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US should repeal its antique ban on the export of crude
05/23/2013
Sooner or later, the US government must allow general export of crude oi...
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UK shale slowdown linked to flawed debate on climate
05/16/2013
“Environmentalists don’t want safer shale gas. They want no shale gas.”
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New study pounds carbon tax with preemptive assault
05/10/2013
A US carbon tax has fallen subject to preemptive assault in a study rele...
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Tension relaxing on two fronts in important Turkey
05/03/2013
Tension is easing on two still-dodgy fronts in a mostly stable country s...
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US Supreme Court lowers curtain on an activist stage
04/26/2013
The international oil and gas industry escaped a legal
hazard on Apr. 1...
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Watching Government Blog
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Federal fracing research update
05/17/2013
Four agencies are moving ahead and continuing to coordinate federal hydr...
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Broader questions at Richmond
05/10/2013
Broader questions emerged from the US Chemical Safety Board’s initial re...
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Oil Diplomacy
OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor Eric Watkins examines policies affecting the global oil and gas industry.
Iran: Ahmadinejad to propose Aliabadi as permanent oil minister
07/15/2011
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to nominate a new oil minister later this month, with the current caretaker minister, Mohammad Aliabadi, being put forward for the permanent post.&l...
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South Sudan forms oil marketing venture with Glencore
07/15/2011
South Sudan’s state-owned Nilepet has formed a joint venture firm with Glencore International Plc that will begin marketing oil produced by the newly founded country.“This joint venture...
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BP shrugs off tax woes to invest in UK's North Sea
07/15/2011
BP PLC underlined its commitment to the UK's North Sea by announcing a plan to invest £3 billion to redevelop its Schiehallion and Loyal oil fields west of the Shetland Islands.BP’s decision,...
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Diplomat: Libya’s rebel-held oil facilities ?largely undamaged’
06/27/2011
With Libya’s oil infrastructure thought to be largely undamaged in rebel-held areas of the country, a British diplomat said that exports of oil could resume within 3-4 weeks following the fal...
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Sudan: Obama urges ceasefire in oil-rich south
06/20/2011
US President Barack Obama urged the Khartoum-based government of northern Sudan to end its military operations against southern opponents in the oil-rich border state of South Kordofan, a scene of ...
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Washington Pulse
Senate ethanol vote: symbolic or something more?
06/17/2011
Two days after rejecting US Sen. Thomas A. Coburn's (R-Okla.) amendment aimed at ending federal fuel ethanol subsidies, the Senate adopted one prop...
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Demanding 'Big Oil' pay its fair share
05/13/2011
Forget, for the time being, US Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) suggesting, at a May 11 Senate Finance Committee hearing, that a ConocoPhillips May 11 p...
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Improve federal oil spill research coordination, GAO urges
05/06/2011
The federal Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research should establish a more systematic process to identify and consult with k...
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Vitter questions Ex-Im Bank loans to Petrobras, Ecopetrol
04/29/2011
US Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has raised questions about the Export-Import Bank of the United States making loans totaling billions of dollars to Br...
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BOEMRE monitors Cuban offshore
04/15/2011
US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich quietly included Cuba as he emphasized working with ...
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