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    Companies

    Call for more risk disclosure a shot in offshore barrage

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Senate liberals made motivations clear when they demanded that the US Securities and Exchange Commission enhance requirements for the disclosure of risks associated with oil and...
    Companies

    Encana sheds Haynesville assets in $850-million deal

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Encana Corp., has agreed to sell its Haynesville natural gas assets in northern Louisiana to GEP Haynesville LLC, a joint...
    LNG

    Deloitte: Northern Territory bullish on shale gas

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Development of a shale-gas industry in Northern Territory could drive significant long-term economic growth and generate as much as $1 billion (Aus.) of government revenue, according...
    Production Operations

    Oklahoma reduces wastewater disposal well volumes in Oklahoma, Logan counties

    Aug. 31, 2015
    The Oklahoma Corporation Commission's Oil & Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) announced plans to reduce oil and gas wastewater disposal well volume in a proscribed area of northern...
    General Interest

    KRG to tap oil sales to pay companies

    Aug. 31, 2015
    The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said it will allocate to international oil companies working in the Kurdish region of Iraq some of the revenue it receives from direct ...

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 8d

    Exploration & Development

    Uganda names 16 firms eligible for first licensing round

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Uganda's government has granted approval to 16 companies to bid on exploration rights for six blocks in the nation's Albertine Graben region.
    General Interest

    BHP Billiton most active in 'disappointing' western gulf lease sale

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Just 5 companies submitted 33 bids on 33 tracts in Gulf of Mexico western planning area Lease Sale 246, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) reported following the ...
    General Interest

    WoodMac: 'Decade-long' global gasoline surplus possible for refiners

    Aug. 31, 2015
    The global oil product market could experience a surplus of gasoline supply as early as 2017, according to the latest long-term oil product market forecast from Wood Mackenzie...
    General Interest

    IEA: Long, circuitous rebalancing of oil market begins

    Aug. 31, 2015
    In its August Oil Market Report the International Energy Agency's forecast shows stronger-than-anticipated global oil demand and non-OPEC supply growth swinging into contraction...
    Government

    Watching Government: A natural gas contradiction

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Establishing difficult goals can be worthwhile if contradictions aren't so extreme that the goals become ridiculously impossible. It's still not certain whether the Obama administration...
    Government

    Fossil fuel interests, others are fighting alternatives, Obama says

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Fossil fuel interests, conservative think tanks, and groups funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch are fiercely fighting a growing wave of alternative energy in the US,...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US LNG export prospects are uncertain, Brookings analyst says

    Aug. 31, 2015
    US LNG export projects face an uncertain future despite continued discoveries and production growth, a Brookings Institution analyst said.
    General Interest

    Alaska should move faster to export LNG, study concludes

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Declining crude oil production and growing economic challenges make it urgent for Alaska's business and government leaders to move ahead more quickly on getting a major LNG export...
    Government

    Outrageous on energy

    Aug. 31, 2015
    Two political celebrities in the US seem able to say anything about energy, no matter how outrageous, with impunity. One of them, of course, is President Barack Obama.
    General Interest

    October redeterminations

    Aug. 31, 2015
    For the majority of US small and midsized exploration and production companies, credit secured by liens on their assets represents the best way to get debt capital, according ...
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 31, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Discoveries

    Like Keystone XL, Energy East caught in a chokehold

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Another important pipeline finds itself in a chokehold.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US reportedly will begin limited crude oil swaps with Mexico

    Aug. 24, 2015
    The Obama administration will begin to allow limited US crude oil swaps with Mexico, multiple news organizations reported. The US Department of Commerce is "acting favorably on...
    Unconventional Resources

    CERI: Lower demand, prices may trim near-term oil sands spending

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Lower crude oil prices and reduced demand resulting from a global economic downturn could reduce Canadian oil sands capital expenditures through 2017, the Canadian Energy Research...
    Refining

    US House leaders press BP for answers on Whiting refinery outage

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Leaders in the US House of Representatives are demanding answers from BP PLC regarding the early August unplanned and still ongoing shutdown of a major processing unit at its ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Pennsylvania's governor issues crude-by-rail study he commissioned

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) issued a study he commissioned in late April of issues stemming from the growing number of crude oil shipments by rail across the state.
    Government

    New ozone limits unnecessary, 370 state business groups declare

    Aug. 24, 2015
    The US Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to reduce ozone limits is both costly and unnecessary, 370 state business groups from across the country-including petroleum ...
    Government

    Watching Government: Preparing for an avalanche

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Late summer may not seem like an appropriate time to prepare for avalanches in Washington at first. The nation's capital feels deserted as Congress takes its August recess, and...
    Government

    EPA proposes methane emissions requirements for oil, gas industry

    Aug. 24, 2015
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed requirements aimed at reducing emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOC) from all US oil and gas industry segments...
    Refining

    Low oil prices slam second-quarter earnings

    Aug. 24, 2015
    The long decline in crude oil prices continued to slam North American oil companies' second-quarter upstream earnings, which were partly offset by higher oil volumes and lower...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Politics of abundance

    Aug. 24, 2015
    Attention returns to the antique US ban on exports of crude oil with reports that limited shipments to Mexico have been approved. The oil and gas industry should use the moment...
    Exploration & Development

    The Internet of Things

    Aug. 21, 2015
    With the current low oil-price environment fast becoming the oil and gas industry's "new reality," even the most efficient of companies will have to do more than just make financial...