The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement last month asked the National Marine Fisheries Service for yet another study to see if airguns used in underwater seismic surveys could damage the hearing or otherwise harm or harass whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico.
A new round of changes under consideration by the US Environmental Protection Agency for gasoline chemistry requires assessment on two levels: cost and necessity.
Petroleum product demand in Asia is projected to rise 584,000 b/d/year through 2030, with China accounting for 58% of regional incremental demand, said analysts at FACTS Global Energy Inc. in Singapore.
New York state plans to reverse 2009 findings and ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the New York City and Syracuse watersheds, but it said 85% of lands underlain by the Marcellus shale would be accessible under its recommendations.
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued new draft air quality permits on July 1 for Shell Oil Co.'s proposed oil exploration operations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off Alaska.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s 'Low Flow Impact Study' of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System warns of potential operations and safety issues if flow rate on the line drops below 350,000 b/d. TAPS, completed in 1977, transported 2 million b/d at its peak.
Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) has issued an updated project plan for the Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline (ASAP), outlining projected costs and timelines for the proposed 737-mile, 24-in.
The US Departments of the Interior and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency reached a memorandum of understanding outlining an interagency approach to air-quality issues associated with oil and gas development on onshore public lands.
There may be one or two members of the oil and gas industry who remember the 1968 action film, Ice Station Zebra, starring Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine, among others, which was loosely based on the 1963 novel of the same name.
