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  • Volume 112, Issue 12c

    • Volume 112, Issue 12c

    HSE

    Can ersatz meat ease climate heat on fossil energy?

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Human food from animals might represent a stronger lever for climate-change mitigation than was indicated by a study reported here last week.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Moody's: Russian oil-tax change helps exporters

    Dec. 22, 2014
    A new adjustment to Russian oil and gas taxation will benefit oil companies that export most of their crude oil and high-grade oil products but hurt domestically focused producers...
    Companies

    Chevron, ONGC Videsh among firms awarded permits by New Zealand

    Dec. 22, 2014
    New Zealand's government has awarded six onshore permits across the Taranaki, West Coast, and East Coast basins, and nine offshore permits across the Taranaki, East Coast, Reinga...
    Production Operations

    TAEP: TPI still up, but 'contraction unavoidable'

    Dec. 22, 2014
    The Texas Petro Index (TPI), a composite index based on a comprehensive group of upstream economic indicators released by the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers (TAEP), set well...
    Discoveries

    Cenovus trims budget, slows oil sands work

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, is trimming its capital spending in response to falling crude prices and will slow development of some of its thermal oil sands projects in Alberta...

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 12c

    Companies

    ConocoPhillips slashes 2015 capital budget

    Dec. 22, 2014
    ConocoPhillips has elected to reduce its 2015 capital budget to $13.5 billion, down 20% compared with this year's budget. The news comes on the heels of crude oil prices hitting...
    LNG

    Woodside to buy Apache's interests in Wheatstone, Kitimat LNG for $2.75 billion

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has agreed to acquire interest in the Wheatstone LNG and Kitimat LNG projects, respectively in Western Australia and British Columbia, along with accompanying...
    HSE

    Watching Government: What best practices involve

    Dec. 22, 2014
    So what, exactly, are best practices? Government policymakers freely use the term these days when they describe what's behind standards they're proposing.
    Companies

    Repsol to acquire Talisman in $13 billion deal

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Spain's Repsol SA has agreed to acquire all shares of Talisman Energy Inc. of Calgary for $8.3 billion along with assumed debt of $4.7 billion. The deal has been approved and ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Barton introduces bill to remove US crude export limits

    Dec. 22, 2014
    US Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) introduced legislation that would remove US crude oil export limits that have been in place for nearly 40 years.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US needs more data before ending crude export ban, House panel told

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Much more environmental impact information is needed before the US can reasonably remove crude oil export limits, a witness told a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee...
    Production Operations

    Oil and militancy

    Dec. 22, 2014
    That oil prices can collapse while bloody militancy ravages three important members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries shows dominance of market fundamentals...
    Pipelines

    Never enough knowledge

    Dec. 22, 2014
    Take a moment and try to think of an occupation in which performance improves as the knowledge-base of the people engaged in it stagnates or declines. It's tough to do.
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 22, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals