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09/30/2008 -- UGI: Unconventional gas wealth seen in world's basins
Sedimentary basins in the US appear to contain a volume of technically recoverable unconventional gas that is 10 times the ultimately recoverable volume of conventional gas.
09/30/2008 -- EnCana selects name for integrated oil spinoff
EnCana Corp. selected Cenovus Energy Inc. as the name for the new, integrated oil company it is creating as part of its split into two independent energy companies —an integrated oil company and a pure-play natural gas company. The companies will focus on unconventional resources.
09/30/2008 -- MARKET WATCH: Oil prices plunge with rejection of economic rescue plan
Energy prices fell, with crude plunging more than $10/bbl in panicked trading that accelerated after the House of Representatives rejected 228-to-205 a $700 billion plan to resolve the most severe threat to the US economy since the Great Depression.
09/29/2008 -- Japanese firms boost Vietnamese oil industry
Japanese firms are stepping up their involvement in Vietnam's oil industry, entering both upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing.
09/29/2008 -- Black Elk appoints new executives
Black Elk Energy, Houston, has appointed Terrell Clark executive vice-president and chief technology officer and Joe Matthews vice-president, land.
09/29/2008 -- Shell France to close research unit in France
Shell France by yearend 2009 will shut down its France research unit at the Petit-Couronne refinery, which it sold to the Swiss group Petroplus in April.
09/29/2008 -- MARKET WATCH: Energy prices fluctuate in uncertain markets
Energy prices continued to waffle, declining Sept. 26 amid uncertainties about the international economy, the value of the US dollar, and global energy demand through 2009.
09/29/2008 -- Bodman: Russia using energy as foreign policy 'tool'
US Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, concerned about Russia's use of energy as a tool of foreign policy, said he would take up the issue with officials at a meeting next week in Vienna.
09/28/2008 -- Pacific Asia appoints general manager
Pacific Asia Petroleum has named Heidi Wong as general manager, business development, government relations, and commercial affairs.
09/28/2008 -- Statoil teams with universities in heavy oil research
StatoilHydro has partnered with universities in Canada and Norway to examine ways to improve recovery of heavy oil and oil sands in an environmentally friendly way.
09/27/2008 -- Norway's PSA criticizes StatoilHydro's safety culture
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has released a report attacking StatoilHydro's safety standards on the Norwegian continental shelf.
09/26/2008 -- Senate rejects economic stimulus bill with oil shale moratorium
The US Senate defeated an economic stimulus bill with a provision to extend a moratorium on federal oil shale leasing by 52 to 42 votes on Sept. 26.
09/26/2008 -- Reid to put oil shale moratorium back into resolution
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he might try to reinsert a moratorium on federal oil shale leasing into a continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating through Mar. 6, 2009.
09/26/2008 -- MARKET WATCH: Unstable economy raises energy prices
Energy prices rebounded Sept. 25 among investors' fears that the $700 billion economic rescue plan being hammered out in Washington could weaken the US dollar, the currency in which oil is traded internationally.
09/26/2008 -- Revised Senate 'Gang of 20' proposal won't be debated immediately
A group of 20 US senators has developed a new version of its energy legislation proposals, but its leaders said that they don't expect it to be considered before Congress recesses on Sept. 26 because of the current deepening fiscal crisis.
09/26/2008 -- Democrats remove OCS leasing bans from continuing resolution
Faced with the prospect of a presidential veto of a continuing resolution, congressional Democrats deleted language dealing with US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing restrictions on Sept. 23.
09/26/2008 -- Barton offers bill to establish federal energy permit coordinator
The ranking minority member of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced legislation on Sept. 24 which would establish a federal energy permit coordinator to help applications and reviews move more quickly.
09/26/2008 -- Senate expected to consider additional taxes on oil and gas industry
US senators will be asked to approve additional taxes on the oil and gas industry by the end of the week to help finance $40 billion in clean energy financial incentives.
09/26/2008 -- Kwik-Chek Food Stores, agent face federal price-fixing charge
A federal grand jury charged a Bonham, Tex., convenience store company and one of its agents with conspiring to fix retail gasoline and diesel fuel prices in Antlers, Okla., the US Department of Justice said on Sept. 19.
09/26/2008 -- 'Both of these storms demand our attention'
US Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne, testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee in a hearing on Sept. 18 about widespread ethics violations within the Minerals Management Service's royalty-in-kind program office in Denver.

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