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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 dive across the board
    (5/4/2010) Trade at both the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) was brisk but battering as the price per bbl of our monitored benchmarks in June deliveries took a dive, in some cases to their lowest point in 19 weeks. The debacle was due for the most part to the drop by the euro to a one-year low against the US dollar because of worries that the Greek financial crisis could spread to other EU countries and to last week's oil inventories rising considerably more than was anticipated...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/5/2010) BP installed valve stops oil from 1 of 3 leaks in US Gulf well (update)
    (5/5/2010) BP making progress in effort to halt oil spill (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (5/5/2010) Industrija Nafte prepping to drill Syria test well
    (5/5/2010) Parex kicking off Colombia Llanos Basin drilling
    (5/5/2010) Coastal scores pay in Gulf of Thailand test well
    (5/4/2010) Bowleven drilling Etinde appraisal offshore Cameroon
    (5/4/2010) Central Petroleum resumes Northern Territory exploration
    (5/4/2010) AED drilling onshore Brunei exploration well
    (5/4/2010) Nextraction testing latest Appalachian Basin well
    (5/4/2010) Jogmec analyzing Cambodia's Tonle Sap for E&P potential
    (5/4/2010) Quebec's St-Hyacinthe drilling program beginning
    (5/4/2010) OMV expands Latif reserves in Pakistan
    (5/4/2010) Alange finds oil with Colombia Cubiro Block test well
    (5/3/2010) Mainland prepping to drill Mississippi's Buena Vista Prospect
    (5/3/2010) Carter E&P preparing to drill South Texas Koliba Prospect
    (5/3/2010) Sipetrol finds more oil in Egypt's Western Desert
    (5/3/2010) Primeline's East China Sea test well dry in 2 out of 3 targets
    (5/3/2010) OTPI makes new field discovery in Yamal
    (5/3/2010) ConocoPhillips' Laurentian Basin well a dry hole
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (5/5/2010) First application of new well reaming system in North Sea
    (5/5/2010) Norske Shell to drill in Norwegian Sea with Aker Barents semi
    (5/5/2010) Semisubmersible rig Pride Venezuela contracted by OGX
    (5/4/2010) Rowan takes delivery of 1st newbuild EXL jackup
    (5/4/2010) Energy Searcher sailing to Singapore for repairs
    (5/3/2010) Crosco mobilizing 2 more workover rigs to Oman
    (5/3/2010) First sampling while drilling technology introduced
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (5/5/2010) Saiwan appraisal well being drilled onshore Oman
    (5/5/2010) Niko suspends gas production in Bangladesh for non-payment
    (5/5/2010) PNR scores 5th successful Eagle Ford well in South Texas
    (5/5/2010) Six Centrilift XP ESPs installed off Brazil in Shell oilfield
    (5/4/2010) Baker Hughes installs ESP on Shell's ultra deep Perdido Field
    (5/4/2010) California governor reverses stand on new drilling
    (5/4/2010) GeoPark taps down new Fell Block wells in Chile
    (5/4/2010) Vicpet sees double output from Australia's Cooper Basin
    (5/4/2010) Singa gasfield goes onstream in South Sumatra
    (5/4/2010) FPSO Sevan Voyageur set for UK North Sea Huntington Field
    (5/3/2010) Marathon puts Volund Field on production off Norway
    (5/3/2010) ABS working with Horton Wison Deepwater for riser classification
    (5/3/2010) US Gulf spill shuts down 2 platforms, 3rd evacuated
    (5/3/2010) Blackhawk's BLR Bodo-1 flows gas from Colony zone
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (5/5/2010) Spring acquiring Wintershall interests in Norwegian North Sea
    (5/5/2010) Colombia's next round registers 83 companies
    (5/5/2010) Brunei asks Petronas to develop 2 newly gained blocks
    (5/5/2010) Treaty buys into Princess Petroleum's Belize concession
    (5/5/2010) San Leon Energy awarded Szczawno Concession in Poland
    (5/4/2010) Vanguard buying stakes in Texas, New Mexico & Mississippi
    (5/4/2010) Egdon granted France's Navacelles Exploration Permit
    (5/3/2010) Petrobras to explore Portugal's deepwater Alentejo Basin
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/5/2010) JV to provide seismic services in Saudi Arabia
    (5/5/2010) VOG contracts 2 surveys over Zapadno Medvezhye Field
    (5/5/2010) TGS kicks off 3D PSDM shoot in Norwegian Barents Sea
    (5/3/2010) TGS wide azimuth survey in US Gulf interrupted by oil spill
    (5/3/2010) Neptune to handle hydrographics & positioning for Libya field
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (5/5/2010) ABS releases guidelines for FLNG terminals
    (5/4/2010) CB&I wins Yamal LNG concept development contract
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (5/3/2010) Inland drilling rig capsizes in Louisiana bayou
    (5/3/2010) BP bringing in 3rd rig, planning 2nd BOP to counter US Gulf spill (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (5/5/2010) Subsea tree & wellhead for jackups presented
    (5/5/2010) XState acquiring Bombora Energy & Tunisian interests
    (5/5/2010) CNOOC completes $3.1 billion buy of 50% of Bridas
    (5/5/2010) TransAtlantic to acquire Zorlu Enerji's Turkish E&P operations
    (5/4/2010) Chevron sub selects AMEC for Angola Mafumeira Sul development
    (5/4/2010) VetcoGray DHXT deepwater horizontal tree & control system launched
    (5/4/2010) Subsea 7's new Texas spoolbase delivers first project
    (5/4/2010) Fluor contracted for FEED on Abu Dhabi field
    (5/4/2010) DPS & ASAS relocating Syrian gas gathering station
    (5/4/2010) Foster Wheeler nabs Adco multi-field project in UAE
    (5/4/2010) BP Norge get go-ahead for manned underwater diving
    (5/4/2010) Roxar ROV sensor retrieval system launched at OTC
    (5/3/2010) Argus claims world first with new subsea tree & wellhead system
    (5/3/2010) Belinda Equatorial Guinea project goes to Mustang
    (5/3/2010) Mobile testing discharge treatment revealed at OTC
    (5/3/2010) Maersk Oil signs new frame deal with GE Oil & Gas
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    May 11-13
    Uzbekistan International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    May 13-15
    Successful EPC Contracting in India, New Delhi, India
    May 16-19
    APPEA Conference & Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia
    May 18-20
    Mediterranean Offshore Conference & Exhibition, Alexandria, Egypt
    May 18-19
    Asia Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    May 19-21
    CIS Oil & Gas Summit, Paris, France
    May 19-22
    Pakistan Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (POGEE 2010), Karachi, Pakistan
    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
    ...More Events

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