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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
    Prices fall to 7-month low on ballooning stocks, econ worries
    (5/18/2010) Speculators were scurrying for less risky assets today as fears that tighter regulations on investment in both Europe and the United States in response to the recent debt crisis in the EU and Greece in particular, and to the US financial debacle of a year ago, may significantly slow global economic recovery. Traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) took that lead and sold down even further...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/19/2010) Cyclone Laila bearing down on India's Bay of Bengal
    (5/18/2010) Zhongyuan Oilfield Company workers kidnapped in Yemen
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/19/2010) Socar to resume drilling Umid-1 in Caspian
    (5/19/2010) Rockhopper suspends Falkland Sea Lion well for testing
    (5/19/2010) Gastar taps 138 ft of Bossier pay in East Texas
    (5/19/2010) Archer kicks off 4-well Wolfberry program in West Texas
    (5/19/2010) Maurel & Prom plugs & abandons Congo test well
    (5/19/2010) Tullow appraisal confirms Uganda Nzizi gasfield
    (5/19/2010) ConocoPhillips' Western Australia Kronos-1 tests 26 million cf/d
    (5/18/2010) VAALCO drilling SE Etame exploration well off Gabon
    (5/18/2010) Petrobras finds more oil in Brazil's Albacora Leste Field
    (5/18/2010) Providence completes Ardmore heavy oil assessment off Ireland
    (5/17/2010) Enegi finds Green Point Shale extending offshore Newfoundland
    (5/17/2010) Gastem drilling St-Hyacinthe in Quebec St Lawrence Lowlands
    (5/17/2010) Tethys' Kazakh appraisal of Doris discovery underway
    (5/17/2010) EnCore drilling Catcher test well in UK North Sea
    (5/17/2010) Greymouth sub makes Tierra del Fuego gas discovery
    (5/17/2010) ANP makes another giant pre-salt oilfield discovery
    (5/17/2010) RIL scores 2 major gas discoveries in Bengal Bay
    (5/17/2010) Wintershall spuds Maria prospect in Norwegian Sea
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/18/2010) Diamond Offshore jackup contracted for Brazil
    (5/18/2010) Ensco jackup contracted by Chevron for shallow US Gulf work
    (5/18/2010) Tethys' KOM200 Tajik flow test halted by stuck drillstring
    (5/17/2010) Breitling re-enters Jefferson County, Texas well
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/19/2010) Shell investing $2 billion to cut Nigeria gas flaring
    (5/19/2010) Four horizontal producers set for Texas' Drummond Edwards Field
    (5/19/2010) Po Valley puts 2nd Northern Italy field on production
    (5/18/2010) Philippines' Tindalo Field onstream by month's end
    (5/18/2010) Petrom bumps up output by 300,000 boe from 3 wells
    (5/18/2010) DNO scores with 2nd Yalen-3 flow test in Yemen
    (5/18/2010) Murphy puts 3rd producer onstream in Azurite Field off Congo
    (5/17/2010) Brownlow Wet Gas discovery has basin's highest test rate
    (5/17/2010) Peregrine & Entek drilling US Gulf North Padre well
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/19/2010) One-year extensions granted on Zion's 2 Israeli blocks
    (5/19/2010) ONGC invites 4 majors to buy into key Krishna Godavari block
    (5/19/2010) Lundin awarded 2 blocks off Sabah, Malaysia
    (5/19/2010) Anadarko farms into Global NZ Taranaki Basin license
    (5/18/2010) Mitra & Kufpec take PSC for Vietnam offshore block
    (5/18/2010) AED Oil farming out stake in Rombebai PSC onshore Papua
    (5/18/2010) HRT & Universal Power awarded blocks offshore Namibia
    (5/17/2010) Voyager picks up Bakken leases in North Dakota & Montana
    (5/17/2010) Realm granted concession in Germany's Lower Saxony
    (5/17/2010) CNOOC & TPAO granted Iraq's Maysan oil fields contract
    (5/17/2010) Tullow awarded Suriname deepwater block
    (5/17/2010) Australia launches 2010 licensing round
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/19/2010) Spectraseis completes its largest low frequency seismic survey
    (5/18/2010) SeaBird to shoot 4C-3D seismic West of Shetland
    (5/18/2010) SeaBird to shoot 4C-3D seismic West of Shetland
    (5/18/2010) Apache Horn River frac monitoring microseismic survey completed
    (5/18/2010) Thorough risk analysis for exploration workflows
    (5/18/2010) Surestream contracts WGP for Lake Tanganyika 2D study
    (5/17/2010) Neon kicks off 2D seismic shoot over Vietnamese blocks
    (5/17/2010) TNK-BP investing $108 million in Saratov seismic
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (5/19/2010) EOG takes a 49% stake in Kitimat LNG in British Columbia
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/19/2010) Wellbore cement failure, not batteries said cause of blowout (update)
    (5/18/2010) Nippon Oil shuts in 2 Louisiana wells due to oil spill
    (5/18/2010) Two killed others injured on semi Ocean Ambassador
    (5/18/2010) BP capturing almost half of US Gulf oil leak from riser (update)
    (5/17/2010) Petrobras monobuoy sinks in Campos Basin off Brazil
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/19/2010) CNPC acquires stake in Shell operating unit in Syria
    (5/19/2010) Technip contracted for Marulk Field pipe-in-pipe flowline
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 20
    IADC Drilling Onshore Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    May 24
    SPE International Conference on Oilfield Corrosion, San Antonio, Texas USA
    May 24
    ILTA Annual International Operating Conference & Trade Show, Houston, Texas USA
    May 26
    SPE International Conference On Oilfield Scale, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    June 1-4
    Caspian International Oil & gas Exhibition & Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan
    June 2-3
    Gas Shales Summit, Houston, Texas USA
    June 5-8
    Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada
    June 6-8
    Asia Oil & Gas Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    June 8
    SPE International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Beijing, China
    June 8-10
    2010 Global Petroleum Show & Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    June 14-17
    EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
    June 14-17
    Europec 2010, Barcelona, Spain
    June 15-17
    Global Unconventional Gas 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    June 16
    IADC World Drilling Conference & Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
    June 20-26
    International Offshore & Polar Engineering Conference, Beijing, China
    ...More Events

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