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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
    Demand drops another day but prices inch up
    (5/30/2008) After yesterday's thundering fall of about US$4 per bbl, today's volatile trading at both the London InterContinental Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange was less dramatic but still reflective of the uncertainty in the market at these stellar heights. There was profit-taking along with coverage of short positions prior to the weekend, but primarily markets reacted to real reductions in demand...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (5/29/2008) Declaration signed by Arctic nations for polar development (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (6/1/2008) Aspect drilling Louisiana's Bandito Prospect
    (5/30/2008) Origin plugs & abandons Perth Basin test well
    (5/30/2008) Penn Virginia drills successful East Texas horizontal gaswell
    (5/30/2008) Petrobras makes important light oil discovery in Santos Basin
    (5/29/2008) Pan Orient completes tests of 2 Phetchabun wells
    (5/29/2008) Stuart to spud Cooper/Eromanga test well on 1 June
    (5/29/2008) Weather delays push back Namibia well TD
    (5/29/2008) Lukoil & Gazprom score large Caspian discovery
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (6/1/2008) Petrobras to build 12 new ultra-deepwater drilling rigs
    (5/30/2008) Ensco contracts 6th ultra-deep semi from Keppel FELS
    (5/29/2008) Gazprom to build seafloor/sub-ice drilling rigs
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (6/1/2008) Oxy wins okay for Idd El Shargi Phase III off Qatar
    (6/1/2008) Total told to lay larger subsea line from West of Shetland
    (6/1/2008) NZ's Pohokura Field 2-year development done
    (5/30/2008) Saga sub completes Orenburg production well
    (5/30/2008) Whiting puts North Dakota Goliath Project well onstream
    (5/29/2008) Maersk restarting UK Janice Field FPU
    (5/29/2008) Marathon putting Norway's Alvheim Field onstream
    (5/29/2008) Ithaca to develop UK Athena Field with FPSO
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (6/1/2008) Sri Lanka to consider bids for 1 of 3 blocks offered
    (5/30/2008) Beach buying into Tri-Ocean's share of Egypt block
    (5/30/2008) Tanzania grants 2 minnows 2 new blocks
    (5/29/2008) 40 companies vie for 4 Uganda blocks
    (5/29/2008) UK BERR offers 97 licenses in 13th Round
    (5/29/2008) Frontier buying 2 APC leases in Texas' Archer County
    (5/29/2008) Providence & Northern take UK Block SU91
    (5/29/2008) Ivanhoe to acquire Talisman's oil sands assets
    (5/29/2008) Petro Vista farming into New Horizon's Colombia block
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (5/30/2008) RXT to shoot MC survey off Norway
    (5/29/2008) PetroSA picks SMT's G&G interpretation software
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (6/1/2008) Utah petroglyphs said endangered by further gas drilling
    (6/1/2008) MEC & Bounty seeking to explore in whale migration route
    (5/30/2008) Canada asked to delay Beaufort Sea lease sale
    (5/29/2008) Possible fire on UK Beatrice Alpha platform
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (6/1/2008) Baker Hughes adds 2 reservoir consulting firms
    (5/30/2008) Origin nixes BG's $12.4 billion takeover bid
    (5/30/2008) SBM to replace Woodside's Cossack Pioneer with Okha
    (5/30/2008) GulfMark buying Rigdon Marine
    (5/29/2008) John Wood wins Chevron North Sea service contract
    (5/29/2008) Petronas picked for multibillion-dollar Gladstone LNG project
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    June 2-6
    National Fire Protection Association World Safety Conference & Exposition, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    June 3-6
    Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan
    June 4-5
    Europe Upstream 2008, London, UK
    June 6-10
    Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA
    June 9-11
    Asian Geosciences Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    June 9-11
    SPE Tight Gas Completions Conference, San Antonio, Texas USA
    June 9-12
    EAGE/SPE EurOPEC Conference & Exhibition, Rome, Italy
    June 9-13
    ASME Turbo Expo, Berlin, Germany
    June 10-12
    Global Petroleum Show, Calgary, Akberta, Canada
    June 11-12
    IADC World Drilling Conference & Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
    June 15-20
    ASME Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering - OMAE 2008, Estoril, Portugal
    June 18-19
    5th Mideast Upstream 2008, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    June 18-21
    American Association of Professional Landmen Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    June 19-21
    IPAA Midyear Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
    June 23-27
    API E&P Standards on Oilfield Equipment & Materials Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    June 24-26
    Russian Petroleum & Gas Congress, Moscow, Russia
    June 24-26
    Neftegas Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
    June 29-July 03
    World Petroleum Congress, Madrid, Spain
    ...More Events

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