Volume 111, Issue 10c

FERC staff: US winter gas supplies adequate

Oct. 28, 2013

The US market for natural gas approaches the winter of 2013-14 adequately supplied, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff.

Pipelines & Transportation

SAFE: Expanded use of natural gas as US motor fuel 'sensible strategy'

Oct. 28, 2013

Expanding the use of natural gas to fuel US motor vehicles, even partially, is the most sensible strategy for reducing petroleum's dominant fuel position—and the nation's reliance...

Economics & Markets

IEA unveils new 'energy efficiency' market report

Oct. 28, 2013

Energy efficiency markets around the world drew investment of as much as $300 billion in 2011, according to a recently unveiled report from the International Energy Agency called...

Pipelines & Transportation

TransCanada's NGTL suffers pipeline rupture

Oct. 28, 2013

Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) suffered a rupture on its pipeline system 138 km (85.6 miles) west of Fort McMurray, Alta. TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. owns and operates NGTL....

Government

Agencies reopen after partial federal government shutdown ends

Oct. 28, 2013

Employees returned to work Oct. 17 and began to restore full federal services after the 112th Congress approved and US President Barack Obama signed legislation ending a 16-day...

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Exploration & Development

OGJ Newsletter

Oct. 28, 2013

International news for oil and gas professionals

Refining

IEA: September OPEC oil supplies slip below 30 million b/d

Oct. 28, 2013

Due to lower output from Iraq and Libya, crude oil supplies from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in September fell by 645,000 b/d to 29.99 million b/d, below...

Companies

Devon, Crosstex Energy to merge midstream assets

Oct. 28, 2013

Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, and Dallas-based Crosstex Energy LP reported Oct. 21 the signing of a definitive agreement to combine nearly all of Devon's US midstream assets...

Gas Processing

PIRA: Shale production growth makes US largest liquids producer

Oct. 28, 2013

US total oil supply is expected to average 12.1 million b/d this year, making it the world's largest oil producer, PIRA Energy Group, an energy markets consulting firm in New ...

Government

Watching Government: Will opportunity be wasted?

Oct. 28, 2013

The US oil and natural gas outlook's dramatic shift from scarcity to abundance potentially could increase the country's geopolitical leverage, prominent former federal officials...

Exploration & Development

API calls for more data to help shape next 5-year OCS plan

Oct. 28, 2013

The American Petroleum Institute said it would like the administration of US President Barack Obama to gather information more quickly so it will be able to consider expanded ...

Pipelines & Transportation

Study says pipeline resistance raises oil-transport risks

Oct. 28, 2013

Pipeline transport of oil is so much safer than other modes that resistance to it is raising risks, concludes a study published by the Fraser Institute, Calgary.

Reserves

The world's energy abundance

Oct. 28, 2013

How soon might the world resume its concern about "peak oil?"

Production Operations

Gas flow starts at ExxonMobil's Kipper-Tuna-Turrum project

Oct. 28, 2013

Oil and gas production has begun from ExxonMobil's $4.5 billion (Aus.) Kipper-Tuna-Turrum project in Bass Strait offshore Victoria. Gas is flowing from the Tuna field while Turrum...

Home

Oil sands transport Hoptions advance on two political fronts

Oct. 28, 2013

Political forces are aligning in Canada toward a vital debottlenecking of the oil sands.

Pipelines & Transportation

The Saudi relevance

Oct. 28, 2013

Americans had every right last month to greet the 40th anniversary of the Arab oil embargo with boasts about surging production of oil and gas and about correspondingly diminished...