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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
    All crudes climb, new record near $128/bbl recorded
    (5/16/2008) Another round of soaring prices today send West Texas Intermediate to yet another record high in per bbl price of US$127.82 and North Sea Brent to a record $125.79 before they settled to end the week somewhat lower. Their prices and those of other monitored benchmarks rose significantly today due to a combination of predictions from Goldman Sachs that WTI will reach an average...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/18/2008) Canada facing off with Russia over Arctic sovereignty
    (5/15/2008) MMS sets new rule for hurricane platform survivability
    (5/15/2008) Indian oilfield workers kidnapped from Sudan field
    (5/15/2008) 1/3 of Sichuan gas output restored, only 16 rigs functioning (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/18/2008) Fowler gets go-ahead for Alaska Cook Inlet CBM well
    (5/18/2008) BP to drill Oman's onshore Block 61 by yearend
    (5/18/2008) TPAO to explore deepwater area west of Cyprus
    (5/18/2008) InterOil's Elk-4 discovery tests 7.23 million cf/d
    (5/18/2008) Eurogas pegs SeaWolf to drill Tunisia exploration wells
    (5/16/2008) Talisman to drill Quebec St Lawrence Lowlands
    (5/16/2008) Golden Eye to drill 2 North Dakota back-to-back test wells
    (5/16/2008) Eni prepping to drill 3 test wells off India's Andaman Island
    (5/16/2008) Brooks Range taps down Alaska winter drilling
    (5/16/2008) Tap to commence onshore Brunei exploration
    (5/16/2008) Tethys finds shallow gas with 1st Kul-Bas well in Kazakhstan
    (5/15/2008) Eromanga & Gavea see oil in onshore Brazil well
    (5/15/2008) Sonatrach scores 6th discovery of year in Algeria
    (5/15/2008) MOL scores discovery on Russia's Matyushkinskaya Block
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/15/2008) Regal contracts rigs for five-year Ukraine program
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/18/2008) Kuwait spending $51 billion to boost oil production
    (5/16/2008) Nelson drilling 3rd production well in Louisiana Raven Project
    (5/16/2008) Emerald hooks up 1st Appalachian well in Kentucky
    (5/16/2008) Mosaic adds producer in Australia's Surat-Bowen Basin
    (5/16/2008) Sinopec getting quake-hit Sichuan gasfields back onstream (update)
    (5/15/2008) Fourth well in Turkey's Edirne Gas Project scores
    (5/15/2008) ExxonMobil putting 2nd Kizomba C field onstream
    (5/15/2008) Queensland's Waggamba gets big producer
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/18/2008) Iraq wants final proposals for major field TSCs
    (5/18/2008) Ecuador to buyout recalcitrant oil companies
    (5/16/2008) Mart & Network resolve Nigeria field dispute
    (5/16/2008) Petronas exits Philippines' offshore Mindoro block
    (5/15/2008) Sapex wins South Australia licenses in St Vincent Basin
    (5/15/2008) Brazil puts Rounds 8 & 10 on indefinite hold
    (5/15/2008) Nautical farms out stake in North Sea block to Canamens
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/15/2008) Arcadia completes interpretation of 2007's Namibia 2D data
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/18/2008) US BLM calls for 10-year moratorium at Alaska NPR
    (5/16/2008) Rig worker falls to death on Montana drillsite
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/18/2008) Total to fund NNPC-Elf Petroleum Nigeria JV projects
    (5/18/2008) Chevron giving $1.4 million to China earthquake relief
    (5/16/2008) ABB providing electrical systems for 3 new CNOOC rigs
    (5/15/2008) VetcoGray wins Gorgon subsea contract off Australia
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 20-21
    6th Maghreb & Mediterranean 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
    May 20-21
    SPE Digital Energy Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 20-21
    SPE Digital Energy Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 20-22
    Mediterranean Offshore Conference, Alexandria, Egypt
    May 20-23
    1st Nigerian International Gas Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    May 25-28
    Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    May 26-28
    Geological Association of Canada GAC-MAC 2008 Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada
    May 27
    SPE International Oilfield Corrosion Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    May 28-29
    SPE International Oilfield Scale Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    May 28-30
    European Association of Liquified Petroleum Gas - AEGPL 2008, Milano, Italy
    June 1-6
    SPE Reservoir Geomechanics Forum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
    June 2-6
    National Fire Protection Association World Safety Conference & Exposition, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    June 3-6
    Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan
    June 4-5
    Europe Upstream 2008, London, UK
    June 6-10
    Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA
    ...More Events

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