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  • Volume 111, Issue 6b

    • Volume 111, Issue 6b

    Discoveries

    Shale oil, gas resources 'abundant' worldwide, EIA/ARI study finds

    June 17, 2013
    Shale oil and shale gas resources are "abundant" around the globe, according to a recent study conducted by Advanced Resources International Inc. under contract to the US Energy...
    HSE

    Watching Government: Lautenberg's safety legacy

    June 17, 2013
    At first glance, Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) did not have as much impact on the oil and gas industry as other US senators before he died on June 3. A closer look, however, reveals...
    Home

    Chevron, PDVSA sign Petroboscan finance deal

    June 17, 2013
    Chevron International and Petroleos de Venezuela SA have signed a $2 billion long-term credit line for their Petroboscan joint venture that PDVSA says aims at raising production...
    Home

    Phone surveillance arouses libertarian passions in the US

    June 17, 2013
    Outrage over the US government's broad harvest of communications data is like antioil rhetoric from activists who drive sport-utility vehicles.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US and the Middle East

    June 17, 2013
    Of all the mistakes the US can make about an especially turbulent Middle East, one should be especially easy to describe and avoid.

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 6b

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Days of wine and solar panels

    June 17, 2013
    In what some are calling the first "Green War," the European Union imposed antidumping levies on imports of Chinese solar panels, and Beijing responded with an antidumping and...
    Reserves

    Sound policies needed to develop oil, gas resources, Watson says

    June 17, 2013
    US government policymakers should use the opportunity that a dramatically improved US oil and gas outlook provides to generate more federal revenue by reforming the federal tax...
    Government

    Interior gives more time for comments on frac rule proposal

    June 17, 2013
    Oil and gas producers will have another 60 days to comment on the US Bureau of Land Management's latest proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing operations on onshore public...
    Production Operations

    Petrobras starts production from Lula northeast presalt

    June 17, 2013
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) reported the start of oil and gas production from the 7-LL-11-RJS well in Lula Northeast field offshore Brazil.
    Production Operations

    UK launches review of offshore oil, gas

    June 17, 2013
    The UK government has launched an independent review of nontax influences on offshore oil and gas activity, acknowledging the need for careful management of a mature but still...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/ Development Briefs

    June 17, 2013
    AlbaniaPetromanas Energy Inc., Calgary, has won Albanian government approval for three more exploratory well locations on Blocks 2-3 and has chosen not to enter the third exploration...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 17, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Reserves

    Witnesses describe benefits from expanding OCS activity

    June 17, 2013
    Expanded oil and gas activity on the US Outer Continental Shelf would produce substantial economic and energy security benefits, three witnesses told a US House Natural Resources...
    IOR/EOR

    BlackPearl advances Onion Lake thermal EOR

    June 17, 2013
    BlackPearl Resources Inc., Calgary, will accelerate thermal enhanced oil recovery at a heavy oil property now producing conventionally in Saskatchewan to help finance a larger...
    Government

    State air regulators ask to be part of EPA settlement discussions

    June 17, 2013
    Noting that they are responsible for actually implementing about 90% of the US Environmental Protection Agency's requirements, air-quality regulators from 48 states have asked...