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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
  • World Industry News
  • Exploration & Discoveries
  • Drilling & Completion
  • Development & Production
  • Licensing & Concessions
  • Geosciences
  • Health Safety & Environment
  • Company News
  • Industry Events
  •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Another day of mixed settlements after long holiday
    (7/6/2010) Traders at both the n New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London took their cues today from equity markets, for the most part, which experienced a rally in the morning and a selldown in the afternoon as a result of a drop in retail sales. The morning rally was based in data from the Institute for Supply Management indicating the US service sector expanded in June for the sixth straight month, but that soon turned into a selloff as risk avoidance took hold...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (7/6/2010) API opposing new taxes on US oil & gas industry
    (7/6/2010) China sentences IHS geologist to 8 years for spying
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (7/7/2010) Vegas' well in Egypt's Gulf of Suez Basin tests gas & oil
    (7/7/2010) Western Cooper Wet Gas Project tests high levels of condensate
    (7/7/2010) PGNiG selects drillsite for 1st well in Poland's Bieszczady Block
    (7/7/2010) Beach taps significant gasflow in Australia's Cooper-Eromanga Basin
    (7/7/2010) AKG Energy's Heintschel-1 flows 1.45 million cf/d
    (7/7/2010) GdF Suez drills 6th successful Cygnus appraisal
    (7/6/2010) GeoPark scores new gas discovery in Chile
    (7/6/2010) ExxonMobil prepping to drill test well off Ireland
    (7/6/2010) Chevron makes deepwater gas discovery off Western Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (7/7/2010) Chevron withdraws force majeure on Hercules jackup
    (7/7/2010) Diamond sells hi-spec jackup rig to Ensco
    (7/6/2010) Diamond receives 2 more force majeure declarations
    (7/6/2010) H&P contracted to build & operate 7 new FlexRigs
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (7/7/2010) Reliance seeking contractors for CBM development
    (7/7/2010) Shell puts Nigeria's Gbaran-Ubie Field onstream
    (7/7/2010) Ivanhoe Ecuador encounters strong oil shows in Pungarayacu well
    (7/7/2010) Antelope-2 DST confirms excellent condensate-to-gas ratio
    (7/6/2010) Oman's Block 4 Saiwan East well tests 10,714 b/d
    (7/6/2010) CNOOC-Primeline development of China gasfield approved
    (7/6/2010) FX re-entry of Zakowo well concluded and testing
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (7/7/2010) Delta terminates sale of Colorado Piceance Basin assets
    (7/7/2010) Heritage sale to Tullow of Uganda stakes approved
    (7/7/2010) GeoResources adds North Dakota Bakken shale acreage
    (7/6/2010) MOL scores 3 blocks in Romania's 10th Round
    (7/6/2010) Ecopetrol okayed to participate in Peruvian concession
    (7/6/2010) Lukoil & Vanco take 2 Romanian Black Sea blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (7/7/2010) EMGS prepping to do its largest to date marine 3D EM survey
    (7/7/2010) PGS contracted to shoot seismic in Ireland's Slyne Basin
    (7/7/2010) New version of INT data visualization application released
    (7/7/2010) TGS & PGS kick off Norwegian North Sea 3D MC survey
    (7/7/2010) LF seismic management & analysis software launched
    (7/6/2010) BGP Marine shooting MC 2D in US Gulf for Spectrum
    (7/6/2010) Chariot receives processed 3D shot over Namibia blocks
    (7/6/2010) CGGVeritas takes delivery of new seismic vessel
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (6/28/2010) Foster Wheeler contracted for Cameroon LNG Project
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (7/2/2010) Petition lodged to deny BP Alaska Beaufort Sea drilling permit
    (7/2/2010) Italy's proposed drilling ban affecting MOG's Ombrina Mare
    (7/1/2010) Italy disallowing drilling near shore & marine reserves
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (7/7/2010) Fugro sells DeepTouch ROV simulator to Haugesund
    (7/7/2010) RigNet providing Seahawk with rig fleet communications
    (7/7/2010) Gazprom selects FMC for Kirinskoye subsea equipment
    (7/7/2010) Vantage Drilling acquires Mandarin Drilling & drillship
    (7/7/2010) North Sea offshore communications company sold to HitecVision
    (7/7/2010) Total acquiring UTS Energy for $1.42 billion
    (7/6/2010) Genesis acquiring Orion & Chinese CBM project
    (7/6/2010) SM Energy contracted for Eagle Ford gas shale processing
    (7/6/2010) Key selling pressure pumping & wireline businesses
    (7/6/2010) Baker Hughes selling US Gulf sand control & stim assets
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    July 9
    IADC Will FLNG Ever Be a Reality?, London, UK
    July 13
    IADC Lifting & Mechanical Handling Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    July 19-20
    Global Shale Gas Summit 2010, Warsaw, Poland
    July 19-23
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts 2010 Annual Symposium, Perth, Western Australia
    August 3-5
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts 2010 SPE Nigerian Annual Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    August 11-12
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts APPEA National Oil & Gas Safety Conference, Perth, WA, Australia
    August 19-20
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts NAPE Summer Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    August 21-24
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts SIPES 47th Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
    August 22-26
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts The Oil & Gas Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA
    August 22-26
    ASEG/PESA Conference & Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
    August 24-27
    Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) 2010, Stavanger, Norway
    August 26-28
    Annual World Congress of Hydraulic Fracturing & Acidizing, Xi'an, China
    August 31 - September 1
    Drilling Strategies 2010, Singapore
    ...More Events

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