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  • Vol 110, Issue 4d

    • Vol 110, Issue 4d

    HSE

    Oil & Gas UK, unions hit EU safety proposal

    April 30, 2012
    Oil & Gas UK and two UK trade unions have issued a joint statement opposing the European Union proposal to centralize regulation of offshore oil and gas safety.
    HSE

    Total, Transocean drilling relief well to stem Elgin gas leak

    April 30, 2012
    Total UK Ltd. said contractor Transocean Ltd. has started drilling a relief well to stop a natural gas leak from well G4 on the Elgin platform in the North Sea, while workers ...
    Petrochemicals

    Dow plans Texas ethylene plant based on shale gas

    April 30, 2012
    Dow Chemical Co. announced plans to build a 1.5-million tonne/year ethylene plant at its Texas operations in Freeport under a strategy reported a year ago of integrating US operations...
    Exploration & Development

    Eni-Rosneft pact covers Barents, Black Sea exploration

    April 30, 2012
    Eni SPA and Rosneft have signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering exploration of licenses in the Barents and Black Seas offshore Russia.
    Companies

    Shell unit increases offer for Cove Energy

    April 30, 2012
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to buy Cove Energy PLC for $1.81 billion in a transaction marking Shell's entry into Mozambique and Kenya.

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 4d

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Murdering cap-and-trade

    April 30, 2012
    If US President Barack Obama wins reelection he will try to revive cap-and-trade regulation.
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    April 30, 2012
    High speed reaming toolsThe Turbocaser Express and Turborunner suite of high speed reaming technologies is available to the industry.Turbocaser Express (shown at right) enables...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Revisions to data

    April 30, 2012
    Readers of OGJ's US Industry Scoreboard may have noticed a recent addition to that table.
    Home

    YPF expropriation clouds the allure of Argentine shale

    April 30, 2012
    On its way down the proverbial slippery slope toward economic statism, Argentina has laid claim to oil and gas assets worth, oh, $18 billion or so.
    General Interest

    NGSA, IPAA see some improvement in CFTC's swap dealer definition

    April 30, 2012
    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's latest definition of a swap dealer is an improvement on its original proposal because it recognizes the difference between a dealer...
    Home

    Uinta due $200 million oil shale joint venture

    April 30, 2012
    French, Canadian, and private US companies are set to launch a $200 million joint venture to develop oil shale in the Uinta basin of Utah.
    Companies

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    April 30, 2012
    AlaskaBuccaneer Energy Ltd., Sydney, signed a binding agreement to acquire a 12,000-ft depth capacity land rotary rig on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula from Marathon Oil Corp.'s Glacier...
    Government

    House Republicans live in imagined energy world, Salazar charges

    April 30, 2012
    US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar leveled a broadside against US House Republicans and other critics of the Obama administration's energy policies who he said are living in a politically...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 30, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    HSE

    CSB expects to issue final Macondo report in early 2013

    April 30, 2012
    The US Chemical Safety Board is moving ahead with its investigation of the Macondo deepwater well blowout, explosion, and fire and expects to complete its final report in early...
    Drilling & Production

    NEB: Canadian gas deliverability to decline

    April 30, 2012
    Deliverability of natural gas in Canada will decline during 2012-14 but remain "well above" domestic demand, says the National Energy Board.
    HSE

    BP agrees to pay $7.8 billion in Macondo settlements

    April 30, 2012
    BP PLC agreed to pay $7.8 billion in settlement agreements with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) to resolve most of the private economic loss, property damage, and medical...
    Discoveries

    USGS updates non-US oil, gas, NGL conventional resource estimates

    April 30, 2012
    The US Geological Survey estimates that the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil and gas resources outside the US total 565 billion bbl of oil, 5,606...
    HSE

    DOJ announces first criminal charges in Macondo investigation

    April 30, 2012
    A former BP PLC engineer was arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence sought by federal criminal authorities investigating the 2010 Macondo deepwater well incident...
    Exploration & Development

    Williams boosts capacity of Atlantic Access Transco expansion

    April 30, 2012
    Williams Partners LP's discussions with potential shippers and other market inquiries regarding the Atlantic Access expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline have prompted ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    BP group okays FEED for second-stage Shah Deniz development

    April 30, 2012
    BP PLC and partners in the Shah Deniz consortium have approved initial work on second-stage development of their giant natural gas and condensate field offshore Azerbaijan in ...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: Behind the BSEE safety alert

    April 30, 2012
    An Apr. 13 safety alert shows how the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is approaching its mission in its early days as a separate agency from the Department of...