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BEIJING, June 18, 2012 (ANTARA/PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet) --

-- Total Visibility - Oil & Gas Project Budgeting & Planning

IHS, the leading source of information, insight and analytics in critical areas that shape today's business landscape, will be hosting four Focus Forums on Energy in Singapore (June 19th), Indonesia (June 21st), India (June 26th) and Japan (June 29th). The Energy Focus Forums will be focused on keeping investors' onshore and offshore projects profitable.

IHS has invited five field experts from IHS Petrodata (formerly ODS Petrodata) and CERA to speak during this Focus Forum, including Shaun Heywood, IHS senior product manager of Energy Technical Division, Rob Chambers, IHS senior product engineer of the QUESTOR Group, Sean Waite, vice president of APAC Energy Technical Operation, Oliver Stephenson, IHS senior principal researcher, and Rina Samsuddin, IHS senior analyst.

The Forums cover a variety of topics such as: Introduction of Field Development and Capital Investment, the Offshore Drilling Rig Market Before and After the Global Financial Crisis, Field Development in the Year of Dragon, FPSO Costs and Challenges, and Cost Inflation: Applying the Breaks to Upstream Activities. Experts will share their expertise and insightful opinions and discuss these topics from various angles. When it comes to keeping investors' onshore and offshore projects profitable, it's all about the big picture. Whether the various investors' focus is upstream, midstream or downstream or if their operations are onshore or offshore, there is a distinctive solution to help investors achieve their goals.

Across all phases of strategic planning in E&P markets and costs, IHS delivers real-time access to critical data for cost visibility and market assessment. This forum will be providing information on how investors can make the right decisions - manage risks, forecast market costs, determine valuations- all these drivers to help investors achieve effective and targeted growth. IHS believes through the Focus Forums, investors will get some clear ideas about energy investment in the current market condition and great opportunity to learn from the industry's top experts.

About IHS (www.ihs.com)

IHS (NYSE: IHS) is the leading source of information, insight and analytics in critical areas that shape today's business landscape, including energy and power; design and supply chain; defense, risk and security; environmental, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability; country and industry forecasting; and commodities, pricing and cost. Businesses and governments in more than 165 countries around the globe rely on the comprehensive content, expert independent analysis and flexible delivery methods of IHS to make high-impact decisions and develop strategies with speed and confidence. IHS has been in business since 1959 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, IHS employs more than 5,500 people in more than 30 countries around the world. That's why 80% of the Global Fortune 500 do business with IHS.

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