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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 take a dip before July contracts begin
    (5/22/2007) US crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) took the largest of the falls today as June contracts came to an end and traders closed their positions ahead of the expiration. At the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/22/2007) Lebanese oil services worker seized in Niger Delta
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/23/2007) PTTEP's Zawtika appraisals prove Myanmar field
    (5/23/2007) Falcon gets good results in Magyarcsanad-1 tests
    (5/23/2007) Spyglass' first 3 South Dakota wells a success
    (5/23/2007) Pakistan's OGDCL makes new discovery
    (5/23/2007) Venture moving on from inadequate Amanda
    (5/23/2007) SAPEX prepping for 3-pronged Arckaringa exploration
    (5/22/2007) Melrose's Black Sea Ropotamo exploration well all wet
    (5/22/2007) Norwood's Nicaragua test well a duster
    (5/22/2007) Geotechnologia successfully tests Middle Sedolskaya-1A
    (5/22/2007) Antrim begins exploratory drilling in Argentina's Rio Negro
    (5/22/2007) 14th discovery in Angola's ultra-deepwater Block 31
    (5/21/2007) Roc's Perseverance pays off with good gas shows
    (5/21/2007) Po Valley picks targets for further Italian drilling
    (5/21/2007) POGC flows gas from its western Poland Roszkow test well
    (5/21/2007) Total scores 2 more discoveries on Angola's Block 32
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/22/2007) Vicpet begins 20-well drilling program In Australia & USA
    (5/22/2007) Golden Gate loses circulation in Padre Island well
    (5/21/2007) Pride Mexico moving from US Gulf to Brazil
    (5/21/2007) DMM to drill 3 wells for Cepsa in Algeria
    (5/21/2007) Construction of Iran-Alborz semi nears completion
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/23/2007) Indonesia's Bawean Block back on production
    (5/23/2007) Chevron restores output at shut-in Niger Delta field & terminal (update)
    (5/23/2007) TNK-BP investing $2.4 billion in Uvat Field
    (5/23/2007) Toreador puts Black Sea's Akkaya Field on production
    (5/22/2007) Dragon achieves 33,716 b/d from Turkmen Caspian block
    (5/22/2007) BP Alaska halts 100,000 b/d from Prudhoe due to leak
    (5/21/2007) Shell resumes Bonny Light output in Niger Delta (update)
    (5/21/2007) Aspen drills another producer in California's Kirk Field
    (5/21/2007) Neptune SeaStar sails for deepwater US Gulf site
    (5/21/2007) Schwarzenegger nixes California LNG import terminal
    (5/21/2007) Chesapeake to spud 1st gaswell at DFW Airport
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/23/2007) Alaska's Cook Inlet sale receives $3.25 million in high bids
    (5/23/2007) Shell divesting stakes in 6 UK North Sea blocks
    (5/23/2007) New Zealand awards AWE 3 more offshore Taranaki blocks
    (5/23/2007) Barbados launching 2007 licensing round in June
    (5/23/2007) Greymouth buying Westech concessions onshore New Zealand
    (5/23/2007) Arc Energy gets Valentine from Emerald Oil & Gas
    (5/23/2007) Teton Energy adds Wyoming Big Horn Basin acreage
    (5/23/2007) Rosneft to sell non-core acquired Yukos assets
    (5/22/2007) US schedules reconfigured Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale
    (5/22/2007) Falcon issued long-term license in Hungary
    (5/22/2007) Odin Energy farming into Blue Energy's Aussie interest
    (5/22/2007) Colombia preparing for Llanos heavy oil licensing
    (5/22/2007) Matra Russian subsidiary granted block expansion
    (5/22/2007) Petrel finalizes Jordan's East Safawi Block PSA
    (5/21/2007) Newfoundland & Labrador to hold 2 bid rounds
    (5/21/2007) Greenland grants Husky two blocks in Davis Strait
    (5/21/2007) OMV granted offshore NZ Taranaki block
    (5/21/2007) EnCore & Petro-Canada sell UK North Sea block
    (5/21/2007) DTE Energy selling Michigan Antrim Shale properties
    (5/21/2007) Anadarko selling Qatar holdings for $350 million
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/22/2007) Airborne survey over Kenya's Lamu Basin completed
    (5/21/2007) Irvine 2D & 3D surveys start over Kansas gas leases
    (5/21/2007) Granby shooting 2D over four UK North Sea blocks
    (5/21/2007) EMGS charters Siem Offshore vessels for seabed logging
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/23/2007) Russia checking TNK-BP's Kovyktinskoye Field
    (5/22/2007) One fatality & two injuries offshore Trinidad
    (5/21/2007) Ireland doing enviro review of Porcupine Basin area
    (5/21/2007) US BLM okays drilling in Wyoming's Atlantic Rim
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/23/2007) AGR EmiTeam contracted by Aker Borgestad Operations
    (5/23/2007) Sonsub & GRL cooperate on product development
    (5/22/2007) Trans Energy & Republic Energy form West Virginia JV
    (5/22/2007) IADC launches recruiting initiative for drilling contractors
    (5/22/2007) ABB wins Statoil's Gjoa Field power contract
    (5/21/2007) BP contracts Technip for flexible pipe for Skarv FPSO
    (5/21/2007) Talisman taps Aker Kvaerner for intervention services
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 30-June 1
    CIS Oil & Gas Summit 2007, Paris, France
    May 30-June 1
    North African Oil and Gas Summit 2007, Paris, France
    May 30-June 1
    SPE European Formation Damage Conference, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
    June 3-6
    Society of Petrophysicists and Log Analysts Annual Symposium, Austin, Texas USA
    June 3-7
    NFPA World Safety Conference & Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts USA
    June 3-8
    SPE Future of Profit Prediction Forum, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
    June 5-6
    Worldwide 8th Annual Asian Six Sigma Summit, Singapore
    June 5-8
    SPE Unconventional Gas Resources Forum, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
    June 5-8
    14th International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan
    June 6-7
    Canadian Gas Association Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    June 6-7
    Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Biennial Oil and Gas Show, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
    June 7-10
    California Independent Petroleum Association Annual Meeting, Squaw Valley, California USA
    June 7-8
    Optimizing Recovery in Mature Oil & Gas Fields, Barcelona, Spain
    ...More Events

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