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  • Volume 113, Issue 3c

    • Volume 113, Issue 3c

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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 23, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Supporters and critics alike call for RFS reforms

    March 23, 2015
    Calls to reform the federal Renewable Fuels Standard increased as critics and supporters alike said it is not working as it was intended.
    Discoveries

    Alberta introduces oil sands environmental requirements

    March 23, 2015
    Alberta introduced new requirements to control tailings ponds and regulate water use from the Athabasca River as part of the Canadian province's efforts to reduce oil sands development...
    General Interest

    Two obsolete laws

    March 23, 2015
    New tightening of a logistics squeeze on US oil producers gives Congress the chance to show bipartisan judgment by scuttling two obsolete laws.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Native what?

    March 23, 2015
    The term, "native advertising," has been buzzing around the commercial media world for the last couple of years or so, especially digital media-and what medium isn't digital if...

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 3c

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    Exploration & Development

    Chevron, Shell among most active bidders in gulf lease sale

    March 23, 2015
    Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, and Statoil ASA mostly led the way as Gulf of Mexico central planning area Lease Sale 235 drew 195 bids on 169 blocks from...
    Discoveries

    Political disputes, insecurity stymie Lebanese bid round

    March 23, 2015
    For a promising natural gas resource off Lebanon, the only reportable discoveries are of ways to defer exploration.
    General Interest

    TAEP: Year of 'dramatic contraction' under way in Texas oil, gas employment

    March 23, 2015
    The Texas Petro Index (TPI) dropped seven points to 299.6 during January compared with December, reflecting low crude oil prices, a falling rig count, and decline in drilling ...
    Companies

    ExxonMobil resumes drilling from Point Thomson near ANWR

    March 23, 2015
    Following years of legal wrangling, ExxonMobil Corp. has resumed drilling in the high-pressure Point Thomson gas-condensate field on Alaska's North Slope near the Arctic National...
    General Interest

    SPE/IADC: Collaboration, innovation must transcend oil price

    March 23, 2015
    Leaders from oil and gas operators and drilling contractors were empanelled Mar. 17 at the 2015 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference & Exposition to tackle the issue of delivering wells...
    Government

    Senate, House bills introduced to block EPA ozone proposal

    March 23, 2015
    US Senate and House members introduced bills to block the US Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to lower ground-level ozone limits as the plan's comment period ended and...
    Companies

    USW, Shell reach tentative deal to end strike at US refineries

    March 23, 2015
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the United Steelworkers union have reached a tentative bargaining agreement over pay, benefits, and health and safety standards for union workers that...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: Ohio's severance tax battle

    March 23, 2015
    Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich praised already enacted tax cuts in his Feb. 24 State of the State address. "Let's keep going, and let the common sense growth strategy of cutting taxes...