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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
    Settlements mixed - up in East, down in West
    (9/28/2010) Traders at both the London InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) were separately influenced today depending on whether they were in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere, sending prices up in the former and down in the latter. Primary influences for the price losses by West Texas Intermediate and Alaska North Slope were the Conference Board report that US consumer confidence has fallen this month to its lowest level since February and the anticipated sizeable increase in American stockpiles paired with weak demand...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (9/29/2010) July US oil demand at highest in nearly 2 years - EIA
    (9/28/2010) US BOEM director sees slow return of US Gulf deepwater drilling
    (9/27/2010) Deepwater drilling ban likely to end before it expires
    (9/27/2010) Unions threaten of oil & gas operations throughout Nigeria
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (9/29/2010) Anadarko discovers oil in Brazil's Itauna exploration well
    (9/29/2010) TAG's New Zealand Sidewinder-1 discovers oil
    (9/29/2010) Sinopec halts exploration activities at Sakhalin-3's Veninsky Block
    (9/29/2010) US Gulf Appomattox discovery holds 250 million boe
    (9/29/2010) Buccaneer completes flowtest of Texas Austin Chalk well
    (9/29/2010) Devon at TD in Texas farm-in Windham Wolfberry well
    (9/29/2010) Shell makes pre-salt oil discovery in Brazil's Santos Basin
    (9/28/2010) Gas flowing from test well on Thailand's Wichian Buri Field
    (9/28/2010) Second Wave completes Gilwood exploration well in Alberta
    (9/28/2010) Reliance planning 2-well Bay of Bengal exploration
    (9/28/2010) Mainland' targeting Haynesville Shale in Mississippi well
    (9/28/2010) Provident drilling Tribal-Max well in Cut Bank, Montana
    (9/28/2010) Potential seen for a new Amadeus Basin oil and gas province
    (9/28/2010) CNPC makes major gasfield discovery in Turkmenistan
    (9/27/2010) OGX cased hole DST proves Inga a significant producer
    (9/27/2010) Madalena cases CAN X-1 as potential Argentine discovery
    (9/27/2010) Eni spuds 8th exploration well on Angola deepwater Block 15/06
    (9/27/2010) PGNiG spuds Lisewo test well in western Poland
    (9/27/2010) Tap drilling 2nd of 2-well test program on Brunei's Block M
    (9/27/2010) Bapex makes major gasfield discovery onshore Bangladesh
    (9/27/2010) Leni's northern Spain test well taps oil
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (9/29/2010) Transportable EOR land drilling platform developed
    (9/28/2010) Tiancheng contracted to drill 100 new wells in Inner Mongolia
    (9/27/2010) PTC develops completion "intelligent dummy"
    (9/27/2010) Max adds a rig to Kazakh onshore drilling operations
    (9/27/2010) Speedstar drilling rig set for New York gaswells
    (9/27/2010) Rig contracted for UK North Sea Catcher area
    (9/27/2010) Wintershall gets okay for North Sea drilling with Songa Delta
    (9/27/2010) Eni to drill in Barents Sea with Polar Pioneer
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (9/29/2010) EQT brings on 2 new Marcellus Shale wells in Pennsylvania
    (9/29/2010) Shell to move ahead with US Gulf Mars B deepwater development
    (9/29/2010) Carrizo chalks up 5 Texas Eagle Ford Shale horizontals
    (9/29/2010) Odoptu Field in Sakhalin-1 goes on production
    (9/29/2010) Whiting puts 2 producers onstream in North Dakota
    (9/28/2010) Solara horizontal well in Pembina tests 1,730 boe/d
    (9/28/2010) China's Liuhuanggou CBM pilot project set to go
    (9/28/2010) InterOil's Antelope-2 well in PNG flows 2.5-4.5 million cf/d
    (9/28/2010) Nido puts Philippines' Tindalo sidetrack on production
    (9/28/2010) Utah's Golden Eagle Field reserves increased 85%
    (9/27/2010) Qatar's Pearl GTL Project onstream by yearend
    (9/27/2010) BPZ puts another Corvina producer onstream off Peru
    (9/27/2010) Northern sees 1st production at Netherlands gasfield in few days
