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    Exploration & Development

    Statoil updates lackluster Barents Sea exploration program

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Statoil ASA has wrapped up its 2013-14 exploration program in the Barents Sea-one that included a notable disturbance from environmental activists-with fewer commercial discoveries...
    Companies

    WoodMac: Deepwater gulf production to reach 1.9 million boe/d in 2016

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a new peak of 1.9 million boe/d in 2016, according to the latest outlook from consultancy group Wood Mackenzie ...
    Reserves

    Oil & Gas UK rebuts industry-subsidy claim

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Oil & Gas UK has issued a sharp rebuttal to reports that UK producers enjoy generous governmental subsidies.
    Production Operations

    North Dakota lawmakers mull Bakken crude regulations

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Oil producers in North Dakota's Bakken and Three Forks formations could be required to strip gases from crude oil showing high vapor pressure before transporting the oil under...
    New Plants

    Bakken, deepwater Gulf of Mexico to boost Hess's production

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Hess Corp. plans to increase its production growth rate forecast by 6-10%/year during 2013-18, assuming $90-100/bbl Brent, anchored by production in the Bakken shale and deepwater...

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    Refining

    Petrobras initiates start-up of units at Abreu e Lima refinery

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has received permission to commission units at its Abreu e Lima refinery (Rnest) at the port of Suape, near Recife, the capital of Pernambuco...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Mexico moving quickly to implement energy reforms, officials report

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Mexico is moving quickly to implement its aggressive energy reforms, two officials of its government told a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars....
    Economics & Markets

    Deloitte: US gas supplies rebuilt since last winter, EIA's Sieminski says

    Nov. 24, 2014
    The biggest issue this winter could be electricity generation in New England because of pipeline constraints rather than a drawdown of stored natural gas as happened last winter...
    Government

    Senate debates, then barely rejects, Keystone XL approval bill

    Nov. 24, 2014
    The US Senate finally debated a bill authorizing construction of the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline on Nov. 18 before rejecting the measure by a single vote. Republicans...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching Government: Greece and energy in Europe

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Amid growing energy supply geopolitics, Greece is a stable anchor within a rapidly destabilizing region, Yannis Maniatis, its Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Minister,...
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 24, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Production Operations

    Deloitte: More executives believe US can be self-sufficient in oil

    Nov. 24, 2014
    More oil and gas executives are growing increasingly confident that the US will be self-sufficient in oil in 5-10 years, said a Deloitte survey titled, "2014 Oil & Gas Survey:...
    Exploration & Development

    Industry's eternal battle

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Polling conducted by Gallup in August drilled home what most of us already knew: People don't like the oil and gas industry. Fifty-six percent of those polled had either a "somewhat...
    Home

    Why rush to okay Keystone XL now? Politics, of course

    Nov. 24, 2014
    From outside the US, a sudden rush to approve the Keystone XL pipeline must be puzzling. Isn't this the project not acted upon for 6 years and counting?
    Government

    Keystone strategies

    Nov. 24, 2014
    Politics provided an interesting sideshow to the unsuccessful, ironic, last-minute push in the 113th Congress for sanction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The oil and gas industry...