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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 in meteoric rise - key crudes by more than $10/bbl
    (6/6/2008) In a drive toward US$140 per bbl, all of our monitored benchmarks rocketed to record high prices today as traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange engaged in frantic buying frenzies based on a statement by a member of the Israeli cabinet that Israel will attack Iran if it does not forego its nuclear program, and on a prediction by an analyst at Morgan Stanley that the price of oil (WTI) would be $150 by 4 July...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (6/6/2008) Kurdish militia seizes northern Iraqi oilfield
    (6/6/2008) Oil hits new high on Iran threat & $150/bbl prediction
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (6/8/2008) StatoilHydro contracts Vidar Viking to drill off Greenland
    (6/8/2008) Petrobras moves deepwater Black Sea drilling to 2009
    (6/6/2008) Reece strikes oil with first Bakken well in Saskatchewan
    (6/6/2008) Mosaic's Queensland test well all wet
    (6/6/2008) Adelaide confirms flow from South Australia gas discovery
    (6/6/2008) Aminex plugging & abandoning Egyptian exploration well
    (6/5/2008) Tethys spuds Jebel Aswad-2 well onshore Oman
    (6/5/2008) Noble scores with Equatorial Guinea appraisal well Benita
    (6/5/2008) Energas spuds 5th Finley well in Wyoming's Rusty Creek
    (6/5/2008) Hess' US Gulf Pony discovery appraisal well completed
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (6/8/2008) Perro Negro 3 off to India's East Coast KG block
    (6/6/2008) Transocean Prospect headed for Antrim's Causeway
    (6/6/2008) Sevan wins ONGC deepwater drilling bid
    (6/5/2008) Nido lines up WilBoss to drill off Philippines
    (6/5/2008) First of 11 rigs built for Gazprom's Bovanenkovskoye Field
    (6/5/2008) Seadrill orders 4 more newbuild jackups
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (6/8/2008) Vaalco upgrading its Etame & Avouma FPSO
    (6/6/2008) Lightning shuts down Indonesia's largest oilfield
    (6/6/2008) Aurelian drilling 4 new wells in Romania
    (6/6/2008) Salamander completes 1st phase of Bualuang development
    (6/5/2008) Dragon puts Dzheitune A/127 onstream off Turkmenistan
    (6/5/2008) Lukoil & ConocoPhillips put Yuzhnoye-Khylchuyuskoye onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (6/8/2008) Cabot pays $602.8 million for Texas Cotton Valley acreage
    (6/6/2008) Venezuela putting 3 Orinoco blocks up for bid
    (6/5/2008) Romgaz farming into Aurelian projects in Slovakia & Poland
    (6/5/2008) Addax increases interest in shallow water Gabon license
    (6/5/2008) Cairn takes Sri Lanka's Mannar Straits block
    (6/5/2008) Brownstone farms into Brazil Reconcavo Basin blocks
    (6/5/2008) Total to operate Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea Absheron Block
    (6/5/2008) Island options farm-in acreage in Celtic Sea
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (6/8/2008) Cairn & ONGC to shoot 2D in India's Madhya Pradesh
    (6/6/2008) Fugro adding ION Intelligent Acquisition on its seismic vessels
    (6/6/2008) GSI completes Chile 3D & now shooting 2D off Morocco
    (6/6/2008) Wavefield Inseis tagged by BP for major 3D shoot off Libya
    (6/5/2008) CGX contracts 3D shoot off Guyana by Fugro-GeoTeam
    (6/5/2008) Oilex starts 3D seismic shoot over Timor Sea JPDA block
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (6/6/2008) Minimum 2 months before resumption of output at Varanus (update)
    (6/5/2008) Panna platform explosion off India kills one crewman
    (6/4/2008) Varanus Island blast & fire significantly cutting gas supply (update)
    (6/3/2008) Scores of fields off Western Australia halted by blast & fire
    (6/3/2008) Transocean fined for accident aboard semi off Australia
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (6/8/2008) Concho Resources acquiring Henry Petroleum
    (6/8/2008) Aker contracted to replace cement units on Gullfaks platforms
    (6/6/2008) IOS contracts Saipem for Timor Sea Montara development
    (6/5/2008) Halliburton buys Protech Centerform
    (6/5/2008) TSC Offshore wins 2-year equipment deal with Yantai Raffles
    (6/5/2008) DSME awards Aker Solutions drilling riser contract
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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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