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  • Volume 112, Issue 7c

    HSE

    Australia repeals climate sacrifice; who will be next?

    July 28, 2014
    European response to Australia's abandonment of a carbon tax illuminates the impossibly narrow margin of political acceptability within which governments must work as they try...
    Reserves

    SAFE: Report's 'flash points' emphasize US transportation fuel problem

    July 28, 2014
    A proliferation of global oil geopolitical "flash points" makes it even more urgent for the US to aggressively reduce its dependence on crude oil for transportation fuels, according...
    Home

    DOT proposes new rules for transporting crude by rail

    July 28, 2014
    A train with 20 or more tank cars carrying crude oil, ethanol, or other flammable liquids would be classified as a high - hazardous flammable train (HHFT), and would be subject...
    Companies

    Chevron accepts amended plan for Richmond refinery revamp

    July 28, 2014
    Chevron Corp. has agreed to accept an alternative, more environmentally friendly plan proposed by city officials for the long - delayed $1 billion modernization of its 257,000...
    Refining

    API: US petroleum demand up in June, second quarter

    July 28, 2014
    Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, rose 1.5% in June vs. a year ago to average just above 19 million b/d, according to the American Petroleum Institute's most...

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    Refining

    Petrotrin blames US shale gas revolution for reduced refinery runs

    July 28, 2014
    Trinidad and Tobago's state - owned Petrotrin is blaming the shale gas revolution in the US and lower crude prices at Cushing, Okla., for its decision to significantly reduce ...
    Unconventional Resources

    CERI: Costs up for oil sands production

    July 28, 2014
    The costs of producing bitumen and synthetic crude in the Albertan oil sands have increased over the past year, says the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) in an annual...
    General Interest

    Australia repeals carbon tax legislation

    July 28, 2014
    Australia's Parliament has repealed the carbon tax legislation that this year imposed $24.15 (Aus.)/tonne of carbon dioxide emissions.
    Government

    Obama's latest sanctions against Russia include oil, gas firms

    July 28, 2014
    In response to continued unrest in Ukraine, US President Barack Obama has announced new sanctions against Russia that include - for the first time - operations of Russian state...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching Government: When condensate is product

    July 28, 2014
    It was easy to remember the Bad Old Days when the US had Old Oil, New Oil, and the Small Refiner Bias amid the kerfuffle after the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry...
    Government

    BLM director: Fee system needed for increased onshore well inspections

    July 28, 2014
    A shortage of inspectors, reduced budgets, and a record number of wells on public lands make necessary the US Bureau of Land Management's budget request for a fee system to increase...
    Exploration & Development

    BOEM issues ROD for environmental review of G&G survey off Atlantic Coast

    July 28, 2014
    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a record of decision (ROD) for environmental review of geological and geophysical (G&G) survey activities off the Atlantic...
    Production Operations

    DOE wants to mobilize subsurface engineering R&D efforts

    July 28, 2014
    The US Department of Energy wants to mobilize federal government, oil and gas industry, university, and other research to address subsurface engineering challenges, particularly...
    Drilling & Production

    An Atlantic OCS step

    July 28, 2014
    If oil and gas drilling ever occurs off the US East Coast, the risk that a well will blow out catastrophically and spill oil, as tragically happened in the Gulf of Mexico 4 years...
    New Plants

    Another canal? Really?

    July 28, 2014
    International businesses, especially oil and gas companies, in recent years have watched with growing interest the work to increase shipping capacity through the Panama Canal....
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 28, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals