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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
    (4/7/2004) Nazarbayev & Chen discuss Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline
    (4/6/2004) Caspian foreign ministers convene but nothing new emerges (update)
    (4/6/2004) Western hemisphere energy ministers to meet in Trinidad
    (4/5/2004) Caspian states talking again in Moscow
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/7/2004) Mosaic's Waggamba-3 finds Showgrounds potential
    (4/7/2004) Dover drilling for gas in Slater Dome
    (4/7/2004) Kallirachi Greek wildcat tests show 1/4-million bbl
    (4/7/2004) Arc finds potentially significant gas column with Xyris-1
    (4/6/2004) Oil & gas companies to increase exploration spending in 2004
    (4/6/2004) Sinopec discovers 2 billion bbl in additional oil reserves
    (4/6/2004) C1 Energy finds 2nd new oil pool at Zama Lake
    (4/6/2004) Goodrich makes Norton discovery in US Gulf off Louisiana
    (4/5/2004) Pemex to drill Mexico's first deepwater wildcat
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/7/2004) Cooper Basin JV to drill 7 wells in 3 blocks
    (4/7/2004) True Energy drilling 19 wells this quarter
    (4/7/2004) Fellows drilling Utah Overthrust Project 2nd phase well
    (4/5/2004) Patterson-UTI had 6,458 drilling days in March
    (4/5/2004) Recovery of White Rose dropped BOP underway
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/7/2004) Texas' Mimms Creek Field seeing significant drilling
    (4/7/2004) Pogo begins Szolnok Hungarian development
    (4/7/2004) Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline ready by mid-2005
    (4/7/2004) McDermott commences Azerbaijan ACG Project pipeline
    (4/7/2004) ONGC to develop G-1 and G-15 fields in KG Basin
    (4/6/2004) Surgutneftegaz seeking Siberian partners
    (4/6/2004) NIOC gives ENI go-ahead on South Pars 4 & 5
    (4/6/2004) Queensland Gas' Berwyndale South output keeps going up
    (4/6/2004) Meridian tests Weeks Island well, finds gas in Eros prospect
    (4/6/2004) Husky Energy's Sea Rose FPSO arrives in Newfoundland
    (4/6/2004) Tanganyika prepping for 1st horizontal well on Syria's Oudeh Field
    (4/6/2004) Project Kuwait oilfield upgrade going to National Assembly
    (4/5/2004) High Point almost doubles output in BC & Alberta
    (4/5/2004) Maurel & Prom puts 4 Congo wells onstream
    (4/5/2004) Azeri Field development costs $3 billion to date
    (4/5/2004) FPSO Sea Rose delayed by high winds
    (4/5/2004) ExxonMobil restarts Bass Strait fire-shutdown production
    (4/5/2004) Tempest tying in new wells on Red Earth development
    (4/5/2004) Watch producing gas at Fishing Lake
    (4/5/2004) Lundin's North Sea Broom Field to get subsea redevelopments
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/7/2004) Bangladesh extends Tullow PSC on offshore blocks
    (4/7/2004) Nigeria awards three new offshore blocks
    (4/6/2004) Regal signs for Egypt's East Ras Budran Block
    (4/6/2004) Energytec triples Wyoming acreage
    (4/5/2004) Nido to farm into Vaalco's Philippines interests
    (4/5/2004) Yukos sells Talakan Field to Surgutneftegas
    (4/5/2004) DMT Energy acquires New Mexico Tucumcari acreage
    (4/5/2004) Galaxy acquires 100% interest in Powder River Basin wells
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/5/2004) NZ geological institute calls for $10 million for surveys
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/4/2004) Protection sought for loon in NPR-Alaska
    (4/3/2004) Sakhalin projects violate health regulations
    (4/2/2004) Statoil establishes emissions trading regime
    (4/2/2004) West Epsilon accident on BP's Valhall injures one
    (4/2/2004) Netherlands gives go-ahead to drill in Wadden Sea
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/7/2004) APF Energy Trust to buy Great Northern Exploration
    (4/7/2004) Hydro contracts Subsea 7 for Oseberg Vestflanken
    (4/7/2004) Stolt Offshore logs $120 million in North Sea contracts
    (4/7/2004) Kerr-McGee & Westport in $3.4 billion stock merger
    (4/6/2004) Grey Wolf acquires New Patriot Drilling
    (4/6/2004) ONGC & IPR pen "most favored client" MOU
    (4/6/2004) United Zeolite signs $3.8 million deal with Halliburton Canada
    (4/6/2004) ONGC awards $62 million platform contract to EIL
    (4/5/2004) Prosafe's Safe Caledonia to serve on Nigeria's Bonga Field
    (4/5/2004) Innicor acquiring Precision Drilling's Polar Completions
    (4/5/2004) Verenex & Prairie Fire to merge
    (4/5/2004) Gazprom establishing its own oil company
    (4/5/2004) Stolt Offshore picks up $150 million Amenam Field contract
    (4/5/2004) Final decision rendered on patent infringement suit
    (4/5/2004) New Westside Energy focuses on Barnett Shale
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 4/7
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 30.79
    0.0%
    Dubai Fateh 28.80
    -0.7%
    Bonny Light 32.03
    -3.6%
    N. Sea Brent 31.17
    -3.2%
    Forties 31.88
    -3.4%
    Urals/
    Mediterranean    		 28.68
    -2.3%
    Alaska N. Slope 32.91
    -0.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 34.34
    +0.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.68
    +0.4%
    IPE Gas NB** 18.83
    -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 12-13
    M&A Strategies and Opportunities in the Oil & Gas Industry of Russia, Houston, Texas USA
    April 13-15
    API Pipeline Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
    April 14
    3rd Annual Drilling Symposium, Houston, Texas USA
    April 17-21
    SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
    April 18-21
    AAPG Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas USA
    April 19-20
    North American Gas Strategies, Houston, Texas USA
    April 19-21
    Acadiana Flow Measurement Society Annual Show, Lafayette, Louisiana USA
    April 19-21
    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2004 Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    April 19-23
    Filtration Society World Filtration Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
    ...More Events

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