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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
    Prices heading toward $70/bbl on economy fears
    (8/20/2010) Markets exited September contracts today with prices continuing their downward spiral for a third day toward US$70 per bbl primarily because of continuing concerns about the slowdown in economic growth in the United States, the European Union, and Japan. Economic factors sent the equity markets lower, especially the languid pace of manufacturing and the absence of jobs to meet the still high unemployment situation across the industrialized world...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (8/19/2010) Way cleared for Lebanese licensing of Mediterranean E&P
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/22/2010) Tap preparing to drill Craigow-1 in Australia's Bass Strait
    (8/22/2010) Buru sidetracking Leander-1 due to stuck pipe
    (8/20/2010) OGDCL makes gas discovery in Pakistan's Sindh Province
    (8/20/2010) Cooper's South Madura test well a dud
    (8/20/2010) Saiwan East-4 encounters oil-bearing layers in Oman
    (8/19/2010) Petrobras makes oil discovery in Brazil's Campos Basin
    (8/19/2010) El Paso at TD in Louisiana Shoats Creek well
    (8/19/2010) CAMAC drilling 1st of 2 Zijinshan gaswells in China's Ordos Basin
    (8/19/2010) Chinook strikes oil on Tunisia's Jenein Center Block
    (8/19/2010) Statoil makes Norwegian North Sea find east of Gudrun
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/20/2010) US rotary rig count grows another 11 rigs this week
    (8/20/2010) Cairn contracts Aban II jackup for work off India
    (8/20/2010) Xcite switches rigs & alters work in Bentley Field development
    (8/20/2010) Total gets go-ahead to drill with Ocean Vanguard
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/22/2010) Iran to use local resources to develop its oilfields
    (8/20/2010) Krescent completing 2 wells in Texas' Riverbend Project
    (8/19/2010) Hoang Long JOC spuds Te Giac Trang producer
    (8/19/2010) Abraxas & Blue Stone form $100 million Eagle Ford Shale JV
    (8/19/2010) Westerly adds a well to West Texas' Greater Joe Mill Project
    (8/19/2010) Crown Point completes El Valle Field producer in Argentina
    (8/19/2010) Provident drilling Montana's Lower Cut Back Sand
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/22/2010) OGX shifting 7 Campos Basin blocks to subsidiary
    (8/22/2010) Rosneft to invest $630 million in Crescent JV
    (8/22/2010) Oman launches bid round for 3 onshore blocks
    (8/22/2010) Fenno Caledonian granted northeast Sudan concession
    (8/20/2010) Tethys scores extension to Kazakh Kul-Bas contract
    (8/19/2010) Bharat PetroResources farming into Australia's Perth Basin
    (8/19/2010) Blackbird increases ownership of Texas prospect to 75%
    (8/19/2010) Africa Oil acquires 80% operating stake in Ethiopia block
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/20/2010) Geokinetics shooting 3D over Australia's Taipan Block
    (8/19/2010) IOC to acquire 3D survey onshore Cambay, India
    (8/19/2010) Spectrum reprocessing Trinidad 2D for next bid round
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (8/19/2010) Inpex to begin building Indonesia's Abadi Field FLNG plant
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/22/2010) BP fishing for drillpipe in Macondo BOP before it is replaced (update)
    (8/22/2010) Endeavor oilwell explosion leaves 2 men in critical condition
    (8/19/2010) BP to replace Macondo BOP before relief well bottom kill (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/22/2010) Underpaid federal & Indian lease royalties lawsuit settled
    (8/22/2010) GE's new VetcoGray shallow water subsea tree launched
    (8/20/2010) US Gulf ultra-deepwater Cascade & Chinook risers installed
    (8/20/2010) SNC-Lavalin contracted for Alberta's Grizzly Oil Sands Project
    (8/20/2010) Technip ties in with Petronas subs for joint projects
    (8/19/2010) KNOC makes hostile $2.9 billion takeover bid for Dana Petroleum
    (8/19/2010) FSO Africa to join FSO Asia on Qatar's Al Shaheen Field
    (8/19/2010) FMC receives $36 million call-off from Total Angola
    (8/19/2010) Control Microsystems Acquired by Schneider Electric
    (8/19/2010) FMC selects Grenland for Kirinskoye project
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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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