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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
    June futures slip but held up by improving economies
    (4/28/2009) Traders at New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London expressed their nervousness today about the potential negative effects on the now evident economic recovery of the spread of swine flu by selling down, but the US dollar's decline against most international currencies and consumer confidence at its highest level this year kept the selldown to a minimum and equity markets were improved again today...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/26/2009) IEA sees serious crude shortage in four years
    (4/26/2009) Shut-in Chevron Cook Inlet wells may not be restarted (update)
    (4/26/2009) Brit held a fortnight in Niger Delta released (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/29/2009) Petrobras scores again onshore Espirito Santo
    (4/29/2009) Aztec drills 2nd successful Texas gaswell
    (4/29/2009) Iran to drill its 1st exploration well in the Caspian Sea
    (4/28/2009) Petrolia preparing for Quebec Gaspe Peninsula exploration
    (4/28/2009) Gulf Keystone kicks off drilling on Kurd Shaikan Block
    (4/28/2009) Sinopec drilling Australia's Puffin Field probe
    (4/28/2009) Galp finds oil onshore Brazil in Potiguar Basin
    (4/28/2009) PrimeGen picking drillsites in Russia's Saratovskoye
    (4/27/2009) Contango scores a dry hole on US Gulf prospect
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/29/2009) Jurong selling newbuild ultra-deepwater semisubmersible
    (4/27/2009) StatoilHydro given go-ahead to drill with 2 semis
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/29/2009) Artificial seabed trial in South China Sea successful
    (4/29/2009) Serica putting Kambuna Field onstream in June
    (4/29/2009) Cirrus moving forward in Netherlands developments
    (4/29/2009) Harriet JV output returning to normal on Varanus repairs
    (4/29/2009) UK North Sea West Don Field goes onstream
    (4/28/2009) BG drilling to expand Panna-Mukta &Tapti Fields
    (4/28/2009) Nexen shutting down North Sea Buzzard for month
    (4/28/2009) TNK-BP developing 2 billion bbl Kamennoye Field
    (4/27/2009) Chesapeake's latest Haynesville well flows
    (4/27/2009) Delphi puts 4 wells onstream in NW Alberta
    (4/27/2009) Aramco prepping 2nd major field for summer start-up
    (4/27/2009) Reliance resumes oil flow from India's KG-D6 Block
    (4/27/2009) Emerald's Capella-6 taps Mirador pay in Colombia
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/29/2009) Russia offering Nenets & Sakhalin blocks
    (4/29/2009) Africa Oil closes acquisition of Lundin's East Africa assets
    (4/29/2009) Indonesia awards 11 new E&P blocks
    (4/28/2009) New Standard farming into coastal Texas oil & gas project
    (4/28/2009) Western Sahara declares offshore EEZ
    (4/28/2009) Manas picks up PSCs for two Mongolian blocks
    (4/28/2009) Falcon to acquire additional Beetaloo Project interest
    (4/28/2009) Roc farming out stake in Cabinda block to Pluspetrol
    (4/27/2009) PetroSA out to capture 2 DR Congo blocks
    (4/27/2009) Iraq issues terms for 8 fields in first bidding round
    (4/27/2009) Bahrain's Awali Field development goes to Oxy & Mubadala
    (4/27/2009) Central applies for 3 permits in Western Australia's SPA
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/29/2009) Spectrum shooting remaining blocks offshore India
    (4/29/2009) New hardward-software combo speeds complex seismic computation
    (4/28/2009) ION completes 1st phase of BrasilSPAN seismic project
    (4/28/2009) Advanced seismic attribute analysis software released
    (4/28/2009) EMGS secures 3D contract in eastern US Gulf
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/29/2009) Body found on seafloor of Beryl Alpha production operator (update)
    (4/28/2009) Search & rescue for Beryl Alpha worker ongoing
    (4/27/2009) Petrobras boosts flaring to 286 million cf/d offshore Brazil
    (4/27/2009) Fire erupts at ONGC's Indian west coast gasfield complex
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/29/2009) Global to decommission 8-pile US Gulf platform
    (4/29/2009) Senergy to find ways to prolong North Sea production
    (4/29/2009) Foster Wheeler selected for Kashagan enviro contract
    (4/28/2009) CNPC & Kazmunaigas buying Mangistaumunaigas
    (4/28/2009) Total abandons its effort to acquire UTS (update)
    (4/28/2009) OLF calls on the companies to update pandemic plans
    (4/28/2009) Deepwater subsea measurement project awarded
    (4/28/2009) Wood Group & SPT targeting FLNG developments
    (4/27/2009) Trico Marine wins $100 million in subsea contracts
    (4/27/2009) Marcellus Shale development to expand on Atlas merger
    (4/27/2009) Schlumberger pays $21.8 million for remaining OPDS stake
    (4/27/2009) BJ to install subsea piles for Technip Canada
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    April 29-May 1
    SPE Electric Submersible Pump Workshop, The Woodlands, Texas USA
    May 4-7
    Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 4-6
    EAGE International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Shiraz, Iran
    May 6-8
    Petroleum Safety Conference, Banff, British Columbia, Canada
    May 10-12
    Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Midyear Meeting (IOGCC), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
    May 11-13
    Oil & Gas Outlook Brazil 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    May 11-14
    Intergas: 5th International Conference for Oil & Gas, Cairo, Egypt
    May 11-22
    The 9th Annual International Capacity-Building Program, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 12-14
    International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
    May 12-13
    North American Unconventional Oil & Gas Conference & Exposition, Denver, Colorado, USA
    May 12-14
    Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    May 13-14
    Low Permeability Natural Gas '09, Denver, Colorado USA
    May 18-21
    Pakistan Oil, Gas & Energy Exhibition and Conference - POGEE 2009, Karachi, Pakistan
    May 21
    IADC Drilling Onshore Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    May 25-27
    CSM-CMM Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    May 25-27
    CSM-CMM Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    May 25-28
    Gastech International Conference & Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    May 27-29
    SPE European Formation Damage Conference, Scheveningen, Netherlands
    May 31-June 3
    SPE Latin American & Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Cartagena, Colombia
    May 31-June 5
    SPE Artificial Intelligence in the E&P Industry Forum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
    ...More Events

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