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    Government

    EPA asks companies for frac-fluid data

    Sept. 20, 2010
    The US Environmental Protection Agency asked nine service companies to voluntarily supply information about chemicals in their hydraulic fracturing fluids for its study of the...
    General Interest

    WEC speakers see growing need for hydrocarbon energy

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Keynote speakers at the World Energy Congress in Montreal this week predicted rising demand for hydrocarbon fuels, especially natural gas, despite growth in the use of alternatives...
    HSE

    Watching The World: BP and the archaeologists

    Sept. 20, 2010
    The oil and gas industry is probably as familiar as anyone when it comes to processing contradictions. But here's a new one: archaeologists differ completely when it comes to ...
    Drilling & Production

    Bromwich hears shallow-water drillers' complaints in Louisiana

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Processing of applications is taking longer than previously, but no federal moratorium exists on shallow-water drilling, US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and ...
    Exploration & Development

    IEA doubts oil market's 'respite' will last

    Sept. 20, 2010
    The oil market remains in a period of unusual calm that probably won't last, says the International Energy Agency.

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    Government

    A derivatives blunder

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Because Congress won't let the absence of a problem stand in the way of grand solutions, the US oil and gas industry faces new threats to its ability to manage risk.
    Home

    Gasoline prices defied mythology in US this summer

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Reality has vanquished a fundamental myth about US gasoline prices—and the myths behind it.
    Home

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    Economics & Markets

    Little change in crude prices

    Sept. 20, 2010
    There has been little change in absolute prices for crude that have settled at similar monthly averages, "while the main current dynamics relate to spreads," said Paul Horsnell...
    New Plants

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Sept. 20, 2010
    New ASTM Data, control chart analysis manualThe 8th edition of the ASTM International Manual on Presentation of Data and Control Chart Analysis is now available.It includes information...
    Economics & Markets

    Study: Tax moves could 'cripple' US oil and gas industry

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Proposals by the Obama administration to kill two tax provisions important to oil and gas companies would do economic harm worth more than the revenue they would raise for the...
    Government

    API: Survey finds most voters oppose raising industry taxes

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Nearly two thirds of America's voters oppose raising taxes on the oil and gas industry in the US and believe it could destroy jobs, the American Petroleum Institute announced ...
    New Plants

    Forecasts in uncertain times

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Several factors have influenced the challenging feat of forecasting world economic growth in 2010.
    Discoveries

    Watching Government: Protecting history

    Sept. 20, 2010
    The ancient American Indian petroglyphs on the sandstone rocks in the Oregon basin near Cody, Wyo., are believed to be thousands of years old. The names scratched onto the surface...
    Production Operations

    DOI issues 'idle iron' order to offshore producers

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Oil and gas producers operating in the Gulf of Mexico will be required to set permanent plugs in nearly 3,500 nonproducing, completed wells with a subsurface safety valve in place...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 20, 2010
    International News for oil and gas professionals
    HSE

    Principles of safety policy under review after oil spill

    Sept. 20, 2010
    The Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible explosion and subsequent Gulf of Mexico oil spill have prompted a worldwide review of industry practices and regulatory structures.
    HSE

    Bromwich: Industry to determine when deepwater drilling resumes

    Sept. 20, 2010
    US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich said he had received no suggestions in public forums that the Obama administration...
    HSE

    FBR Capital: BP court battle with firms over Macondo 'not worth the risk'

    Sept. 20, 2010
    Despite BP PLC's effort in its internal report to blame contractors for mistakes leading to the Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the amount the British major might ...
    Reserves

    NPC studies crucial to long-term US strategy, White House says

    Sept. 19, 2010
    Two studies under way by the National Petroleum Council will be crucial to developing a long-term energy, environmental, and economic strategy for the US, Obama administration...