Alex, the first hurricane of 2010, came ashore on Mexico's Tamaulipas coast in a Category 2 status June 30, flooding Matamoras but scarcely impacting Brownsville or other parts of South Texas just across the border.
A federal court case on which may depend a serious litigation threat to oil and gas companies and other emitters of greenhouse gases now has nowhere to go except the US Supreme Court.
Oil and gas lobbyists worked hard to keep up before the Independence Day recess as several congressional committees and subcommittees reviewed bills responding to the Macondo well blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP PLC, operator of the runaway Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, has spent $3.12 billion on oil spill response efforts since an Apr. 20 blowout, the company said July 6.
Enterprise Products Partners LP announced June 29 an additional expansion of its natural gas and natural gas liquids pipeline system in South Texas and Mont Belvieu, Tex. serving the Eagle Ford shale play.
Drilling contractor Noble Corp. plans to buy privately owned Frontier Drilling for $2.16 billion even though no near-term new drilling is expected for the Gulf of Mexico during court battles over the US moratorium on deepwater drilling.
Ecopetrol SA assumed direct operation of Colombia's giant Cupiagua and Cupiagua Sur fields in the Llanos basin as of midnight June 30, following 28 years of joint operation with BP PLC affiliates and others.
Amerisur Resources PLC, Cardiff, UK, said it may shoot seismic on the 8,000-sq km San Pedro block in the Parana basin in Paraguay in 2010 subject to service company availability.
A new methodology maximizes the efficiency of a long-distance twinned natural gas pipeline system, adjusting for seasonal fluctuations in both demand and climate.
TDW Offshore Services AS in May successfully completed a key pipeline pressure isolation and joint testing operation offshore western Borneo in Malaysia for Sarawak Shell Berhad.
Agbami field off Nigeria—the country's largest deepwater producing field, according to Statoil—began producing oil in July 2008 and was to reach plateau production of 250,000 bo/d by late last year (OGJ Online, Aug. 1, 2008).