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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
    Key crudes surge to new highs
    (4/15/2008) The principal crudes among our monitored benchmarks leapt to new record highs in price per bbl today on prompting by fears of a tight global market while pipeline outages cut into supply and the US dollar continued its downward drift in value versus the euro and other major currencies...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/16/2008) Venezuela's National Assembly passes windfall oil tax
    (4/15/2008) Sudan's Darfur JEM rebels wants Chinese out
    (4/14/2008) Rig worker killed in accident on Petrobras P-17
    (4/14/2008) Sabotage in Niger Delta cuts Eni output 5,000 b/d
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/16/2008) Maurel & Prom score with 2 Colombia test wells
    (4/16/2008) Venture completes Barbarossa well in UK North Sea
    (4/16/2008) Repsol-led JV pushes back offshore Cuba exploration to 2009
    (4/16/2008) Aminex's Malak well in Egypt non-commercial
    (4/16/2008) Noil Energy finds in North Sea Draupne Prospect
    (4/15/2008) DST set for Tunisia's Teboursouk-1 test well
    (4/15/2008) Anzon finds oil off Victoria, Australia with Basker well
    (4/15/2008) Oilex plugging & abandoning Oman test well
    (4/15/2008) GeoPark scores gasfield discovery in Chile
    (4/15/2008) Maersk makes discovery in Danish North Sea
    (4/14/2008) Petrobras' Carioca Field holds 33 billion bbl oil (update)
    (4/14/2008) Brooks Range strikes oil on Alaska North Slope
    (4/14/2008) Lukoil spuds test well in Colombia's Condor Project
    (4/14/2008) Empyrean confirms discovery at Texas' Sugarloaf Project
    (4/14/2008) StatoilHydro makes large gas discovery in Norwegian Sea
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/16/2008) Victory sees dropped casing setback in Texas well
    (4/16/2008) Aker H-6e hull sails from Dubai to Stord
    (4/15/2008) KS Medstar 1 set for Petrobel Mediterranean drilling
    (4/15/2008) Aban wins 2-well ExxonMobil contract for jackup
    (4/14/2008) Blake contracted to drill Cook Inlet off Alaska
    (4/14/2008) Seadrill secures $4.1 billion in contracts for Petrobras
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/16/2008) Gran Tierra tests 3rd Costayaco well at 2,543 b/d
    (4/16/2008) Oseberg Field's Gamma Main Statfjord onstream
    (4/16/2008) Development underway on Norway's Tyrihans Field
    (4/15/2008) Gastem kicks off Utica Shale Program in New York
    (4/15/2008) Eni puts Pakistan's Badhra gasfield on production
    (4/15/2008) Urals doing appraisal of Dulisminskoye Field production well
    (4/14/2008) Aspen drilling producer on California's Malton-Black Butte Field
    (4/14/2008) Saudi Arabia sets aside discoveries for future development
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/16/2008) Caspian buys into California's San Joaquin Basin
    (4/16/2008) Sri Lanka delays award of 3 blocks
    (4/16/2008) Lansdowne takes Ireland's North Celtic Sea blocks
    (4/16/2008) Direct Energy buys TransGlobe Energy Canadian assets
    (4/16/2008) West Canyon acquiring North Dakota Spring Creek Prospect
    (4/15/2008) EV Energy Partners acquiring Atascosa, Texas properties
    (4/15/2008) Oil Search selling Egypt & Yemen assets
    (4/15/2008) Faroe farming into Noreco's South East Tor find
    (4/15/2008) Linn Energy selling Appalachia interests to XTO Energy
    (4/14/2008) Ascent selling stakes in Hungarian gas projects
    (4/14/2008) Osage takes Cimarrona & stake in Colombia field
    (4/14/2008) Oilexco purchases Svenska UK North Sea interests
    (4/14/2008) Incremental adds stake in 5 California San Joaquin projects
    (4/14/2008) Vangold granted Rwanda White Elephant Block
    (4/14/2008) Gazprom given license for Chayandinskoye Field development
    (4/14/2008) ExxonMobil farming into MOL's Mako Trough blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/16/2008) BOS contracted to shoot 3D in UK North Sea
    (4/16/2008) ION & LARGEO form Russian geophysical alliance
    (4/16/2008) Wavefield Inseis completes 2D off Barbados
    (4/15/2008) NWest contracts 3D shoot off Western Newfoundland
    (4/15/2008) ION completes 2D shoot off Indonesia and Malaysia
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/15/2008) Bahrain well fire out of control
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/16/2008) Baker Hughes acquires Gaffney, Cline & GeoMechanics
    (4/14/2008) Sterling contracts wellhead & mudline suspension systems
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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
    May 6
    GPA Permian Basin Annual Meeting, Odessa, Texas, USA
    May 11-14
    Intergas V, Cairo, Egypt
    May 11-16
    SPE Deepwater Forum, Phuket, Thailand
    May 12-16
    Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 13-15
    Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    May 13-15
    International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
    ...More Events

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