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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
    Key crude futures keep on growing in price
    (5/19/2009) The key crudes among our monitored benchmarks continued their price per bbl growth in futures settlements today, pushing to and beyond the US$60 a bbl range before closing slightly lower. Driving the trade at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London was the renewed fighting and violence in the oil-producing Niger Delta region of Nigeria...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/20/2009) Nigerian soldiers battle MEND fighters at Chevron field
    (5/18/2009) Protest halts oil flow in Peru export pipeline
    (5/18/2009) MEND blocking Niger Delta waterways to oil traffic (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/20/2009) TerraWest makes shall gas discovery in Xinjiang, China
    (5/20/2009) Ascent drilling Gazzata-1 exploration well in Italy's Po Valley
    (5/19/2009) Hocol scores major gas condensate find in Colombia
    (5/19/2009) Kansas' Poston Prospect produces 46-ft interval
    (5/19/2009) Oil & gas discovery in Egypt's NW Gemsa Concession
    (5/19/2009) Mechanical failure forces P&A of Poseidon-1 (update)
    (5/19/2009) StatoilHydro appraisal of Fulla discovery positive
    (5/18/2009) Petroceltic spuds Isarene gas exploration well in Algeria
    (5/18/2009) Talisman scores significant oil discovery in North Sea
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/20/2009) Total adding another 400 days for Barracuda tender rig
    (5/20/2009) Songa Delta set for Wintershall wildcat off Norway
    (5/20/2009) Improvement in fraccing openhole horizontal wells
    (5/19/2009) Marathon cuts Alaska Cook Inlet new wells in half
    (5/19/2009) MMS issues jackup guidance for US Gulf hurricane season
    (5/18/2009) Oando scores 2-year drilling contract with Nigerian Agip
    (5/18/2009) Salamander taps down 3-well Thai Gulf program
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/20/2009) Aramco puts 100,000 b/d Nuayyim onstream
    (5/19/2009) Premier revises down Vietnam Chim Sao development
    (5/19/2009) Dragon puts Turkmken Caspian Dzheitune well on production
    (5/19/2009) EOG Marcellus Shale well tests 3 million cf/d
    (5/19/2009) Total preparing for Laggan & Tormore subsea development
    (5/18/2009) Goodrich's Haynesville Shale well tests 7 million cf/d
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/20/2009) Eni picks up Phase 3 of Iran's Darkhovin development
    (5/20/2009) Palau Pacific secures farm-in option on million-acre block
    (5/20/2009) PetroWorth farms out stake on Prince Edward Island
    (5/20/2009) AWE awarded new PSC for offshore Indonesia concession
    (5/20/2009) Horizon selling half its PNG interests for $55 million
    (5/20/2009) Sinopec to be given 2 Petrobras blocks off Brazil
    (5/19/2009) Tethys negotiating PSC for Fergana block in Tajikistan
    (5/19/2009) Faroe swaps Trym for Glitne & Enoch stakes
    (5/19/2009) Petrobras farms into block offshore southern Namibia
    (5/18/2009) New Zealand extends tax exemptions another 5 years
    (5/18/2009) Tullow quits India, relinquishes stakes in 2 blocks
    (5/18/2009) Eni acquiring stake in Quicksilver's Barnett Shale assets
    (5/18/2009) StatoilHydro joins BPC in Bahamas exploration licenses
    (5/18/2009) First Icelandic Licensing Round closed with 2 bids
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/19/2009) SAE shooting 2D on Pan Andean block in Peru
    (5/18/2009) Geo Explorer to keep shooting offshore India
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/15/2009) Operator killed in Alberta Pembina Field accident
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/20/2009) WorleyParsons wins Husky contract for Liwan 3-1 project
    (5/20/2009) Schlumberger acquires supplier of petrophysical software
    (5/19/2009) AMEC contracted for US Gulf Tubular Bells & Kodiak projects
    (5/19/2009) Eni declares force majeure at Nigeria's Brass terminal
    (5/19/2009) Aker Solutions picks up 2 mooring & riser contracts
    (5/18/2009) Gazprom acquiring 51% ownership of SeverEnergia
    (5/18/2009) Two Texas producers file for bankruptcy
    (5/18/2009) Strike ended in Petroleum Geo-Services
    (5/18/2009) Aker Solutions awarded $1.6 billion in Kashagan contracts
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 21
    IADC Drilling Onshore Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    May 25-27
    CSM-CMM Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    May 25-27
    CSM-CMM Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    May 25-28
    Gastech International Conference & Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    May 27-29
    SPE European Formation Damage Conference, Scheveningen, Netherlands
    May 31-June 3
    SPE Latin American & Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Cartagena, Colombia
    May 31-June 5
    SPE Artificial Intelligence in the E&P Industry Forum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
    June 2-5
    Caspian International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan
    June 4-5
    IADC International Tax Seminar, Miami, Florida, USA
    June 4-5
    7th Annual Joint Oil Data Initiative Conference, Quito, Ecuador
    June 4-7
    Middle East Oil and Gas Expo 2009, Mersin, Turkey
    June 7-10
    AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, USA
    June 8-11
    SPE Europec/EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    June 8-10
    ILTA Annual International Operating Conference & Trade Show, Houston, Texas, USA
    June 9-11
    GO-EXPO Gas and Oil Exposition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    June 10-12
    Asian Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    June 11
    Subsea Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    June 11-12
    World Ocean Engineering Summit, Shanghai, China
    June 13-17
    ASME Turbo Expo, Orlanso, Florida, USA
    June 14-16
    Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
    June 15-16
    Offshore Decommissioning Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    June 15-17
    IPAA Midyear Meeting, Laguna Nigel Dana Point, California, USA
    ...More Events

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