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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (5/10/2006) Baker Hughes executive assassinated in Nigeria
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/10/2006) Centurion plugging & abandoning 3 Egypt wells
    (5/10/2006) Lukah exploration well spudded off Indonesia
    (5/10/2006) PNG Douglas-1 exploration well reaches depth
    (5/10/2006) Credo drilling offsets to Oklahoma gas discovery
    (5/10/2006) Ten-well Mississippi Palmetto Point drilling to start
    (5/10/2006) Cygnus well a UK shallow water gas discovery
    (5/10/2006) Wei-6-12S confirmed an oil discovery off China
    (5/9/2006) Drilling commences on Al-Ali-1 in Pakistan
    (5/9/2006) Hardman spuds Mputu appraisal well in Uganda
    (5/9/2006) Another Talisman NE BC Canada deep gas success
    (5/9/2006) PNR finds 2 new Edwards Trend fields in South Texas
    (5/8/2006) Kerr-McGee makes deepwater gas find in US Gulf
    (5/8/2006) McMoRan scores Louisiana discovery at Liberty Canal
    (5/8/2006) Lucas & Molopo finds pay in latest NSW Gloucester well
    (5/8/2006) Oilexco's UK North Sea Disraeli test finds 90-ft oil column
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/10/2006) Pacific Asia China test drilling Huangshi CBM targets
    (5/9/2006) Cheetah starts re-entry of PNG Kuru-2 well
    (5/8/2006) Tri-Valley unit fills out production rig fleet
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/10/2006) Noble's deepwater US Gulf Lorien Field producing
    (5/10/2006) Nigeria's Erha Field goes on production
    (5/9/2006) Vast starting 12-well program in Peace River, Alberta
    (5/9/2006) Mechanical failure shuts down Canada's Terra Nova
    (5/9/2006) QGC puts Berwyndale South gasfield onstream
    (5/9/2006) Marathon's North Sea Alvheim development underway
    (5/8/2006) Petrobras starts Capixaba FPSO on Golfinho Field
    (5/8/2006) JKX taps down 2 Ukrainian producers
    (5/8/2006) AWE revises development plan for NZ's Tui Oil Project
    (5/8/2006) ConocoPhillips receives go-ahead for UK's Mimas gasfield
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/10/2006) Hydro & ONGC farming into Repsol's Cuba eploration
    (5/10/2006) Australia reveals 2006 blocks on offer
    (5/10/2006) Sunshine sells Roma Shelf assets to Santos
    (5/10/2006) Sinopec-Sonangol JV going for Angola Blocks 17 & 18
    (5/10/2006) Eni & Faroe commit to drill Anne Marie exploration well
    (5/9/2006) Angola awards new offshore acreage
    (5/9/2006) Marathon in JV to develop 2 Syrian oil & gas fields
    (5/9/2006) Star completes buy of Albury & Storrington Fields
    (5/9/2006) Maxim farms into Trinidad's South Erin Block
    (5/9/2006) Dover completes farmout of Egypt's East Wadi Araba Block
    (5/9/2006) Dover completes farmout of Egypt's East Wadi Araba Block
    (5/9/2006) Denbury acquiring northern Louisiana Delhi unit
    (5/9/2006) BP to sell its Netherlands E&P assets
    (5/9/2006) Adelphi adds interest in Texas coast Sugarloaf prospect
    (5/9/2006) Santos adds interest in Australia's Gippsland gasfield
    (5/8/2006) Loon wins negotiation rights for Peruvian block
    (5/8/2006) Hess selling onshore US Gulf assets
    (5/8/2006) Arawak adds another oilfield in Russia's Komi Republic
    (5/8/2006) Pemberton adding Alberta & Saskatchewan assets
    (5/8/2006) Arc adds Western Australia Canning Basin blocks
    (5/8/2006) PCS joining Corridor in 2006 McCully drilling program
    (5/8/2006) Pogo adds North Dakota Bakken Shale acreage
    (5/8/2006) Plectrum forms JV with Gold Oil for Peru's Block Z34
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/10/2006) Seismic shoot underway over Philippines' Block SC60
    (5/10/2006) Apache to deploy & test new land seismic system
    (5/9/2006) Karoon's finds 10 leads in onshore Gippsland Basin 2D
    (5/9/2006) L&M Petroleum starts seismic shoot off New Zealand
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/10/2006) Suspended Apache enviro license nixes Neuquen operations
    (5/10/2006) US Gulf Typhoon platform donation as artificial reef
    (5/9/2006) Nominees of pioneering environmental initiatives sought
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/10/2006) Bolivia's national oil company takes control of 2 oil companies
    (5/10/2006) Tag acquires 3 NZ Cheal operating companies
    (5/10/2006) Halliburton to redevelop ONGC's Assam fields
    (5/10/2006) NIDC contracts 50th onshore rig from Machinsazi Arak
    (5/9/2006) Kuwait to sell 30% of Kufpec & 49% of KDC
    (5/9/2006) Fugro charters newbuild ROV/subsea support vessel
    (5/9/2006) $400 million subsea contract goes to Aker Kvaerner
    (5/8/2006) Hallin to build $23 million DP2 subsea ops vessel
    (5/8/2006) Shell Canada bidding to buy BlackRock Ventures
    (5/8/2006) Odegaard to become part of WesternGeco
    (5/8/2006) Technip picked as NZ's Kupe Gas preferred contractor
    (5/8/2006) Accenture pens 5-year co-sourcing pact with EnCana
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 5/10
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 66.41
    0.0%
    Minas 70.79
    -4.7%
    Bonny Light 72.14
    -1.2%
    N. Sea Brent 70.95
    +0.9%
    Forties 71.34
    -1.0%
    Urals/Mediterranean 64.74
    -1.3%
    Alaska N. Slope 68.59
    +3.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 70.56
    +0.9%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 6.82
    +4.1%
    UK Day Ahead** 37.50
    +5.2%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    May 15-18
    SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Canada
    May 15-18
    Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
    May 16-18
    Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Tashkent Uzbekistan
    May 17-19
    World GTL Summit, London, UK
    May 17-20
    Pakistan Oil, Gas & Energy Exhibition & Conference, Karachi, Pakistan
    May 18
    IADC Drilling Onshore America Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    May 18-19
    2006 Gas Shales Summit, Houston, Texas USA
    May 21-23
    Global Oil and Gas Expansion Congress
    May 23-24
    Global Energy Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    May 24-26
    Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal, Ontario Canada
    May 29-30
    Conference on Field Reservoir Management, Stavanger, Norway
    May 30
    SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Corrosion, Aberdeen, Scotland
    ...More Events

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