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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
    All fall on weaker dollar & slower economic recovery
    (6/16/2009) All of our monitored benchmarks today took a downward turn due to concerns about the slow worldwide economic recovery as well as the US dollar's about face against the euro after Russian comments that a reserve currency is needed as an alternative to the dollar. There were mixed economic indicators that gave rise to misgivings about economic recovery by yearend...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (6/17/2009) Taliban kill Afghanistan oil & gas director
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (6/17/2009) Vietgazprom drilling 1st Gulf of Tonkin test well
    (6/17/2009) Sinopec drilling 7th gas test well in Saudi Arabia
    (6/16/2009) NNPC makes oil discovery onshore Niger Delta
    (6/16/2009) Ascent plugging & abandoning Gazzata-1 in Italy
    (6/16/2009) Petroceltic taps Devonian pay in Algeria
    (6/16/2009) Tullow does it again in Uganda with Kigogole discovery
    (6/15/2009) Pacific Rubiales discovery in Colombia's Abanico Field
    (6/15/2009) South Petroleum JV drilling new Kyrgyz exploration well
    (6/15/2009) Vicpet drilling Snatcher-1 in South Australia
    (6/15/2009) Tower's Iti-1 in Uganda fails to find pay
    (6/15/2009) Harvest spudding Utah Antelope Project well
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (6/16/2009) RWE Dea Norge contracts Bredford Dolphin
    (6/15/2009) Japanese consortium formed to build & lease drillships
    (6/15/2009) PSA approves 3-year Deepsea Bergen charter
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (6/17/2009) Thunder Hawk about to soar in US Gulf
    (6/17/2009) Petrobras pegs Campos Basin heavy oil field project for 2011
    (6/17/2009) Petrobras developing Santos' & Espirito Santo presalt
    (6/17/2009) BG's expansion plans for Karachaganak at yearend
    (6/17/2009) Mosaic has 3 projects underway in Queensland
    (6/16/2009) Woodside returns fire-struck Vincent FPSO to production
    (6/16/2009) Cirrus putting Netherlands projects onstream in Q4
    (6/16/2009) Two more Haynesville/Bossier horizontals onstream
    (6/16/2009) Front Puffin FPSO shutdown in legal dispute
    (6/16/2009) Anzon kicks off Bass Strait workover off Australia
    (6/16/2009) Gulfsands completes Syria Khurbet East horizontal well
    (6/15/2009) Petrobras turns on 2 new offshore gasfields
    (6/15/2009) Namibia's Kudu gasfield development in sight - Nghimtina
    (6/15/2009) Five more wells added to TSMarine's abandonment program
    (6/15/2009) Gran Tierra cuts Putumayo output do to pipeline disruption
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (6/17/2009) Tag Oil acquires remaining interest in Cheal blocks
    (6/17/2009) Maurel & Prom adds to stake in Congo concession
    (6/17/2009) PetroHunter closes sale of Beetaloo interest to Falcon
    (6/17/2009) Indonesia puts up another 24 blocks for bid
    (6/17/2009) Egdon awarded new exploration permit onshore France
    (6/16/2009) Newfoundland & Labrador take a stake in Hibernia South
    (6/16/2009) Somaliland extends 1st bid round 3 months
    (6/15/2009) "Use it or lose it" Aussie Minister Ferguson warns
    (6/15/2009) Bill Barrett buys 90% stake in Colorado's Cottonwood Gulch
    (6/15/2009) Vantex scores Quebec Moose River exploration permit
    (6/15/2009) Terra Energy acquiring NE BC & NW Alberta assets
    (6/15/2009) Junex farming into Fairlady permit in St Lawrence Lowlands
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (6/17/2009) Western Geco to shoot off Argentina for Pan American Energy
    (6/16/2009) Sinopec shooting 3D in China's deepwater Qiongdongnan Basin
    (6/15/2009) Cygam acquires PGS 2D survey off Sicily
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (6/15/2009) Eni provides humanitarian aid to DR Congo
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (6/17/2009) BJ Services completes Indonesia capillary tubing project
    (6/17/2009) Gazpromneft raises ownership of Sibir Energy
    (6/17/2009) FMC wins Jubilee subsea systems contract
    (6/16/2009) Talisman acquiring Rift Oil for $186.8 million
    (6/16/2009) US MMS picks Proserv for US Gulf decommissioning study
    (6/16/2009) GE pegged for Foinaven subsea processing & power studies
    (6/15/2009) Shoaibi & FMC link to provide equipment & services
    (6/15/2009) Africa Oil buying Turkana Energy & Kenya concession
    (6/15/2009) Technip acquires new construction support vessel
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    June 21-24
    IAEE International Conference, San Francisco, California, USA
    June 21-26
    International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), Osaka, Japan
    June 21-24
    Society of Professional Well Log Analysts Annual Symposium (SPWLA), The Woodlands, Texas, USA
    June 22-26
    API Exploration & Production Standards Oilfield Equipment and Materials Conference, Westminister, Colorado, USA
    June 23-26
    Moscow International Oil & Gas Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
    June 25-26
    Tight Gas Alternative Conference, Perth, Western Australia
    June 29-30
    New Zealand Coal Seam Gas Industry Briefing, Christchurch, New Zealand
    July 1
    Knowledge & Information Management for Oil & Gas, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    July 7-11
    Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers/IGARSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Capetown, South Africa
    July 14-15
    API Offshore Crane Operations and Safety Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    July 26-27
    2nd Annual Compressed Gas Conference & Exhibition, Tehran, Iran
    August 4-6
    SPE Asia Pacific Health, Safety, Security and Environment Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia
    August 13-15
    AAPG Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    August 19
    IADC Drilling Engineering Association Workshop, Houston, Texas USA
    August 24-28
    11th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
    August 25-26
    IADC Drilling Engineering Association Workshop, Denver, Colorado, USA
    August 27-28
    Summer NAPE, Houston, Texas, USA
    ...More Events

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