoming oil & gas operator
    (3/24/2004) Serica Energy sells interest in Kyrgyz Petroleum
    (3/24/2004) Duffy & McGovern accommodating Technip & Transocean
    (3/23/2004) Getty suing Gazprom over Stimul sale
    (3/23/2004) Wood Group gets monitoring contract for 4 Saudi fields
    (3/22/2004) Siemens to provide US Gulf cellular network infrastructure
    (3/22/2004) Landmark's VIP optimized with Intel processers
    (3/22/2004) BG buying Aventura to expand Trinidad interests
    (3/22/2004) Stolt Offshore Wins 2006 Workscope for Langeled Pipelay
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 3/24
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 32.83
    +1.1%
    Dubai Fateh 31.27
    +0.6%
    Bonny Light 35.06
    -0.3%
    N. Sea Brent 34.36
    +0.7%
    Forties 35.31
    -0.2%
    Urals/
    Mediterranean    		 32.46
    +3.0%
    Alaska N. Slope 36.56
    0.0%
    W. Texas Intermediate 37.58
    -0.4%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.36
    -3.6%
    IPE Gas NB** 19.63
    +0.5%
    *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 25-27
    NOIA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC USA
    March 28-31
    APPEA 2004, Canberra, Australia
    March 28-30
    CERI Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    March 28-April 01
    NACExpo Corrosion Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    March 29-31
    SPE International Conference on HSE in Oil & Gas, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    March 29-April 02
    API Petroleum Measurement Spring Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    March 30-April 01
    CIS Oil and Gas Summit, London, UK
    March 31-April 02
    Gas Expo Shanghai 2004, Shanghai, China
    March 31-April 03
    CPS-SEG Geophysical Conference and Exposition, Beijing, China
    ...More Events

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