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  • Volume 112, Issue 9d

    • Volume 112, Issue 9d

    Exploration & Development

    Investors watch with interest as Mexican energy reform unfolds

    Sept. 29, 2014
    Mexico is implementing key aspects of its energy reform more quickly than some observers had expected. So far this year, the country has passed 21 new and amended laws relating...
    Government

    GMU forum: More energy cases could head to Supreme Court in 2015

    Sept. 29, 2014
    The US Environmental Protection Agency's ambitious regulatory agenda potentially could push more energy cases to the US Supreme Court in 2015, speakers agreed at a Sept. 18 forum...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 29, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Climate marketing

    Sept. 29, 2014
    US Treasury Sec. Jacob L. Lew has an unenviable job. Apparently, he has been placed in charge of marketing the economic dimensions of President Barack Obama's campaign against...
    HSE

    Beneath Macondo's surface

    Sept. 29, 2014
    While certainly not forgotten, the 2010 Macondo deepwater well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico seems safely in the past. The oil and gas industry responded with improved technology...

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 9d

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Price of gasoline important to US policy (sometimes)

    Sept. 29, 2014
    The price of gasoline is important in the making of US energy policy-except when it is not.
    New Plants

    China, not Russia, could shape Asia's energy future, speakers say

    Sept. 29, 2014
    China apparently could be in a better position than Russia to directly influence future Asian oil and gas development and policies, speakers agreed during a Sept. 22 discussion...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching Government: Smaller study, big early findings

    Sept. 29, 2014
    It may not have had the snap and sizzle of a study the National Academy of Sciences released the same day, but a report the US Department of Energy unveiled on Sept. 15 also put...
    Petrochemicals

    WoodMac: China, North America face propylene oversupply

    Sept. 29, 2014
    Oil and gas analyst Wood Mackenzie Ltd. forecasts that global propylene production capacity will increase to 165 million tonnes/year (tpy) by 2030 from a current 109 million tpy...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    China's demand growth may make it globally dominant, speakers suggest

    Sept. 29, 2014
    China potentially could dictate terms as the fastest growing market in a world suddenly awash in potential oil and gas resources, speakers suggested during a discussion of energy...
    Companies

    ExxonMobil 'winds down' Arctic well, obeys sanctions

    Sept. 29, 2014
    ExxonMobil Corp. released a statement that it is complying with all US sanctions on Russia after news reports that the operator had halted operations on its first arctic exploration...
    Government

    Senate adopts bill making BLM drilling permit pilot program permanent

    Sept. 29, 2014
    The US Senate approved Tom Udall (D-NM) and John Barrasso's (R-Wyo.) bill permanently extending a US Bureau of Land Management drilling permit processing improvement pilot program...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    BIS condensates ruling galvanized crude exports debate, speakers say

    Sept. 29, 2014
    A US Department of Commerce agency's controversial condensate exports decision in late June that purportedly dealt with distillation actually involved stabilization, a different...