Vol 110, Issue 4c

Continued R&D essential to tap US tight oil, panel told

April 23, 2012

The successful recovery of oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible tight shales with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling does not mean further research and development...

Exploration & Development

Total UK cleans Elgin wellhead for kill operation

April 23, 2012

Total Ltd. UK said workers cleaned waxy deposits off the Elgin platform wellhead in anticipation of a kill operation to stop a gas leak on well G4.

Government

Obama wants stronger steps to curb oil price speculation

April 23, 2012

US President Barack Obama called for more aggressive measures to prevent oil-market manipulation, pledging stronger action by his administration and calling on Congress to fund...

Pipelines & Transportation

Canadian government offers details of regulatory reform plan

April 23, 2012

Canada's federal government has offered details of its plan to streamline regulation of natural resource development, a move welcomed by the Canadian Association of Petroleum ...

Exploration & Development

UK seismicity report gives guarded nod to shale gas work

April 23, 2012

Hydraulic fracturing in the UK has received guarded approval in a government review of a study about seismic events last year around a Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. shale-gas well ...

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Production Operations

Repsol calls Argentina's nationalization of YPF 'unlawful'

April 23, 2012

Argentina's government decision to take control of energy company YPF SA, controlled by Repsol YPF SA, prompted Repsol on Apr. 17 to issue a statement from Madrid saying it will...

Production Operations

Watching Government: The road to breakthroughs

April 23, 2012

Occasionally, it's good to remember that decades of research and development normally precede technological breakthroughs.

Reserves

Obama forms unconventional gas interagency working group

April 23, 2012

US President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing an interagency working group to coordinate federal policies to support safe and responsible US unconventional ...

Exploration & Development

Exploration/Development Briefs

April 23, 2012

AlbaniaBankers Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, said it has cased and suspended the Ardenica exploratory well in eastern Block F in Albania northwest of Patos-Marinza heavy oil field....

New Plants

IEA: Oil market tightening has halted

April 23, 2012

Preliminary data for this year's first quarter indicate that increased oil supply and sluggish demand imply a global build in oil inventories exceeding 1 million b/d, according...

Exploration & Development

OGJ Newsletter

April 23, 2012

International news for oil and gas professionals

Government

EPA outlines new source performance standards

April 23, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency outlined a phased approach as it issued long-awaited final rules Apr. 17 to reduce air pollution from oil and natural gas operations, including...

Home

Ahmadinejad speech sets edgy tone for nuclear meeting

April 23, 2012

Iran raised the stakes of an important meeting about its nuclear plans by insulting Arabs and picking a new fight over islands in the Strait of Hormuz.

Home

EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

April 23, 2012

New resistivity, imaging-while-drilling serviceThe MicroScope 475 high-resolution resistivity and imaging-while-drilling service is available to the industry.On a single collar...

New Plants

Energy-fight unmentionables

April 23, 2012

Before entering political fights over energy, representatives of the oil and gas industry should check their engineering weapons at the door. This should be a rule.

Production Operations

The earthquake risk

April 23, 2012

Much about the future of energy policy everywhere relates to balancing the promise of unconventional oil and gas resources against environmental problems associated with their...