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    Drilling & Production

    NPC study sees alternative transportation technologies growing

    Aug. 13, 2012
    US transportation is undergoing changes that could evolve and accelerate depending on how soon fuel and vehicle technologies advance and whether they are economically viable, ...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: A closer look at NPC report

    Aug. 13, 2012
    At first glance, the National Petroleum Council’s future transportation fuels report may have looked like a cop-out when it was issued on Aug. 1.
    Companies

    Chesapeake expects $13-14 billion in asset sales for 2012

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. expects $7 billion in asset sales during the third quarter, which would bring the company’s 2012 asset sales to about $11.7 billion, executives said during...
    Reserves

    EIA releases 2010 US oil, natural gas reserve estimates

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in tight shale plays helped US oil and gas reserves grow at a record pace during 2010, the US Energy Information Administration said...
    Home

    KKR to partner in Comstock’s Eagle Ford shale program

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP will participate with Comstock Resources Inc., Frisco, Tex., in future Eagle Ford shale development in South Texas.

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 8a

    Drilling Operations

    BNK touts shale gas readings at Poland Baltic well

    Aug. 13, 2012
    The Gapowo B-1 well on the Bytow concession in Poland encountered overpressured shales in Lower Silurian and Ordovician and greatly elevated gas readings over those in wells on...
    Gas Processing

    Oneok to invest in Texas, North Dakota plants

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Oneok Partners LP, Tulsa, will spend between $980 million to $1.1 billion through 2014 on several projects in southeastern Texas and North Dakota.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 13, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Drilling Operations

    Noble Energy eyes South, East Falkland basins

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Noble Energy Inc. will take a farmout from Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. and will invest $180-230 million in the next 3 years in the South and East Falkland basins in the South Atlantic...
    Exploration & Development

    Cretaceous gas discovered off second Tanzanian delta

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Ophir Energy PLC and BG PLC said the Papa-1 deepwater wildcat on Block 3 offshore Tanzania has made the first Cretaceous gas discovery outboard of the Rufiji Delta.
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Aug. 13, 2012
    BrazilGran Tierra Energy Inc., Calgary, will test and place on production in this year’s third quarter two appraisal wells near its Tie field discovery on Block REC-T-155 in the...
    Government

    Independents tell US House subcommittee about lease delays

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Representatives of the oil and gas industry described federal leasing delays, which they consider unnecessary, on onshore public lands during an Aug. 2 US House Energy and Commerce...
    Companies

    Deloitte: Equipment, services deal values drop in first-half 2012

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Global merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas services industry slowed during the first half of 2012 following a brisk yearend 2011 market, Deloitte Center for Energy...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    NCPA: Transit costs ‘railroaded’

    Aug. 13, 2012
    Among the top tenets of social ecology—up there with “mankind is the cause of global warming” and “expensive oil can be easily replaced by ‘free’ solar power”—is the frequent ...
    Home

    Canada can teach the US much about growth and jobs

    Aug. 13, 2012
    The US can learn much about growth and employment from the friendly neighbor it is mistreating over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Aug. 13, 2012
    New strainer helps protect oil field equipmentThe new Fig 36HP stainless steel Y-type strainer rated to ASME Class 600 standards is designed to help protect oil field equipment...
    Government

    Compromise and ideology

    Aug. 13, 2012
    The aim of legislation is not bipartisan compromise but effective law. While bipartisan compromise can be a virtuous route to effective law, it also can create distraction leading...