Volume 108, Issue 49

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A last-minute tax bill, hailed for the bipartisan compromise that produced it, leaves the oil and gas industry with much to fear.

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."

While his state teeters financially, outgoing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is sweeping up environmental awards.

As Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher, famously said, "Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it."

The international oil and gas industry understands the need for diplomacy, a skill that is coming to dominate the matter of constructing and operating pipelines.

Software addition expands oil field management suiteNow available is this firm's full operations management suite (OMS)-in conjunction with the launch of the production manager...

A federal appeals court rejected a request by the oil and gas industry and others to delay the US Environmental Protection Agency's plans to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions...

Chevron suspended operations of the Dibi-Abiteye oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta in an effort to minimize potential environmental damage while investigating damage caused...

A discovery well on the Corcel block in Colombia's Llanos basin has tested light oil at the rate of more than 10,000 b/d, said Petrominerales Ltd., Bogota.

BrazilA Petrobras group said early tests confirmed light oil potential of the western extent of the Tupi-Iracema accumulation in the deepwater Santos basin off Brazil.Wireline...

The international oil and gas industry understands the need for diplomacy, a skill that is coming to dominate the matter of constructing and operating pipelines.

As the US offshore oil and gas industry tried to adjust to new federal regulations in the wake of the Macondo well accident and crude oil spill, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy ...