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  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (4/27/2004) OPEC may lift price target range to $25-$32/bbl
    (4/26/2004) Iraq reopens Basra terminal to oil exports (update)
    (4/26/2004) Venezuela proposes creation of PetroCaribe
    (4/26/2004) ChevronTexaco suspends operations in Nigeria's Delta (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/28/2004) Vintage chalks up another An Nagyah success
    (4/28/2004) Acacia Grove & Morney North both fluorescing (update)
    (4/28/2004) Arc Energy's Xyris-1 exceptional gas producer (update)
    (4/28/2004) NZOP spuds Pukeko-1 offshore Taranaki
    (4/28/2004) Roc spuds 2nd Beibu Gulf appraisal well
    (4/28/2004) Shell strikes out with Norwegian wildcat
    (4/27/2004) Remington makes discovery on US Gulf Vermilion 241
    (4/27/2004) Murphy's Kikeh-7 succeeds in discovering deeper reservoirs
    (4/27/2004) BP makes major gas discovery off Egypt's Nile Delta
    (4/27/2004) Lynn-1 spudded in North Dakota's Indian Hills Field
    (4/27/2004) Amity spuds Adatepe-4 onshore Turkey
    (4/27/2004) Joint Petrobras-PDVSA Argentine project possible
    (4/27/2004) Pan Andean to spud High Island 68 well
    (4/27/2004) Harriet JV painter well failure follows success
    (4/26/2004) Goolwa-1 looks to be dry hole
    (4/26/2004) Kuwait discovers its 1st gasfield
    (4/26/2004) Petronas restarts exploration drilling in Caspian
    (4/26/2004) Expanded six-well program planned at Sledge Hamar
    (4/26/2004) Loon to drill Slovenian Petisovsci well
    (4/26/2004) BHP Billiton's Puncheon-1 major Trinidad find
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/28/2004) Corridor's McCully K-57 well shows formation damage (update)
    (4/27/2004) Mosaic loses Fairymount-7 to collapsed wellbore
    (4/27/2004) BP extends contracts for Transocean high-spec rigs
    (4/26/2004) Tanganyika drilling 1st horizontal on Syria's Oudeh Field (update)
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/28/2004) Total winding up Iran's Doroud Field development
    (4/28/2004) Admiral Bay tests show 943 million cf in Kansas reserves
    (4/28/2004) Syria oil production declining, gas output growing
    (4/28/2004) Woodside awards Enfield subsea development contracts
    (4/28/2004) Last well near completion on Brazil's Coral Field
    (4/28/2004) Austral Pacific's Cheal A3X finds pay sands
    (4/27/2004) Melrose delays Bulgaria Galata platform output
    (4/27/2004) Quest reports 58 subsea tree orders for Q1 2004
    (4/27/2004) Overston-2a to be completed as a gas producer
    (4/27/2004) Pars Oil & Gas solves South Pars 8 jacket problem
    (4/27/2004) Fire on Petrobras' P-31 extinquished
    (4/26/2004) FieldPoint evaluating Big Muddy reserves
    (4/26/2004) UK entourage to OTC promoting British North Sea
    (4/26/2004) Sidetracks to give new life to China's Lufeng Field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/28/2004) Pemex to offer two new gas development areas
    (4/28/2004) Lexington acquires Arkoma Basin gas prospect (update)
    (4/27/2004) Petrobras farming into US Gulf ultra-deep project
    (4/27/2004) Wysak Petroleum leases second Powder River CBM property
    (4/27/2004) Encore acquiring East Texas gas properties
    (4/26/2004) Essar to return Ratna-R fields to ONGC
    (4/26/2004) Singapore Petroleum farms into Vietnam blocks
    (4/26/2004) Nigeria Sao Tome JDA notes ERHC options
    (4/26/2004) Egdon farms out 50% of UK Block PEDL128
    (4/26/2004) Total gets nod to go ahead with South Pars 11 development
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/28/2004) I/O sells 1st VectorSeis ocean seabed system
    (4/28/2004) Total adds 2nd supercluster for E&P branch
    (4/27/2004) Pemex to employ Drillworks geopressure & geomechanics analysis
    (4/26/2004) 4th Wave to provide 4D for Petrobras
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/28/2004) ExxonMobil receives MMS safety award
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/28/2004) Baker Hughes contracts Vertec for FPSO facilities
    (4/28/2004) CGG donates Geocluster software to Oman University
    (4/27/2004) Aker Marine Contractors gets Baobab FPSO project
    (4/27/2004) Wintershall picks Subsea 7 for inter-platform pipelay
    (4/27/2004) Interra acquires 70% of Tanjung Miring Field operator
    (4/26/2004) Statoil contracts Landmark for global technology & services
    (4/26/2004) Kremlin approves Total taking 25% of Sibneft
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 4/28
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 32.50
    0.0%
    Dubai Fateh 31.93
    +1.3%
    Bonny Light 34.48
    +1.6%
    N. Sea Brent 33.28
    -1.8%
    Forties 33.90
    -0.4%
    Urals/
    Mediterranean    		 29.45
    -2.3%
    Alaska N. Slope 35.66
    -1.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 37.13
    -0.8%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.56
    +0.7%
    IPE Gas NB** 19.70
    +0.1%
    *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 29
    5th International Oil Summit, Paris, France
    May 2-4
    Williston Basin Horizontal Well & Petroleum Conference, Minot, North Dakota, USA
    May 3-6
    Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    May 5
    Texas A&M Multiphase Measurement User Roundtable, Houston, Texas USA
    May 5-6
    Texas A&M Multiphase Pump User Roundtable, Houston, Texas USA
    May 8-13
    Middle East Petroleum & Gas Week, Manama, Bahrain
    May 9-12
    AAPG Pacific Section Convention, Bakersfield, California USA
    May 13-14
    Iranian International Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Conference, Tehran, Iran
    May 13-14
    Texas Petroleum Exposition & Annual Meeting, Wichita Fall, Texas USA
    ...More Events

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