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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
    Week closes with largest percentage loss in 6 weeks
    (8/13/2010) Prices have plunged this week from the upper US$80 per bbl range to the low $70s making it the worst week in six for price growth in our monitored benchmarks with the largest percentage loss in a month and a half. Analysts attribute the drop in prices not to fundamentals but to fears - often unsubstantiated - that the economic recovery in the United States, the European Union...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (8/15/2010) Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to unitize border gasfields
    (8/13/2010) OPEC ups forecast for global oil demand
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/12/2010) Petrobras makes onshore Brazil oil & gas discovery
    (8/12/2010) Nautical spuds Kraken appraisal in UK North Sea
    (8/12/2010) Holloman pressing on with flooded Cooper Basin exploration
    (8/12/2010) Caza's Bongo test well is Texas taps Cook Mountain pay sands
    (8/12/2010) Rosneft scores dual discoveries on Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye Field
    (8/12/2010) KNOC makes Bazian Field discovery in northern Iraq
    (8/12/2010) OGX sees gas in Brazil's onshore Parnaiba Basin well
    (8/12/2010) Canadian Imperial to drill test well in western Newfoundland
    (8/12/2010) Chevron makes frontier gas discovery off Western Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/13/2010) US rotary rig count leaps by 35 this week
    (8/13/2010) Seadrill posting 4 rigs to Venezuela, Vietnam, and Indonesia
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/15/2010) Riverdale confirms Foster oil & gas reserves in south Texas
    (8/15/2010) IGas UK coalbed methane gaswell proves successful
    (8/13/2010) PetroChina resumes output from flooded Liaohe Field
    (8/12/2010) New producer pumps up output from Ety-Purovskoye Field
    (8/12/2010) Provident Energy spuds Tribal-Max well in Montana
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/15/2010) Ecuador's new service contracts give state 25% of profits
    (8/15/2010) Kazakh government gets a slice of Karachaganak gasfield
    (8/13/2010) Turkmenistan to offer 1st concessions to foreign firms
    (8/12/2010) Paradigm adds 3 more Texas oil leases
    (8/12/2010) ConocoPhillips takes 5 leases in BLM's NPR-Alaska licensing
    (8/12/2010) Altima farms out interest in Alberta Rock Creek property
    (8/12/2010) PetroKamchatka returns 3 blocks onshore Kamchatka
    (8/12/2010) Penn Virginia picks up Texas Eagle Ford Shale acreage
    (8/12/2010) Amendments made to ShaMaran PSCs for Kurd blocks
    (8/12/2010) Suncor selling Alberta's Wildcat Hills gas properties
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/15/2010) Bahamas 2D encouraging over southern blocks
    (8/13/2010) WGP starts BP LoFS survey at Valhall Field
    (8/13/2010) Octanex to acquire 3D off Taranaki, New Zealand
    (8/12/2010) Gazprom licenses Paradigm geophysical software
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (8/12/2010) Inpex entertaining sale of stakes in Ichthys project
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/15/2010) BP to proceed with Macondo bottom kill on word from NIC (update)
    (8/13/2010) Gorgon accommodation vessel damaged - probe underway
    (8/12/2010) Fire strikes Petrobras' Geraldo Falcao P-35 FPSO
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/13/2010) Seawell to acquire Allis-Chalmers Energy
    (8/13/2010) Vedanta Resources set to buy 51% stake in Cairn India
    (8/13/2010) Petronas contracts Petra for Sabah & Sarawak projects
    (8/13/2010) Talisman selects Fabricom for Claymore project
    (8/12/2010) Brunei Shell extends SKSWood offshore C&M contract
    (8/12/2010) Halliburton performs Poland's 1st shale hydraulic frac
    (8/12/2010) Aker Solutions & KGNT form offshore services joint venture
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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 23-27
    Production Optimization Week - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    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
    September 6-8
    Near Surface 2010 (EAGE), Zurich, Switzerland
    September 12-16
    World Energy Conference, Montreal, Canada
    September 13-16
    Rio Oil & Gas Expo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    September 19-22
    2010 New Zealand Petroleum Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
    September 20-22
    SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Florence, Italy
    ...More Events

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