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    HSE

    Target: Oil

    Sept. 22, 2014
    More than 20 years ago, Kuwait was the site of one of the more gut-wrenching scenes in world history.
    General Interest

    AAPG ICE: Turkey sees early shale oil development

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Turkey is slightly larger than the state of Texas geographically, yet the country has only seen 4,400 wells drilled since 1940.
    Exploration & Development

    AAPG ICE: Seismic reprocessing enhances potential for Russia's legacy basins

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Russia's Precaucus and Uralian Foreland basins are the oldest and most developed oil and gas producing regions in the country. As the "birthplace" of Russia's oil industry, the...
    Companies

    Study finds bad well construction, not fracing, fouled water wells

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Fugitive methane found in water wells above the Marcellus and Barnett shales came from poor well construction, not hydraulic fracturing, a study the National Academy of Sciences...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 22, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 9c

    Government

    Senators offer bill to reform energy project crossborder permitting

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Four US senators-2 Democrats and 2 Republicans-introduced legislation to prevent extended delays of energy projects requiring a crossborder permit by moving reviews of applications...
    Reserves

    AAPG ICE: ExxonMobil outlines international approach to unconventional development

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Global energy demand is expected to increase 35% to 2040, translating to 120 billion boe/year, or nearly 350 million boe/d, stated Rocky Becker, vice-president, Europe-Caspian...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    DOE approves Cameron, Carib applications to export LNG

    Sept. 22, 2014
    The US Department of Energy approved Cameron Energy LLC and Carib Energy LLC's requests for authorization to export LNG to countries that do not have a free-trade agreement with...
    Government

    API official calls for end to nearly 6-year Keystone XL permit delay

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Three days before the sixth anniversary of TransCanada Corp.'s original filing for presidential approval of the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline's crossborder permit application...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    It's clearly time to end US crude export ban, Summers declares

    Sept. 22, 2014
    Lawrence H. Summers, who was US Treasury Secretary during Bill Clinton's presidency and was President Barack Obama's National Economic Council Director, said there are no significant...
    Government

    Is air transport a health threat? EPA will decide

    Sept. 22, 2014
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has the chance to demonstrate judgment when it decides whether air travel threatens humanity.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    An arbitrage bubble

    Sept. 22, 2014
    That a US ban on the export of crude oil receives support from refiners who profit from it makes perfect sense. Arguments for keeping the ban in place do not.
    Government

    Watching Government: A dubious anniversary

    Sept. 19, 2014
    Sept. 19 marked 6 years of the Obama administration's deliberations on the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline's crossborder permit application. Proponents and opponents duly...