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    Government, industry cite offshore regulatory gaps

    Aug. 23, 2010
    The investigation of the Gulf of Mexico Macondo well blowout, rig explosion, and oil spill has found significant regulatory and operations gaps that need to be closed, government...
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    Watching The World: Turkey defies US sanctions

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, apparently in defiance of recently strengthened US sanctions against Iran, said his country will support Turkish firms that sell gasoline...
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    DOI curbs CX use offshore in wake of CEQ report

    Aug. 23, 2010
    The US Department of the Interior will restrict its use of categorical exclusions (CXs) to activities involving limited environmental risk as it reviews its National Environmental...
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    BP delays plans for deepwater drilling off Libya

    Aug. 23, 2010
    BP PLC has delayed the launch of its deepwater exploration for oil off Libya for an unspecified period of time in an effort to ensure that its plans are in order.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 23, 2010
    International News for oil and gas professionals

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    FACTS: China to top Japan in gas imports

    Aug. 23, 2010
    China will surpass Japan as Asia's largest natural gas importer through a combination of LNG and pipeline gas in 5-10 years, according to FACTS Global Energy Group in an August...
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    Economist warns of slowdown in Chinese oil-demand growth

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Ever-increasing Chinese oil-demand growth, a staple of market forecasts, can't last forever, warns a veteran energy economist.
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    BP, scientists study how to safely finish deepwater relief well

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Federal scientists and BP PLC studied how to best complete the relief well to kill the deepwater Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Mining firm agrees to pay up to $9.6 billion for Cairn India

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Vendata Resources PLC, London, has entered a conditional agreement with Cairn Energy under which it will pay as much as $9.6 billion in cash for up to 60% of Cairn's Indian subsidiary...
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    China's power play

    Aug. 23, 2010
    China's unilateral claim to most of the waters of the South China Sea is a transparent power play or "sea grab" that cannot be rationalized under prevailing legal regimes.
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    Offshore ups and downs

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Decades ago on my first trip aboard a supply vessel to an offshore platform, I was trying to time the rolling deck for a jump at the swinging lift basket that was to carry me ...
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    Storms may no longer boost gas prices

    Aug. 23, 2010
    With gas operations shifting onshore, and offshore increasingly "hardened" by hurricanes, the historical tendency for storms to give gas prices an automatic boost may be over,...
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    On climate change, the UK is providing shaky leadership

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Where the UK leads on climate change, few other countries should wish to follow.
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Aug. 23, 2010
    New underwater chemical injection valveThe new Roxar subsea chemical injection valve (high flow) promises total control over the injection of hydrate inhibitors.The valve provides...
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    Improving offshore safety

    Aug. 23, 2010
    Measured sensibly, action by the oil and gas industry in response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster promises to be far more effective than what the US government so far has proposed...
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    Aug. 23, 2010
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    Watching Government: Battling onshore leaks

    Aug. 20, 2010
    The US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which has held hearings on oil and gas pipeline safety this spring and summer, has scheduled one for Sept. 15 specifically...