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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (7/26/2006) Caspian Pipeline Consortium funds frozen for back taxes
    (7/26/2006) Eni confirms attack on Niger Delta field
    (7/25/2006) Guerilla group warns Chevron of reprisals
    (7/25/2006) Norway's oil service workers strike ends
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (7/26/2006) Sinopec completes exploration well on Iran's Zavareh Block
    (7/26/2006) Roc taking 2nd Beibu Gulf sidetrack to new TD
    (7/26/2006) Contact drilling 2nd Stoney Creek horizontal well
    (7/26/2006) Total scores first oil find on Libya's Block NC191
    (7/26/2006) Callawonga-1 a new field oil discovery (update)
    (7/25/2006) Chevron's US Gulf Big Foot sidetrack finds 300 ft oil pay
    (7/25/2006) PDVSA carrying out E&P survey in Bolivia
    (7/25/2006) Ausam drilling Bellbird test in Queensland
    (7/25/2006) Dune's latest Texas well taps into Barnett Shale pay
    (7/25/2006) TAG spuds Radnor-1A sidetrack onshore New Zealand
    (7/25/2006) Beach to openhole test Callawonga oil shows
    (7/25/2006) Statoil's Edvarda set for P&A as duster
    (7/25/2006) Oil discovery offshore Republic of Congo
    (7/24/2006) Woodside spuds new Mauritania exploration well
    (7/24/2006) SMNG drilling 7th exploration well on Shtokmanovskoye
    (7/24/2006) Antrim hits pay in UK North Sea East Causeway well
    (7/24/2006) Hardy drilling dual exploration wells off India
    (7/24/2006) Gas encountered at Evans Shoal South
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (7/26/2006) Eirik Raude drilling Canada's Orphan Basin for ExxonMobil
    (7/26/2006) Jackup Transocean Nordic freed from mud off India
    (7/25/2006) Blast confirms rig's large bore perforation capabilities
    (7/24/2006) BMB Munai extends depth of Kazakhstan Kariman-1 well
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (7/26/2006) Second UAE Mubarek Field wellsite selected
    (7/26/2006) Beach adds another Queensland Kenmore producer
    (7/26/2006) Petrobras' Mariscal Sucre development plan being studied
    (7/26/2006) Nigeria's East Area Additional Oil Recovery Project onstream
    (7/25/2006) Origin to resume Jingemia drilling onshore West Oz
    (7/25/2006) Europa completes Romania's Bilca-2 as producer
    (7/24/2006) PNG Douglas discovery development study underway
    (7/24/2006) Roc taps down Cliff Head development drilling
    (7/24/2006) Lexington adds new CBM gas production in Oklahoma
    (7/24/2006) Syria's Block 26 Tigris structure put at 30 million boe
    (7/24/2006) Delayed Enfield FPSO goes onstream off Western Australia
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (7/26/2006) TransAtlantic granted 3 exploration blocks in Turkey
    (7/26/2006) Cirrus acquiring NAM stake in Netherlands license
    (7/26/2006) Inpex acquires stakes in 3 Australian blocks
    (7/26/2006) Deltaic farms out UK North Sea gas basin blocks
    (7/26/2006) ATP adds interests to boost deepwater US Gulf operation
    (7/25/2006) El Paso to show enviro details pre-Pinana development
    (7/25/2006) Sonangol to take over operation of Cabinda block
    (7/25/2006) Bass & IOR farming into Victoria, Australia Otway Basin blocks
    (7/25/2006) New Frontier acquires stake in Clayton Williams leases
    (7/24/2006) Gaz de France acquires Wintershall's Mauritania stake
    (7/24/2006) Meridian signs Australian native title agreement
    (7/24/2006) Dune farms out Welder Ranch to Chesapeake Energy
    (7/24/2006) KNOC acquires Canada oil sands leases
    (7/24/2006) Ethiopia to award 2 new blocks to Petronas Carigali
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (7/26/2006) SCAN Geophysical adds another survey vessel
    (7/25/2006) NXT completes 1st stage of Western Canada SFD survey
    (7/25/2006) CSEM survey set for South & East Falkland Basins
    (7/24/2006) Swift adds TGS advanced data processing technology
    (7/24/2006) Veritel Seismic Data Alliance formed for US Gulf data
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (7/25/2006) New international lifeboat standard in offing
    (7/25/2006) Sakhalin 1 pipeline spills 4 tons of oil on island
    (7/25/2006) Shell Nigeria output hit by 180,000 b/d leak
    (7/24/2006) Explosion injures 9 in Colombia's Las Monas field
    (7/24/2006) Fire erupts on rig drilling Woodside's Vincent Field
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (7/26/2006) SembMarine wins $550 million Mexilhao gas platform project
    (7/26/2006) 20% of Colombia's Ecopetrol to be privatized
    (7/26/2006) Oceaneering contracted for drillship BOP control system
    (7/26/2006) True Energy trading stock for Prairie Schooner
    (7/26/2006) Lundin acquisition of Valkyries approved
    (7/26/2006) Aker Kvaerner & Sinopec link for international projects
    (7/25/2006) Harvest pays $386 million for Western Canada producer
    (7/25/2006) Restored microwave net linking 100 Apache US Gulf platforms
    (7/25/2006) JV to apply new tech to recover Texas stranded gas
    (7/24/2006) EXCO acquiring Winchester Energy for $1.2 billion
    (7/24/2006) Pengrowth & Esprit Energy in strategic combination
    (7/24/2006) Almansoori launches new land wireline unit
    (7/24/2006) BJ wins Oxy Libya well services contract
    (7/24/2006) Aker Kvaerner awarded marine drilling riser contract
    (7/24/2006) Boots & Coots expands Algeria SafeGuard contract
    (7/24/2006) Halliburton contracted for Perseus over Goodwyn
    (7/24/2006) Statoil extends Aker & Vetco platform M&M contracts
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 7/26
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 68.45
    0.0%
    Minas 71.65
    +0.8%
    Bonny Light 74.67
    +0.9%
    N. Sea Brent 73.75
    0.0%
    Forties 73.77
    +1.5%
    Urals/Mediterranean 68.32
    +1.0%
    Alaska N. Slope 72.63
    +0.2%
    W. Texas Intermediate 74.43
    +0.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.91
    -3.6%
    UK Day Ahead** 39.75
    +3.8%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    July 24-28
    Multiphase Research Group Frac School, Banff, Alberta, Canada
    July 25-26
    Queensland State Energy Outlook Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    July 31-August 1
    Excellence in Upstream Energy, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    August 7-9
    Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference, Denver, Colorado USA
    August 7-11
    Deepwater Challenges in Exploration, Development, & Production, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    August 22-25
    ONS Offshore Northern Seas Exhibition, Stavanger, Norway
    August 27 - September 1
    17th International Sedimentological Congress, Fukuoka, Japan
    ...More Events

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