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  • World Industry News

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  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (8/9/2006) Four more kidnappings in Niger Delta
    (8/8/2006) Flooding forces ONGC to evacuate Hazira facilities
    (8/8/2006) Baluchi rebels blow up another Sui gas pipeline
    (8/8/2006) Earthquake shakes Netherland's Groningen gasfield
    (8/7/2006) Bakassi rejects both Nigeria & Cameroon sovereignty
    (8/7/2006) Japan confirms CNOOC's Chunxiao not yet in full production (update)
    (8/7/2006) New Niger Delta group holding German hostage (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/9/2006) Sterling gearing up to drill Romania's Craiova Block
    (8/9/2006) Horizon completing Texas' Horizon/Funk-1
    (8/9/2006) Antrim scores 2nd new discovery in Tierra del Fuego
    (8/9/2006) Nexus' Longtom sidetrack intersects significant gas
    (8/9/2006) Antares testing Atoka formation in Ellis, Oklahoma
    (8/9/2006) Unicorp identifies West Abbeville gas prospect
    (8/9/2006) Peak pegs Ensco 92 for 2 UK North Sea probes
    (8/8/2006) Ranhill planning Citarum exploration well in West Java
    (8/8/2006) Hycarbex's Al Ali-1 fails to find significant gas reserves
    (8/8/2006) Chevron finds oil in Indonesia's Kisaran Labuhan
    (8/8/2006) Gold Oil to test Peru's San Alberto-1X well
    (8/8/2006) First flowtest of Uganda's Mputa-1 finds little oil
    (8/8/2006) Gastar's latest probe of Texas' Bossier sands taps pay
    (8/7/2006) Beach spuds Tennyson exploration well in South Australia
    (8/7/2006) Rosneft drilling exploratory wells in Sakhalin-3 project
    (8/7/2006) Eldorado to drill Mesa Prospect in New Mexico
    (8/7/2006) Escopeta to search for Alaskan elephants
    (8/7/2006) Aspen Exploration makes new California gas discovery
    (8/7/2006) Genesis spuds Galveston Bay Redfish Reef test well
    (8/7/2006) Stuart's Light Fingers South Australia probe a dud
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/9/2006) NorAsian charters newbuild semi to drill next year
    (8/9/2006) Transocean Winner receives Acknowledgement of Compliance
    (8/8/2006) Transmeridian puts 5th rig to drilling on Kazakh field
    (8/7/2006) Aban VII chartered for drilling offshore Qatar
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/9/2006) Inpex still cooling heals awaiting Azadegan deal
    (8/9/2006) Great Wall drilling Dolinnoe-6 well onshore Kazakhstan
    (8/9/2006) Centrica restarts South Morecambe gasfield
    (8/9/2006) BP's Atlantis platform enroute to US Gulf field
    (8/9/2006) Alaska's first Alpine satellite field goes onstream
    (8/9/2006) Maersk development of Affleck Field approved
    (8/9/2006) Third South Weslaco producer drilling in Texas
    (8/8/2006) Shell produces first gas from E8 Field off Sarawak
    (8/8/2006) Petrobras' first 2 wells on Manati Field test 63.5 million cf/d
    (8/8/2006) Petrobras & PDVSA to form Mariscal Sucre JV
    (8/8/2006) Pertamina starts production on West Java field
    (8/8/2006) Venture puts UK North Sea Goosander Field onstream
    (8/8/2006) Rodessa drilling Louisiana Sherburne Field producer
    (8/8/2006) Folschviller CBM probe spudded in Lorraine, France
    (8/7/2006) Indonesia asks for Aceh Block A output a year early
    (8/7/2006) PDVSA to commence Orinoco reserves certification
    (8/7/2006) New subsea template in use on Norne
    (8/7/2006) BP shutting down Alaska's giant Prudhoe Bay Field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/9/2006) Venezuela puts up 4 offshore gas blocks for bids
    (8/9/2006) West Hawk farms into Colorado gas play
    (8/9/2006) NNDC granted 4 blocks in Nigeria's Lake Chad Basin
    (8/8/2006) Gold Point Energy commits to Argentine farm-in
    (8/8/2006) Mariner acquires optioned BP US Gulf blocks
    (8/8/2006) CNOOC grants Husky 3 new South China Sea blocks
    (8/8/2006) Westralia granted 2 blocks offshore Western Australia
    (8/7/2006) Gazprom granted Yamal-Nenets' Parusovye license
    (8/7/2006) Nigeria swapping oil blocks for $2.5 billion investment
    (8/7/2006) Molopo adds to CBM acreage in the USA
    (8/7/2006) Korea's SK & LG granted Kazakh Caspian block
    (8/7/2006) PXP sells Oxy California & Texas assets for $865 million
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/9/2006) Fugro exercises option to charter Foreland's M/V Seisquest
    (8/9/2006) 3D shoot over Iran's Changuleh Field ending
    (8/9/2006) Fugro Data Services adds Objectivity/DB
    (8/9/2006) TGS charters additional 3D capacity for 2007
    (8/7/2006) Survey indicates hydrocarbons in Myanmar deepwater
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/8/2006) Mudflow from Lapindo' Surabaya well shuts major highway (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/7/2006) Eni wooing Gazprom for LNG stake
    (8/7/2006) Norson completes remote flooding & pigging of deepwater fields
    (8/7/2006) Keppel lands first rig contract for Brazil at US$270 million
    (8/7/2006) General Robotics contracted for subsea training simulator
    (8/7/2006) Canadian Oil Sands amends offer for Canada Southern
    (8/7/2006) Rowan wins 2-year drilling
    (8/7/2006) Dubai contracts Petrofac to manage offshore fields
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 8/9
    Oil (US$ 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
    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
    September 4-5
    13th India Oil & Gas Review Symposium & Exhibition, Mumbai, India
    September 11-12
    2006 Gas Shales Canadian Summit, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    September 11-13
    SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Adelaide, Australia
    September 11-14
    Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    September 12-13
    Third OPEC International Seminar, Vienna, Austria
    ...More Events

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