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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 halt their fall & rise again
    (8/7/2007) After yesterday's plunge with record losses, crude prices resumed their climb today with builds toward their previous per bbl range primarily on the strength of renewed worries about summer supply in the Northern Hemisphere due to refinery woes and high demand...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (8/8/2007) Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels again warning oil companies to stay out
    (8/8/2007) Kidnapped Expro Group employees freed
    (8/7/2007) South Korea to underwrite state companies' foreign projects
    (8/6/2007) Uganda increasing security for oil operators (update)
    (8/6/2007) Polish cargo vessel crashes into ConocoPhillips North Sea platform
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/8/2007) Tri-Valley drilling initial California Pleasant Valley heavy oil well
    (8/8/2007) Goldnev prepping for Saskatchewan oil shale exploration
    (8/8/2007) Russia returning to North Pole in November
    (8/8/2007) Island's Schull gaswell off Ireland tests 21 million cf/d
    (8/8/2007) Dana Gas finds further gas with Egyptian discovery
    (8/8/2007) Platina's first Young County, Texas well strikes oil
    (8/8/2007) Fourth discovery in Congo's ultra-deep Mer Tres Profonde Sud
    (8/8/2007) Sapex starting CBM exploration in South Australia
    (8/7/2007) Offshore Vietnam Te Giac Hong-1X a dry hole
    (8/7/2007) Nothing yet at AWE's Hector test well off NZ in Taranaki Basin
    (8/7/2007) Roc makes oil discovery onshore Angola's Cabinda South
    (8/7/2007) Bayou Bend spuds 2nd US Gulf Mustang Island test well
    (8/7/2007) Total scores another Angola ultra-deepwater oil discovery
    (8/6/2007) Ascent drilling Italian gas exploration well
    (8/6/2007) Santos' Totem-1 offshore Western Australia a dud
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
    Global Pacific & Partners
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/8/2007) Saga contracts mobile rig for Petrovsky wells
    (8/8/2007) American testing Wyoming Fetter Field well producer
    (8/7/2007) Signal completes refurbishment of Pride New Mexico
    (8/7/2007) Russia to launch world's first nuclear-powered drillship
    (8/7/2007) Aminex's Tanzania Nyuni Block drilling delayed to October (update)
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/8/2007) Tethys completes production pipeline on Kazakh Kyzyloi Field
    (8/8/2007) Nexus & Shell spud 1st producer for Echuca Shoals Field
    (8/7/2007) Gastar hefts output from East Texas Bossier wells
    (8/7/2007) Sunshine putting Lacerta CMB well onstream
    (8/6/2007) Brigham chalks up another successful Home Run winner
    (8/6/2007) Empyrean's tests 642,000 b/d at Texas coastal project well
    (8/6/2007) Victoria Kemerkol well fails to find sufficient pay
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/8/2007) Trio of SE Asia NOCs win Indonesia's Randu Gunting Block
    (8/8/2007) Cathay wins exclusive rights to Pakistan's Sindh Province CBM
    (8/8/2007) Austral Pacific buys IRM to get more Cardiff Field interest
    (8/8/2007) Dune bumps up Barnett Shale position in 3 drill-to-earn deals
    (8/8/2007) Cygam farms out more interest in Tunisia's Jorf Permit
    (8/8/2007) Iraqi deal revealed giving Chevron & Total advantage
    (8/8/2007) Yemen launches 1st offshore licensing round
    (8/7/2007) Pantheon farms into Texas Padre Island project
    (8/7/2007) Endeavor farms into Quicksilver's Chigwell Alberta project
    (8/6/2007) Singapore Petroleum wins South China Sea block off China
    (8/6/2007) Chevron selected to develop China's Luojiazhai gasfield
    (8/6/2007) Toreador selling all its US properties
    (8/6/2007) Novatek buys into 3 companies with Yamal-Nenets licenses
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/8/2007) CGGVeritas launches V1 land acquisition technology
    (8/8/2007) TGS & DMNG commence Sakhalin area 2D survey
    (8/6/2007) Granby completes 2D shoot over 4 UK North Sea blocks
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/7/2007) Shell's Brent Bravo platform evacuated
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/8/2007) Kremlin seizes Russneft alleging tax evasion & illegal practices
    (8/8/2007) Seneca selling Canadian operations for $234.3 million
    (8/8/2007) Aker Kvaerner & Venture Production in new framework deal
    (8/7/2007) Petrobras & Pemex to study shallow water heavy oil production
    (8/7/2007) APL to install SPT buoy offshore India on MA-D6 Field
    (8/7/2007) Norex acquiring Peru-based seismic acquisition company
    (8/7/2007) Technip to provide Ofon platform offshore Nigeria
    (8/7/2007) McDermott wins 7-year project with Saudi Aramco
    (8/7/2007) Boots & Coots wins $21 million with Sonatrach
    (8/6/2007) Baker Hughes wins Talisman North Sea ESP contract
    (8/6/2007) Foster Wheeler awarded Saudi Karen onshore project
    (8/6/2007) MTEM contracts Veripos for positioning services
    ...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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