Volume 107, Issue 22

In case anyone missed the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association estimate for costs awaiting US refiners from climate-change legislation approved last month by a key House...

Major disagreements preventing joint projects by Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brazileiro SA (Petrobras) and Venezeula’s Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) will be cleared up in...

The government of Georgia has criticized Russia’s OAO Rosneft for signing an exploration and development agreement with the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, calling the document...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced plans for major restructuring of its organization, with its 200 most senior managers initially affected (see Personnel Moves, p. 36).

The oil and gas industry is not often thought of as a vehicle for making peace. But in Turkey these days they are thinking otherwise following the start of oil exports from Iraqi...

A legislative draft that would substantially change federal oil and gas leasing has been circulating around the US House Natural Gas Resources Committee since last May.

Drilling activity on the UK Continental Shelf may fall by half in 2009 and drop again in 2010 despite the new incentives and tax changes introduced by the Chancellor in April,...

Proposed federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act could add $150,000 to deep-well costs and reduce drilling, American Petroleum Institute officials...

In April, OGJ published its annual oil and gas capital spending outlook, which reported a cut in spending worldwide (OGJ, Apr. 27, 2009, p. 26).

The brief May 28 meeting of members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries essentially “was over before it started” after Saudi Arabia Oil Minister Ali I.

As horror follows horror in Washington, DC, the US oil and gas industry needs a scorecard to keep track of threats building against it.

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Iceland’s National Energy Authority (NEA), which recently launched the country’s first-ever licensing round, said it received bids from two companies for exploration rights to...