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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
    Supply issues score another day of record high oil prices
    (4/22/2008) A big jump in China's oil demand and output losses in Nigeria and Russia have again sent traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange scurrying to buy up once more and in doing so have sent per bbl prices to new record heights...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/21/2008) UN decision extends Australian shelf 2.5 million sq km
    (4/21/2008) Wife of Lonestar CEO kidnapped in Niger Delta
    (4/21/2008) Two more key Niger Delta pipelines bombed
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/23/2008) Gazprom counters Rosneft plan to drill West Kamchatka
    (4/23/2008) Banda NW appraisal well off Mauritania being sidetracked
    (4/23/2008) StatoilHydro spuds Galtvort exploration well off Norway
    (4/23/2008) Harriett JV drilling Marley test well off Western Australia
    (4/23/2008) Coolangatta exploration well in Queensland a dud
    (4/23/2008) Circulation loss shuts down Pan Orient well in Thailand
    (4/23/2008) Gastar scores with 2 East Texas test wells, another drilling
    (4/23/2008) Dana scores oil discovery at West Rinnes
    (4/22/2008) Cuisinier test well spudded in Queensland, Australia
    (4/22/2008) PGNiG drilling 2nd Polish exploration well at Kromolice North
    (4/22/2008) Nippon Oil scores gas discovery in US Gulf
    (4/22/2008) Reliance kicking off Gujarat-Saurashtra drilling
    (4/21/2008) L&M to log New Zealand Westland well to decide final depth
    (4/21/2008) Nexen drilling Blackbird south of North Sea Ettrick Field
    (4/21/2008) Transworld's Gurame sidetrack to be plugged & abandoned
    (4/21/2008) CNR's Anning test well in North Sea a dry hole
    (4/21/2008) Report indicates oil seeps in Vangold Rwanda block
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/21/2008) Workfox adds new jackup to North Sea fleet
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/23/2008) Golden Gate finds more pay in Padre Island project
    (4/23/2008) Ithaca suspends latest try at UK Athena prospect
    (4/23/2008) Kansas White Eagle well being plugged & abandoned
    (4/23/2008) Goliat development in Norway's Barents Sea to cost $5 billion
    (4/23/2008) Montello sees hydrocarbons in Tennessee test well
    (4/22/2008) Buccaneer perfing & testing Pompano Well 2
    (4/22/2008) TRACS says Ayoluengo Field in Spain still a producer
    (4/22/2008) 3D Oil to drill West Seahorse appraisal/producer
    (4/22/2008) Alaska rejects Point Thomson plan & terminates leases (update)
    (4/22/2008) Saudi Aramco's Khursaniyah starts production
    (4/22/2008) Azerbaijan's Caspian Deepwater Guneshli on production
    (4/21/2008) Shell declares force majeure at Bonny terminal
    (4/21/2008) Odyssey taps down another Pelahatchie well in Mississippi
    (4/21/2008) Australia's $1.1 billion Kipper Field development set
    (4/21/2008) Vietnam's Yen Tu 1x Field proves commercial
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/23/2008) Marathon sells stake in Sudan block to Total
    (4/23/2008) Leni ups stake in Spanish acreage around Ayoluengo Field
    (4/22/2008) Canoro to operate Changpang Block in Nagaland
    (4/22/2008) BP & Devon exercise 1st refusal on sale of Kaskida (update)
    (4/22/2008) Urals Energy sells assets in Russia's Komi region
    (4/22/2008) Hyundai joins Global in New Zealand Taranaki block
    (4/21/2008) Iraq to sign service contracts with 5 majors in June
    (4/21/2008) Heritage farming into Dominion's Tanzania licenses
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/22/2008) Airborne gravity survey concluded over Utah's Hingeline
    (4/22/2008) New version of GeoSec 2D modeling software released
    (4/22/2008) EMGS to carry out seabed logging in Barents Sea
    (4/21/2008) Paradigm to process & model Canadian oil sands seismic
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/20/2008) Protest calls for exploration withdrawal from Kamchatka
    (4/20/2008) Pearl E&P seen as threat to Utah's "Spiral Jetty"
    (4/18/2008) Tengizchevroil again fined for environmental violations
    (4/18/2008) Few injuries in high activity saturated diving
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/22/2008) ExxonMobil & StatoilHydro sign for Badger Explorer
    (4/22/2008) Seadrill buys 10% ownership of Pride International
    (4/22/2008) Fusion & JOA form integrated geo services JV
    (4/22/2008) DryShips buys control of Ocean Rig
    (4/22/2008) Proserv wins US Gulf abandonment & decommissioning contract
    (4/22/2008) World's first offshore Wi-Fi installed on Byford Dolphin
    (4/21/2008) GE contracted to boost depleted Omani wells
    (4/21/2008) Halliburton contracted for Saudi Arabia mega-project
    (4/21/2008) Grey Wolf & Basic Energy Services in merger of equals
    (4/21/2008) Varel acquires Downhole Products
    (4/21/2008) GE joins ConocoPhillips in produced water R&D center
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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
    May 15
    IADC Drilling Onshore America Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 14-15
    26th West Coast Energy Management Congress, Seattle, Washington, USA
    May 20-21
    6th Maghreb & Mediterranean 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
    May 20-21
    SPE Digital Energy Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 20-22
    Mediterranean Offshore Conference, Alexandria, Egypt
    May 20-23
    1st Nigerian International Gas Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    May 25-28
    Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    May 26-28
    Geological Association of Canada GAC-MAC 2008 Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada
    ...More Events

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