Troubled projects in Iran and Russia have set back the Japanese government’s newly aggressive effort to secure international oil and gas supplies, reports Tomoko Hosoe of FACTS...
Five Gulf of Mexico producers agreed to pay royalties on their 1998 and 1999 deepwater leases that were originally issued without price thresholds, the US Department of Interior...
Russia’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry, in forecasting the country’s oil and gas production and exports to 2010, said gas exports in 2010 will increase to 223.4 billion...
Driven by the rapid development of LNG, gas markets are being transformed from regional into global markets and have been undergoing other major changes, said Total SA Executive...
A mid-August security breach at an LNG facility in Lynn, Mass., should remind other operators of LNG terminals, peak-shaving plants, and other facilities to implement security...
Linn Energy LLC has agreed to acquire a private oil and gas company in the Texas Panhandle for $415 million and two Appalachian basin properties for $39 million in three separate...
BP PLC expects the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff to recommend that a civil enforcement action be brought against the company over alleged violations of federal...
General Interest - Quick TakesClarke resigns as BLM directorUS Bureau of Land Management Director Kathleen Clarke resigned to rejoin her family in Utah, Sec. of the Interior Dirk...
Iran may need to develop nuclear power plants to meet domestic energy requirements because its crude oil operations are seriously declining, a Johns Hopkins University researcher...
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The February contract for benchmark US sweet, light crudes increased 26¢ to $63.72/bbl Dec. 20 as the US Energy Information Administration reported a larger-than-expected 6.3 ...
Intec EngineeringHouston, has announced that E.G. Skip Ward has joined the firm as a technical advisor. Ward will continue to serve as associate director of the Offshore Technology...
Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC gathered ROV and diver-collected data to determine the extent and severity of project construction effects on hard-live bottom areas within the...
New resin family for drilling usesXponent, a new resin family, helps enable downhole instrument manufacturers to design and fabricate a variety of measurement-while-drilling and...
KenyaA group led by Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has spudded an exploration well on the Pomboo prospect on Block L-5 in the Indian Ocean off northern Kenya.The Lamu basin well...
For more than half a century the West Africa region, in particular the countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea and Congo Delta, has been one of the most exciting and attractive...
