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  • Company News

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    •   World Industry News
    (6/13/2006) Nigeria to hand over Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon
    (6/12/2006) Nigeria's DPR admits insurgents shut-in 800,000 b/d
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (6/14/2006) Dagang discovers new oilfield in Bohai Bay
    (6/14/2006) Stuart spuds South Australia's Rimfire exploration well
    (6/14/2006) Delta finds new Saskatchewan oil pool
    (6/14/2006) Exploration of Iran's Caspian Sea Block 6 takes priority
    (6/13/2006) Petronas to drill 10 deepwater wells off Sabah & Sarawak
    (6/13/2006) Amulet appraisal well extends discovery
    (6/13/2006) Ithaca contracts rig to drill UK Athena Project
    (6/13/2006) Rough Range plugging & abandoning Dune-1
    (6/13/2006) Roc's China Beibu Gulf discovery flowing 5,750 b/d
    (6/12/2006) Tethys receives Danish exploration drillsite permit
    (6/12/2006) Centurion's Luzi well in Egypt's Nile Delta finds gas
    (6/12/2006) DNO makes 100 million bbl discovery in Iraqi Kurdistan
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (6/14/2006) New rotary steerable drilling system introduced
    (6/14/2006) NIOC & OESC sign exploratory drilling contracts
    (6/14/2006) Bow sets farm-in drilling with shared rig
    (6/13/2006) Rig departs China for Niger drilling assignment
    (6/13/2006) Neptune Explorer scores 3-year SE Asia charter
    (6/12/2006) GSL starts 25-well Piceance II drilling program
    (6/12/2006) Total extends SeaDrill contract for West Menang
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (6/14/2006) Talisman Monkman well tests at 27 million cf/d
    (6/14/2006) Indonesia's Southeast Sumatra gas project onstream
    (6/14/2006) Petrobras P-52 topsides mated to hull
    (6/14/2006) Venezuela's Corocoro offshore field project on hold
    (6/14/2006) Beach finds hydrocarbon shows in Sellicks appraisal
    (6/13/2006) BPZ to spud 1st well in Peru's offshore Corvina Field
    (6/13/2006) Ecuador in state of emergency at ex-Oxy oilfields
    (6/13/2006) Iran's Azar Field declared commercial
    (6/13/2006) Output from India's D6 development likely to double
    (6/13/2006) Repsol doubling oil output in Libya by 2010
    (6/12/2006) Two years to restore CNOOC's typhoon-struck Liuhua Field
    (6/12/2006) Indonesia's BPMigas okays Cepu development plan
    (6/12/2006) Petrobras prepping for Piranema to go on production
    (6/12/2006) Dragon completes workover of Turkmen Caspian well
    (6/12/2006) Eastern Star spuds Bibblewindi-3
    (6/12/2006) Stylus finds its Vulcan discovery has two pools
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (6/14/2006) Russia's resources minister redefining strategic fields
    (6/14/2006) Stonebridge adds oil & coalbed methane property in Kansas
    (6/14/2006) OMV to start exploring newly awarded Block 2, Yemen
    (6/14/2006) US MMS garners $581.8 million in Central US Gulf sale
    (6/14/2006) Chevron trades 5 Indonesian blocks for 1 held by Anadarko
    (6/13/2006) Two northern Chile blocks go to March Resources
    (6/13/2006) Rally boosts stake in Pakistan's Safed Koh Block
    (6/13/2006) Belize awards Spartan 3 exploration blocks
    (6/13/2006) Libya's 3rd round to launch before September
    (6/13/2006) Serica sells its stake in Indonesia's Lematang Block
    (6/12/2006) NZ's Crown Minerals seeks input on upcoming block offers
    (6/12/2006) SK Corp farms into 4 UK North Sea blocks
    (6/12/2006) Plectrum buying Tunisia's deepwater Nabeul Block
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (6/14/2006) Phoenix to do South Dakota hyperspectral mapping
    (6/13/2006) Ikon & BG to link RokDoc & Petrel
    (6/13/2006) Electromagnetic, wellbore & seismic data integration
    (6/13/2006) Veritas completes Namibia 2D survey
    (6/13/2006) Geo Challenger first seismic vessel with solid streamers
    (6/12/2006) 4D seismic set for Texas' veteran Humble Oil Field
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (6/13/2006) Lapindo accused of negligence in East Java spill
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (6/14/2006) Expro acquires Power Well Services for $674.5 million
    (6/14/2006) Penspen picked for Khafji Joint Operations management
    (6/14/2006) Emerson contracted for CNR's Horizon Oil Sands Project
    (6/14/2006) Saipem wins 10 new contracts worth $1 billion
    (6/14/2006) CHC providing 8 new helicopters for offshore Brazil
    (6/14/2006) Vetco Aibel contracted for Statoil's Sleipner B module
    (6/13/2006) Tenaris to acquire Maverick Tube for $2.4 billion
    (6/13/2006) VSFusion acquires microseismic monitoring service
    (6/12/2006) Wavefield Geophysical & Inseis merge into Wavefield Inseis
    (6/12/2006) Sempra selling Sepco to PEC Minerals
    (6/12/2006) Sorco contracted to hook-up new Snorre A platform
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 6/14
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 62.95
    0.0%
    Minas 68.71
    -0.4%
    Bonny Light 67.85
    -1.1%
    N. Sea Brent 68.68
    -1.4%
    Forties 66.35
    -1.1%
    Urals/Mediterranean 61.45
    -1.2%
    Alaska N. Slope 66.93
    -1.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 68.53
    -1.3%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.77
    +0.2%
    UK Day Ahead** 38.75
    +5.4%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    June 18-21
    Southeast Asia-Australia Offshore Conference, Darwin, NT Australia
    June 18-22
    Newfoundland Ocean Industries Association Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland
    June 19-23
    Neftegas International Trade Fair, Moscow, Russia
    June 20-21
    Offshore Newfoundland Petroleum Show, St. John's, Newfoundland
    June 20-22
    Russian Petroleum and Gas Congress Conference & Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
    June 21-22
    2nd US-Libya Enterprise Conference - New Fields, Washington, DC, USA
    June 24-27
    Produced Water Management Middle East, Cairo, Egypt
    June 26-28
    Oil & Gas Developments in Arctic and Cold Regions, Stravanger, Norway
    ...More Events

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