Volume 112, Issue 3d

US, Canadian oil, gas firms' fourth-quarter 2013 earnings slip

March 31, 2014

A sample of 53 US-based oil and gas producers and refiners posted a collective decrease of 2% in fourth quarter earnings and an 11% decrease in full year 2013 earnings compared...

Refining & Processing

Watching Government: Systems and weather events

March 31, 2014

The question was how much the federal government could do to make US oil, gas, and electricity systems less vulnerable to weather events linked to global climate change, and more...

Production Operations

EIA: Tight-oil production pushes up US supply

March 31, 2014

US tight-oil production averaged 3.22 million b/d in fourth-quarter 2013, pushing overall US crude production to more than 10% of the world's total production, up from 9% in fourth...

Pipelines & Transportation

DOE approves LNG exports to non-FTA countries from Oregon project

March 31, 2014

The US Department of Energy conditionally approved Jordan Cove Energy Project LP's application to export LNG through its proposed terminal on Oregon's coast to countries that ...

Home

Fighting 'fracked gas,' activists fracture facts

March 31, 2014

Environmental activism has produced a new pearl of provocative meaninglessness: "fracked gas."

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HSE

Marking milestones

March 31, 2014

It's said that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. While that may be the case most years—and most definitely was the case this year, if one considers the weather...

LNG

OGJ Newsletter

March 31, 2014

International news for oil and gas professionals

LNG

LNG exports' immediate geopolitical impacts limited, senators told

March 31, 2014

Direct geopolitical impacts from the US authorizing LNG exports more quickly would be limited, witnesses told a US Senate committee.

Pipelines & Transportation

WoodMac: US tight-oil market 'too robust to bust'

March 31, 2014

A drop in global oil price levels or a significant widening of the differential between global oil prices and inland realizations are just two of the ways the North American tight...

HSE

Approaches in contrast

March 28, 2014

Two approaches to climate change contrast instructively in the US. One of them reflects the cost-blind absolutism fast dismantling support for programs aimed at lowering emissions...