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    General Interest

    Gas market forces pushing Europe back toward Russia

    Nov. 18, 2013
    An energy-cost squeeze might coax Europe back toward the supplier of natural gas from which it has been trying to turn away.
    Companies

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Nov. 18, 2013
    BrazilTGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. and Dolphin Geophysical will shoot a multiclient 3D survey designed to image presalt plays in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.The 5,000 sq km ...
    Exploration & Development

    Caracal-Glencore pumping oil from Chad's Badila field

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Caracal Energy Inc., Calgary, said oil production began from Badila field in southern Chad on Sept. 30 and as of Nov. 6 was being pumped through a pipeline at a rate of 5,100 ...
    Production Operations

    Alaska North Slope/Beaufort tracts draw 92 lease bids

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Winning offers totaled $5.4 million as several bidding groups submitted 92 bids for 91 North Slope and Beaufort Sea exploratory tracts in Alaska areawide lease sales Nov. 6.
    Exploration & Development

    Texas A&M center to manage Ocean Energy Safety Institute

    Nov. 18, 2013
    The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has selected a Texas A&M University center to manage the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), a cooperative program...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 11b

    Government

    Senators question EPA's estimated methane emissions from gas operations

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Two Republican senators urged the US Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its methods of calculating methane emissions from natural gas operations and to also reconsider...
    LNG

    Business seen driving Europe's use of Russian gas

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Europe's growing dependence on Russian natural gas since the 1990s was more a series of business decisions than geopolitical maneuvers, a Harvard Business School international...
    Production Operations

    More collaboration, stronger regulation urged for UKCS

    Nov. 18, 2013
    An independent review of oil and gas operations on the UK Continental Shelf has called for new attention by the government and producers to "maximizing economic recovery" (MER...
    Home

    MarkWest starts Marcellus, Utica cryogenic plants

    Nov. 18, 2013
    MarkWest Energy Partners LP, Denver, has begun operations at two new cryogenic gas processing plants serving shale production in the Marcellus and Utica plays in West Virginia...
    Home

    Watching Government: In Alberta, they're talking

    Nov. 18, 2013
    To better appreciate what's going on at Alberta's oil sands, it's necessary to actually go there.
    Government

    Congressmen ask OMB to finalize diesel in frac fluid rule

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Two leading Democrats on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the White House Office of Management and Budget to finalize permitting guidance covering diesel fuel ...
    Exploration & Development

    Communities' fracing votes seen as first round in Colorado fight

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Approval by majorities of voters on Nov. 5 in three Colorado Front Range communities of moratoriums or bans of hydraulic fracturing was only the first round of a potentially statewide...
    Government

    Enhancing transparency

    Nov. 18, 2013
    The American Petroleum Institute is pressing an effort it has led to enhance transparency of oil-company payments to host-country governments without compromising expatriate deal...
    Drilling & Production

    Tweeting the year's top news

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Nearly about this time last year, this space contained a list of the top 10 OGJ Online stories—based on page views and average time spent on story pages—for 2012.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 18, 2013
    International News for oil and gas professionals
    Production Operations

    Oryx plots path to oil production in Iraq Kurdistan

    Nov. 18, 2013
    Oryx Petroleum Corp., Calgary, said it believes it is months away from a commerciality declaration and could start oil production in mid-2014 from its Demir Dagh discovery in ...