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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
    (9/17/2006) Nexen employee killed in Yemen attack (update)
    (9/15/2006) Yemen foils suicide attacks on oil installations
    (9/14/2006) Ethics scandal strikes US Interior Department
    (9/14/2006) Nigerian oilworkers' strike is over (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (9/15/2006) Arabian Oil makes major Egyptian oil discovery
    (9/15/2006) Vicpet's South Australia Growler seeing oil
    (9/14/2006) Persero pursuing CBM in South Sumatra
    (9/14/2006) Statoil's Barents Sea wildcat discovers gas
    (9/14/2006) Pogo & Mighty River to drill off New Zealand
    (9/14/2006) Wildcat Orphan Basin ultra-deep well underway
    (9/14/2006) INA & MOL in joint cross-border exploration project
    (9/14/2006) Max strikes oil with 1st well in Kazakhstan's Zhana Makat
    (9/14/2006) Mosaic's Downlands-4 hits gas target
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (9/17/2006) Pemex seeking driller for Burgos Basin project
    (9/15/2006) High Arctic providing IPM services on Thailand field
    (9/15/2006) Petro-Canada secures rigs for next 18 months
    (9/14/2006) Target reached in managed pressure drilling of PNG well
    (9/14/2006) Daewoo charters Sedco 601 at $406,000 per day
    (9/14/2006) Premium Drilling wins 2nd contract for Deep Driller 3
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (9/17/2006) Petrolifera adds another Argentine producer in Puesto Morales
    (9/17/2006) Iran to put 3 new gasfields onstream in October
    (9/17/2006) Aspen successfully tests California Rice Creek gaswell
    (9/15/2006) Pebercan puts another Cuban well onstream
    (9/15/2006) Sinopec taking lead in Iran's Yadavaran Field development
    (9/14/2006) Russia's Natural Resources Ministry suspends Sakhalin II
    (9/14/2006) BPZ prepping for 1st of 3 wells off Peru
    (9/14/2006) Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz to go onstream by month's end
    (9/14/2006) Longtom-3 tests 30 million cf/d from 1 of 4 sands
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (9/17/2006) Calibre farms into Iraqi Kurdistan PSC
    (9/17/2006) Myanmar grants Gulf of Martaban block to trio
    (9/15/2006) CNPC & PDVSA to invest $5 billion in 19 Venezuelan fields
    (9/15/2006) Oxy awarded 5 former Naval Petroleum Reserve leases
    (9/15/2006) Emerald granted Colombia's Maranta Block
    (9/15/2006) India's NELP VI Round garners 165 bids on 52 blocks
    (9/14/2006) Worldwide Energy adds 2 northern Louisiana leases
    (9/14/2006) Tullow & partners win DR Congo's Blocks I & II
    (9/14/2006) Europa to be granted France's Bearn des Gaves Block
    (9/14/2006) EGPI/Firecreek obtaining leases in South Florida
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (9/17/2006) First permanent offshore in-well optical seismic system installed
    (9/15/2006) Pryme contracts 3D for Louisiana's Turner Bayou
    (9/15/2006) Providence contracts 2D & pseudo 3D off Ireland
    (9/14/2006) WesternGeco acquires rights to data whitening technology
    (9/14/2006) 2D seismic shoot underway in Turkey's Thrace Basin
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/15/2006) Woodside wins approval for Pluto LNG onshore facilities
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (9/15/2006) Shell & MMS near deepwater royalty relief deal (update)
    (9/15/2006) Shell UK extends Well Ops contract to 2010
    (9/15/2006) Rosetta buys Murphy Oil Canadian subsidiary
    (9/15/2006) Subsea 7 wins $200 million Angola project
    (9/14/2006) E.ON Ruhrgas pegs AGR for Norwegian drilling
    (9/14/2006) GeoResources expands with 2 acquisitions
    (9/14/2006) Tanjung orders 2 OSVs & 1 MOPU
    (9/14/2006) Aker Kvaerner awarded subsea contract for Petrobras
    (9/14/2006) Anadarko sells Canadian operations for $4.24 billion
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 9/15
    Oil (US$ 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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