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    Study links states' economic growth to energy regulation

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Judged strictly by economic efficiency, energy regulation at the state level works best in the US South and interior and worst on the West Coast and in the Northeast and Upper...
    LPG Markets

    EIA: July Brent prices drop on reduced market risk

    Aug. 25, 2014
    In the August issue of its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration maintains its 2014 US liquid fuels consumption forecast at 18.88 million ...
    Refining

    TSB report outlines 'multitude of factors' behind Lac-Megantic train derailment

    Aug. 25, 2014
    A multitude of factors led to July 6 derailment of a runaway train in Lac-Megantic, Que., carrying 72 carloads of Bakken crude oil bound for Irving Oil Ltd.'s refinery in Saint...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    EIA: China to increase natural gas consumption, investment

    Aug. 25, 2014
    China more than tripled natural gas production since 2003, producing 3.8 tcf in 2012, and the government is targeting production to reach about 5.5 tcf/year of gas by the end ...
    Reserves

    Mexico accelerates energy reform efforts

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) faces the task of determining areas where it wants to bring in partners under the sweeping energy reform that President Enrique Pena Nieto...

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 8c

    Government

    EPA extends comment period for proposed refinery regulations

    Aug. 25, 2014
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period by 60 days for its proposed rule that would force petroleum refiners to implement additional controls...
    Refining

    CSB releases incident report for Tesoro's Martinez refinery

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Loose pipe fittings are to blame for a sulfuric acid release that seriously injured two workers in early February at the alkylation unit of Tesoro Corp.'s 161,000-b/d Golden Eagle...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    DOE finalizes LNG export national interest review reforms

    Aug. 25, 2014
    The US Department of Energy finalized reforms it proposed on May 29 to its process for determining whether planned LNG export projects are in the national interest.
    Tankers

    USCG proposes higher offshore oil spill liability limits

    Aug. 25, 2014
    The US Coast Guard proposed higher offshore oil spill liability limits under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act to reflect significant increases in the Consumer Price Index.
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: Michigan quietly adjusts rules

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is moving ahead with development of new hydraulic fracturing rules.
    Shell Reshuffles T1
    Exploration & Development

    Western gulf lease sale attracts $110 million in high bids

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Gulf of Mexico western planning area Lease Sale 238 drew 93 bids from 14 companies over 81 blocks covering 433,823 acres, totaling $109,951,644 in apparent high bids, reported...
    Companies

    Shell reshuffles US shale assets in two major deals

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC has agreed to two separate transactions in which it will exit its Pinedale and Haynesville onshore gas assets in exchange for $2.1 billion in cash and acreage...
    Discoveries

    New Keystone dawdling

    Aug. 25, 2014
    New dawdling over the Keystone XL pipeline border crossing fails the US in so many ways that identifying the worst way should be difficult. But it's not.
    Companies

    Offshore archaeology

    Aug. 25, 2014
    Ships and a World War II-era German U-boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico continue to make news decades after their discoveries by oil and gas companies conducting seafloor surveys...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 25, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals