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  • Volume 113, Issue 7b

    • Volume 113, Issue 7b

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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 20, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    General Interest

    OPEC supply surge swamps downturn in US tight-oil output

    July 17, 2015
    Confession: Early this year, your correspondent predicted that oil production from shales and other low-permeability formations would be declining by now and that oil prices consequentl...
    Government

    Watching Government: DOI, EPA budget battles

    July 17, 2015
    White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan did not mince words on July 7 when he described problems the Obama administration sees in the US House's fiscal...
    Pipelines

    PHMSA issues state pipeline excavation damage prevention programs rule

    July 17, 2015
    The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a final rule to establish the process for evaluating state excavation damage prevention programs and enforcing...
    Pipelines

    US House panel grills PHMSA's interim chief over pipeline safety delays

    July 17, 2015
    Members of a US House Energy and Commerce subcommittee asked US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interim Executive Director Stacy Cummings why several significant...

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 7b

    General Interest

    EIA's estimates for state crude oil production to be helped by direct survey

    July 17, 2015
    Understanding how crude oil production in US key states has been affected by recent changes in crude oil prices and drilling activity is of great importance.
    General Interest

    EIA: US oil output fell 50,000 b/d in May

    July 17, 2015
    Total US crude oil production dropped 50,000 b/d in May compared with April and is expected to continue falling through early 2016 before growth resumes, according to the US Energy...
    Government

    BLM proposes updates to its oil, gas measurement requirements

    July 17, 2015
    The US Bureau of Land Management proposed regulations to ensure more accurate measurement, accountability, and royalty payments for oil and gas production from onshore federal...
    General Interest

    Advocates urge US to end its crude export ban in Iran agreement's wake

    July 17, 2015
    Advocates called for removing the US ban on exports of domestically produced crude oil in the wake of the July 14 international nuclear weapons agreement with Iran that also would...
    General Interest

    Ending crude export ban would help rural US areas, House panel told

    July 17, 2015
    Rural US communities generally have benefited from the nation's crude oil production renaissance, and potentially could be helped more if restrictions on exports of crude were...
    General Interest

    House panel's oil export ban hearing weighs urgency against caution

    July 17, 2015
    A US House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on legislation to repeal the ban on exporting US-produced crude oil quickly broke along party lines.
    Government

    Cost retrospection

    July 17, 2015
    Warning about the cost of regulation is easier than proving it retrospectively. Individuals or industries know what they spend to function under a given regulation, but they usually...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Net product exports

    July 17, 2015
    Record refinery runs and rising global demand for petroleum products from the US in 2015 has increased net petroleum product exports.