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  • World Industry News

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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

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  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (8/31/2004) South Africa's Western Cape aiming to be industry hub
    (8/31/2004) Four Nexen employees kidnapped in Yemen
    (8/31/2004) Norwegian rig workers strike escalating
    (8/31/2004) Cameroon & Nigeria discuss Bakassi Peninsula
    (8/30/2004) OPEC calls for peace to lower oil prices
    (8/30/2004) Iraqi exports halted again by sabotage (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (9/1/2004) Basic Earth drilling offset to North Dakota discovery
    (9/1/2004) New Pakistan duty on exploration equipment
    (9/1/2004) Pakistan's OGDC discovers new gasfield in Sindh
    (9/1/2004) Kiwi's Kapuni F objective all wet
    (9/1/2004) Petrobras declares Sergipe oilfield viable producer
    (9/1/2004) Lakes gets lower than expected flow from Wombat-2 (update)
    (9/1/2004) New Australia Cooper Basin oil discovery
    (8/31/2004) Devlan spuds Moose Lake exploration well
    (8/31/2004) Probably poor Centella-1 to be production-tested
    (8/31/2004) Unocal's US Gulf Sardinia well a dry hole
    (8/31/2004) Woodside's Polkadot-1 spudded off northern Australia
    (8/31/2004) D-14 appraisal spudded in Slovenia's Petisovci-Dolina
    (8/30/2004) Aurora Gas discovers new Cook Inlet gasfield
    (8/30/2004) Pemex says deepwater discoveries to double Mexico's reserves
    (8/30/2004) DNO's 2nd Mozambique well a dud
    (8/30/2004) CNOOC succeeds with Weizhou South China Sea well
    (8/30/2004) Texas' Syd-A1 taps hydrocarbons on Bethany lease
    (8/30/2004) Amity spuds Oklahoma Ellis probe
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (9/1/2004) BP Angola contracts Ocean Rig's Leiv Eiriksson
    (9/1/2004) Atwood Oceanics receives contract for Atwood Beacon
    (9/1/2004) GulfWest workovers boosts Texas & Colorado gas output
    (9/1/2004) Kentucky Bluegrass drilling begins after 3-week delay
    (9/1/2004) Single-trip perf/pack completion system proven in US Gulf
    (8/31/2004) Odjfell's Deepsea Trym to drill Varg Field
    (8/29/2004) Drilling at Cheshmeh Khosh to start in September
    (8/26/2004) Lake's Trifon-2 fracture stimulation underway
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (9/1/2004) China's 4,000 km West-East Pipeline officially online
    (9/1/2004) BP to develop Vietnam's Hai Thach gasfield
    (9/1/2004) Kuwait shuffles to speed development of big border fields
    (9/1/2004) Roc brings forward Cliff Head drilling program
    (9/1/2004) Melrose expanding Egypt's South Batra Field development
    (8/31/2004) Texas' Padre Island deep gas well onstream in 2-3 weeks
    (8/31/2004) Prirazlomnoye progressing toward 1st production next year
    (8/31/2004) ConocoPhillips wins enviro okay for Alaska Slope satellites (update)
    (8/31/2004) Roc & Chinese to talk future activity on Beibu block
    (8/30/2004) Kazakhstan's Korolevskoye Field may hold 1 billion boe
    (8/30/2004) ENI to drill 2 wells offshore Egypt before yearend
    (8/30/2004) Huge natural gas reserve reported in Qaidam Basin
    (8/30/2004) Statoil's Kristin Field components coming together
    (8/30/2004) Rally preparing to drill added Egypt wells
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (9/1/2004) Venture secures 100% of Trees & new assets from Marubeni
    (9/1/2004) Egypt launches licensing for 9 new E&P blocks (update)
    (8/31/2004) Northern Petroleum acquires interest in Offshore Guyane
    (8/31/2004) Rosneft awarded 10 oilfields in Eastern Siberia
    (8/31/2004) ExxonMobil to parlay with Pertamina over Cepu contract (update)
    (8/30/2004) ConocoPhillips wants incentives to develop Aceh field
    (8/30/2004) TG World & CNPC settle Niger concession squabble
    (8/30/2004) Magnum Hunter makes $40 million property acquisition
    (8/30/2004) China's Nanchang seeking exploration of Boyang Lake
    (8/30/2004) ONGC farming into Antrim West Australia block
    (8/30/2004) Shell seeking 3rd partner in Pakistan deepwater block
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/30/2004) Canadian Superior wellsite survey completed off Nova Scoia (update)
    (8/30/2004) CGG wins $103 million shoot for ONGC
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/1/2004) Saba Energy receives record fine for failing to P&A wells
    (9/1/2004) Shell Nigeria employee shot in weekend fighting
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (9/1/2004) Japan's Arabian Oil talking JV with Iraq's South Oil
    (9/1/2004) PGS rejects CGG acquisition proposal
    (9/1/2004) TNK BP not interested in buying Yukos assets
    (8/31/2004) Husky awards Tucker Oil Sands contracts
    (8/31/2004) Schlumberger introduces new lower risk formation tester
    (8/30/2004) Subsea 7 contracted for Timor Sea work
    (8/30/2004) Noble Energy combines US onshore & offshore divisions
    (8/30/2004) Shell pegs $9 billion in Nigerian E&P before 2009
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 9/1
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 39.02
    -3.5%
    Dubai Fateh 36.99
    -0.2%
    Bonny Light 41.30
    -0.3%
    N. Sea Brent 40.62
    -0.3%
    Forties 41.55
    -0.2%
    Urals/Mediterranean 36.20
    +0.8%
    Alaska N. Slope 40.40
    -3.6%
    W. Texas Intermediate 43.18
    +0.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 5.18
    -2.6%
    IPE Gas NB** 25.02
    +2.6%
    *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 3-4
    2nd North Asia Oil, Gas & Pipelines Conference, Seoul, South Korea
    September 5-9
    World Energy Congress & Exhibition, Sydney, NSW Australia
    September 5-9
    Near Surface 2004, European Meeting of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, Utrecht, Netherlands
    September 6-7
    11th India Oil & Gas Review Symposium, Mumbai, India
    September 6-7
    High Tech Well Russia Conference & Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
    September 6-7
    Sudan Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Khartoum, Sudan
    September 6-10
    International Pipe Line and Offshore Contractors Association Conference, Berlin, Germany
    September 8-9
    Offshore Operations Russia/CIS Conference & Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
    September 13-15
    IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    ...More Events

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