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Oil & Gas Journal

04/23/2012
Volume 110, Issue 4c
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

      International news for oil and gas professionals

    • Journally Speaking

      • Energy-fight unmentionables

        Before entering political fights over energy, representatives of the oil and gas industry should check their engineering weapons at the door. This should be a rule.

    • Editorial

      • The earthquake risk

        Much about the future of energy policy everywhere relates to balancing the promise of unconventional oil and gas resources against environmental problems associated with their development and use.

    • EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

  • General Interest

    • Obama forms unconventional gas interagency working group

      US President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing an interagency working group to coordinate federal policies to support safe and responsible US unconventional natural gas resource development.

    • Obama wants stronger steps to curb oil price speculation

      US President Barack Obama called for more aggressive measures to prevent oil-market manipulation, pledging stronger action by his administration and calling on Congress to fund enforcement and increase penalties for violators.

    • EPA outlines new source performance standards

      The US Environmental Protection Agency outlined a phased approach as it issued long-awaited final rules Apr. 17 to reduce air pollution from oil and natural gas operations, including federal air standards for wells that involve hydraulic fracturing.

    • Continued R&D essential to tap US tight oil, panel told

      The successful recovery of oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible tight shales with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling does not mean further research and development is unnecessary, experts told a US House Committee on Apr. 17.

    • Watching Government: The road to breakthroughs

      Occasionally, it's good to remember that decades of research and development normally precede technological breakthroughs.

    • Canadian government offers details of regulatory reform plan

      Canada's federal government has offered details of its plan to streamline regulation of natural resource development, a move welcomed by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers when announced with the proposed budget last month (OGJ Online, Mar. 30, 2012).

    • UK seismicity report gives guarded nod to shale gas work

      Hydraulic fracturing in the UK has received guarded approval in a government review of a study about seismic events last year around a Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. shale-gas well near Poulton-le-Fylde (OGJ Online, Nov. 3, 2011).

    • Total UK cleans Elgin wellhead for kill operation

      Total Ltd. UK said workers cleaned waxy deposits off the Elgin platform wellhead in anticipation of a kill operation to stop a gas leak on well G4.

    • Repsol calls Argentina's nationalization of YPF 'unlawful'

      Argentina's government decision to take control of energy company YPF SA, controlled by Repsol YPF SA, prompted Repsol on Apr. 17 to issue a statement from Madrid saying it will take all legal measures to preserve the value of its assets and interests of its shareholders.

    • IEA: Oil market tightening has halted

      Preliminary data for this year's first quarter indicate that increased oil supply and sluggish demand imply a global build in oil inventories exceeding 1 million b/d, according to the International Energy Agency in its latest monthly Oil Market Report.

    • Exploration/Development Briefs

    • The Editor's Perspective

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