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  • Vol 110, Issue 4b

    • Vol 110, Issue 4b

    HSE

    Systems in place to strengthen offshore operations, API says

    April 16, 2012
    A comprehensive reappraisal of offshore oil and gas safety and environmental protection practices by the industry since the April 2010 Macondo deepwater well blowout and oil spill...
    Companies

    Chesapeake outlines three sales worth $2.6 billion total

    April 16, 2012
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced three oil and gas asset transactions totaling $2.6 billion with the largest value deal involving $1.25 billion to a group of investors acquiring...
    Exploration & Development

    Canacol, ExxonMobil eye Magdalena shale oil play

    April 16, 2012
    A unit of Canacol Energy Ltd., Calgary, and ExxonMobil Exploration Colombia Ltd. will pursue oil in conventional and unconventional targets in the Cretaceous La Luna and Rosablanca...
    Government

    DOJ, EPA reach refining flare gas settlement with Marathon

    April 16, 2012
    Marathon Petroleum Corp. reached what the US Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency jointly called an innovative agreement after developing and installing equipment...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Tight oil transportation looms large for producers, experts say

    April 16, 2012
    US tight oil producers already face challenges in economically getting their high-quality crude to refineries, and transportation logistics will need to be addressed more fully...

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 4b

    Refining

    Northeast supply stress

    April 16, 2012
    Logistical constraints threaten to aggravate new oil supply stress possible this summer in a part of the US not known for learned patience where fuel prices are concerned.
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    April 16, 2012
    New high pressure retaining access equipmentHere's a series of new Cosasco secondary process containment access fittings, probe adapters, and double block and bleed service valves...
    Government

    Congress trying to sneak past its ethanol fiasco

    April 16, 2012
    If they were not in an election year, lawmakers might be fixing America's fuel ethanol wreck instead of skewering consumers and hiding the damage.
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    April 16, 2012
    AustraliaBengal Energy Ltd., Calgary, has purchased a 3,000-m capacity rotary rig and expects it to be mobilized to Brisbane from Dubai by July 2012 for the company's drilling...
    Production Operations

    Past IPAA chairman cites 'new realities' of US energy policy

    April 16, 2012
    Rapid growth of US oil production is "remarkable" in the current political climate, says the immediate past chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
    Drilling Operations

    Total, Wild Well Control board Elgin complex; kill plans can proceed

    April 16, 2012
    Total SA representatives and Wild Well Control workers boarded the Elgin natural gas and condensate complex in the North Sea on Apr. 6 and confirmed that a planned kill operation...
    Government

    Watching Government: Did 2012 reforms start in EPACT?

    April 16, 2012
    It was not long after US Department of the Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announced plans on Apr. 3 to develop a federal onshore oil and gas drilling permit system—one that potentially...
    Home

    PVR buys Chief Gathering, Marcellus trunkline project

    April 16, 2012
    Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Chief Gathering LLC for $1 billion.
    Home

    Chevron calls second Brazilian civil lawsuit 'outrageous'

    April 16, 2012
    A federal prosecutor in Brazil on Apr. 3 filed a second $10.9 billion civil lawsuit against Chevron Corp. and drilling contractor Transocean Ltd., prompting Chevron to issue a...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 16, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Comments sought on Greater Natural Buttes final EIS

    April 16, 2012
    The US Bureau of Land Management has released the final environmental impact statement for the proposed Greater Natural Buttes natural gas project in eastern Utah. Comments will...
    Reserves

    Poland's shale nonstory

    April 1, 2012
    Press reportage of Poland's recent assessment of shale gas and shale oil resources set new highs in confusion and imprecision.