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    Exploration & Development

    WoodMac: Deepwater Gulf of Mexico E&P to surge in 2013

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Wood Mackenzie Ltd. anticipates a strong medium- to long-term resurgence of exploration and production activity for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Macondo well...
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    GMX alterations may improve Bakken completions

    Oct. 15, 2012
    GMX Resources Inc., Oklahoma City, is adjusting its operating practices in an effort to improve results of Bakken completions in the Williston basin.
    Economics & Markets

    IEA: Iraq is game-changer for world oil markets

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Despite challenges, Iraq's energy sector holds the key to the country's future prosperity and can make a major contribution to the stability and security of global energy markets...
    Production Operations

    API economist warns against duplicative fracing regulations

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Policymakers across all levels of government in the US must guard against unnecessary or duplicative regulations that could impede investments in unconventional oil and gas plays...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Emphasize higher-value energy exports, EPRINC president says

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Benefits from US energy exports are so obvious that policymakers should look beyond crude oil and LNG to higher-value petroleum products, a Washington energy observer suggested...

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 10b

    Drilling & Production

    NGSA forecasts slightly higher gas prices this winter

    Oct. 15, 2012
    The Natural Gas Supply Association predicted slightly higher upward pressure on prices in the 2012-13 heating season as it released its 12th annual Winter Outlook.
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Oct. 15, 2012
    ColombiaAmerisur Resources PLC placed the No. 5 well in Platanillo field in Colombia's Putumayo basin on commercial production after testing it at 2,472 b/d of 31.8° gravity oil...
    LNG

    Gastech: Panelists debate market sustainability in light of shale gas

    Oct. 15, 2012
    In several senses, security governed the discussion on the opening day at Gastech in London. Executive panels through the day explored various meanings of the word and implications...
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 15, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Production Operations

    Oil, gas issues quickly surface in first Obama-Romney debate

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Oil and natural gas issues quickly appeared as US President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney met on Oct. 3 in the first of three debates.
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    Fact-checkers flub debate analysis of oil industry taxes

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Fact-checkers who can't keep facts straight perform no service.When a group of National Public Radio reporters tore into the Oct. 3 presidential debate like sharks on a tuna carcass...
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Oct. 15, 2012
    New offshore activity mapNow available to the industry is an oil and gas activity map for the Norwegian, Barents, and Baltic seas.This new map was launched at the Offshore Northern...
    Government

    Watching Government: Time to get to work

    Oct. 15, 2012
    Is it time for federal energy policymakers to quit relying on cherished assumptions? Washington observers increasingly ask this question, not simply because it's an election year...
    HSE

    Debating energy policy

    Oct. 15, 2012
    There was a lot of talk about energy in the Oct. 3 presidential debate between Republican challenger Mitt Romney and Democrat incumbent Barack Obama, I'm told. That information...
    Drilling & Production

    Drilling and the election

    Oct. 15, 2012
    The US drilling boom seems to be taking a breather. The Baker Hughes rig count, at 1,837 the week of Oct. 5, was down 11 units from the previous week and down 175 units from the...
    Companies

    Halcon updates multistate resource play operations

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Halcon Resources Corp., Houston, plans to add four to six operated rigs by the end of 2012 to the 11 it is currently running in its resource-style drilling program in the wake...