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- Journally Speaking
  - Mixing oil and Wasser
    As parts of the US and elsewhere experience one of most relentless winters on record, it's only human nature to entertain thoughts of warmer-weather activities, such as walking along a sandy beach or even taking in a splash-filled day at a water park.
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- The Editor's Perspective
  - Frac fluid fearsvshow capacityvfor inconsistency
    Controversy over hydraulic fracturing fluids and their possible effect on drinking water demonstrates the boundless human capacity for inconsistency.
- Market Journal
  - US oil production climbs
    Unlike most producers outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the US "put up remarkably strong oil production growth of 7.1% in 2009" after "a nearly nonstop decline" for the past 3 decades, said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc.
General Interest
- Editorial: Al Gore and the IPCC
  Nobel Propagandist Al Gore has reemerged to dogmatize again about global warming, responding this time to the collapse of scientific arguments for abandoning fossil energy.
- US, Canadian firms post weak 4Q 2009, annual results
  For some oil and natural gas producers, fourth-quarter 2009 earnings improved from a bleak quarter a year earlier, but feeble demand for products hurt refining and marketing results.
- Independents converge on Washington as gas advocates
  Independent producers converged on US Senate and House members' offices Mar. 2 to advocate for federal policies that encourage the development of natural gas.
- CFTC official wants more energy market transparency
  Energy commodities regulators worldwide will need to move carefully and cooperatively if they expect to make global oil markets more transparent, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Scott D. O'Malia said in Tokyo on Feb. 26.
- Salazar defends proposed increased costs for producers
  US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended plans to increase oil and gas royalties and fees on federal leases as he testified Mar. 3 before a US Senate committee on his department's fiscal 2011 budget request.
- Watching Government: A controversial position
  His position hasn't won him many friends among coastal property owners where he lives, but Bruce Allen still says that the best way to reduce pollution from oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel is to increase offshore production.
- US lawmaker requests hearings on OCS delay costs
  US Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) urged House Natural Resources Committee leaders to schedule hearings on the economic costs of continued delays in offshore oil and gas development a week after the first major report on the subject was released.
- CO₂ injection under way in Alabama EOR pilot project
  A project team has begun to inject carbon dioxide into Alabama's Citronelle field as part of a $7.9 million pilot project to determine whether the field is ideal for simultaneous enhanced oil recovery and CO₂ storage, the US Department of Energy said on Mar. 1.
- Trinidad and Tobago ramps up crude oil production
  Trinidad and Tobago says it is taking steps to increase crude oil production in an effort to balance its energy portfolio.
- TIPRO uses convention to push increased US gas use
  The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association used its annual convention in Houston to a call for increased use by the US of natural gas produced in the US.
- BP seeking to boost profits by $3 billion/year
  BP PLC on Mar. 2 outlined its annual strategy presentation in which Chief Executive Tony Hayward said the company hopes to boost its profits before taxes by more than $3 billion/year within 3 years.
- Tullow eyeing higher oil production target in Uganda
  Uganda's oil production target could more than double to 350,000 b/d by 2018 from the current target of 150,000 b/d in 2013 if the right business plan is adopted, according to Tullow Oil PLC.
- Norway launches new licensing round
  Norway, while warning of the potential for espionage directed against its oil and gas industry, has launched its 2010 oil and gas licensing round for predefined areas (APA).
- Watching The World: Doing business together
  If there is anything the oil and gas industry desperately needs, it is business.
Exploration & Development
- Lehigh Park field seen as indicator of S. Florida offshore oil potential
  Lehigh Park field in Lee County, southwest Florida, was discovered in 1974 by Exxon.
Technology
- OGJ FOCUS: US OLEFINS—SECOND-HALF 2009: US olefins production rebounds amid global economic recovery
  Second-half 2009 saw sustained recovery for the US petrochemical industry, even as broader economies continued to experience credit crises and economic recession.
- OGJ FOCUS: Competitive pressures changing Asian petchems
  Massive growth in Chinese and Middle East petrochemical capacities and prospects of intense competition for Asian markets from Middle East producers are prompting profound change in Asia's petrochemical industry.
- Europe pursues Baltic transit debottlenecking
  The Baltic Sea region's role on Europe's energy map will grow in the near future.