Vol 110, Issue 6c

The European Commission has shown welcome flexibility in its push to centralize safety regulation of offshore oil and gas activities (OGJ, Feb. 6, 2012, p. 26). Its next move ...

US President Barack Obama made clear on June 15 his determination to continue emphasizing government spending and discouraging resource development in pursuit of energy-industry...

It was one of those "don't know whether to laugh or cry" moments in early June when Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called for the Justice Department...

Brazil's state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has approved its 2012-16 business plan with investments totaling $236.5 billion and averaging $47.3 billion/year.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement should modify some existing practices in evaluating offshore safety and environmental systems (SEMS) programs' effectiveness...

Small earthquakes appear likelier with higher underground injection volumes associated with wastewater disposal and carbon capture and storage projects than from hydraulic fracturing...

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed air-quality updates to its annual standards for particulate matter, also called soot, involving fine particles 2.5 µm or less in...

Statoil Australia Oil & Gas AS will take a farmout from PetroFrontier Corp., Calgary, on PetroFrontier's four exploration permits and two exploration permit applications in the...

The US Geological Survey released a new global estimate for potential oil and gas reserve additions in conventional discovered fields outside the US.

Three institutional investor groups called upon the oil and natural gas industry to reduce methane emissions from unconventional oil and gas activities, citing concerns about ...

Hydraulic fracturing, as currently used by the oil and gas industry for unconventional natural gas projects, poses little risk for inducing earthquakes that can be felt by people...

Voluntary conservation agreements already in place in New Mexico and Texas have kept the US Fish and Wildlife Service from listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered ...