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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 22, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Refining

    California issues draft proposals to improve refinery safety

    July 22, 2013
    California's interagency refinery safety working group, which the state formed following a fire at Chevron USA's Richmond plant in August 2012, released a draft report outlining...
    Companies

    Shell settles federal air pollution charges from Deer Park plant

    July 22, 2013
    Shell Oil and affiliated partnerships agreed to spend at least $115 million to resolve federal air pollution charges stemming from flaring and other activities at its Deer Park...
    New Plants

    Cedigaz: Global gas storage capacity to rise 48% by 2030

    July 22, 2013
    Cedigaz, in the fifth edition of its reference report on underground gas storage, expects global gas storage capacity to increase from 377 billion cu m (bcm) at the beginning ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching Government: Fine-tuning gas line permitting

    July 22, 2013
    Even a law as far-reaching as the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPACT) can't anticipate every potential problem with its provisions. That much quickly became apparent when a US House...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 7c

    Reserves

    Petrolia sees oil potential in Macasty shale core results

    July 22, 2013
    Core analyses of the Macasty formation on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence offshore Quebec indicate that the shales are favorable for the production of petroleum, ...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    July 22, 2013
    OmanDNO International ASA, Oslo, has taken a farmout from Allied Petroleum Exploration Inc. that provides for the transfer to DNO Oman AS of a 75% participating interest (100%...
    Production Operations

    Study details impacts of repealing IDC deduction

    July 22, 2013
    Repealing the federal tax provision allowing oil and gas producers to deduct certain intangible drilling costs (IDCs) effective Jan. 1, 2014, would cost 190,000 US jobs in the...
    LNG

    ExxonMobil affiliates plan Canadian LNG export

    July 22, 2013
    Affiliates of ExxonMobil Corp. last month applied to Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) to build an LNG export plant at one of two sites on the British Columbia coast.
    HSE

    Watson resigns as BSEE director, to lead ABS

    July 22, 2013
    James A. Watson has resigned as director of the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and will become president of ABS Inc., a maritime and offshore classification...
    Discoveries

    Caracal fields second rig, nears oil output in Chad

    July 22, 2013
    Caracal Energy Inc., Calgary, said it expects approval this month to start producing Badila oil field in southern Chad and now that a second rig has arrived, it plans to begin...
    Companies

    Scotland: Apprentice rising

    July 22, 2013
    A November 2006 meeting of the UK Offshore Operators' Association warned that an acute lack of skilled engineers and technologists was threatening development of the UK Continental...
    Home

    Iraq still insecure but still harbors huge oil resource

    July 22, 2013
    To a portentous question about oil markets, the answer so far is "not soon, apparently."
    Government

    The politics of delay

    July 22, 2013
    A showdown in the US Senate over the filibuster illuminated both a political tactic painfully familiar to the oil and gas industry and a reason for the industry not to feel alone...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    LNG exports seen building stronger US-India trade relationship

    July 19, 2013
    Aggressive exports of LNG from the US could help set the stage for stronger trade relationships with Indian and other developing South Asia nations, experts agreed during a discussion...
    Refining

    Logistics, policies keep US gas prices high, Senate panel told

    July 19, 2013
    A combination of limited transportation choices, unplanned refinery outages, and outmoded federal policies helps keep US gasoline prices high despite continuing US crude oil production...