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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
    (4/3/2005) OPEC to increase output by 500,000 b/d in May
    (4/1/2005) Japan threatens to start drilling in disputed East China Sea
    (4/1/2005) Tribesmen sabotage Pakistan pipeline again
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/3/2005) Petrobras to explore Uruguay's Pelotas Basin
    (4/3/2005) Falcon spuds Romanian exploration well
    (4/1/2005) Apache to sidetrack Jane-1 off Western Australia
    (4/1/2005) OMV's Kanina-1 reaches TD & is suspended
    (3/31/2005) Daewoo discovers another giant gasfield off Myanmar
    (3/31/2005) DONG plugs & abandons Sissel-1 off Denmark
    (3/31/2005) Oilexco drilling farm-in well on UK North Sea block
    (3/31/2005) Santos' 2005 exploration program its most prospective
    (3/31/2005) Murphy makes another oil & gas discovery offshore Sarawak
    (3/31/2005) Vaalco to spud Avouma South Prospect offshore Gabon
    (3/31/2005) DNO's Yemen Block 43 Nabrajah-5 taps payzones
    (3/31/2005) Dana discovers oil in North Sea Melville prospect
    (3/31/2005) BP has 6th discovery on Angola's ultra-deepwater Block 31
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/1/2005) Saipem to drill offshore Angola & Egypt
    (3/31/2005) GlobalSantaFe takes delivery of 2nd ultra-deepwater semi
    (3/31/2005) Schlumberger to frac 4 new Texas Big Foot wells
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/3/2005) Tomahawk taps down 10th Oklahoma well
    (4/1/2005) Lukoil puts Sofronitskoye onstream in Russia's Perm region
    (4/1/2005) 3D data shows Toreador's Black Sea prospect larger
    (3/31/2005) Nexus planning Longtom gasfield appraisal
    (3/31/2005) Petsec completes 2 of 3 Louisiana farm-in wells
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/1/2005) Ecopetrol awarding PSCs for Colombia marginal fields
    (4/1/2005) Westech selling out of New Zealand holdings
    (4/1/2005) US BLM licenses 155 parcels in national forests
    (4/1/2005) SOCO sells PetroChina its Mongolian interests
    (4/1/2005) Tap farming into BHP Carnarvon Basin block
    (4/1/2005) Perupetro approves award of two licenses to Petrolifera
    (4/1/2005) Tullow completes Schooner & Ketch acquisition from Shell
    (4/1/2005) PXP selling 275 East Texas wells to XTO
    (3/31/2005) Winslow farms into Saskatchewan shallow gas
    (3/31/2005) Mart to participate in Nigeria's Kwa Iboe Field
    (3/31/2005) MMS' Beaufort Sea Sale garners bids on 127 blocks
    (3/31/2005) XTO & ConocoPhillips complete producing property trade
    (3/31/2005) Stratic & Kufpec sign for Syria's Block 17
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/31/2005) PGS completes offshore Tunisia 2D shoot
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/3/2005) Incorrectly used 150-ton dual tubing spider causes rig accident
    (3/31/2005) Emergency helicopter landing on North Sea platform
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/1/2005) Prosafe extends Petroleo Nautipa & Madura FSO contracts
    (4/1/2005) Japan may sell stake in Inpex
    (4/1/2005) Clough AMEC JV chosen for Woodside services
    (4/1/2005) SEA Systems contracted for Petrobras P-51 control & automation
    (3/31/2005) Winstar acquisitions add Tunisian & Hungarian assets
    (3/31/2005) Brunei Shell contracts Astrata geomatics services
    (3/31/2005) Ashtead orders 4 Marinus subsea attitude & heading systems
    (3/31/2005) ChevronTexaco & Repsol to jointly develop Orinoco Belt area
    (3/31/2005) Wood Group contracted for permanent downhole sensors
    (3/31/2005) Aker Kvaerner contracts from ChevronTexaco in Thailand
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 4/1
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 50.23
    0.0%
    Dubai Fateh 48.94
    +0.4%
    Bonny Light 54.53
    +2.5%
    N. Sea Brent 56.51
    +4.1%
    Forties 54.13
    +1.6%
    Urals/Mediterranean 48.81
    +4.3%
    Alaska N. Slope 54.14
    +3.9%
    W. Texas Intermediate 57.27
    +3.4%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.50
    +4.6%
    UK Day Ahead** 30.20
    +3.4%
    *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 3-7
    NACE Corrosion Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    April 5-7
    SEAPEX Exploration Conference, Singapore
    April 6-7
    Energy Security Council Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
    April 10-13
    North African/Mediterranean Petroleum & Geosciences Conference & Exhibition, Algiers, Algeria
    April 11-12
    IADC Offshore Logistics Conference & Exhibition, Lafayette, Louisiana USA
    April 11-13
    Technology Uptake Forum, Galveston, Texas USA
    April 12-13
    SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing Conference & Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas USA
    April 12-14
    SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference & Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia
    ...More Events

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