Vol 110, Issue 12a

API: Keystone XL support is stronger than opposition

Dec. 10, 2012

Opposition to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project has become more noisy than widespread, American Petroleum Institute officials said on Dec. 4 as Nebraska's Department ...

Exploration & Development

Lenape files NY lawsuit to overturn fracing moratorium

Dec. 10, 2012

Lenape Resources Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Avon, a town in Livingston County, NY, to overturn a municipal moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas exploration...

Companies

Watching Government: General concern turns specific

Dec. 10, 2012

The broad question of possible problems in having 20 separate federal departments and agencies evaluate a breakthrough oil and gas exploration and production technology has become...

HSE

ATC: Industry eager to advance Arctic oil spill response skills

Dec. 10, 2012

Few experimental spills have been done offshore the US and Canada in the last 20 years, noted a speaker at the Arctic Technology Conference in Houston on Dec. 4 during a panel...

Exploration & Development

Industry barely touches Gulf of Mexico leases

Dec. 10, 2012

Thirteen companies submitted bids for 116 of 3,873 blocks offered in the Nov. 28 Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 229 in New Orleans.

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North American oil and gas—2: The pressure on Mexico

Dec. 10, 2012

Elements of change are in place in Mexico. Nothing guarantees they'll be activated. But as new promise for oil supply comes to light in the US and Canada, the mere possibility...

LNG

Floating LNG gains buoyancy

Dec. 10, 2012

The energy industry has discussed floating natural gas liquefaction for more than 30 years as an option to develop gas from remote offshore locations. Douglas-Westwood recently...

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EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

Dec. 10, 2012

Deepwater Gulf of mexico knowledge baseThe new ReservoirKB, released earlier this year, is a knowledge base for exploration and appraisal geoscientists and engineers in the deepwater...

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US needs defense against military biofuel adventures

Dec. 10, 2012

The US Senate has shirked responsibility by supporting biofuel boondoggles by the military.

Government

FWS considers listing lesser prairie chicken as endangered species

Dec. 10, 2012

The US Fish & Wildlife Service said it will consider listing the lesser prairie chicken, a bird whose habitat is in five US states with oil and gas production, as an endangered...

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RPSEA advances 15 unconventional projects

Dec. 10, 2012

The nonprofit Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) selected 15 proposals under the Unconventional Resources Program for negotiations leading to an award under...

HSE

ATC: Arctic JIP builds spill response knowledge, outlines research plans

Dec. 10, 2012

An Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry Program (JIP) will continue building knowledge on Arctic offshore oil spill response expertise already developed through...

Economics & Markets

SAFE outlines steps to curb oil reliance, improve energy security

Dec. 10, 2012

The US should take specific steps soon to use its energy abundance to avert the looming fiscal crisis and accelerate the nation's economic recovery, Securing America's Future ...

LNG

OGJ Newsletter

Dec. 10, 2012

International news for oil and gas professionals

Reserves

Carbon policies may limit shale gas production growth, expert warns

Dec. 10, 2012

Policies to restrict carbon emissions potentially could inhibit significant production growth from US shale gas formations, an expert warned.

Gas Processing

Nemaha ridge key to Range's Mississippi play approach

Dec. 10, 2012

Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, said it has already activated the five-rig drilling program that it had planned to institute in the first quarter of 2013 in the horizontal ...