    (9/27/2010) Nexen preparing for 4th Buzzard Field platform start-up
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (9/29/2010) Noreco sells Oselvar and Enoch stakes to Marubeni
    (9/29/2010) Russia to allow foreign companies to develop offshore fields
    (9/29/2010) Candax's Chaal Permit onshore Tunisia annulled
    (9/28/2010) Cairn awaiting Indian Space Center okay to drill
    (9/28/2010) Equatorial Guinea awards 5 concessions, 2 to Gazprom
    (9/28/2010) Sudan works with CNPC, Petronas to increase output
    (9/28/2010) Tullow farming into Centric Energy's NW Kenya block
    (9/28/2010) Rustamovskoye Field converted into a production license
    (9/28/2010) BHP exiting southern Falkland blocks, FOGL takes 100%
    (9/28/2010) Partners in Nemo discovery off Ireland farming out to Nautical
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (9/29/2010) Pan Orient completes Citarum seismic project
    (9/29/2010) Spectrum to reprocess 3 East Greenland 2D surveys
    (9/27/2010) Desire to acquire additional 3D seismic over Falklands acreage
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (9/29/2010) Total plans to sell part of its stake in Ichthys LNG
    (9/29/2010) InterOil partnering with EWC for 2 mtpa LNG plant in PNG
    (9/28/2010) PNG LNG facilities attacked by Papua New Guinea villagers
    (9/27/2010) Metgasco looking into FLNG to process its coal seam gas
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/27/2010) Halliburton blasts BP's US Gulf Macondo blowout report (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (9/29/2010) FoundOcean to grout platform off Western Australia
    (9/29/2010) Brazilian government & state entities buying 2/3 of Petrobras
    (9/29/2010) Opsens to design & produce well integrity assessment tool
    (9/29/2010) Dart Energy acquiring Apollo Gas in $140.7 million takeover
    (9/28/2010) Sembawang Shipyard secures FPSO conversion & upgrade
    (9/28/2010) Technip scores EPCI for UK North Sea Islay Field
    (9/28/2010) Southern Pacific acquiring North Peace Energy
    (9/27/2010) Subsea 7 scores 4-year Shell framework agreement
    (9/27/2010) Sharewell acquires jointly developed EM MWD technology
    (9/27/2010) KazMunaiGas acquires NBK & SapaBarlauService
    (9/27/2010) Lukoil buys back 5% of its own shares from ConocoPhillips
    (9/27/2010) Marine environmental consultancy added to Fugro GeoConsulting
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    September 29
    IADC Drilling HSE Europe Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    October 4-6
    SPE Deepwater Drilling & Completions Conference, Galveston, Texas, USA
    October 4-6
    SPE Middle East HSE & Security Conference, Manama, Bahrain
    October 5-8
    Kazakhstan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Almaty, Kazakhstan
    October 6
    French Gas Association Annual Conference, Paris, France
    October 7-8
    Iraq Oil & Gas Summit, Houston, Texas USA
    October 7-9
    India Energy 2010, Mumbai, India
    October 7-9
    New Horizons in Oil & Gas Conference, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
    October 10-12
    Saudi Arabia International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
    October 10-12
    Saudi Arabia International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
    October 11-15
    LNG Week: 16th Global Energy Dialogue, Shanghai, China
    October 11-16
    12th Tunisian Petroleum Exploration & Production Conference, Tunis, Tunisia
    October 12-13
    Dynamic Positioning Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    October 13
    IADC Contracts & Risk Management Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    October 17
    SPE Asia-Pacific Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia
    October 17-20
    International Regulators Offshore Safety Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    October 19-21
    Canadian Unconventional Resources & International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    ...More Events

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