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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

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    •   World Industry News
    (3/8/2006) Bolivia to re-acquire partly privatized oil companies
    (3/8/2006) Japan rejects China's joint development proposal
    (3/8/2006) Ecuador oil province unrest leads to state of emergency
    (3/8/2006) Insurgents bomb Iraq's South Oil Company headquarters
    (3/7/2006) Two more Shell Nigeria facilities bombed by insurgents
    (3/6/2006) US Energy Department report favors Venezuela investment
    (3/5/2006) MEND to shutdown another 1 million b/d
    (3/3/2006) Twelve Petroecuador wells seized by protestors
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/8/2006) Five successful test wells drilled in Angola's Block 0
    (3/8/2006) Candax drilling 1 Tunisia test well, awaiting rig for other
    (3/8/2006) Petsec makes 4th gas discovery in US Gulf
    (3/7/2006) Clayton Williams begins 6-well Plaquemines Parish program
    (3/7/2006) Burren drilling four-well exploratory program in Egypt
    (3/7/2006) DNO plugs & abandons North Sea Jaguar test well
    (3/7/2006) First test well in Ethiopia's Gambella Basin underway
    (3/7/2006) Hardman's Uganda exploration well encounters oil
    (3/7/2006) Vicpet drilling California's Eagle North horizontal bore
    (3/7/2006) Strong gasflow achieved in Beach's wildcat discovery
    (3/6/2006) PDC spuds Sweetwater Wyoming test well
    (3/6/2006) Zaisan scores gas discovery in eastern Kazakhstan
    (3/6/2006) Sonatrach makes oil & gas discovery in Amguide-Messaoud
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/7/2006) Hurricane contracts rig for West of Shetlands well
    (3/6/2006) Saxon's 1st of 7 rigs now drilling in South Texas
    (3/6/2006) Shell buys giant rig for Alaska Beaufort Sea drilling
    (3/6/2006) Songa buys Stena Offshore semisubmersible
    (3/6/2006) Jackup en route from US Gulf to Alaska's Cook Inlet
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/8/2006) Eastern Star spuds 1st of 9 NSW coal seam wells
    (3/8/2006) Startup of UK North Sea Buzzard Field set for yearend
    (3/8/2006) Trinidad's Cannonball development nearing completion
    (3/8/2006) Murta oil flows at South Australia's Mirage-3
    (3/8/2006) Transneft gets go-ahead to lay East Siberia-Pacific pipeline
    (3/8/2006) Aramco boosting Haradh Field output by 300,000 b/d
    (3/8/2006) Victoria Oil starts production at Kemerkol
    (3/8/2006) Buttes drilling 1st infill well on UAE's Mubarek Field
    (3/8/2006) Shell & Statoil team for mega-EOR project
    (3/7/2006) Dragon's Caspian Field suffers feeder line block
    (3/7/2006) Pacific Stratus out for Sipetrol's Colombia assets
    (3/7/2006) Niko given go-ahead to resume drilling at Tengratilla
    (3/7/2006) Star Energy puts UK's Singleton well onstream
    (3/7/2006) Santos appraiser extends Queensland's Mulberry Field
    (3/7/2006) Far East Energy completes 2nd Shouyang CBM well
    (3/7/2006) Hydro slashes output from Oseberg Field
    (3/7/2006) Orchard's Forbes Project Larner well goes onstream
    (3/6/2006) Dominion E&P puts Rigel & 17 Hands onstream
    (3/6/2006) Corridor's McCully well finds gas pay in Hiram Brook
    (3/6/2006) Oxy's latest An Nagyah well in Yemen a producer
    (3/6/2006) M&P put 3 new wells on production in Congo
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/8/2006) Anadarko wins 2.6 million-acre Mozambique block
    (3/8/2006) Pertamina putting up 10 blocks for joint development
    (3/8/2006) Statoil buying BP stake in Norwegian Sea blocks
    (3/7/2006) Nexus awarded Western Australia Browse block
    (3/6/2006) Iran renegotiating South Pars 11 & 13 development pacts
    (3/6/2006) Lexington farm-in doubles its Barnett Shale inventory
    (3/6/2006) Pakistan awards Petronas Sindh exploration block
    (3/6/2006) Nido & PNOC picked for Philippines Area 1 block
    (3/6/2006) Sri Lanka to launch licensing round in July
    (3/6/2006) Surge farms into Kelso's Granite Wash in Alberta
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/7/2006) TGS completes US Gulf depth imaging program
    (3/6/2006) Sunshine completes Queensland seismic survey
    (3/6/2006) 2D shoot underway on Texas' Big Canyon Ranch
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/8/2006) Prudhoe Bay output cut continues for cleanup (update)
    (3/7/2006) Statoil monitoring Snohvit development enviro effects
    (3/6/2006) Peru's Camisea export line leaking again (update)
    (3/6/2006) Sonatrach adapting safety program for Algeria
    (3/6/2006) Design fault caused Visund Field gas leak
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/8/2006) Hydro charters Farstad supply vessel
    (3/8/2006) ExxonMobil plans more than 20 project startups
    (3/7/2006) Keppel to perform 2 tanker conversions for Prosafe
    (3/7/2006) Chevron planning 3% annual output growth
    (3/7/2006) A2D expands into offshore northwest Europe
    (3/6/2006) Syntroleum & Bluewater forming JV for GTL/Oil FPSO
    (3/6/2006) Vermilion acquiring ExxonMobil stake in French subsidiary
    (3/6/2006) McDermott to lay Bunga Raya B pipeline
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 3/8
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 57.17
    0.0%
    Minas 59.87
    -2.0%
    Bonny Light 60.66
    -2.0%
    N. Sea Brent 59.64
    -1.8%
    Forties 60.06
    -2.0%
    Urals/Mediterranean 55.16
    -2.1%
    Alaska N. Slope 59.54
    -1.3%
    W. Texas Intermediate 61.84
    -1.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.53
    -0.4%
    UK Day Ahead** 51.50
    -7.2%
    *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 9-10
    China Oil & Gas Summit 2006, Beijing, China
    March 12-16
    NACExpo Annual Conference & Exposition, San Diego, California USA
    March 16-17
    Georgian International Oil, Gas, Energy Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
    March 17
    Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    March 20-22
    Biennial Geophysical Seminar - Closing the Gap in Reserves Replacement, Kristiansand, Norway
    March 20-22
    Norwegian Petroleum Society Biennial Geophysical Seminar, Kristiansand, Norway
    March 21-23
    Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, Abuja Nigeria
    March 22-24
    China Oil-Gas Pipeline Expo 2006, Shanghai, China
    March 27-29
    GEO Middle East Geosciences Exhibition & Conference, Bahrain, Bahrain
    March 28-29
    IADC/SPE Managed Pressure and Underbalanced Operations Conference, Galveston, Texas USA
    March 28-30
    International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 28-30
    Caspian & Black Sea Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 29-31
    Flowexpo China, Guangzhou, China
    ...More Events

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