Volume 111, Issue 3c

Watching Government: Overseas efforts enter new phase

March 25, 2013

American security and prosperity are increasingly, and inextricably, linked to developing countries, a new Center for Strategic & International Studies report says.

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Obama reiterates plan to use oil revenue for alternative energy R&D

March 25, 2013

Technological breakthroughs in the last few years have significantly improved the US energy situation, but more needs to be done, US President Barack Obama said on Mar. 15. He...

LNG

E&Y: New LNG exporters could change pricing status quo

March 25, 2013

A broadening of the LNG supply base will support anticipated world demand growth in the next 10-20 years, although pricing scenarios are likely to change with more price-sensitive...

Government

Energy from politics?

March 25, 2013

From a president who seems to think energy comes from politics, yet another innovation emerged Mar. 15 in a speech at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. "The only...

Drilling & Production

A shortcut through history

March 25, 2013

Debra Ferguson Technology EditorThe shortcut to my desk leads through the library that houses Oil & Gas Journal's archives. Those bound volumes only cover the last 80 years of...

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Exploration & Development

Exporation/Development Briefs

March 25, 2013

BrazilA unit of HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, has spudded the 1-HRT-11-AM exploratory well on the Cajazeira prospect on the SOL-T-172 block in Brazil's Solimoes...

Refining

Gasoline prices likely to stay volatile, EPRINC report suggests

March 25, 2013

Existing federal regulations, many of which mandate specific fuels and restrict refining capacity additions, make continued US gasoline price volatility very likely, a Mar. 15...

Companies

OGJ Newsletter

March 25, 2013

International news for oil and gas professionals

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Late budget proposal will again raid the oil and gas industry

March 25, 2013

President Barack Obama is late this year with his proposal for the federal budget but made clear Mar. 15 it will contain the same raids on the oil and gas industry as its predecessors...

Refining

Fourth-quarter 2012 earnings decline after asset writedowns

March 25, 2013

Favorable refining and petrochemical margins continued to bolster quarterly and yearend 2012 earnings of related operations for some oil and gas companies.

Exploration & Development

Genel working to debottleneck Iraq Taq Taq oil output

March 22, 2013

Taq Taq field, in central Iraq 50 miles east-southeast of Erbil, is the Kurdistan region's largest oil producing field, notes operator Genel Energy PLC.