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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
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  • World Industry News
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  • Exploration & Discoveries
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  • Drilling & Completion
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  • Development & Production
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  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences
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  • Health Safety & Environment
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  • Company News
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  • Industry Events
    •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Profit-taking push prices back a bit
    (4/8/2008) Traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange could not resist taking profits today after all of our monitored benchmarks soared to near record heights in prices per bbl once more. Further increases in the value of the US dollar against other key currencies also gave impetus to sales...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/7/2008) Yemen oil compound struck by rocket attack
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/8/2008) Tullow planning offshore exploration in Uganda's Lake Albert
    (4/8/2008) Petronas drilling Banda NW test off Mauritania
    (4/8/2008) Sintezneftegaz drilling Namibia's Kunene-1
    (4/8/2008) Essential drilling Ayrford test well in Otway Basin
    (4/8/2008) Peroba test well wins Brazil enviro approval to drill
    (4/8/2008) Genesis to drill exploration well on UK North Sea block
    (4/8/2008) Petrovietnam scores discovery in Algerian desert
    (4/8/2008) Apache scores dual discoveries off Western Australia
    (4/7/2008) Joint venture formed for exploration in Sea of Marmara
    (4/7/2008) Toreador spuds exploration well in central Hungary
    (4/7/2008) First test wells set for Russia's Northern Caspian Lagansky Block
    (4/7/2008) Gurame-1X encounters gas shows off Sumatra
    (4/7/2008) Omega drilling Mugello exploration well onshore Colombia
    (4/7/2008) Gavea drilling 2nd test well in Brazil's Sergipe Alagoas
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/9/2008) Sterling contracts Ensco 70 jackup for UK North Sea work
    (4/8/2008) Songa Venus contracted to drill Zeus exploration well
    (4/8/2008) Innamincka sidetracking Flax-7 well
    (4/7/2008) Seadrill's contract for West Ariel cancelled
    (4/7/2008) Reliance charters drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/9/2008) CNPC & Chevron commence Puguang development
    (4/9/2008) Victory kicks off drilling of 10th Canyon Sandstone gaswell
    (4/9/2008) Pacific Rubiales drilling producers in Colombia's La Creciente
    (4/9/2008) Umusadege Field set for first oil next week
    (4/8/2008) Antrim completes producer on UK Fyne Field
    (4/8/2008) New compact deepwater separation plant under development
    (4/8/2008) Revus bumps up output via UK North Sea field
    (4/8/2008) Apache brings in 20.2 million cf/d at BC's Ootla play
    (4/7/2008) Canoro sidetracking latest Assam appraisal well
    (4/7/2008) Evolution completes 3 horizontals in Texas' Giddings Field
    (4/7/2008) Western Australia's Reindeer Gas Project sanctioned
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/9/2008) PDVSA & ONGC Videsh win Orinoco block
    (4/9/2008) Energi Mega Persada takes major stake in Sumatra block
    (4/9/2008) Nicaragua awards MKJ Caribbean concession
    (4/9/2008) Island granted Netherlands North Sea license
    (4/8/2008) Eurogas & Atlas farming out Tunisia concession
    (4/8/2008) Petrohawk ups interests in Haynesville Shale leases
    (4/8/2008) Pacific Asia Petroleum wins China's Zijinshan Block
    (4/8/2008) Devon to sell Equatorial Guinea assets for $2.2 billion
    (4/8/2008) Shell UK farming out stake in UK North Uist Prospect
    (4/8/2008) Contango augments interest in US Gulf & Louisiana leases
    (4/8/2008) Total sells 20% of Mauritania blocks to Qatar Petroleum
    (4/7/2008) Colombia's ANH awards Emerald Putumayo block
    (4/7/2008) Quicksilver adds 19 licenses in British Columbia
    (4/7/2008) Sun Cal adds stake in Texas' West Gomez Field
    (4/7/2008) PetroHunter selling Colorado Piceance properties
    (4/7/2008) Lundin takes 3 PSCs offshore Malaysia
    (4/7/2008) Australia offering 35 new exploration permits
    (4/7/2008) JKX farming into Slovakia Carpathian Fold licenses
    (4/7/2008) Crusader farming into Exoma's Anadarko acreage
    (4/7/2008) Elk Petroleum buys rights to Crow Indian Reservation
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/8/2008) BHP prepping to shoot 3D over Sabah deepwater blocks
    (4/8/2008) PGS completes 2D shoot off Western Australia
    (4/7/2008) Empire's Western Oz Wellesley 2D shoot completed
    (4/7/2008) TGS obtains record geological products contract
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/9/2008) Lukoil enviro study finds minimum effect from Caspian well
    (4/9/2008) 900 million cf/d gas shutdown by leak in Independence Hub
    (4/9/2008) World Wildlife Fund opposes Alaska Bering Sea drilling
    (4/7/2008) Wyoming elk herd being tested for CBM development tolerance
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/9/2008) PKN & Kuwait Energy join to buy Odin Energi Latvija
    (4/9/2008) Subsea 7 sub scores trio of Petrobras contracts
    (4/9/2008) Technip wins major subsea contract off Eastern Canada
    (4/9/2008) Parker Drilling sells its half-ownership of Saudi JV
    (4/9/2008) Woodside contracts McDermott for North Rankin B platform
    (4/7/2008) PetroFalcon to acquire Anadarko Venezuela
    (4/7/2008) Venture extends Petrofac facilities management contract
    (4/7/2008) Nexen picks Heerema Hartlepool to build Buzzard PS deck
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    April 10-11
    5th African Petroleum Forum 2008, London, UK
    April 14-15
    Gasification conference, London, UK
    April 15-17
    SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    April 15-17
    SPE International Health, Safety & Environment Conference, Nice, France
    April 19-23
    IOR 16th SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
    April 20-23
    AAPG Annual Conference & Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, USA
    April 20-23
    SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
    April 21-23
    West Asia Oil and Gas Exhibition & Conference, Muscat, Oman
    April 21-24
    International Pump Users Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA
    April 27-29
    SPE Progressing Cavity Pumps Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 2-5
    IOGCC Midyear Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 5-8
    Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
    May 5-8
    API International Oil Spill Conference, Savannah, Georgia, USA
    ...More Events

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