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  • Volume 111, Issue 5b

    • Volume 111, Issue 5b

    LNG

    Alaska legislature appropriates $355 million for intrastate gas line

    May 20, 2013
    The Alaska Legislature this session appropriated more than $440 million state natural gas transportation projects. Appropriations for fiscal 2014, which starts July 1, continue...
    Home

    UK shale slowdown linked to flawed debate on climate

    May 20, 2013
    "Environmentalists don't want safer shale gas. They want no shale gas."
    Reserves

    Tests imply Lundin's Luno II discovery likely commercial

    May 20, 2013
    A group led by Lundin Petroleum AB's Norway subsidiary has finished tests at the previously announced Luno II discovery on the southwestern flank of the Utsira high in the North...
    Government

    Watching Government: Taking concerns to Washington

    May 20, 2013
    Heavy rain didn't dampen Western Energy Alliance members' enthusiasm the morning of May 7 as they posed for a photo on the US Capitol's eastern steps during their 2013 Washington...
    HSE

    Changing climate politics

    May 20, 2013
    As polarization over global warming intensifies an important question emerges: If the apparent pause in observed warming becomes an established trend, will politics change? The...

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    Home

    The Bakken's billions

    May 20, 2013
    How much oil can be produced from the Williston basin's Bakken and Three Forks formations?
    IOR/EOR

    Mississippi cuts horizontal severance, EOR taxes

    May 20, 2013
    Mississippi has reduced the severance tax on hydrocarbons produced from horizontal wells and the sales tax paid on electricity for oil and gas produced via carbon dioxide enhanced...
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 20, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    May 20, 2013
    CameroonSinopec Group's Addax Petroleum Cameroon Ltd. unit has let a contract to Atwood Oceanics Inc. for the Atwood Aurora jack up to drill offshore Cameroon.Atwood said the ...
    Government

    House panel questions funding support for BLM to regulate fracing

    May 20, 2013
    US House Natural Resources Committee members from both sides of the aisle questioned whether Congress would be willing to fund a federal hydraulic fracturing regulatory regime...
    Exploration & Development

    Petronas sees 200 million stb on peninsular block

    May 20, 2013
    Persistent exploration and drilling have resulted in a recoverable resource of more than 200 million stb of oil on Block PM304 off Peninsular Malaysia compared with the initial...
    Discoveries

    Apache discovers oil in three Egypt Western Desert basins

    May 20, 2013
    Apache Corp. has gauged oil and-or gas discoveries in three basins in northwestern Egypt, including one discovery that established the deepest production to date in the Western...
    Companies

    Shale gas find declared in NWT Pointed Mountain area

    May 20, 2013
    Canada's National Energy Board granted a commercial discovery declaration to Lone Pine Resources Inc., Calgary, with respect to the Upper and Lower Besa River shale intervals ...
    Government

    BLM releases draft plan to clean up NPR-A legacy wells

    May 20, 2013
    The US Bureau of Land Management's Anchorage, Alas., office released a draft plan listing near-term priorities and actions to plug and clean up legacy wells in the National Petroleum...
    Gas Processing

    NEB sees 'holding pattern' in Canadian gas deliverability

    May 20, 2013
    Deliverability of natural gas in Canada is in what the National Energy Board calls a "holding pattern" because low prices have suppressed gas drilling.