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    Reserves

    Clinton's energy goals point toward economic hazard

    Aug. 10, 2015
    If Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States and implements the energy policy she's now describing, she won't win a second term.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    API: Oil, gas boost 2015 US trade balance

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The oil and gas industry continues to drive US economic gains in 2015, a trend that could accelerate under free trade policies, noted American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Momentum to repeal crude export ban continues to build, Gerard says

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The drive to remove the 40-year-old ban on exporting US-produced crude oil is gaining momentum as more members of Congress recognize the action's obvious energy, economic, and...
    General Interest

    Nelson vows to block Murkowski's stand-alone crude oil bill

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Chair Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alas.) bill to end the ban on exporting US-produced oil. But Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) ...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: Gas and the Clean Power Plan

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The Obama administration may hope that the final rule for coal-fired power plants that it announced Aug. 3 will lead to more renewable and alternative technologies being deployed...

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Energy panel votes to send broad policy bill to Senate floor

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee sent the broad energy policy bill developed by Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) and Ranking Minority Member Maria E. Cantwell...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Murkowski, Warner want US ready to use energy abundance strategically

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US should better prepare itself to use its new energy abundance as a geopolitical tool by jettisoning obsolete policies and broadening access for potential overseas customers...
    HSE

    Clean Power Plan ignores gas's potential role, industry groups say

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The Obama administration's final rule to curb US power plants' greenhouse gas emissions did not acknowledge natural gas's potential contributions, officials from two national ...
    Companies

    BSEE grants Shell limited drilling rights for Chukchi project

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has granted conditional approval to Royal Dutch Shell PLC of two applications for permits to drill (APD) to conduct...
    General Interest

    Latest Texas Petro Index shows 'economic disconnect'

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The Texas Petro Index (TPI) for June indicates that crude oil and natural gas production and jobs estimates in the Lone Star State increased from May despite the unfavorable economic...
    General Interest

    Industry 2Q earnings, jobs dissolve amid continued oil-price slump

    Aug. 10, 2015
    A difficult year thus far for the integrated, multinational oil and gas firms caused by low oil prices has been somewhat eased by improved production and better refining margins...
    Government

    Gas targeted, too

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed two related and already well-founded suspicions when it published its final rule on emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants...
    Pipelines

    Narrowing the gap

    Aug. 10, 2015
    The US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) last year proposed updating its rules to require mapping interstate natural gas pipelines to within 5 ft of...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 10, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals