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10/05/2007 -- MARKET WATCH: Energy prices rebound as dollar, product stocks fall
Front-month oil futures rebounded above $81/bbl Oct. 4 on the New York market as the US dollar erased earlier gains against the euro.
10/05/2007 -- Ukraine, Gazprom reach deal on gas debt
Ukraine is expected to pay $1.3 billion it owes OAO Gazprom for natural gas by Nov. 1 under an agreement reached Oct. 3 to avoid cuts in gas supplies.
10/05/2007 -- Range Resources subsidiaries get new names
Range Resources Corp. Ft. Worth, has changed the names of two wholly owned subsidiaries.
10/05/2007 -- Centrica to buy UK North Sea upstream assets
Centrica will gain interests in gas assets—Grove, Sloop, and associated six exploration licenses in the UK North Sea—to bolster supplies to its British and European customers via its subsidiary British Gas.
10/04/2007 -- NGC: Gas to play critical part in reducing GHG emissions
Conventional gas supplies from basins currently restricted for exploration and development will be needed if the US adopts GHG emissions reduction mandates, NGC said Oct. 3.
10/04/2007 -- Tengizchevroil fined for Tengiz field sulfur storage
Kazakhstan authorities have imposed a $609 million fine on Tengizchevroil (TCO), the Chevron Corp.-led consortium developing giant Tengiz oil field, for alleged violations of national environmental legislation.
10/04/2007 -- MARKET WATCH: Crude futures dip; products prices rise
Oil futures dipped lower Oct. 3 with an unexpected build in US crude inventories, but declines in petroleum product stocks pushed up prices for heating oil and gasoline.
10/03/2007 -- Producers warn of harm from Alberta's royalty proposals
Proposals for increased taxation of oil and gas production in Alberta have come under specific criticism from the producing industry.
10/03/2007 -- MARKET WATCH: Crude prices slip while gas prices rally
Crude prices slipped Oct. 2 in the third straight session of profit taking on the New York market, but losses were reduced by a rally in natural gas futures prices because of potential storm activity in the Gulf of Mexico.
10/03/2007 -- Blackwood to steer United Heritage
Blackwood Ventures LLC of Delaware paid $5.017 million to acquire all of the shares held by Walter G. Mize in United Heritage Corp., Midland, Tex.
10/02/2007 -- Bharat Petroleum to bid for Congo oil field
India's Bharat Petroleum plans a $350 million, nonbinding bid to acquire 10% interest in the lucrative M'Boundi oil field in the Republic of Congo.
10/02/2007 -- BHP acquires interest in licenses off Falklands
BHP Billiton has acquired an interest in 14 E&P licenses off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic after signing contracts with Falkland Oil & Gas.
10/02/2007 -- MARKET WATCH: Market fundamentals reduce energy prices
Crude prices continued to decline Oct. 1 on the New York market as traders worried that the current supply and demand factors can't support the high prices from the September rally.
10/02/2007 -- Kazakh official eases Kashagan demands
Kazakhstan could drop its demand that state-run KazMunaiGas become joint operator of offshore Kashagan oil field, according to a senior official.
10/02/2007 -- Kanematsu to sell Tangguh LNG project stake
Kanematsu plans to sell its 3.93% stake in the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia to Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Nippon Oil, and Inpex Holdings for about ¥15 billion.
10/02/2007 -- SEC says Tidewater failed to disclose vessel withdrawals
Tidewater and its CFO, James Keith Lousteau, failed to disclose to shareholders for more than 2 years that as many as 83 of its vessels had been withdrawn from service, the US SEC said.
10/02/2007 -- Pearl to buy Montana, Utah heavy oil deposits
Pearl E&P agreed to acquire 100% interests in heavy oil deposits in Montana and Utah from PetroHunter Energy for as much as $30 million.
10/01/2007 -- Neste Oil names vice-presidents, forms division
Neste Oil Corp. has appointed executive vice-presidents to three of its divisions as part of an internal organization rotation.
10/01/2007 -- NGSA sees little upward gas-price pressure this winter
High storage levels, steady drilling rates, and expected warmer winter temperatures suggest minimal upward pressure on gas prices during the coming US heating season, NGSA said in its annual forecast.
10/01/2007 -- MARKET WATCH: Energy prices decline with profit taking
Energy prices fell Sept. 28 in volatile trading in a New York market session that marked the end of the week, end of the month, and end of the quarter.

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