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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
    (8/16/2006) Kidnappers free German & American & seize Lebanese (update)
    (8/15/2006) Iran asks UAE to assist in return of "hijacked" rig
    (8/14/2006) Bolivia suspends oil & gas nationalization
    (8/14/2006) Four oil workers kidnapped from Niger Delta bar
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/16/2006) Apache spuds Libris test off Western Australia
    (8/16/2006) ExxonMobil abandoning ultra-deep Blackbeard West
    (8/16/2006) Anadarko's 2 wells off East Java miss their mark
    (8/16/2006) Daewoo's Myanmar gasfields certified at 5.7-10 Tcf
    (8/16/2006) Santos spuds another Indonesia Sampang test well
    (8/15/2006) Flamant exploration well spudded off Mauritania
    (8/15/2006) Hardman DST 2 on Uganda's Mputa-1 successful
    (8/15/2006) Wintershall finds gas in Netherlands North Sea
    (8/15/2006) North Sea East Causeway discovery confirmed
    (8/14/2006) Trefoil finds oil in Mendoza's Puesto Pozo Cercado
    (8/14/2006) APPEA endorses Australia's funding of exploration
    (8/14/2006) Petrolifera makes Argentine Neuquen Basin discovery
    (8/14/2006) Weather forces Roc to postpone Perth Basin probe
    (8/14/2006) Apache's Gnu-1 proves half-Tcf reserves
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/16/2006) Silver Star completes Archer-Tsakopoulos-1 at North Franklin
    (8/15/2006) BMB Munai drilling Kazakhstan's Kariman-2 well
    (8/14/2006) Cubic drilling 6th Cotton Valley well in Louisiana
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/16/2006) HHI sending Vietnam's Rong Doi platform to field
    (8/16/2006) Pebercan to drill 10 wells onshore Cuba
    (8/16/2006) 4th well successful in Strike's Texas Gulf Coast project
    (8/16/2006) Foothills completes 2nd California Grizzly Bluff well
    (8/16/2006) Cambrian's Kyrgyz water injection proving productive
    (8/15/2006) Total puts Netherlands' L4G gasfield onstream
    (8/15/2006) Inpex's Ichthys LNG Project granted special status
    (8/15/2006) Shell achieves 1st gas at Pohokura off New Zealand
    (8/15/2006) UK's Britannia gasfield back on production
    (8/15/2006) Franklin & Bolivia's YPFB planning GTL facility
    (8/15/2006) Signet drilling 2nd producer at Alberta's Sawn Lake
    (8/14/2006) Iraq claims output now at 2.5 million b/d
    (8/14/2006) ONGC to restart Hazira on 21 August (update)
    (8/14/2006) BP to keep pumping half of Prudhoe Bay output (update)
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/16/2006) MMS proceeds with Lease Sale 200
    (8/16/2006) Plectrum picks up REAP Tunisia & Gulf of Hammamet block
    (8/15/2006) Chevron & Shell awarded deepwater block off Western Australia
    (8/15/2006) Indonesia putting up 21 blocks for bid, 20 for direct sale
    (8/15/2006) Pemex prepping to tender 3 Burgos Basin blocks
    (8/15/2006) Egdon farms out UK onshore block to Seven Star
    (8/15/2006) Norway pre-qualifies Verbundsnetz Gas as licensee
    (8/14/2006) US Gulf lease sale to proceed on Louisiana lawsuit denial (update)
    (8/14/2006) Libya launches 3rd licensing round
    (8/14/2006) Lundin acquires Total's North Sea Peik Field interests
    (8/14/2006) Northamerican Energy acquiring SE Montana leases
    (8/14/2006) Indago trades onshore for offshore Ras Al Khaimah
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/15/2006) Australia investing in geoscience to expand exploration
    (8/14/2006) Celtic Sea Dunquin Prospect survey completed
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/8/2006) Mudflow from Lapindo' Surabaya well shuts major highway (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/16/2006) Ezra entering Aussie waters with new contract
    (8/16/2006) Brazil's Unicontrol forms JV with Doris Engineering
    (8/16/2006) CSMG to help Ukraine's Naftogas boost output
    (8/15/2006) Baker Energy contracted for Alaska E&P services
    (8/15/2006) Harvest Energy buys Birchill Energy for $392.2 million
    (8/15/2006) PDVSA creates companies to explore crude oil
    (8/15/2006) Shell IEP contracts realtime drilling software & services
    (8/14/2006) Magnus acquires Chinese oil concessions
    (8/14/2006) Sinopec & ONGC buy 50% of Colombia operator
    (8/14/2006) Viking Supply Ships acquires SBS Marine
    (8/14/2006) CRSI completes buy of 3 Kazakh companies
    (8/14/2006) Saudi Aramco contracts McDermott for 16 offshore modules
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 8/16
    Oil (US$ 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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