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Watching Government: Government's R&D focus

02/28/2011
Nick SnowWashington EditorDisregard the Obama administration's elimination of oil and gas research and development from its proposed fiscal 2012 budget for the US Department of Energy. Christopher A. Smith, deputy assistant US energy secretary for oil and gas in DOE's fossil energy office, still has plenty of work to do.After joining DOE in October 2009 following 11 years with Chevron Corp. and Texaco Inc. working primarily on upstream business development and LNG trading, Smith said his first few months on the job were spent largely on examining questions about gas shale resource development.That all changed on Apr. 20, 2010, when someone came into a meeting he was attending and handed h...
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