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    Production Operations

    Watching Government: More quakes in Oklahoma

    May 19, 2014
    The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50% since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in central Oklahoma, the US Geological...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    ELI forum examines pipeline, rail, maritime crude oil transportation

    May 19, 2014
    Crude oil transportation—whether by pipeline, rail, or maritime—has become a hot public topic in the US only relatively recently.
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 19, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    An absence of proportion

    May 19, 2014
    Hand-wringing over failure by the US Senate to pass bipartisan energy legislation focuses on the wrong problem. Political pundits mourn the death of bipartisanship and condemn...
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    In official assault on fossil energy, tactics vary by fuel

    May 19, 2014
    An Executive Branch campaign against fossil energy applies different tactics to specific fuels.

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Technology binds industries

    May 19, 2014
    The incredibly daunting, 2-months-and-counting hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has covered 1.8 million square miles of the southern Indian Ocean and driven searchers...
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    NTSB begins investigation of Virginia crude train derailment

    May 19, 2014
    The National Transportation Safety Board took charge of the investigation into the Apr. 30 derailment of a train carrying crude oil in Lynchburg, Va., but it will be months before...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Senators to Obama: Exercise restraint on LNG exports

    May 19, 2014
    A bipartisan group of 22 US senators, led by Energy and Natural Resources Committee member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Foreign Relations Committee member Edward J. Markey (D...
    Government

    EPA to seek public comment on disclosing frac fluid ingredients

    May 19, 2014
    The US Environmental Protection Agency announced it will seek public comment on what information could be reported and disclosed for hydraulic fracturing chemicals and mixtures...
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    Tankers

    OTC: Engineers consider human factors in offshore designs

    May 19, 2014
    Offshore engineers increasingly are taking human factors into account when designing oil and gas equipment, said speakers participating in a May 5 Offshore Technology Conference...
    Government

    House panel's Republicans seek information about DOE's SPR management

    May 19, 2014
    US House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leaders requested a meeting with US Sec. of Energy Ernest J. Moniz and other appropriate officials concerning management of the...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    OTC: Total suggests Shanghai as Asian natural gas hub

    May 19, 2014
    Shanghai, China, would be a natural geographic and market position for a natural gas hub in Asia, according to Laurent Maurel, Total senior vice-president for strategy, marketing...
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    Production Operations

    OTC: Robust US energy policy will strengthen economy, lawmaker says

    May 19, 2014
    Anticipated energy demand worldwide by 2050 will be such that industry will need to produce similar levels of oil and gas compared with today's production levels, panelists told...
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    Exploration & Development

    OTC: Ocean-bottom seismic improves resolution for offshore subsurface

    May 19, 2014
    Streamer technology is not new. However, it has gone through many advances within the last 30 years. In 1980, 120 channels were considered advanced for a typical streamer run ...