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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 end the week well up over yesterday
    (4/27/2007) Based on a combination of bullish factors, the key crudes saw significant increases today, more than making up for yesterday's loses in advance of an uncertain weekend. The most likely upward driving force was the report from...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/29/2007) Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels release Chinese oil workers (update)
    (4/29/2007) Rebel Tamil Tiger aircraft bomb Shell gas facility
    (4/27/2007) Ogaden rebels apologize for Chinese deaths & seized workers (update)
    (4/27/2007) Total contractors escape kidnapping in Port Harcourt
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/27/2007) Newfield finds 90-ft net pay in deepwater Fastball discovery
    (4/27/2007) Vicpet completing Wirraway well as South Australia producer
    (4/27/2007) Venture's UK Ash exploration well a dry hole
    (4/26/2007) Norwood testing Nicaraguan exploration well
    (4/26/2007) CCP to spud 2nd Huaya well in Peru's Block 100
    (4/26/2007) Pacific Stratus spuds 2nd La Creciente test well
    (4/26/2007) First of 4 test wells spudded on Indonesia's Bengara-II
    (4/26/2007) Verenex completes final flowtest on Libya discovery
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/25/2007) Rally gives up on Safed Koh well, will re-drill differently
    (4/25/2007) Royale picks Halliburton to manage Uinta Basin drilling
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/29/2007) Transneft has laid a third of oil pipeline to China
    (4/29/2007) PetroChina's Tarim Basin Yingmaili on production
    (4/29/2007) Oilex puts India's Sabarmati well onstream
    (4/29/2007) Cubic drilling 8th Bethany Longstreet producer
    (4/29/2007) Marathon spuds deep gas development well in Oklahoma
    (4/26/2007) Northern drilling sidetrack to 1987 Ottoland well
    (4/26/2007) Nexen pushing Buzzard output to peak by midyear
    (4/26/2007) Guardian's re-entry of BC Kotcho Lake well succeeds
    (4/26/2007) Statoil shutting down North Sea Kvitebjorn Field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/29/2007) US Interior to open areas off Florida, Alaska, & Virginia
    (4/27/2007) Repsol joins Kazakh JV to explore 2 Caspian blocks
    (4/27/2007) Endeavour swapping North Sea stakes with Challenger
    (4/27/2007) Texas American farms into CNOOC South China Sea block
    (4/27/2007) Algeria considering concession swaps for next licensing
    (4/27/2007) Exile wins approval to farm into Nigeria's Akepo Field
    (4/27/2007) Titan acquires 480 acres of Kern County, California leases
    (4/27/2007) Galp going into Timor Leste & Mozambique with Eni
    (4/26/2007) PDVSA assumes control of Orinoco projects
    (4/26/2007) Sun farming into Louisiana's Lake Long Field
    (4/26/2007) Lukoil buys majority stakes in 3 Vanco West Africa blocks
    (4/26/2007) Burlington granted another Peru Maranon Basin block
    (4/26/2007) Regal seeking partners in Ukraine field developments
    (4/26/2007) India withdraws licenses for 3 blocks from BG
    (4/26/2007) Iraqi contracts illegal if not with central government
    (4/26/2007) Lundin, EnCore & Toreador link for French license
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/27/2007) COSL to shoot 3D off China for Husky
    (4/27/2007) Kansas Geological Survey puts Hugoton Field at 18.84 Tcf
    (4/27/2007) Fugro & Diavez contracted for Bay of Campeche surveys
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/26/2007) Persian Gulf coral colonies moved from pipeline route
    (4/26/2007) Accident shuts down 90,000 b/d at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay
    (4/26/2007) Accident on rig offshore Mexico kills 3, injures 4
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/29/2007) Mermaid Offshore contracts Nico's Team Siam
    (4/27/2007) EMGS orders 2 back deck systems from ODIM
    (4/27/2007) Statoil buying North American Oil Sands for $2 billion
    (4/26/2007) Dujour purchasing Endeavor Energy
    (4/26/2007) $44.1 million paid to end foreign corrupt practices probe
    (4/26/2007) BJ contracted for well services off Equatorial Guinea
    (4/26/2007) Halliburton acquiring PSL Energy Services
    (4/26/2007) Hydro picks FMC Kongsberg for new Troll O2 project
    (4/26/2007) Tidewater investigating its Nigerian operations
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    April 30 - May 3
    Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    May 4-6
    Geological Society of America Cordilleran Meeting, Bellingham, Washington, USA
    May 6-8
    IOGCC Midyear Issues Summit, Bellingham, Point Clear, Alabama USA
    May 6-9
    AAPG Hedberg Research Conference: Mobile Shale Basins, The Hague, The Netherlands
    May 7-9
    Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Meeting, Saint George, Utah USA
    May 7-10
    Blowout Prevention School, Norman, Oklahoma USA
    May 8-11
    Petroleum Industry's Annual Safety Seminar, Banff, Alberta, Canada
    May 9-10
    Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas Annual Exhibition, Marrakech, Morocco
    May 14-15
    Deloitte Energy Conference, Washington, D.C.
    May 14-17
    Canadian Joint Conference (Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Canadian Well Logging Society), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 15-16
    Asia Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    May 15-17
    Indonesian Petroleum Association Annual Convention, Jakarta, Indonesia
    May 15-17
    Intergas IV 2007 International Conference & Exhibition, Cairo, Egypt
    May 15-17
    International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA
    May 15-17
    11th Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    May 16
    CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 16-19
    Pakistan Oil, Gas & Energy Exhibition & Conference, Karachi, Pakistan
    ...More Events

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