Last month the UK’s broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, cleared Channel 4 of “materially misleading the audience so as to cause harm or offense” on its television documentary challenging the theory that man-made activities are causing global warming.
For a baffling array of bad reasons, the US Congress produced, before starting its 5-week recess, one beneficial proposition on energy along with a baffling array of wrong proposals, one of which would annul the lonely right one.
Technological advances in producing and refining liquid fuels in situ using high-temperature heat from nuclear reactors can resolve two major problems—dependence on oil from unstable areas of the world and greenhouse gas emissions—says MIT nuclear engineer Charles W. Forsberg.
Bipartisan groups of US Senate and House members offered new energy proposals as Democratic and Republican leaders continued to trade potshots while a 5-week congressional recess began.
More domestic oil and gas exploration will be needed as the US makes a transition to a new energy economy, US Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in a presidential campaign address in Michigan.
Citing dramatically higher prices, US Department of the Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne started the Minerals Management Service’s next 5-year Outer Continental Shelf lease plan preparation 2 years ahead of schedule.
US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne has taken “a questionable step” in beginning to prepare a new 5-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing plan ahead of schedule.
US House Democrats charged Republican leaders with pressuring many GOP members to change their votes and defeat an energy commodities reform bill on July 30.
Apex Oil Co. Inc. has been ordered to clean up contamination from its former refining operations in Hartford, Ill., the US Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency jointly announced July 29.
The Iranian government, in a stand-off with the United Nations Security Council over its “inalienable right” to develop nuclear power, has threatened to use a newly tested short-range missile to close the Straits of Hormuz, if necessary.
The price of oil continues to pinch in Japan. To be sure, the world’s benchmark super crude oil tanker rates from the Gulf to Japan fell to 7-month lows last week due to ample availability of vessels.
Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, said its Morskaya-1 exploration well, which was drilled on Lagansky block in the northern Caspian Sea off Russia, has encountered a major oil accumulation in the Aptian and Neocomian sandstone reservoirs.
Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, said its gross operated production from the Fayetteville shale play area in north-central Arkansas was 500 MMcfd of natural gas, including 12 MMcfd from 14 wells producing from conventional reservoirs.
Apache Corp. said it has proved a Jurassic Safa formation oil play that could cover as much as 830 sq miles in Egypt’s western desert, most of it on company-operated acreage.
Norske Shell AS used the Ocean Vanguard semisubmersible, operated by Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. (DODI), to work in Draugen oil field, on Haltenbanken, in the Norwegian North Sea (northeast of Njord and Ormen Lange fields).
Phase 1 of the Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and upgrading project in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta continues its ramp-up, as explained in a recent Nexen Inc. presentation.
