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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
    US dollar growth lowers crude prices
    (4/1/2008) The US dollar has had a three-day run of increases in value against the euro and other major currencies, with the euro now at US$1.5607, the Japanese yen rising to 101.22. This followed data indicating a sharp gain in euro zone inflation which suggests a continued divergence in monetary policy between the rate-slashing US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/2/2008) Nigeria & Cameroon agree to joint border field projects
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/2/2008) Roc's Western Australia Dunsborough-2 a duster
    (4/2/2008) Beach spudding Queensland's Currumbin-1 tonight
    (4/2/2008) Zita-1 sidetrack underway onshore Tunisia
    (4/2/2008) Tethys Kazakh test well flows over 13 million cf/d
    (4/2/2008) Premier's Sparrow well in UK North Sea all wet
    (4/2/2008) EPL scores 2nd discovery in Bay Marchand
    (4/2/2008) Santos spuds Barrow test well off Western Australia
    (4/1/2008) Forest finds significant gas in Canada's Utica Shale
    (4/1/2008) Reliance strikes again in India's Krishna Godavari
    (4/1/2008) Teton wins Colorado approval for Frenchman drilling
    (3/31/2008) Matra wells targeting Hungarian & Russian prospects
    (3/31/2008) Caza finds gas in Texas & New Mexico
    (3/31/2008) EPL finds bypassed oil in heart of its East Bay Field
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/2/2008) Seadrill takes delivery of 2 new semisubmersibles
    (4/1/2008) Pride finalizes 5-year contract for drillship Pride Angola
    (4/1/2008) PSA consents to StatoilHydro use of Polar Pioneer & West Alpha
    (4/1/2008) Aker Drilling wins 5-year Norwegian Sea drilling contract
    (3/31/2008) Vantage buying newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship
    (3/31/2008) Noble scores $4 billion in drilling deals from Petrobras
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/2/2008) Husky wins approvals for North Amethyst development
    (4/2/2008) Montello drilling one, prepping for another Tennessee test well
    (4/2/2008) Brazil's Campos Basin heavy oil Siri Field achieves onstream
    (4/2/2008) Iceberg threat shuts down Husky's White Rose production
    (4/2/2008) Abraxas puts Texas test well on production
    (4/1/2008) Tatneft & Chevron talking Tartarstan bitumen project
    (4/1/2008) Eni restores production at Ecuador's Villano Field
    (4/1/2008) Offshore Peru Corvina Field well tests 5,350 b/d
    (4/1/2008) Serica drilling dual development wells off Sumatra
    (3/31/2008) Cairn development plan for Rajasthan field approved
    (3/31/2008) Excelsior sees encouraging core results at Athabasca
    (3/31/2008) Parsons-2 well a Patchawarra producer for South Australia
    (3/31/2008) Alvheim FPSO hooked up on field offshore Norway
    (3/31/2008) Po Valley Italian gasfield wins environment approval
    (3/31/2008) Australia's NWSV going ahead with North Rankin 2 Project
    (3/31/2008) Austin scores 7th straight success with Kentucky well
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/2/2008) Helix sells interest in deepwater US Gulf properties
    (4/2/2008) TransAtlantic farms out Turkish licenses
    (4/2/2008) Island extends reconnaissance contract in Morocco
    (4/2/2008) Otto confirms 50% farm-in into 2 Po Valley blocks in Italy
    (4/1/2008) Forest Oil acquires Ark-La-Tex properties for $285 million
    (4/1/2008) Mainland options NW Louisiana leases
    (4/1/2008) JayHawk acquires Kansas gas assets, now drilling
    (4/1/2008) Mubadala farms into Shell exploration acreage in Algeria
    (4/1/2008) Afren farming into Oriental Energy block off Nigeria
    (3/31/2008) Madalena farming into Storm's Tunisian concession
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/2/2008) Elixir shooting 3D seismic over Sierra Leone block
    (4/1/2008) Paradigm releases its latest reservoir modeling software
    (3/31/2008) Northern Ireland 3D shoot shows Permian salt sequence
    (3/31/2008) Empire kicks off 3 seismic surveys in Western Australia
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/2/2008) Half-million cf/d being lost in major Myanmar gas leak
    (4/1/2008) Maersk meets enviro targets in Danish North Sea
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/2/2008) Schlumberger scores $50 million Pemex geo project
    (4/1/2008) Heerema Vlissingen building jacket for Nexen's Buzzard
    (3/31/2008) WorleyParsons to acquire INTEC Engineering
    (3/31/2008) Subsea 7 wins Petrobras inter-field pipeline contract
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    April 3-4
    Georgian International Oil & Gas Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
    April 6-9
    Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration 2008 Conference & Exhibition, Perth, WA, Australia
    April 7-8
    China International Oil & Gas Conference, Beijing, China
    April 7-8
    EIA 2008 Data & Outlook Conference, Washington, D.C. USA
    April 7-9
    China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology & Equipment Exhibition, Beijing, China
    April 7-10
    API Pipeline Conference & Cybernetics Symposium, Orlando, Florida, USA
    April 8-10
    MCE Deepwater Development Conference, Paris, France
    April 8-11
    Oceans '08 MTS/IEEE Kobe MTS/IEEE Conference & Exhibition, Kobe, Japan
    April 9-10
    IADC Well Control Europe Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    April 9-11
    North Caspian Regional Atyrau Oil & Gas Exhibition & Technology Conference, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    April 10-11
    5th African Petroleum Forum 2008, London, UK
    April 14-15
    Gasification conference, London, UK
    April 15-17
    SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    April 15-17
    SPE International Health, Safety & Environment Conference, Nice, France
    ...More Events

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