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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

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    •   World Industry News
    (9/13/2006) Chad warns Petronas of oil cut-off if taxes not paid
    (9/13/2006) Nigerian oil workers walk off their jobs (update)
    (9/12/2006) Iran & Iraq agree to cooperate on border oilfields
    (9/12/2006) Oil worker killed at Chevron field off Niger Delta
    (9/11/2006) Iraq to boost military at northern oil facilities
    (9/11/2006) Four killed & one injured in ambush of Iraq oil workers
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (9/13/2006) Beach spudding South Australia Somerton test
    (9/13/2006) Double Eagle drilling Wyoming's Christmas Meadows
    (9/13/2006) Pacific Stratus spuds La Creciente-1 in Colombia
    (9/13/2006) GSPC makes 2nd discovery offshore India's east coast
    (9/13/2006) BP Trinidad's Deep Ibis comes up a duster
    (9/13/2006) Calvalley finds new Yemen oil pool near Hiswah Field
    (9/12/2006) ONGC to drill two wells in Himalayan foreland
    (9/12/2006) ConocoPhillips' major North Sea discovery on fasttrack (update)
    (9/12/2006) JKX plugs & abandons Ukraine Zaplavskoye well
    (9/12/2006) Beach plugging & abandoning Snowden try
    (9/11/2006) Radial spuds Texas Highway 79 prospect
    (9/11/2006) Namibia Block 1711 reserves estimated
    (9/11/2006) Petrolifera's Neuquen Basin Argentina well a discovery
    (9/11/2006) Dune spuds its Texas Barnett Shale well
    (9/11/2006) Big Sky's KoZhan finds oil in Kazakh Dauletaly Block
    (9/11/2006) Tigris exploration well spudded in NE Syria
    (9/11/2006) New gasfield discovered in Saudi Arabia
    (9/11/2006) Apache plugging & abandoning Libris-ST1
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (9/13/2006) Norwood contracts rig to drill 6 Nicaragua wells
    (9/13/2006) Baker Oil Tools introduces mobile stim system
    (9/12/2006) Seadrill picks up 2 new drilling contracts
    (9/12/2006) Allen Ranch Handcock-1 output commingled in 5 zones
    (9/12/2006) Fraccing boosts South Australia Padulla Field output
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (9/13/2006) Tri-Valley developing California's Pleasant Valley Field
    (9/12/2006) Algeria & Libya agree to study linked fields
    (9/12/2006) Oilex commences first well in Cambay Field program
    (9/12/2006) Aurelian putting Romanian field onstream
    (9/12/2006) First mile wireless service in development
    (9/11/2006) Tullow putting Pakistan's Chachar gasfield onstream
    (9/11/2006) Volve module leaves Thailand for Norway
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (9/13/2006) Kodiak farms into Canada's NWT Project
    (9/13/2006) Itochu farming into Petrel's Iraq assets
    (9/13/2006) Colombia's ANH grants Niscota Block to Talisman-led trio
    (9/13/2006) Petrogulf buying 50% of Falcon's Wyandotte Prospect
    (9/12/2006) Venezuela to complete contract conversions by yearend
    (9/12/2006) Sojitz farms into Newfield's UK North Sea Grove Field
    (9/12/2006) COGO farming into Chile's Pica North Block
    (9/12/2006) Arrow Energy farming out 40% of Queensland block
    (9/12/2006) Venture sells stake & farms out interest in North Sea block
    (9/11/2006) Petrobras mulling move into Jamaica E&P
    (9/11/2006) Buried Hill wins 2 blocks offshore Gambia
    (9/11/2006) Transmeridian acquires 50% of Russian Dagestan oilfield
    (9/11/2006) Algeria tightens reins on foreign operators
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (9/13/2006) KCS to shoot Assam riverbed 2D survey
    (9/13/2006) Fugro charters M/V Seisquest for four years
    (9/13/2006) TGS begins 10 new multi-client CSEM surveys off Norway
    (9/12/2006) Liberian well log data granted exclusively to A2D
    (9/11/2006) 3D seismic over India's Cauvery block completed
    (9/11/2006) PGS to shoot multi-client deepwater 3D in US Gulf
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/13/2006) IMCA issues guidance for offshore industry travel security
    (9/12/2006) Purnomo team to stem Indonesian mudflow
    (9/11/2006) Bideford Dolphin springs a leak while drilling
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (9/13/2006) Petrovietnam sub contracted for 3 Malay topsides
    (9/13/2006) Abbot wins $65 million new Eurasia rigs contract
    (9/13/2006) Kremlin not selling any more of Rosneft
    (9/13/2006) Schlumberger & Infosys link for E&P data management
    (9/12/2006) Assam establishes its own operating company
    (9/12/2006) Hannon Westwood to estimate undiscovered Irish resources
    (9/12/2006) Pluris acquiring San Enrique Petrolera
    (9/11/2006) Schlumberger opens Artificial Lift Center in Singapore
    (9/11/2006) Crescent Point acquires Mission Oil & Gas
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 9/13
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 60.42
    -0.8%
    Minas 63.19
    -3.4%
    Bonny Light 63.03
    -0.4%
    N. Sea Brent 62.99
    -2.4%
    Forties 63.08
    -0.2%
    Urals/Mediterranean 58.98
    +0.1%
    Alaska N. Slope 62.46
    -2.9%
    W. Texas Intermediate 63.76
    -2.8%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.54
    +4.5%
    UK Day Ahead** 30.65
    +1.8%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    September 19-20
    North African Oil and Gas Summit, Madrid, Spain
    September 20-22
    IADC Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas USA
    September 24-26
    Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Convention, Lafayette, Louisiana USA
    September 24-27
    SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas USA
    September 25-29
    International Pipeline Conference, Calgary, Alberta Canada
    September 26-27
    FPSO Integrity Planning Summit, Beijing, China
    September 27-28
    Sakhalin Oil & Gas 2006, Sakhalin Island, Russia
    September 27-29
    Italian Energy Summit, Milano, Italy
    ...More Events

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