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  • Vol 110, Issue 9b

    • Vol 110, Issue 9b

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    Gas Processing

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 17, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Us Oil And Gas Firms
    Refining

    Producers post stunted second-quarter results

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Oil producers' earnings during the second quarter benefited from strong prices and healthy production volumes, although oil price realizations were down from a year earlier.
    Companies

    Chesapeake Energy to divest $6.9 billion in assets

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced multiple agreements to sell most of its Permian properties, substantially all of its midstream assets, and certain noncore leasehold for total...
    Government

    Energy doesn't win votes

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Outside the oil patch, energy doesn't seem to be a factor in the US presidential election. When the issue is raised, it's usually the Joe Six-Pack complaint, "Gasoline prices ...
    Economics & Markets

    India's tough choice

    Sept. 17, 2012
    An important center of oil-demand growth has turned wobbly, largely but not wholly because of structural flaws in its market for petroleum.

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 9b

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    Home

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Unit helps monitor, control wellbore conditionsThe Smart Pumper from Houston-based Smart Pumper automatically controls and regulates any variable frequency drive (VFD; electric...
    Home

    Obama recommits to green energy as others wisely bail

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Approaches to green energy are diverging on opposing sides of the Atlantic as the incumbent US administration presses expensively forward and European governments come to their...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Sept. 17, 2012
    ArgentinaAmericas Petrogas Inc., Calgary, has begun to production test the operated LTE.x-1 well on the Los Toldos II block in Argentina's Neuquen basin after performing a five...
    Government

    TransCanada files new Keystone XL route with Nebraska DEQ

    Sept. 17, 2012
    TransCanada Corp. filed a supplemental environmental report (SER) with Nebraska's Department of Environmental Quality that contains a preferred alternative route for the proposed...
    HSE

    BP provides post-Isaac update for Gulf Coast operations

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Hurricane Isaac uncovered limited amounts of residual oil associated with the 2010 Macondo deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP PLC said Sept. 11, adding that the Macondo oil...
    Companies

    Plains E&P to buy gulf assets from BP, Shell

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Plains Exploration & Production Co. agreed to buy a number of deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets from BP PLC for $5.55 billion as part of BP's previously announced plan to divest...
    Companies

    Winstar sees gas potential in Tunisian hot shale

    Sept. 17, 2012
    Winstar Resources Ltd., Calgary, said an external study indicates vast gas potential in the Silurian Tannezuft hot shale in the Ghadames basin in southern Tunisia as the company...
    Companies

    South Africa lifts fracturing moratorium; no permits imminent

    Sept. 17, 2012
    The South African government lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in Karoo basin although the Petroleum Agency of South Africa indicated that regulatory details continue...
    Production Operations

    Obama sees clear choices in energy for the next 4 years

    Sept. 17, 2012
    US voters will be able to choose between energy policies that embrace future technologies and responsibly develop more conventional resources, or a strategy that would reverse...
    Government

    Watching Government: Conflicts of interest

    Sept. 17, 2012
    An American Petroleum Institute official asked the US Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to quit excluding oil and gas industry experts from studies...