Research by several US Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships has a goal of safe, cost-effective, and long-term carbon management, mitigation, and storage.
The secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries irked observers in the oil-consuming world this month with a comment taken as a reactionary threat over biofuels.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries expects demand for its crude to average 30.6 million b/d in 2007, a slight decline of 200,000 b/d from the previous year.
The US government’s top energy economist questioned allegations that refiners intentionally reduced oil-processing capacity this year to drive product prices higher.
The American Petroleum Institute is issuing a new recommended practice covering the placement of portable structures at refineries and petrochemical plants.
New Jersey’s two US senators led an effort to defeat an amendment proposed by Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) on June 14 that would have removed Outer Continental Shelf acreage off Virginia from a congressional oil and gas leasing ban.
The US Senate rejected a proposal to give governors a final word in siting onshore LNG terminals but approved a measure authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for violating US antitrust laws.
The US Senate Finance Committee proposed new taxes for the oil industry as offsets to incentives for alternative fuels and renewable energy research and development.
Much of the opposition to drilling on part of the Roan Plateau in western Colorado comes from out-of-state environmental groups, said the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS) and the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA).
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown May 22 asked officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a wavier of the Clean Air Act (CAA) so that California and 11 other states could impose tougher standards on motor vehicle emissions than federal regulators require.
This last of four parts on the structured belt of the Western Canada Sedimentary basin describes in more detail the six structural domains and their exploration potential.
Various technologies have enabled Shell Exploration & Production Co. to produce economically from the tight gas sands found in the Pinedale anticline of Western Wyoming.
The opening of the 1,663-mile Rockies Express Pipeline system, running from natural gas producing basins in Colorado and Wyoming to market in the Midwest and Northeast, will provide many US gas consumers with new access to cheaper gas from the Rocky Mountain region.
