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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
    Major benchmarks fall on improved dollar & less supply worry
    (4/29/2008) The key crudes among our monitored benchmarks dropped precipitously today in price per bbl with the restoration of production on the North Sea Forties fields and resumption of flow through BP's Forties pipeline - both brought about by the end to the strike at Scotland's Grangemouth refinery...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (4/29/2008) Allegations of killings by pipeline guards said baseless
    (4/29/2008) BP restarts North Sea Forties pipeline (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (4/30/2008) Reliance drilling off India in Saurashtra Basin
    (4/30/2008) Sidetrack off Mauritania sees oil & gas shows
    (4/30/2008) StatoilHydro draws a dry hole with Yoda test well
    (4/29/2008) Storm Ventures takes Tunisia's TT2 well to total depth
    (4/29/2008) Heritage spuds Kingfisher-2 in Uganda
    (4/29/2008) BG drilling Jordbaer exploration well off Norway
    (4/29/2008) Petsec's Louisiana Moonshine well flows 3 million cf/d
    (4/28/2008) Aminex spuds Northwest Tanan-1 in Egypt
    (4/28/2008) Essential drilling onshore Australia Otway Basin well
    (4/28/2008) Helis finds oil & gas in Louisiana's West Black Bay
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (4/30/2008) Samsung to build another Stena DrillMax drillship
    (4/30/2008) Matra contracts 2 Hungary wells to be drilled by Rotary Drilling
    (4/28/2008) Fox charters semisubmersible Byford Dolphin
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (4/30/2008) Contango's Louisiana Mary Rose-2 successful
    (4/30/2008) Babbage Field development plan wins partner approvals
    (4/30/2008) Running Foxes at TD in 1st Jolly Ranch well in Colorado
    (4/30/2008) Serica scores exceptional test results from Kambuna well
    (4/30/2008) Horizon Oil Sands Project set for first oil in 3rd quarter
    (4/29/2008) Dragon adds new producers in Turkmen Caspian
    (4/29/2008) Independent's Tuscan CBM project cleared to drill
    (4/29/2008) Surat-Bowen Basin's Waggamba-4H going on production
    (4/29/2008) MMS approves Petrobras FPSO - first in US Gulf
    (4/29/2008) New subsea template onstream at North Sea Vigdis East
    (4/28/2008) PA pilot hole in Tunisia's Didon Field finds big pay
    (4/28/2008) Eni gets underway with US Gulf Longhorn development
    (4/28/2008) Moho-Bilondo onstream off Republic of Congo
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (4/30/2008) Mogul selling stake in Egypt block for debt liquidation
    (4/30/2008) Sentry acquires 1.6 million acre Queensland, Australia permit
    (4/30/2008) Widespread Energy wins new New Zealand permit
    (4/30/2008) Origin takes concession off Vietnam, BG bids to by company
    (4/30/2008) Pan American wins block in Chile's Magallanes region
    (4/30/2008) Devon farms into Samson acreage in Wyoming
    (4/29/2008) Allenergy adds more acreage in Chautauqua County, Kansas
    (4/29/2008) Pantera acquiring 5 re-entry wells in Texas
    (4/29/2008) Reliance joining Pan Andean in Peruvian farm-in
    (4/28/2008) Numhyd receives licenses granted 5 years ago
    (4/28/2008) MMS forming committee on Indian oil & gas lease revisions
    (4/28/2008) Rhein Petroleum to explore Germany's Schwaben-Sud
    (4/28/2008) Jogmec wins Russia's Severo-Mogdinsky Block
    (4/28/2008) Cepsa farming out stake in Colombia exploration block
    (4/28/2008) Moho-Bilondo onstream off Republic of Congo
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (4/30/2008) South Australia Boorthanna 2D shoot underway
    (4/30/2008) TGS Launches New Series of Greenland Exploratory Surveys
    (4/29/2008) 2D shoot set for mid-May in Somalia's Dharoor Valley Block
    (4/29/2008) Terrex Seismic completes one 3D shoot, starts another
    (4/28/2008) CGGVeritas shooting 2D over eastern Peru acreage
    (4/28/2008) SeaBird contracted for ocean bottom survey off Angola
    (4/28/2008) SCAN to shoot 2D in Caribbean for PetroVietnam
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (4/30/2008) Migrating ducks dead & dying at Syncrude project
    (4/30/2008) CAODC hands out service rig safety awards
    (4/29/2008) Libya's offshore Al Jurf Field shutdown to prevent blowout (update)
    (4/28/2008) Chevron suspends seismic shoot due to forest fire
    (4/28/2008) Naftogaz copter crashes into Tavrida jackup in Black Sea
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (4/30/2008) Cameron awarded $235 million subsea contract
    (4/30/2008) Technip-Subsea 7 JV wins New Zealand & Vietnam deals
    (4/30/2008) Stone Energy buys Bois d'Arc Energy for $1.8 billion
    (4/29/2008) AMEC wins BP 5-year EMS contract in Caspian Sea
    (4/29/2008) Subsea 7 scores 5-year IRM deal with Total
    (4/28/2008) ExxonMobil Nigeria completely shutdown - 800,000 b/d lost (update)
    (4/28/2008) Total acquiring Synenco Energy for $480 million
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 2-5
    IOGCC Midyear Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 5-8
    Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
    May 5-8
    API International Oil Spill Conference, Savannah, Georgia, USA
    May 6
    GPA Permian Basin Annual Meeting, Odessa, Texas, USA
    May 11-14
    Intergas V, Cairo, Egypt
    May 11-16
    SPE Deepwater Forum, Phuket, Thailand
    May 12-16
    Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    May 13-15
    Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    May 13-15
    International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
    May 15
    IADC Drilling Onshore America Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA
    May 14-15
    26th West Coast Energy Management Congress, Seattle, Washington, USA
    May 20-21
    6th Maghreb & Mediterranean 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
    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
    ...More Events

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