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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
    (4/26/2006) Uzbekistan offers gas exploration facilities to Indian companies
    (4/25/2006) ExxonMobil evacuates Nigeria's Qua Iboe terminal
    (4/24/2006) Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels warn oil companies away
    (4/24/2006) Shell condensate pipeline struck in Nigeria
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/26/2006) Gulfsands spuds Syria's Souediah North test well
    (4/26/2006) FCP finds oil in Algeria's TAGI zone Block 405b
    (4/26/2006) BHP gives up on dry Jacala exploration well
    (4/26/2006) Vietnam's Hoang Long JOC TGT-3X a discovery
    (4/26/2006) Falcon strikes gas pay in Hungary's Mako Block
    (4/26/2006) Roc spuds Wei exploration well in China's Beibu Gulf
    (4/25/2006) ONGC Videsh to explore Qatar's Najwat Najem
    (4/25/2006) Gastar's East Texas Bossier probe proves success
    (4/25/2006) BPI drilling at the Northern Illinois Basin Project
    (4/24/2006) Pearl's Thai Gulf Jasmine exploration wells discoveries
    (4/24/2006) Beach spuds South Australia's Silver Sands test well
    (4/24/2006) Reliance reaches TD in India's Gujarat-Saurashtra well
    (4/24/2006) Woodside makes new gas find near Otway Gas Project
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/26/2006) Transmeridian contracts 4 rigs for Kazakh program
    (4/25/2006) Norway's PSA okays drilling on Norne with Transocean Arctic
    (4/24/2006) Keppel FELS ready to deliver 1st of 4 SeaDrill jackups
    (4/24/2006) AED shuts down Puffin drilling due to Cyclone Monica
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/26/2006) Dragon completes Zhdanov workover off Turkmenistan
    (4/26/2006) Newly converted FPSO set for Nigeria's Antan Field
    (4/25/2006) Parallel's New Mexico Wolfcamp well on production
    (4/25/2006) PNR completes Oooguruk artificial island off Alaska
    (4/25/2006) Development plan for Mauritania's Tiof Field near final
    (4/25/2006) Vietnam's Ca Ngu Vang Field declared commercial
    (4/25/2006) First 3 of Tsiengui wells completed in Gabon
    (4/24/2006) Barents Sea' Snohvit flows first gas
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/26/2006) China's Hu takes home 4 Nigeria blocks
    (4/26/2006) Cooper's award of Tunisia's Bargou Block official
    (4/26/2006) Finavera farming out stake in 3 Ireland blocks
    (4/26/2006) Vanco wins Ukraine tender rights for Prikerchensky Block
    (4/26/2006) Shell pre-emption alters Brazil Block BC-10 ownership
    (4/26/2006) Premier-Medco-Japex JV acquire North Sumatra block
    (4/26/2006) Santos farming into Premier's Vietnam blocks
    (4/25/2006) Soco farms out Gulf of Thailand Bualuang Field
    (4/25/2006) Superior buys 7-sections in Alberta's Medicine Hat Field
    (4/25/2006) Marathon acquires 200,000-acres in North Dakota & Montana
    (4/25/2006) Rosneft wins licenses for 2 large East Siberian fields
    (4/24/2006) Mosaic wins Queensland production block
    (4/24/2006) Radial farming into Ziegler Peru's Amazon block
    (4/24/2006) Victory takes a stake in 5 Oklahoma wells
    (4/24/2006) ONGC assured of 3 blocks offshore Nigeria
    (4/24/2006) Gold & PetroPeru granted Peru's Block XXI
    (4/24/2006) Hardman farms into 2 Staatsolie Surinam blocks
    (4/24/2006) DTI approves EnCore takeover of North Sea blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/21/2006) Wavefield to shoot 3D for Statoil off Norway
    (4/21/2006) West Texas seismic shoot set for Big Canyon Ranch
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/26/2006) Putin orders Siberia to Pacific pipeline away from Baikal
    (4/26/2006) Petrobras to access Ecuador's Yasuni project via copters
    (4/26/2006) XTO rig worker killed in Barnett Shale gasfield accident
    (4/24/2006) Terra Nova oil spill off Eastern Canada being investigated
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/26/2006) KS Energy & Ezra Holdings to acquire self-propelled jackup
    (4/26/2006) Mosvold contracts for 2 super M2 jackups
    (4/26/2006) Aker Kvaerner wins another major drilling equipment contract
    (4/25/2006) CHC wins 2 contract renewals for North Sea area
    (4/24/2006) Chevron takes social responsibility where it operates
    (4/24/2006) Gulfmark contracts Nautronix for newbuild control systems
    (4/24/2006) Bourbon Offshore orders deepwater 18 PSVs
    (4/24/2006) Stone Energy agrees to acquisition by Plains E&P
    (4/24/2006) Abbot Group buying Songa Drilling
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 4/26
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 67.00
    0.0%
    Minas 71.92
    +0.6%
    Bonny Light 74.45
    +0.1%
    N. Sea Brent 74.57
    +1.9%
    Forties 74.15
    +1.6%
    Urals/Mediterranean 68.05
    +2.1%
    Alaska N. Slope 71.87
    +2.5%
    W. Texas Intermediate 75.17
    +2.0%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.75
    -2.1%
    UK Day Ahead** 38.50
    -1.3%
    *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 30-May 2
    Middle East Petroleum & Gas Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    May 1-3
    IOGCC Midyear Meeting, Point Clear, Alabama USA
    May 1-4
    OTC Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    May 3-5
    Canadian Petroleum Industry Annual Safety Seminar, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 4
    PSA Well Safety Seminar, Stavanger, Norway
    May 7-10
    APPEA Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Assoc Conference & Exhibition, Gold Coast, Australia
    May 9-11
    Arab International Exhibition & Conference for Gas & Petroleum, Cairo, Egypt
    May 10-11
    NACE Internal Corrosion Seminar, Houston, Texas USA
    May 15-18
    SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Canada
    May 15-18
    Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
    ...More Events

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