Volume 108, Issue 7

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Shouldn't a cold Northern Hemisphere winter give oil demand, struggling to recover from recessionary doldrums, a huge lift? Maybe not.

Development of Khurais complex required best practices and leveraged various technologies such as 3D seismic, advanced mathematical modeling, and smart completions.

The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration may be underestimating natural gas demand with much of the US South and Northeast enveloped in yet another round...

New vibration tester is hand-held unitHere's the Fluke 810 vibration tester, which enables maintenance teams to rapidly collect data and diagnose and solve mechanical problems...

During a time when much attention is focused on the global recession, unemployment, and other gloomy reports, it was nice to see positive news recently.

Total SA's six refineries and 12 product depots in France have been hit by labor strikes supporting the Feb. 16 takeover by workers of the idle 137,000-b/d Dunkirk refinery.

General Interest — Quick TakesBLS cites rising energy prices in latest PPIRising energy prices were a major influence as the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods climbed 1....

Utah was very much in the news a year ago after US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the Bureau of Land Management to reject 77 successful bids from a December 2008 lease...

Calvalley Petroleum Inc., Calgary, has tested oil and gas-condensate from fractured granitic basement and gas-condensate from Jurassic Kohlan sands at its Qarn Qaymah-2 deep exploratory...

Continuing US offshore oil and gas leasing moratoriums from 2009 through 2030 would decrease US oil production by 9.9 billion bbl—or an average 15%/year—and natural gas production...

Suddenly, bipartisanship is back in fashion in Washington, DC. Since the general election of November 2008, bipartisanship has been the runaway spaniel of politics—something missed...

BP PLC and ConocoPhillips are leaving the US Climate Action Program because they believe they can be more effective on their own in the national global climate-change debate, ...

Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, will fold its natural gas pipeline and US midstream businesses into Williams Partners LP, along with its limited and general-partner interests in Williams...

The French refining industry faces a "critical" situation as part of a European system in which "between 10 to 15% of the 114 refineries should be shut down to restore a demand...

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, intent on increasing tension over oil exploration in the South Atlantic, has signed a government decree restricting the movement of vessels...

ConocoPhillips announced two senior leadership changes.

US natural gas markets should gradually improve during 2010 with modest demand growth, lower production and imports, and higher prices, the US Energy Information Administration...