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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (4/18/2006) US Gulf platform explosion injures 6 workers
    (4/18/2006) Rebels bomb another Pakistan gas pipeline
    (4/17/2006) Chad threatens to halt oil production over frozen assets
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/19/2006) Chile's gas discovery well at TD, being tested
    (4/19/2006) Roc to spud test well in China's Beibu Gulf
    (4/19/2006) BHP's Jacala probe off Western Australia a probable dud
    (4/19/2006) Petrobras finds another light oil field off Brazil
    (4/18/2006) Harriet JV strikes oil with Zephyrus-1 off Western Oz
    (4/18/2006) Victoria's California Eagle North finds oil shows
    (4/18/2006) Matra spuds first exploration well in Hungary
    (4/17/2006) Saudi Aramco wildcat finds major Persian Gulf gasfield (exclusive)
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/19/2006) Rig enroute to drill 3 Irish prospects
    (4/19/2006) Transocean Legend heading for Indonesia
    (4/17/2006) Transocean reactivating C. Kirk Rhein semi
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/19/2006) Maersk's Dumbarton re-development gets DTI go-ahead
    (4/19/2006) Santos' Queensland coal seam gas pilot flowing
    (4/19/2006) China's Hui Zhou 21-1 gasfield goes on production
    (4/19/2006) Pemex contracts Global Industries for Cantarell Field work
    (4/19/2006) Shell puts UK North Sea Cutter Field onstream
    (4/19/2006) Testing underway on Oregon CBM pilot projects
    (4/18/2006) Valkyries raises Komi field output via 3 new wells
    (4/18/2006) Beach putting South Australia's Christies-5 onstream
    (4/18/2006) Petrol beginning next phase in Coal Creek development
    (4/18/2006) Statoil adds new facilities on Snorre A platform
    (4/17/2006) New Bangladesh gas producers being drilled
    (4/17/2006) PYR Energy puts Wyoming Duck well onstream
    (4/17/2006) Santos' 3 wells at Queensland's Nockatunga all find pay
    (4/17/2006) Connacher adds 20 more wells at Great Divide
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/19/2006) Teikoku withdrawing from Egyptian concession
    (4/19/2006) Apache buying BP's US Gulf OCS producing properties
    (4/19/2006) Shell & Fort McKay First Nation do deal on treaty lands
    (4/18/2006) Pertamina to tempt prospective partners with data
    (4/18/2006) Venezuela to permit prior contractors to buy into projects
    (4/18/2006) CNOOC to be granted Kenyan concessions
    (4/18/2006) Calik Energi & Terra Insight to explore Erzurum
    (4/18/2006) Oilex becomes operator of 3 Indian fields
    (4/18/2006) Fortune acquiring 60% stake in China's Liulin CBM Block
    (4/17/2006) Majors want ONGC & RIL excluded from NELP-VI
    (4/17/2006) Gas Natural joins Repsol in Moroccan blocks
    (4/17/2006) CNPC buys remote Papua, Indonesia block
    (4/17/2006) Husky adds Alberta oil sands leases
    (4/17/2006) Activa adds stakes in 2 new Texas projects
    (4/17/2006) Pacific Stratus acquiring Sipetrol production in Colombia
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/19/2006) Rieber's converted Polar King to pull 10-streamers
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/17/2006) BP Alaska reports yet another pipeline leak
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/19/2006) Start-up of 2nd multiplex subsea control system
    (4/19/2006) Pemex contracts Global Industries for Cantarell Field work
    (4/18/2006) CNOOC to invest $12 billion in exploration by 2010
    (4/18/2006) Urals buys Dulisma & Lenskaya Transportnaya
    (4/18/2006) ONGC agrees to transparency in procurement practices
    (4/18/2006) North Sea Gas Partners formed targeting UK stranded gas
    (4/18/2006) Taghmen buys Colombia's Petroleos del Norte
    (4/18/2006) Cosco contracted for semi pontoons & repair
    (4/18/2006) China Petrotech to manage Cambodian offshore project
    (4/17/2006) ONGC & SCCL link for CBM development
    (4/17/2006) Penn West & Petrofund in $11 billion merger
    (4/17/2006) Keppel FELS to build $180 million jackup for Mercator
    (4/17/2006) Pogo Producing purchasing Latigo Petroleum
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 4/19
    Oil (US$ 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 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
    April 24-25
    North American Gas Strategies Annual Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    April 24-27
    LNG 15, International Liquefied Natural Gas Conference, Barcelona, Spain
    April 24-28
    International Pipeline Technology Trade Fair, Hannover, Germany
    April 25-27
    API Pipeline Conference, Fort Worth, Texas USA
    April 26-28
    Oil & Gas West Asia Exhibition & Conference, Muscat, Oman
    April 30-May 2
    Middle East Petroleum & Gas Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    ...More Events

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