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  • Volume 111, Issue 3b

    • Volume 111, Issue 3b

    Exploration & Development

    New South Wales sets up coal seam gas exclusion zones

    March 18, 2013
    The government of New South Wales plans to establish 2-km exclusion zones around towns in the state with populations above 1,000 or more people to keep coal seam gas exploration...
    Government

    Watching Government: Tier 3 and other EPA woes

    March 18, 2013
    Gina McCarthy would not be formally nominated as the next US Environmental Protection Agency administrator for 3 more days.
    Government

    Cornyn's bill aims to curb ESA litigation settlement abuses

    March 18, 2013
    US Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) introduced legislation designed to address regulatory impacts from federal Endangered Species Act closed-door litigation settlements between the US...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    End the export ban

    March 18, 2013
    The US should scrap its antique prohibition against the export of domestically produced crude oil. The sole argument for retaining the export ban is unsound.
    Companies

    Industry's fiscal impact

    March 18, 2013
    In a recent study, the oil and natural gas industry was measured to see what type of influence it had on the impact of the US economy in 2011 regarding employment, labor income...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 3b

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Price volatility is not a reason to block LNG exports

    March 18, 2013
    Message to opponents of US exports of LNG: Price volatility is part of the energy business. Deal with it.
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    March 18, 2013
    ArgentinaApco Oil & Gas International Inc., Tulsa, plans capital spending of $66 million in 2013 compared with outlays of $54.4 million last year. The 2012 expenditures went mainly...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 18, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Reserves

    NPD ups eastern Barents, Jan Mayen resource estimates

    March 18, 2013
    A resource assessment of the southeastern Barents Sea offshore Norway and the area surrounding Jan Mayen Island northeast of Iceland indicates a 15% increase in estimated undiscovered...
    Exploration & Development

    Third major joins Canacol in Colombia shale oil quest

    March 18, 2013
    A ConocoPhillips Co. unit has taken a farmout from a subsidiary of Canacol Energy Ltd., Calgary, to explore and potentially develop shale oil and conventional light oil on Canacol...
    Reserves

    Jewell pledges to seek common ground as Interior secretary

    March 18, 2013
    Sally Jewell, US President Barack Obama's nominee for Interior secretary, told a US Senate committee she would try to bring differing sides together to find common ground that...
    Home

    Badly damaged PDVSA should be replaced, founding board member says

    March 18, 2013
    Venezuela's national oil company was so badly damaged during Hugo Chavez's regime that it will need to be replaced, a founding board member of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA...
    Production Operations

    CRS finds US production grew outside federally controlled areas

    March 18, 2013
    While US oil and gas production has climbed to its highest level in 2 decades, all of the growth since 2007 has occurred outside federally controlled areas where production actually...