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  • Volume 112, Issue 11a

    Refining

    Surveys: process, progress

    Nov. 10, 2014
    The closing of the year is an interesting time for editors at Oil & Gas Journal. For some, it marks an opportunity to breathe that deep sigh of relief and reflect thankfully on...
    Production Operations

    Report for API quantifies new technologies' 2013 US economic benefits

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Innovations in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have driven the energy renaissance in the US were responsible for about 48% of the nation's crude oil production...
    Unconventional Resources

    WoodMac: High WCS-WTI price spread seen lingering

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Growing production of Canadian heavy crude oil and problems delivering the new supply to distant markets will keep the discount of Western Canadian Select crude high against the...
    Government

    BOEM releases draft SEIS for 2008 Chukchi Sea lease sale

    Nov. 10, 2014
    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released a supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for Outer Continental Shelf Leas Sale No. 193, which originally was held...
    HSE

    Rejecting the shrill

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Newly amplified warnings about climate change had to compete in the US with shrill, last-minute political advertising before the party of climate activism suffered humiliation...

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 11a

    Discoveries

    Business mood dark as questions hover over UK offshore

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Falling oil prices, rising costs, and looming political questions darken the business mood about the UK offshore.
    Companies

    GCA: Falling oil price will unevenly affect US unconventional plays

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Falling oil prices will have an uneven effect across US unconventional plays based on the qualities of reservoirs within any given play, Gaffney Cline & Associates said in a recent...
    Reserves

    Watching Government: Looking beyond transparency

    Nov. 10, 2014
    More transparency is essential to improve resource governance, speakers suggested at a Nov. 4 Brookings Institution discussion. But much more is needed, they quickly agreed.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    EIA: Brent, not WTI, dominates US gasoline price movements

    Nov. 10, 2014
    A recent study from the US Energy Information Administration would appear to weaken the argument that lifting the ban on US crude oil exports would raise domestic gasoline prices...
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 10, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    General Interest

    Forum: US unconventional plays still profitable at $80/bbl oil or less

    Nov. 10, 2014
    The US currently dominates global upstream capital spending, and producers in many unconventional plays can still make a profit with futures prices for benchmark light, sweet ...
    Exploration & Development

    Induced seismicity research effort identifies information gaps

    Nov. 10, 2014
    A federally coordinated effort to determine whether oil and gas activities are related to growing reports of induced seismic activity has identified several information gaps that...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Latest EIA report lists mixed impacts from higher US LNG exports

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Increased US LNG exports would raise natural gas prices and increase production, reduce end-users' demand, push higher total primary energy use and related carbon dioxide emissions...
    Companies

    Land issues loom in Mexican energy reform

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Land controversies threaten to impede Mexico's opening of oil and gas projects to international investment, warns an issue brief from the Baker Institute for Public Policy at ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Russia, Ukraine sign interim gas supply agreement

    Nov. 10, 2014
    Russia and Ukraine signed a $4.6 billion agreement in Brussels that secures natural gas supplies for Ukraine and, ultimately, much of Europe through March 2015.