Volume 108, Issue 47

DOI ponders ways to regulate fracing on public lands

Dec. 13, 2010

The US Department of the Interior is considering whether existing regulations need to be expanded or new rules need to be developed for hydraulic fracturing and other natural ...

Exploration & Development

Watching The World: The plot thickens in Uganda

Dec. 13, 2010

The plot thickened in Uganda last week when word emerged that Italy's Eni SPA is seeking a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni over its interest in the country's oil licenses...

General Interest

Shale gas supply expected to keep US prices low in 2011

Dec. 13, 2010

While another year of price distress awaits US producers of natural gas from shale reservoirs, technology has lowered breakeven thresholds of important plays, speakers said at...

Production Operations

Associations back IOGCC-GWPC frac-fluid registry plan

Dec. 13, 2010

Three trade associations representing natural gas producers endorsed the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission and Groundwater Protection Council's joint effort to create a ...

Government

Watching Government: Measuring, reporting GHGs

Dec. 13, 2010

If upstream and midstream businesses ever wondered how comprehensive the US Environmental Protection Agency's proposed greenhouse gas regulations would be, EPA supplied a Beatles...

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LNG

Report: Imports, unconventional gas to meet surging Chinese gas demand

Dec. 13, 2010

In a prewinter analysis of Chinese natural gas demand for the 2010-11 heating season, Poten & Partners, New York, reports that the country's National Development and Reform Commission...

Government

Brazil approves oil laws, opens presalt region to development

Dec. 13, 2010

Brazil's lower house of congress has approved long-awaited oil industry legislation granting the federal government greater control over deepwater reserves off the nation's coast...

Pipelines & Transportation

BP updates operations in Azerbaijan

Dec. 13, 2010

Rashid Javanshir, head of BP PLC's subsidiary in Azerbaijan, said production will be reduced next year at the massive Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oil field in the Azerbaijani ...

New Plants

OGJ Newsletter

Dec. 13, 2010

International News for oil and gas professionals

Discoveries

Frac disclosures

Dec. 13, 2010

The controversy surrounding perceived hazards of contaminating ground and surface fresh water from hydraulic fracturing has led service companies and operators to disclose much...

Companies

EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

Dec. 13, 2010

Corrosion monitoring systemHere's a new system that monitors the integrity of oil and gas infrastructure.The system offers repeatable wall thickness monitoring that gives corrosion...

Government

Leaks, oil, and terrorism

Dec. 13, 2010

The oil and gas industry should find especially interesting one of the tempests aroused by secret diplomatic communications made public by Wiki-Leaks.

Economics & Markets

Crude prices peak in December

Dec. 13, 2010

Crude oil prices hit their highest peaks so far this year in early December, with West Texas Intermediate at a 25-month high and North Sea Brent above the "psychologically important...

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Government

EPA change shows folly of mandating cellulosic ethanol

Dec. 13, 2010

For the US renewable-fuel standards program, real-world events raise questions of credibility.