Volume 113, Issue 2c

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Oil forecasts need a new asterisk for supply instability

Feb. 23, 2015

Do projections of worldwide oil supply need another asterisk?

General Interest

Partners submit Johan Sverdrup development plan

Feb. 23, 2015

Partners Statoil ASA, Lundin Petroleum AB, Petoro, Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA, and Maersk Oil have submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for Phase 1 of Johan Sverdrup...

Drilling & Production

Ohio Supreme Court rules against municipality in oil and gas case

Feb. 23, 2015

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the city of Munroe Falls cannot impose local drilling and zoning ordinances that conflict with Ohio state law regarding oil and natural gas activities...

Pipelines

Montana governor wants PHMSA to beef up pipeline enforcement in state

Feb. 23, 2015

Citing a Jan. 17 leak of 1,200 bbl of crude oil from a ruptured pipeline in eastern Montana, Gov. Steve Bullock (D) asked US Sec. of Transportation Anthony Foxx to send more pipeline...

Production Operations

Derailed West Virginia oil train carried Bakken crude

Feb. 23, 2015

A large-scale cleanup and investigation have launched following the Feb. 16 derailment of a CSX crude oil train near Mount Carbon, W.Va.

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Government

BOEM publishes second final SEIS for 2008 Chukchi Sea lease sale

Feb. 23, 2015

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management published a fresh supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for a Chukchi Sea federal oil and gas sale originally held in 2008...

Companies

BLM decision clears way for first NPRA federal oil production

Feb. 23, 2015

The US Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision (ROD) for the proposed Greater Mooses Tooth One project (GMT1), which cleared the way for the first crude oil production...

Government

Watching Government: Letting states take charge

Feb. 23, 2015

The US Bureau of Land Management takes an average 227 days to process an application to drill for oil and gas on onshore federal land it oversees. States take nowhere near as ...

Reserves

Association presidents want more access in next 5-year OCS plan

Feb. 23, 2015

The presidents of three major US oil and gas trade associations urged the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to keep more of the US Outer Continental Shelf available for oil...

Government

US House vote sends Keystone XL approval bill to Obama's desk

Feb. 23, 2015

The US House of Representatives voted by 270 to 152 to pass S. 1, which would deem the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline approved more than 6 years after sponsor TransCanada...

LNG

OGJ Newsletter

Feb. 23, 2015

International news for oil and gas professionals

Companies

We draw our own lines here

Feb. 23, 2015

One of the most rewarding events in the career of an OGJ editor can be the experience of opening his or her e-mail to find among the typical daily dross a line or two from our...

General Interest

TransCanada challenges EPA's comments on Keystone XL SEIS

Feb. 23, 2015

TransCanada Corp. responded critically to the Feb. 2 comment letter from the US Environmental Protection Agency on the US Department of State's final supplemental environmental...

General Interest

Oil, gas infrastructure investments essential, House panel told

Feb. 20, 2015

Investments in oil and gas transportation and storage should move ahead because they are essential in continuing the US economic recovery and North American energy renaissance...

General Interest

A vulnerable supply

Feb. 20, 2015

As the oil and gas industry sheds projects and workers amid the cruel pressures of an oversupplied market, more than 3 million b/d of production falls increasingly subject to ...