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    Ignoring questions is wrong approach to climate change

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Refusal by global-warming activists to address core issues has gone from tiresome to annoying. President Barack Obama committed the dodge in his State of the Union address on ...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Gulf of MexicoEnergy XXI, Houston, reported that it will plug and abandon its Merlin well on Vermilion Block 179 in the Gulf of Mexico.Merlin, which was drilled to 19,915 ft MD...
    Companies

    ConocoPhillips reports higher 2013 earnings

    Feb. 10, 2014
    ConocoPhillips reported full-year earnings of $9.2 billion in 2013, an increase from the $8.4 billion totaled in 2012, which included $1.2 billion from downstream operations before...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Eagle Ford crude prompts upgrades at Valero's Texas refineries

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Valero Energy Corp., the largest US independent refiner-marketer, plans to invest $730 million in upgrading two of its Texas refineries to process increased volumes of light crude...
    Production Operations

    Quick hike seen in Iranian oil output if sanctions lifted

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Iran can push production of crude oil back to 3-3.5 million b/d "relatively quickly" in the absence of international sanctions, says a veteran observer of the Islamic Republic...

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    PwC: US M&A activity down in 2013 despite strong finish

    Feb. 10, 2014
    The US oil and gas industry finished 2013 strong when it came to mergers and acquisitions, but the late-year push to a total of 182 deals totaling $115.9 billion wasn't enough...
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    Hess reports $5.8 billion capital budget for 2014

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Hess Corp. reported that its exploration and production capital budget for 2014 is expected to reach $5.8 billion, almost have of which, $2.85 billion, will be spent on unconventional...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    E&Y: Unconventional resources largest source of US oil, gas growth in 2013

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Unconventional resources in the US constituted the oil and gas industry's largest source of growth in 2013—a trend that's expected to continue into 2014, Ernst & Young indicated...
    Reserves

    Countries moving geopolitically on Arctic energy, Wilson forum told

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Countries already are making geopolitical moves to secure Arctic oil and gas resources despite actual development being decades away in most cases, experts agreed at a Woodrow...
    Government

    Watching Government: Texans see federal overreach

    Feb. 10, 2014
    If there was any doubt before, there isn't now: Many in Texas believe the state is fighting an outside invader again.
    Companies

    Shell cancels 2014 drilling off Alaska in court decision's wake

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC will not resume activity on federal leases it holds offshore Alaska in 2014 because a US appeals court's Jan. 22 decision in a 2008 lawsuit against the US...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Senate panel hears arguments for, against US crude oil exports

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Witnesses on both sides of the debate over whether to expand US crude oil exports used improved energy security and creation of more domestic jobs to support their viewpoints ...
    Government

    No major environmental impact from Keystone XL, DOS say

    Feb. 10, 2014
    The proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline's construction and operation would not have significant environmental impacts, the US Department of State said in its long-awaited ...
    Government

    Energy by fiat-1: Here's the blendwall

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Only by expanding can the gasoline market now accommodate new amounts of federally mandated ethanol. Yet gasoline consumption has stagnated in the US.
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    Monumental innovations

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Oil production from the Permian basin in West Texas is once again on the rise. According to the January Drilling Productivity Report published by the US Energy Information Administratio...
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    Feb. 10, 2014
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