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  • Volume 113, Issue 7c

    General Interest

    Rig counts are up where plans focus on the long term

    July 27, 2015
    Rig counts plummet except where they don't.
    Refining

    Russia's NefteGazIndustriya advances refinery modernization

    July 27, 2015
    NefteGazIndustriya LLC, through a project developer, has let a contract to CB&I, Houston, to provide equipment for work related to the modernization of its 5.25 million-tonne/...
    Production Operations

    Cidade de Marica FPSO arrives in Brazil for module integration

    July 27, 2015
    Petroleo Brasilierio SA (Petrobras) reported that the Cidade de Marica floating production, storage, and offloading vessel is berthed at Brasa shipyard in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro...
    General Interest

    ConocoPhillips plans further capex reduction for deepwater exploration

    July 27, 2015
    ConocoPhillips reported plans to further reduce its capital expenditures for deepwater exploration, with the "most significant reductions" coming from its operated program in ...
    Companies

    MPLX, MarkWest to merge in $15.8 billion deal

    July 27, 2015
    MPLX LP, a Findlay, Ohio-based master limited partnership (MLP) formed by Marathon Petroleum Corp. in 2012, and Denver-based MarkWest Energy Partners LP have agreed to a unit-...

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    LNG

    Watching Government: Latvia's gas challenges

    July 27, 2015
    Latvia reclaimed its independence when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
    LNG

    DOE official: LNG exports could be limited by silt-clogged waterways, ports

    July 27, 2015
    Silt, which is increasingly filling US waterways and ports, potentially could limit US LNG exports if it is not dredged soon, a top US Department of Energy official warned.
    Government

    OIG report: EPA needs to improve oversight of fracing with diesel

    July 27, 2015
    The US Environmental Protection Agency needs to improve its oversight of hydraulic fracturing using diesel fuels and address any compliance issues, EPA's Office of Inspector General...
    Government

    Michigan DEQ report urges ban of heavy oils in Mackinac Straits pipeline

    July 27, 2015
    Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality's Petroleum Pipeline Task Force issued a report that recommended that heavy crude and oil sands be kept out of an Enbridge Inc. ...
    HSE

    Study looks at gas transmission, storage sites' methane releases

    July 27, 2015
    A comprehensive study of US natural gas transmission and storage operations found total methane emissions from 2,292 on-site measurements, additional emissions data from 677 facilities...
    General Interest

    URTeC: Panel sees resiliency in unconventional space

    July 27, 2015
    Panelists commented on future recovery of oil prices and the growth of unconventional drilling, then took questions from an overflow audience during the opening plenary session...
    Discoveries

    URTeC: Unconventional innovation begins with data, investment

    July 27, 2015
    Operators should resist the impulse to pull back on investments in technology despite a down oil market, said Claudia J. Hackbarth, manager, unconventional gas and tight oil research...
    Discoveries

    The oil sand moose

    July 27, 2015
    Imagine a document entitled Canadian Energy Strategy in which the world "bitumen" does not appear. Or the phrase "oil sands." To be fair, the strategy produced by a committee ...
    Production Operations

    Corruptible oil

    July 27, 2015
    Where there's oil, there's also a good chance some level of corruption exists. Such is the case, especially, when you combine poverty and an abundance of one of the world's most...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 27, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals