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    Government

    EPRINC: RFS's biofuels mandate could create gasoline price spike

    July 29, 2013
    Requirements for additional ethanol and other biofuels as part of the total US motor fuel supply under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard could lead to a possibly significant...
    Government

    House panel wants constructive, not combative, RFS talks

    July 29, 2013
    Members of a US House Energy and Commerce subcommittee expressed frustration as petroleum industry witnesses said the federal Renewable Fuels Standard is working so poorly that...
    Government

    XTO settles water pollution charges in Pennsylvania

    July 29, 2013
    ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. agreed to pay a $100,000 fine and to spend $20 million to improve wastewater management practices in Pennsylvania and West Virginia...
    Exploration & Development

    Talisman testing Kurdamir-3 well in Kurdistan, Iraq

    July 29, 2013
    A unit of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has begun a cased-hole test program of the Oligocene reservoir at the Kurdamir-3 well on the Kurdamir block in the Kurdistan Region of...
    Exploration & Development

    Federal fracing regulation necessary, Jewell tells House panel

    July 29, 2013
    Federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing would provide a necessary baseline for states where onshore unconventional oil and gas development has not taken place yet but will...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 7d

    HSE

    The sensitivity issue

    July 29, 2013
    An early peek at the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hints at retreat from a vital element of global-warming alarm.
    Drilling & Production

    Hurricane preparedness

    July 29, 2013
    Typically, the months of June through November—known collectively by those dwelling in the Northern Hemisphere as Atlantic hurricane season—can be a precarious span of time for...
    Government

    IPAA, WEA release federal onshore frac regulation cost estimates

    July 29, 2013
    US oil and gas producers would pay an additional $345 million/year—or an average $96,913/well—under the US Bureau of Land Management's amended proposed federal onshore hydraulic...
    Home

    Support for RFS stokes worry for US energy policy

    July 29, 2013
    Confidence does not zoom when a well-placed policymaker calls the desire to jettison broken policy short-sighted.
    General Interest

    Watching Government: Wyoming's water well testing

    July 29, 2013
    Wyoming has begun a 45-day comment period on a proposed water well testing requirement before oil and gas activity begins nearby that could set the pattern for other producing...
    Government

    TransCanada: Keystone XL's GHG impacts would be minimal

    July 29, 2013
    Greenhouse gas emissions from the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline would be minimal, TransCanada Corp., the project's sponsor, reiterated in a letter to the US Department...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 29, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Senate confirms McCarthy's nomination as EPA administrator

    July 29, 2013
    The US Senate confirmed the nomination of Gina McCarthy as administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency by 59 to 40 votes.
    Government

    Administration opposes bill to share OCS revenue with coastal states

    July 29, 2013
    Tighter federal budgets and more pressure to reduce the budget deficit make sharing US Outer Continental Shelf energy revenue with coastal states and communities unaffordable ...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    July 26, 2013
    BulgariaPark Place Energy Corp., Calgary, has signed an agreement that ends litigation over the 2010 grant to the company of the Vranino 1-11 block in the Dobroudja basin north...
    IOR/EOR

    Connacher: Solvent boosts SAGD test flow

    July 26, 2013
    Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd. raised bitumen production and lowered steam injection rates in a test of a proprietary method for enhancing steam-assisted gravity drainage with injection...