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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
    WTI rises to highest price/bbl since 28 November 2008
    (3/24/2009) May oil futures rose and fell and rose again in price today as traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) tried to get a handle on what tomorrow's stock reports will show, with expectations that the US Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA) will say last week's crude inventory grew again but that both gasoline and distillates took a hit...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (3/25/2009) Nigeria's oil workers suspend strike (update)
    (3/23/2009) Niger Delta oil workers striking tomorrow
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/25/2009) It's official: no oil exploration in Costa Rica
    (3/25/2009) Tullow drills deeper in Ghana & Uganda to find more oil
    (3/25/2009) StatoilHydro strikes oil in Norwegian North Sea near Vigdis
    (3/25/2009) Heritage sees oil shows in Kurdish Iraq Miran West-1
    (3/24/2009) PetroVietnam & Petronic to explore off Nicaragua
    (3/24/2009) Vulcan gearing up to drill 1st Western Newfoundland well
    (3/24/2009) McMoRan Ammazzo well targeting giant ultra-deep gas reserves
    (3/24/2009) Great Plains has cased its third exploratory well
    (3/24/2009) Emerald plugging & abandoning Colombia exploration well
    (3/24/2009) Dana drilling Tafejjart-1 test well in Morocco
    (3/23/2009) Santos scores with shallow water Indonesia discovery
    (3/23/2009) Lewis draws a dry hole with Colombia's Rosablanca
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/24/2009) AGR to drill off Ireland with Diamond's Ocean Guardian
    (3/23/2009) US drilling activity drops to lowest in 6 years
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/25/2009) BHP puts deepwater US Gulf Shenzi Field on production
    (3/24/2009) Kentucky USA tapping New Albany Shale
    (3/24/2009) Centrica gets go-ahead to develop Seven Seas gasfield
    (3/23/2009) Vicpet upgrading of South Australia field near completion
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/25/2009) India to launch latest NELP licensing round in April
    (3/25/2009) Angola out to attract gas exploration with tax-exemption
    (3/24/2009) Forent wins renewal of Nova Scotia onshore concession
    (3/24/2009) Signal Energy acquires Bluff Creek Field
    (3/24/2009) Iraq pitting Total/Chevron against StatoilHydro
    (3/23/2009) Lansdowne gets new North Celtic Sea license option
    (3/23/2009) Kairiki farming out interest in Philippines block
    (3/23/2009) Serica farming out interest in block offshore Vietnam
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/25/2009) Infoterra to map oil slicks off Greenland for Nunaoil
    (3/25/2009) Shell funding Senegal electromag & geophysical program
    (3/25/2009) PGS completes 3 Trinidad & Tobago 2D MC surveys
    (3/24/2009) AleAnna completes Corte dei Signori 3D shoot
    (3/24/2009) BGP shooting high risk 3D survey in Iraq
    (3/23/2009) Advent sees Sydney Basin hydrocarbon indicators
    (3/23/2009) ViaLogy's QuantumRD credited with Texas discovery
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/25/2009) New Zealand's Maoris block Greymouth's Kowhai drilling
    (3/24/2009) Ghana fishermen angry Jubilee Field made off limits
    (3/23/2009) Sunken supply boat in Cook Inlet to stay where it is
    (3/23/2009) Fire strikes Masila oilfield in southern Yemen
    (3/23/2009) Devon & Suncor oilfield workers injured in Alberta
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/25/2009) Prosafe's Safe Scandinavia pegged for Snorre A project
    (3/25/2009) Premier Oil buying Oilexco North Sea
    (3/24/2009) Global Industries awarded $35 million project in India
    (3/24/2009) Expro wins subsea contract for BP Block 31 off Angola
    (3/24/2009) KBR wins BP contract for Caspian Sea Chiraq project
    (3/24/2009) Ultra-deepwater mooring & riser modeling research underway
    (3/24/2009) Dril-Quip wins US Gulf subsea wellhead systems deal
    (3/24/2009) StatoilHydro to become simply Statoil
    (3/24/2009) Shengli contracted for Bohai Bay field expansion
    (3/23/2009) Petrobras production cut by FUP workers strike
    (3/23/2009) MCS & Qserv perform 1st vacuum pipeline test for Santos
    (3/23/2009) BG Group acquires majority control of Pure Energy Resources (update)
    (3/23/2009) Saipem awarded $1.8 billion contract by Eni & Sonatrach
    (3/23/2009) Suncor buying Petro-Canada for $14 billion
    (3/23/2009) Arrow Seismic cancels newbuild contract with Factorias Volcano
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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
    April 24-27
    CPS/SEG International Geophysical Conference & Exposition, Beijing, China
    April 27-29
    EAGE European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Paris, France
    April 29-May 1
    SPE Electric Submersible Pump Workshop, The Woodlands, Texas USA
    May 4-7
    Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 4-6
    EAGE International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Shiraz, Iran
    May 10-12
    Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Midyear Meeting (IOGCC), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
    ...More Events

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