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• 12/02/2011 -- API's Gerard responds to Markey's job estimate questions
  American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard disputed US Rep. Edward J. Markey’s (D-Mass.) allegations that API’s job growth estimates from more oil and gas activity are overblown.
• 12/02/2011 -- Trinidad's tight gas supply to ease in early 2012, minister says
  Trinidad and Tobago’s petrochemical producers have been assured that the present natural gas shortage will be solved by February 2012. The assurance comes from Kevin Ramnarine, the Caribbean twin-island nation’s energy minister, who said the problem has nothing to do with a reserves shortage.
• 12/01/2011 -- Senate GOP bill prods Obama to reverse Keystone XL delay
  US Senate Republicans introduced legislation that would deem the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline federally approved 60 days after enactment if the Obama administration did not act. But several said they would rather see US President Barack Obama reverse his Nov. 11 decision to delay acting on TransCanada Inc.’s cross-border permit application for the project until after the 2012 elections.
• 11/30/2011 -- EOG expects to drill in Argentina's Neuquen basin within weeks
  EOG Resources Inc. expects to begin drilling at the Vaca Muerta oil shale in Argentina's Neuquen basin within weeks, EOG Chief Executive Officer Mark Papa said Nov. 30 during an investors presentation at Jefferies 2011 Global Energy Conference in Houston.
• 11/29/2011 -- Nexen, Inpex form venture to develop BC shale gas
  Nexen Inc. and a consortium led by Japan’s Inpex Corp. agreed to create a joint venture to develop unconventional shale gas assets in the Horn River, Cordova, and Liard basins in northeastern British Columbia.
• 11/28/2011 -- CNOOC completes acquisition of oil sands operator OPTI
  A unit of CNOOC Ltd. completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Canadian oil sands producer OPTI Canada Inc., Calgary (OGJ Online, July 20, 2011).
• 11/23/2011 -- Restore GWPC, Stronger's federal funding, shale gas panel urges
  US Congress should promptly restore federal funding for the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and the State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (Stronger), the US Energy Secretary Advisory Board’s Shale Gas Subcommittee urged on Nov. 21.
• 11/23/2011 -- Ryckman Creek lets contract for Opal gas storage project
  Ryckman Creek Resources LLC, a subsidiary of Peregrine Midstream Partners LLC, let a contract for the project management support of the 35-bcf Ryckman Creek natural gas storage facility to Foster Wheeler Upstream.
• 11/23/2011 -- Investor group to acquire Samson Investment
  An investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP will acquire Samson Investment Co., Tulsa, Okla., one of the largest private US exploration and production companies, for $7.2 billion.
• 11/18/2011 -- Feds delay Ohio forest lease sale to study fracing
  The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service has postponed a sale of mineral leases scheduled for the sprawling Wayne National Forest in eastern Ohio for at least 6 months to study surface affects related to hydraulic fracturing.