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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
  •   World Industry News
    (4/9/2006) Bolivia gasfields operating despite demonstrations
    (4/7/2006) Cyclone Hubert dying before reaching NW Australia (update)
    (4/6/2006) Chevron, Eni & Total paying Venezuela tax bills
    (4/6/2006) Niger Delta operators not returning without a truce
    (4/6/2006) Japan trying to confirm if Chunxiao is onstream
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/9/2006) Iraqi ministry acknowledges DNO Kurdistan discovery (update)
    (4/9/2006) Saskatchewan's Firebag East has discovery
    (4/6/2006) Chevron to text drill Indonesia's Kisaran Labuhan Block
    (4/6/2006) Pearl plugging & abandoning Makassar Straits duster
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/7/2006) Contact drilling horizontal leg on Stoney Creek well
    (4/6/2006) SPD charged with Umm Al-Qaiwain drilling project
    (4/5/2006) Deepsea Bergen set for 11 wells on Norway's Alvheim Field
    (4/4/2006) Gulfsands gearing up to drill 3 Syria test wells
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/9/2006) Kovyktinskoye development not until 2015
    (4/9/2006) CNOOC's Panyu jacket enroute to field
    (4/9/2006) Toreador completes another Romania producer
    (4/9/2006) Inpex to develop Western Australia's 9.8 Tcf Ichthys
    (4/9/2006) Oklahoma Ellis well goes on production
    (4/7/2006) Ecuador to bring Amazon field into production
    (4/7/2006) Tri Valley drilling 5 oilwells & 1 gaswell on California properties
    (4/7/2006) Shah Deniz subsea pipelay successfully completed
    (4/7/2006) Lukoil sub starts Gabyshevskoye development
    (4/7/2006) Cepu development delayed by lack of rigs
    (4/7/2006) Pakistan's Pindori production well tests completed
    (4/7/2006) BPI Energy to drill 10 CBM wells in northern Illinois
    (4/7/2006) Eastern Star spuds Bibblewindi CBM producer
    (4/6/2006) Toreador confirms gas in Turkey's Dogu Ayazli
    (4/6/2006) Dune adds gas producer well on Texas' Welder Ranch
    (4/6/2006) Saudi Aramco contracts Zuluf & Safaniya infrastructure
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/9/2006) Thailand puts up 2 Thai Gulf blocks for bidding
    (4/9/2006) Houston Exploration selling offshore Louisiana assets
    (4/9/2006) Chevron said keen to sell Bangladesh assets to Reliance
    (4/7/2006) Nigeria-Sao Tome JDA pulls 3 blocks from bidding
    (4/7/2006) Equatorial Guinea opens oilfield licensing round
    (4/7/2006) Bids in for Colombia's $1.6 billion Llanos heavy oil project
    (4/6/2006) PNOC-EP seeking Malampaya oil rim farmout
    (4/6/2006) Avante acquires Anadarko's Brazil assets
    (4/6/2006) Empyrean farms into Sugarloaf Hosston prospect
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/9/2006) Omni seismic drilling services set for East Texas
    (4/7/2006) Crown Minerals seismic survey a resounding success
    (4/6/2006) GGS adds another 12,000 km to US Gulf survey
    (4/6/2006) Japex providing seismic survey equipment for Iraq
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/7/2006) Pemex rigworker & crewman killed in separate accidents
    (4/6/2006) BP Alaska being investigated by EPA
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/7/2006) Shell & Bolivia's YPFB pen upstream agreement
    (4/7/2006) Landmark contracted for DISKOS Database operation
    (4/6/2006) Shell hopes to restart Nigeria's EA Field soon
    (4/6/2006) Vroon orders 4 North Sea safety standby vessels
    (4/6/2006) Brunei Shell contracts tie-ins on Champion Field
    (4/6/2006) Sevan contracts Aker Kvaerner drilling systems
    (4/6/2006) Ocean Rig buying into Eastern Drilling
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 4/7
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 62.13
    0.0%
    Minas 65.90
    +0.2%
    Bonny Light 68.75
    -1.4%
    N. Sea Brent 67.63
    -0.3%
    Forties 67.25
    0.0%
    Urals/Mediterranean 62.65
    -1.0%
    Alaska N. Slope 65.59
    -0.6%
    W. Texas Intermediate 67.60
    -0.5%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.69
    +8.9%
    UK Day Ahead** 44.00
    0.0%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    April 10-12
    IPAA Oil & Gas Investment Symposium, New York, New York USA
    April 10-13
    APPEA Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Conference & Exhibition, Perth, WA Australia
    April 11-12
    IADC Lifting and Mechanical Handling Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    April 11-13
    SPE Intelligent Energy Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    April 12-13
    Russian Offshore Oil & Gas Development: Arctic & Far East Conference, Moscow, Russia
    April 18-19
    76th Annual Meeting & Texas Petroleum Expo, Wichita Falls, Texas USA
    April 20-23
    Iran Oil & Gas Show, Tehran, Iran
    April 22-26
    SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposiumw, Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
    April 23-25
    CERI Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta Canada
    ...More Events

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