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    Discoveries

    Apache has seven Egypt Western Desert discoveries in four basins

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Apache Corp. said its exploration program in Egypt's Western Desert yielded seven oil and gas discoveries in four geologic basins in the quarter ended June 30.
    Drilling & Production

    CERI notes oil-drilling tilt in W. Canada

    Aug. 12, 2013
    New wells drilled in western Canada were profitable on average when they targeted oil but not when they sought natural gas last year, according to studies by the Canadian Energy...
    Home

    Promise vs. obstructionism

    Aug. 12, 2013
    North America's energy transformation has progressed on two important fronts outside the US, where revulsion toward nongaseous hydrocarbons increasingly shapes federal policy....
    General Interest

    Volunteering in the industry

    Aug. 12, 2013
    According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 64.5 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2011 and September 2012.
    Exploration & Development

    Alaska's DNR extends first leases under new provision

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Alaska's Department of Natural Resources extended oil and gas leases for the first time on Aug. 1 under authority the state's legislature gave it earlier this year.

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 8a

    Exploration & Development

    Energy reform proposals emerging in Mexico

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Mexico's ruling political party is expected this week to propose market-oriented energy reforms after the opposition National Action Party (PAN) on July 31 advanced a program ...
    HSE

    CSIS report weighs Arctic economic opportunities, risks

    Aug. 12, 2013
    In an age of uneven and uncertain global economic growth, the American Arctic—with energy resources in Alaska estimated at 29.9 billion bbl of crude oil, more than 221 tcf of ...
    Government

    Landrieu-Hoeven resolution expresses Keystone XL support

    Aug. 12, 2013
    US Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) and John Hoeven (R-ND) submitted a joint resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline and the federal ...
    Production Operations

    BCS: More Russian tax easing doubtful

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Although recent tax changes have helped oil and gas companies overall and boosted oil production Russia, fiscal pressures will discourage the government from providing further...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Aug. 12, 2013
    ArgentinaCrown Point Energy Inc., Calgary, said a drilling rig is expected to be available near yearend of suitable capacity to evaluate two structures on its wholly owned Cerro...
    Production Operations

    WoodMac: US unconventional plays will help reduce imports from abroad

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Unconventional oil and gas plays will continue to drive US and Canadian production for years, with the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana along with the South Texas ...
    Companies

    Watching Government: Oil-by-rail safety inquiries

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Railroads and their regulators on both sides of the Canadian-US border continued to address oil-by-rail transportation safety issues nearly a month after an incident with 72 crude...
    Government

    Obama orders formation of interagency chemical safety working group

    Aug. 12, 2013
    US President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Aug. 1 forming a federal interagency chemical safety and security working group in response to recent accidents.
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 12, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Kenya Lokichar basin development threshold reached

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Positive results from the deepened Etuko-1 exploratory well in northwestern Kenya have indicated that oil volumes located in the Lokichar basin exceed the threshold for development...
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    Carbon offensive shifts to oil but spares natural gas

    Aug. 12, 2013
    Oil is next in US President Barack Obama's carbon offensive.
    Companies

    Study finds 600,000 more jobs supported by oil, gas

    Aug. 9, 2013
    The US oil and gas industry supported 9.8 million American jobs in 2011, an increase of more than 600,000 jobs in just 2 years, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study commissioned by ...