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  • Volume 111, Issue 12b

    • Volume 111, Issue 12b

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    Drilling & Production

    EIA: Household gas spending to rise 13% during 2013-14 heating season

    Dec. 17, 2013
    In its most recent Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook, the US Energy Information Administration outlined that it expects US households heating with natural gas to spend...
    Companies

    QEP to purchase Permian oil assets for $950 million

    Dec. 16, 2013
    QEP Energy Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of QEP Resources Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire oil and gas assets in the Permian basin from EnerVest Ltd.,...
    Drilling Operations

    Oryx tests second oil find at Hawler in Iraq Kurdistan

    Dec. 16, 2013
    Oryx Petroleum Corp., Calgary, has gauged a potentially commercial Jurassic oil and sour gas discovery at Ain Al Safra, its second oil discovery on the Hawler license in the northern...
    Discoveries

    West Delta oil completions buoy Energy XXI output

    Dec. 16, 2013
    Production averaged 46,600 b/d of oil equivalent in the fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30 for Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd., Houston, including 29,700 b/d of oil.
    Kassinger
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Obsolete US energy policies should be overhauled, speakers say

    Dec. 16, 2013
    Energy policies based on US oil and gas production steadily declining and imports steadily increasing need to be replaced with strategies that reflect growing unconventional and...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 12b

    General Interest

    Oil & Gas UK slams report on 'subsidies'

    Dec. 16, 2013
    An oil and gas trade group has rejected a UK House of Commons committee recommendation to cut fossil-energy tax allowances that the committee described as subsidies.
    Government

    Calls for Congress to reform RFS grow as EPA's hearing approaches

    Dec. 16, 2013
    An increasingly broad coalition plans to press Congress to repeal, or at least radically reform, the federal Renewable Fuels Standard, officials of several associations said the...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Dec. 16, 2013
    ColombiaPetroNova Inc., Calgary, has spudded Canelo Sur-2, first exploratory well on the PUT-2 block in the Putumayo basin in Colombia.PetroNova, operator with a 75% working interest...
    Home

    Watching Government: Reconsidering OPEC

    Dec. 16, 2013
    Soon after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries held its regular ministerial meeting Dec. 4 in Vienna, the usual question was asked: Does its decision to maintain...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 16, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Defenders of RFS resort to populist smear of 'Big Oil'

    Dec. 16, 2013
    You know defenders of the indefensible have nothing left when they resort to populist smear.
    Production Operations

    Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest

    Dec. 16, 2013
    A "roughneck" is a slang term for a person completing dangerous, hard-manual labor in the working environment of an oil rig.
    New Plants

    Oil and rail safety

    Dec. 15, 2013
    With movement of oil by rail rising sharply, producers and refiners have corresponding interest in developments affecting an industry on which they increasingly depend.