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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (8/13/2006) Alaska governor to sign new oil tax law
    (8/13/2006) 2006 world oil demand growth at lowest level yet
    (8/11/2006) Colombia's ELN rebels kidnap BGP seismic crew
    (8/10/2006) Thailand & Cambodia talk shared resources
    (8/10/2006) Today's 2 bring Niger Delta kidnappings now to 11 (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/11/2006) Final tests on UK East Causeway reach 7,500 b/d
    (8/11/2006) Egypt's NW Gemsa test well a washout
    (8/11/2006) Statoil spuds Barents Sea exploration well
    (8/11/2006) Rig scheduled to drill UK Watling gas prospect
    (8/10/2006) Oil Search abandons PNG exploration well Arakubi-1
    (8/10/2006) Apache & Woodside consider unitizing Theo & Vincent Fields
    (8/10/2006) Texas' Project Wharton Zebu well taps gas pay
    (8/10/2006) Mosaic's Waggamba showing significant gas
    (8/10/2006) FX prepping to drill Poland's Winna Gora probe
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/10/2006) Rig arrives for 3-well Niger Tenere Project
    (8/9/2006) Petrobras contracts PetroRig 1 for 5 years
    (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
    (8/13/2006) Venezuela to improve Orinoco heavy oil recovery
    (8/13/2006) NIOOC raising output of 3 Persian Gulf Fields
    (8/11/2006) Shell restores 180,000 b/d of sabotaged Nigeria output
    (8/11/2006) Corridor completes New Brunswick McCully M-66 well prep
    (8/11/2006) ONGC hopes to restart gasfields next week (update)
    (8/11/2006) Santos to spud South Australia's Derrilyn-4 today
    (8/11/2006) BP attempting to keep part of Prudhoe Bay onstream (update)
    (8/11/2006) Daewoo ups reserves in 3 Myanmar fields to 10 Tcf
    (8/10/2006) Verkhnechonskneftegaz to develop Siberian field
    (8/10/2006) Tri-Valley drilling California's Tremblor Valley
    (8/10/2006) Two more wells added to Queensland's Tintaburra Block
    (8/10/2006) Sevmash sinking Prirazlomnaya platform caisson
    (8/10/2006) Statoil completes development drilling at Barents Sea field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/11/2006) Global Resources granted NZ Outer Taranaki Basin block
    (8/11/2006) Centurion increases interest in Sao Tome JDZ block
    (8/11/2006) Anzon farms into NZ Canterbury block
    (8/10/2006) Petsec acquiring major interest in 33 US Gulf blocks
    (8/10/2006) PetroSun picks up near million acres in New Mexico & Arizona
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/11/2006) Ireland's Dunquin 2D long offset shoot completed
    (8/11/2006) TGS gearing up to shoot new 3D off Tunisia
    (8/10/2006) NorAsian contracts Veritas to shoot Palawan prospect
    (8/10/2006) Nord sets 3D shoot over Russia's Saratov fields
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/8/2006) Mudflow from Lapindo' Surabaya well shuts major highway (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/13/2006) ConocoPhillips & ExxonMobil declare force majeure
    (8/11/2006) Udmurtneft sale to Sinopec closes
    (8/10/2006) Sondex Geolink & Bluestar Tools combined
    (8/10/2006) Technip contracted for 2 UK North Sea developments
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 8/11
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 70.94
    0.0%
    Minas 74.60
    -2.6%
    Bonny Light 77.77
    -0.9%
    N. Sea Brent 75.64
    +0.5%
    Forties 76.02
    -0.9%
    Urals/Mediterranean 70.92
    -1.2%
    Alaska N. Slope 73.06
    +0.5%
    W. Texas Intermediate 74.36
    +0.5%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 7.51
    -5.5%
    UK Day Ahead** 34.40
    0.0%
    *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 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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