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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
    US crudes reaching for new record high
    (7/31/2007) In anticipation of further refinery requirements siphoning off current inventories, traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) as well as London's InterContinental Exchange (ICE) sent key crudes ever higher, with the US crudes West Texas Intermediate and...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (7/31/2007) China's Shengli Field oil thieves sentenced to death
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/1/2007) EPL finds 70 ft payzone in US Gulf South Timbalier well
    (8/1/2007) Sinopec to expand exploration in Tibet's Nagqu area
    (8/1/2007) PDVSA & Cupet commence exploration offshore Cuba
    (8/1/2007) Harriet JV's Wonnich Deep flowing at 65 million cf/d
    (8/1/2007) Pemex completes Coatzacoalcos Profundo well
    (8/1/2007) Matra makes another gas find in Hungary's Inke Concession
    (7/31/2007) Buccaneer drilling 2nd US Gulf High Island test well
    (7/31/2007) Louisiana Lake Long well tests 2.36 million cf/d
    (7/31/2007) Exploration wells drilling on Suriname's Uitkijk Block
    (7/31/2007) Vicpet prepping to test South Australia's Growler-2
    (7/31/2007) Repsol makes gas discovery in Algeria's Reggane Basin
    (7/30/2007) CNPC scores discovery in Chad
    (7/30/2007) Brunei to drill new oil well with France's Total
    (7/30/2007) Zauralneftegaz deepening Privolny-1 in Russia's Kurgan
    (7/30/2007) No success so far in Colorado's West Florence test well
    (7/30/2007) Hoang Long makes gasfield discovery off Vietnam
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
    Global Pacific & Partners
      Drilling & Completion
    (7/31/2007) Royale tests significant output from California Lonestar Field
    (7/30/2007) TNK-BP tenders for up to 60 drilling rigs
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/1/2007) Pacific Stratus reaches TD in 1 La Creciente well, drilling another
    (8/1/2007) Aramco seeking help in developing giant Manifa Field
    (8/1/2007) Iran re-doing Persian Gulf platforms on Saudi-Iran boundary
    (8/1/2007) Total resumes production on Congo's N'kossa Field
    (8/1/2007) Cirrus wins approval of Netherlands M7-A field plan
    (7/31/2007) Canoro completes testing last Amguri well in India's Assam
    (7/31/2007) Prosafe's FPSO Umuroa on production on NZ Tui Field
    (7/31/2007) Nordic drills new Basal Belly River well in Alberta
    (7/30/2007) Dragados completes Pemex's Ku platform complex
    (7/30/2007) Aspen pegs another West Grimes producer
    (7/30/2007) Indonesia's Cepu Block gas reserves high in CO2
    (7/30/2007) West Siberian boosts output from 2 Timan-Pechora fields
    (7/30/2007) Devon puts Brazil's Polvo Field on production
    (7/30/2007) PDVSA changes names of nationalized Orinoco projects
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/1/2007) Ascent farms out stakes in 2 of Italy's Po Valley blocks
    (8/1/2007) Ireland to launch Porcupine Basin licensing round in September
    (8/1/2007) Gran Tierra farms out Azar Block stake in Colombia
    (8/1/2007) DWM signs PSA for 4 onshore Albania blocks
    (8/1/2007) Mogul taking more interest in Egyptian concession
    (8/1/2007) Fox completing farm-in on UK North Sea blocks
    (8/1/2007) Pacific Energy amends Forest Oil asset purchase agreements
    (7/31/2007) European Gas wins France's Lons Le Saunier permit
    (7/31/2007) Australia awards 11 offshore blocks to 9 operators
    (7/31/2007) Rosneft & CNPC take 2 Eastern Siberia licenses
    (7/31/2007) Total acquires 2 new blocks offshore Western Australia
    (7/30/2007) EPiC adding Texas Gulf Coast assets
    (7/30/2007) Dominion granted new PSA in southwest Uganda
    (7/30/2007) Santos increases stake in Bayu-Undan development
    (7/30/2007) Arc does E&P deal with Noonkanbah Aboriginal peoples
    (7/30/2007) Pioneer expands position in Colorado's Raton Basin
    (7/30/2007) Total takes 36% of Chevron deepwater block off Nigeria
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/1/2007) ENA Geo to shoot onshore Mali 2D seismic survey
    (8/1/2007) SCAN Completes ONGC Caribbean 2D program
    (7/29/2007) PEL hires Spectrum for seismic data evaluation
    (7/27/2007) NOC pegs PGS to shoot Kenya's Lamu Basin
    (7/26/2007) MicroSeismic deploys near realtime in-field processing
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (7/31/2007) Global rig crewman dies off Ghana, 15 others return to UK
    (7/30/2007) Oz operators not to leave workers on mini-platforms overnight
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/1/2007) Dresser-Rand providing ICS for Petrobras P18 platform
    (8/1/2007) DeepOcean & Volstad team for newbuild construction vessel
    (8/1/2007) Boots & Coots buys Wyoming's StassCo Pressure Control
    (8/1/2007) Integra to manufacture heavy drilling rigs for Rosneft
    (8/1/2007) FMC supplying subsea systems for deepwater Congo development
    (8/1/2007) Aker Kvaerner acquires drilling technology company
    (7/31/2007) McDermott wins ConocoPhillips platform project
    (7/31/2007) National Oilwell Varco acquires Indian oilfield equipment provider
    (7/31/2007) Marathon to buy Western Oil Sands for $6.2 billion
    (7/31/2007) GE Inspection Technologies to acquire Phoenix X-Ray
    (7/30/2007) Fugro providing site scan & ROV services for Woodside's Angel
    (7/30/2007) PNOC to fully privatize its exploration arm
    (7/30/2007) Hornbeck Offshore acquiring Nabors Sea Mar fleet
    (7/30/2007) Aabar selling drilling services unit to GulfCap
    (7/30/2007) Transocean & Noble settle dual activity drilling patent dispute
    (7/30/2007) TGS-Nopec & Wavefield Inseis merging
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    August 10
    Selection & Design Criteria for Sand Control Screens, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    August 13-15
    Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference, Denver, Colorado USA
    August 14
    Modern Cement Integrity Evaluation, Singapore
    August 15
    Modern Production Logging Practices, Singapore
    August 15-16
    World Energy Engineering Congress 2007, Atlanta, Georgia USA
    August 23-24
    Summer North American Prospect Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    August 28-29
    IADC Well Control Conference of the Americas & Exhibition, Galveston, Texas USA
    September 3-4
    Anual India Oil & Gas Review Symposium, Mumbai, India
    September 3-5
    EAGE Near Surface 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
    September 3-5
    SPE/EAGE Reservoir Characterization & Simulation Conference, Muscat, Oman
    ...More Events

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