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    Refining

    California Bay Area advances plan for enhanced refinery regulations

    Jan. 12, 2015
    California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), the public agency responsible for regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround...
    LNG

    Barrasso, Heinrich introduce bill to increase LNG exports

    Jan. 12, 2015
    US Sens. John A. Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the 114th Congress's first legislation aimed at increasing US exports of LNG.
    Refining

    Start-up continues at Abreu e Lima refinery

    Jan. 12, 2015
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has initiated the start-up of furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima refinery (Rnest) at the port of Suape, near ...
    General Interest

    That was then...

    Jan. 12, 2015
    Thirty-three years ago, nearly to the day, this editor walked into the Houston offices of Oil & Gas Journal to take a job no one had ever held before...nor would hold again.
    General Interest

    Take that, Canada!

    Jan. 12, 2015
    Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto needs a warning about how the US treats friends nowadays. On the day of his chummy, Dec. 6, 2014, meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington...

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Condensate export status a problem with easy solution

    Jan. 12, 2015
    Some perplexing problems have simple solutions.
    General Interest

    Obama makes Alaska's Bristol Bay off-limits for oil, gas activity

    Jan. 12, 2015
    US President Barack Obama placed Bristol Bay off-limits for future oil and gas leasing, extending a temporary withdrawal he imposed in 2010 that was due to expire in 2017.
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 12, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    White House: Obama won't sign bill approving Keystone XL

    Jan. 12, 2015
    The White House signaled that US President Barack Obama will not sign a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline if one reaches his desk at presstime ...
    Reserves

    Watching Government: This year's 'infrastructure' matters

    Jan. 12, 2015
    In one of the busiest Decembers ever for oil and gas in the nation's capital, one word-infrastructure-kept popping up as a key challenge for 2015.
    Government

    Renewed dilbit investigation faces similar hurdles of past decade

    Jan. 12, 2015
    A National Research Council committee opened a second investigation of potential environmental consequences from diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills from pipelines.
    General Interest

    Moody's sees no quick supply response to spending cuts

    Jan. 12, 2015
    Spending cuts announced so far by oil and gas companies will have a limited effect on oil supplies in a year beginning with oil price weakness and promising trouble for the producing...
    Refining

    BIS lists six condensate export considerations

    Jan. 12, 2015
    The US Bureau of Industry and Security listed six considerations it will use to help determine whether US-produced crude oil condensate is a petroleum product eligible for export...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    API includes other sources in broader State of American Energy report

    Jan. 12, 2015
    The American Petroleum Institute broadened its fifth annual State of American Energy report as it included solar, nuclear, hydropower, wind, coal, geothermal, biomass, and energy...
    Government

    US House set to vote on bill to approve Keystone XL project

    Jan. 10, 2015
    The US House of Representatives majority has scheduled a Jan. 9 vote on a bill to approve the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project as OGJ went to press last week.