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  • Volume 108, Issue 34

    • Volume 108, Issue 34

    Companies

    Husky buys Talisman gas assets, properties in Alberta

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Husky Energy Inc. will acquire certain conventional west-central Alberta natural gas assets from Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, for an estimated $450 million.
    Government

    Judge rules Salazar exceeded authority in canceling Utah leases

    Sept. 13, 2010
    US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar exceeded his authority when he order 77 federal oil and gas leases in Utah withdrawn in early 2009, a federal court judge ruled on Sept. 1 in Salt...
    Pennwell web 450 675
    HSE

    BP's investigation finds series of failures in Macondo blowout

    Sept. 13, 2010
    BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, said a series of failures, both mechanical and human, made by "multiple companies" contributed to the well's blowout...
    Production Operations

    Watching The World: Sudan promises transparency

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Sudan's newly appointed Minister of Petroleum Lual Achuil Deng said he will soon start "an era of transparency" aimed at resolving years of disputes between northern and southern...
    Exploration & Development

    Tullow to operate more East African blocks

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Tullow Oil PLC will greatly expand its position in East Africa rift basins by taking farmouts in Kenya and Ethiopia from Africa Oil Corp., Vancouver, BC.

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 34

    HSE

    BP's Macondo report

    Sept. 13, 2010
    BP's report last week on findings of an investigation into the fatal Macondo well blowout is a landmark event that will require months if not years for the oil and gas producing...
    Home

    Advertisers Index

    Sept. 13, 2010
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    HSE

    IPCC can't stop mixing climate science, politics

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Responding to criticism for letting politics sway science, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change resorted to politics.
    Pennwell web 300 136
    Production Operations

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Linear position sensor now comes in flexible pipe to 20 mThe expanded R-Series linear-position sensors product line has doubled the available length for the flexible pipe version...
    Refining

    August rough on energy

    Sept. 13, 2010
    August was a strenuous month for both commodity and equity markets—in fact, the worst August for the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 9 years, said analysts in the Houston office...
    Production Operations

    The culture is key

    Sept. 13, 2010
    The second annual Oil & Gas Maintenance Technology North America conference and exhibition, presented by OGJ parent company PennWell, took place in New Orleans Aug. 31-Sept. 2...
    New Plants

    Enterprise to build 350,000 b/d Eagle Ford oil pipeline

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Enterprise Products Partners LP reported its operating subsidiaries entered into long-term agreements with EOG Resources Inc. to provide comprehensive midstream energy services...
    Companies

    Sumitomo Corp. acquires more US shale gas acreage

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Rex Energy Corp. entered into a joint venture agreement with Sumitomo Corp. subsidiary Summit Discovery Resources II LLC, to sell and transfer interests valued at $140.4 million...
    Companies

    Denbury-EEP Elk basin deal stalls

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Denbury Resources Inc. and Encore Energy Partners LP have ended plans to exchange assets under a deal that was to have supported a carbon dioxide-injection project at Elk basin...
    Pennwell web 450 1583
    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 13, 2010
    GENERAL INTEREST — Quick TakesScientists find no dead zones from gulf spillDissolved oxygen levels in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico dropped by about 20% from their long-term average...
    Government

    Watching Government: Study lists E15 obstacles

    Sept. 13, 2010
    With the US Environmental Protection Agency poised to possibly decide whether to permit more ethanol in motor fuels, a new study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute...
    HSE

    Industry task forces submit offshore spill proposals to DOI

    Sept. 13, 2010
    Two US oil and gas industry task forces presented more than 50 recommendations to prevent offshore oil spills, enhance spill response, and improve subsea well control to the US...
    HSE

    BP retrieves Deepwater Horizon BOP from Macondo well in gulf

    Sept. 13, 2010
    BP PLC, operator of the deepwater Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, moved significantly closer to finishing a relief well when it lifted the Deepwater Horizon's failed blowout...
    Drilling & Production

    BOE begins inquiry into Mariner offshore platform explosion

    Sept. 13, 2010
    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOE) has launched an investigation of the Sept. 2 explosion at a Mariner Energy Inc. production platform...