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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
    Oil makes sharp rebound with key crudes up $4/bbl
    (7/30/2008) Crude oil futures rose today after a brief respite yesterday that saw the prices of our monitored benchmarks drop to their lowest level since May. Today, however, was another story: triggered by the US Energy Department's Energy Information Administration inventory report, which showed gasoline stocks plummeting by 3.5 million bbl last week when forecasters has predicted a 200,000 bbl build, traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange and New York...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (7/29/2008) Sabotage triggers another Shell force majeure on Bonny Light (update)
    (7/28/2008) Niger Delta Nembe Creek pipeline sabotaged
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (7/30/2008) Tap drilling Lumba Lumba-1A exploration well in Sulu Sea
    (7/30/2008) Roc Oil scores another duster in Angola with Sesamo-1
    (7/30/2008) Apache's Heqet appraisal in Egypt's Western Desert a winner
    (7/30/2008) Tullow's Cambay Rift test wells fails to find pay
    (7/29/2008) Santos' offshore Bass Strait Netherby test well sees gas
    (7/29/2008) Aral's Aransay post-salt onshore Kazakhstan well a dry hole
    (7/29/2008) FX Energy's Kromolice-1 in Poland's Fences flowing gas
    (7/29/2008) Indus Gas' Rajasthan SPF-1 well find 3 payzones
    (7/29/2008) Mosaic prepping to spud Queensland West Boggo Creek well
    (7/29/2008) Central halts Australia Pedirka Basin well to test prospectivity
    (7/29/2008) Petsec makes a discovery in Louisiana Moonshine Project
    (7/28/2008) Staatsolie to probe Suriname's Commewijne Block
    (7/28/2008) Triangle Nova Scotia shale gas well nearing target
    (7/28/2008) Stuart plugging & abandoning South Australia Brew-1 test well
    (7/28/2008) Pakistan's OGDC finds oil & gas near Hyderabad
    (7/28/2008) Eni deepwater wildcat offshore Western Oz all wet
    (7/28/2008) Storm's TT2 Tunisian exploration well taps pay
    (7/28/2008) InterOil completing PNG well as gas & condensate producer
    (7/28/2008) Verenex confirms important oil discovery in Libya
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (7/30/2008) Perro Negro 3 joining trio of rigs on India's KG-22 Block
    (7/29/2008) LeTourneau building 4 new land rigs for Weatherford
    (7/28/2008) StatoilHydro gets consent for Barents exploratory drilling
    (7/28/2008) Northern Offshore buying 2 Transocean semisubmersibles
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (7/30/2008) VetcoGray converts Egypt Gulf of Suez well to producer
    (7/30/2008) US Gulf's Eagle's Nest Field goes onstream
    (7/30/2008) Startup of Chevron's Agbami Field off Nigeria delayed to September
    (7/30/2008) Oilex submitting development plan for Indonesia field
    (7/30/2008) $1.3 billion Nigeria NGL project on production
    (7/29/2008) Interoil adds producer in Colombia's Mana South
    (7/29/2008) Bramlin to develop Cameroon's Logbaba gasfield
    (7/29/2008) Nexus' latest Longtom development well taps pay
    (7/29/2008) BP's US Gulf Thunder Horse onstream by yearend
    (7/28/2008) Egypt's Taurt gasfield in Mediterranean goes on production
    (7/28/2008) Simpson-10 a producer off Western Australia's Varanus Island
    (7/28/2008) Vietnam's offshore Ca Ngu Vang Field goes onstream
    (7/28/2008) Anglo-Suisse completes 6-well US Gulf drilling program
    (7/28/2008) BP gets authorization to develop Angola Block 31 discoveries
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (7/30/2008) PetroWorth's Prince Edward Island farm-in revised
    (7/29/2008) Alaska to auction North Slope acreage in October
    (7/29/2008) Total selling majority stake in US Gulf blocks & field
    (7/28/2008) Kodiak to acquire full ownership of Little Chicago concession
    (7/24/2008) Canoel farms into Cygam blocks onshore Tunisia
    (7/24/2008) Bridge farming out stakes in UK North Sea license
    (7/24/2008) Eight heavy crude blocks awarded in Colombia
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (7/30/2008) Rodinia completes initial Officer Basin seismic interpretation
    (7/29/2008) SAPEX kicks off 2nd half of South Australia 2D shoot
    (7/28/2008) Fugro measuring current off Brazil's northern coast
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (7/27/2008) Washington blowout injures four rig workers
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (7/30/2008) Boots & Coots wins multi-service deal in Libya
    (7/30/2008) Angola Block 31 umbilical contract goes to Aker Solutions
    (7/29/2008) Gran Tierra buying Solana Resources for $660.6 million
    (7/29/2008) BP contracts Heerema for Angola Block 31 risers & flowlines
    (7/29/2008) Two more major contracts for offshore Angola development
    (7/29/2008) Subsea 7 scores BP's Angola Block 31 development project
    (7/28/2008) Keppel Shipyard secures $110 million in contracts
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    August 4-6
    SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    August 5-14
    International Union of Geological Sciences Congress, Oslo, Norway
    August 11-12
    Intelligent Completions - SPE Emerging Technology, San Antonio, Texas USA
    August 24-29
    SPE R&D Meets Reality - Technologies That Will Make a Difference, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada
    August 24-29
    SPE Steam Generation Forum, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada
    August 25-28
    IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference, Jakarta Indonesia
    August 26-29
    Offshore Northern Seas Exhibition & Conference, Stavanger, Norway
    August 26-27
    SPE/AAPG/SEG Applied Technology Workshop - Applied 4D Seismic, Galveston, Texas USA
    August 26-28
    Summer NAPE Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    September 4-5
    First Iceland Exploration Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland
    September 8-11
    Turbomachinery Symposium, Houston, Texas USA
    September 9-10
    IADC Drilling HSE Europe Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    September 9-12
    Texas Tech University International Sucker Rod Pumping Workshop, Houston, Texas, USA
    ...More Events

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