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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
    All prices rise again a second day
    (8/3/2010) Traders at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London sent prices ever higher again today on the strength of the euro's continued increase in value against the US dollar, countering other factors, including some disappointing economic data, particularly losses in US equities and lower consumer spending and housing starts. With most of our monitored benchmarks above US$82 per bbl...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (8/1/2010) Eastern Colombia air base prompts Venezuelan troops to border
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/4/2010) Salamander's Laotian exploration well a dry hole
    (8/4/2010) South Bay's Alberta test well inconclusive
    (8/3/2010) Central plugging & abandoning Ooraminna test well
    (8/3/2010) Vaalco completes 2nd sidetrack to SE Etame-1 off Gabon
    (8/3/2010) Osyka drilling Adam Prospect in Mississippi
    (8/3/2010) Gran Tierra finds increased pay in Moqueta appraisal well
    (8/3/2010) McMoRan's Blueberry Hill well taps potential 105-ft pay zone
    (8/3/2010) Petroceltic's Tunisia test well being plugged & abandoned
    (8/2/2010) Cuban Gulf of Mexico exploration set to start in 2011
    (8/2/2010) AED drilling Indonesia's South Madura test well
    (8/2/2010) Premier drilling Oates exploration well in North Sea
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/3/2010) Two Transocean semis approved for Norwegian drilling
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/4/2010) PetroLatina preparing for production at La Paloma
    (8/4/2010) D30 Field goes onstream off Sarawak, Malaysia
    (8/3/2010) Hamilton Project drilling underway in Western Idaho Basin
    (8/3/2010) Cadogan puts Ukraine's Zagoryanske well onstream
    (8/2/2010) Libya bumps up crude reserves to 46 billion bbl
    (8/2/2010) Entek drilling Butter Lake well in the Green River Basin
    (8/2/2010) Texon drilling 7th producer in South Texas project
    (8/2/2010) Zeta Petroleum & Cooper Energy in Romania E&P alliance
    (8/2/2010) Statoil puts Morvin subsea field onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/4/2010) ExxonMobil farming out offshore Congo stake
    (8/4/2010) Brigham adds 52,800 acres to its Williston Basin acreage
    (8/4/2010) Tullow farming into Centric's NW Kenya concession
    (8/4/2010) Beach acquires stakes in 2 Egyptian blocks from Kuwait Energy
    (8/4/2010) Egdon & Star farmout UK onshore PEDL139 & PEDL140
    (8/4/2010) Ithaca acquires several GDF Suez UK North Sea interests
    (8/3/2010) Mainland adds 100% stake in western Mississippi
    (8/3/2010) Pacific Energy adds stake in Utah Cedar Rim well
    (8/3/2010) Wapiti buys Delta Rocky Mt & Texas Gulf properties
    (8/3/2010) Talisman & Ecopetrol acquiring BP Colombia for $1.9 billion
    (8/2/2010) Iraq postpones auction of 3 gasfield development projects
    (8/2/2010) NWest farming out stake in Gulf of St Lawrence prospect
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/4/2010) PGS kicks off South China Sea shoot off Malaysia
    (8/4/2010) BGP outfitting new acquisition vessel with ION acquisition system
    (8/4/2010) Polarcus scores Nigeria 3D shoot from OMEL
    (8/4/2010) 2D shoot over LNG Energy's PNG block concluded
    (8/3/2010) Inpex picks OHM Rock Solid Images for Suriname seismic study
    (8/2/2010) Equipoise contracted for Sokolovskoye Field seismic review
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (8/3/2010) Flex LNG & Saipem agree to cooperate in FLNG project
    (8/3/2010) Foster Wheeler contracted for GNL Del Plata terminal in Uruguay
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/3/2010) BP's static kill of US Gulf MC252 well successful - so far (update)
    (8/3/2010) BP puts US Gulf blowout static kill on hold for final testing (update)
    (8/2/2010) Fatal accident on Nigeria's Akpo oilfield
    (8/2/2010) Louisiana bayou leaking wellhead capped
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/4/2010) US oil & gas mergers & acquisitions highest since 2008
    (8/4/2010) KOC picks Petrofac for Sabriyah & Rawdatain EOR project
    (8/4/2010) InterOil & Mitsui form PNG condensate stripping JV
    (8/2/2010) Expro subsea well intervention system near deployment
    (8/2/2010) Veolia to provide water treatment for Petrobras' Papa Terra P63
    (8/2/2010) Acergy scores $1.5 billion in contracts in West Africa & Brazil
    (8/2/2010) BW Offshore contracted to complete FPSO OSX 1
    (8/2/2010) McDermott International now standalone EPCI company
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    August 3-5
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts 2010 SPE Nigerian Annual Conference & Exhibition, Abuja, Nigeria
    August 4-6
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts 2010 SPE Asia Pacific Health, Safety, Security & Environment Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia
    August 11-12
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts APPEA National Oil & Gas Safety Conference, Perth, WA, Australia
    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
    ...More Events

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