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  • Volume 111, Issue 9b

    • Volume 111, Issue 9b

    Exploration & Development

    Madalena updates exploration on three Neuquen blocks

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Madalena Ventures Inc., Calgary, has provided an update of activity aimed at unconventional and tight formations on blocks in which it holds interests in the Neuquen basin of ...
    Pipelines

    PHMSA to propose rail tank car safety improvements

    Sept. 16, 2013
    The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is considering steps to improve rail tank car safety requirements and will accept public comments on the proposals...
    Production Operations

    TAEP's Texas Petro Index sets record in July

    Sept. 16, 2013
    The Texas Petro Index (TPI), a composite index based upon a comprehensive group of upstream economic indicators, increased to a record 287.7 in July, up 4.4% from the same month...
    General Interest

    Oil's crew change, revisited

    Sept. 16, 2013
    It's happening. The scene is unfolding exactly as oil and gas industry-watchers had feared.
    Discoveries

    Energy leaders fade

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Early leaders are fading fast in the global competition to reengineer energy use. Australian energy consumers this month routed a government that was raising their electricity...

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Canada ready to match US GHG reduction goals, Oliver says

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Canada is prepared to coordinate meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets with the US, particularly from conventional and unconventional oil and gas production, Natural Resources...
    Production Operations

    Avoiding energy opportunity seen as choosing not to grow

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Grasp two principles, says Lucian Pugliaresi, and "you will exceed the combined wisdom of Congress and the last four administrations."
    Companies

    Industry made 49% of total 2000-12 GHG control outlays, study says

    Sept. 16, 2013
    The US oil and gas industry made nearly half the total North American investments in greenhouse gas emissions technologies from 2000 to 2012, research commissioned by the American...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 16, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Sept. 16, 2013
    KazakhstanCondor Petroleum Inc., Calgary, said Kazakhstan has expanded the size of the firm's Zharkamys West 1 Territory in the North Caspian basin by 278,000 acres to a total...
    LNG

    Study assesses 'critical uncertainties' of N. American gas

    Sept. 16, 2013
    LNG exports and consumption of natural gas for power generation will strongly influence North American gas markets and movements through 2030 but remain "critical uncertainties...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Barclays: Saudi Arabia refocusing Aramco's strategy

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Saudi Arabia, with domestic oil use trimming exports and threatening the kingdom's trade position, is refocusing the strategy of its national oil company, according to a Barclays...
    Discoveries

    Watching Government: A controversial Utah decision

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Two Utah politicians who normally support oil and gas development questioned a decision by the state's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration to lease acreage it ...
    Government

    Senators urge Obama not to delay Keystone XL decision again

    Sept. 16, 2013
    Four US senators asked the Obama administration not to delay a decision on the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline's cross-border permit because the US Department of State...
    Production Operations

    Wyden sees North Dakota oil, gas, other energy activity first-hand

    Sept. 16, 2013
    US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ronald L. Wyden (D-Ore.) saw more than oil and gas operations when he visited North Dakota Sept. 6-7 for an up-close ...