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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
    (8/6/2006) Two Baluchistan pipelines bombed
    (8/6/2006) Lost rig in Atlantic found stranded on Tristan da Cunha
    (8/6/2006) Five Shell oil workers killed in Niger Delta
    (8/4/2006) Three more foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
    (8/4/2006) Transocean drillship badly damaged by Typhoon Parpiroon
    (8/3/2006) German oil industry worker kidnapped in Niger Delta
    (8/3/2006) Colombian oil workers in one-day protest strike today
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/6/2006) Metgasco extends Casino gasfield 15 km to southwest
    (8/3/2006) Zebu exploration well spudded in Texas' Project Wharton
    (8/3/2006) Pluspetrol finds gas in Venezuela's Tiznado & Barbacoas
    (8/3/2006) Antrim successfully tests its East Causeway well
    (8/3/2006) Horizon soon to spud Horizon Funk-1 in South Texas
    (8/3/2006) Nexen scores discovery in US Gulf Ringo prospect
    (8/3/2006) Roc readying to drill onshore Cabinda
    (8/3/2006) Sinopec discovers large Sichuan gasfield
    (8/3/2006) Gran Tierra testing wildcat Popa-1 in Colombia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/4/2006) Petrobank planning 18-well Saskatchewan program
    (8/3/2006) Bedford drilling 3rd central Oklahoma well
    (8/3/2006) Energy Searcher contracted for 2 Philippine wells
    (8/3/2006) Awilco takes delivery of WilPower jackup
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/6/2006) Hess sets 2nd phase of Ujung Pangkah development
    (8/6/2006) Pan Orient drilling Wichian Buri, Thailand producer
    (8/6/2006) Joint Saudi-Iranian Persian Gulf development at halfway
    (8/6/2006) ATP launches development of 4 US Gulf deepwater fields
    (8/6/2006) Iran's South Pars Phases 6 & 8 onstream in 2007
    (8/4/2006) JKX flows new Ukraine producer 1.7 million cf/d
    (8/4/2006) Santos drills 3 producers on Queensland's Tintaburra Block
    (8/4/2006) Production under way at China's Chunxiao gasfield
    (8/4/2006) UK Nicol Field development drilling & completion concluded
    (8/3/2006) PTTEP to develop Arthit gasfield at cost of $1.58 billion
    (8/3/2006) Myanmar-to-India gas pipeline bypassing Bangladesh
    (8/3/2006) NIDC completes new HP well on Iran's Ahvaz Field
    (8/3/2006) Mexico's giant Cantarell Field output falling 8% this year
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/6/2006) Dubai offshore oil reverts to government ownership
    (8/4/2006) Brazil's CNPE authorizes 284 blocks in Round 8
    (8/4/2006) BG farming into Algeria's Hassi Ba Hamou Perimeter
    (8/4/2006) Faroe buying ConocoPhillips southern North Sea asset
    (8/4/2006) Chesapeake acquiring Dallas/Fort Worth Airport lease
    (8/3/2006) Groundstar farming into Aminex Egypt concession
    (8/3/2006) Russia to have 70 off-limits strategic mineral deposits
    (8/3/2006) Venezuela gearing for bidding on 6 gas blocks
    (8/3/2006) Tullow granted Lower Congo Basin block off Angola
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/3/2006) Veritas on final leg of 3D shoot off Western Australia
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (7/31/2006) US BLM rejects Arches oil & gas development
    (7/31/2006) Pertamina-Petrochina blowout under control (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/6/2006) Transocean sells Explorer semi & Searex XII
    (8/4/2006) Foster Wheeler tapped for Chevron's Olokola gas project
    (8/4/2006) Saipem contracted for Egypt & Brazil offshore construction
    (8/4/2006) FMC awarded subsea frame agreement for Petrobras
    (8/3/2006) JP Kenny wins Machar contract with BP
    (8/3/2006) Ramunia Fabricators wins project off Sabah
    (8/3/2006) M-I SWACO acquires Specialized Petroleum Services
    (8/3/2006) National Petroleum contracted for Qatar field project
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 8/4
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 68.45
    0.0%
    Minas 71.65
    +0.8%
    Bonny Light 74.67
    +0.9%
    N. Sea Brent 73.75
    0.0%
    Forties 73.77
    +1.5%
    Urals/Mediterranean 68.32
    +1.0%
    Alaska N. Slope 72.63
    +0.2%
    W. Texas Intermediate 74.43
    +0.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.91
    -3.6%
    UK Day Ahead** 39.75
    +3.8%
    *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 7-9
    Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference, Denver, Colorado USA
    August 7-11
    Deepwater Challenges in Exploration, Development, & Production, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    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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