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    Economics & Markets

    The fuel price-tax analogy vanishes when prices plunge

    Sept. 28, 2015
    If high fuel prices are like a tax increase, shouldn't low fuel prices be receiving gushes of American welcome?
    General Interest

    The fuel price-tax analogy vanishes when prices plunge

    Sept. 28, 2015
    If high fuel prices are like a tax increase, shouldn't low fuel prices be receiving gushes of American welcome?
    General Interest

    Political instability, debt handicap Venezuela oil, speakers say

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Mounting political unrest under an increasingly oppressive government is only one reason Venezuela is having more trouble coping with depressed crude oil prices than other major...
    Companies

    Chevron settles with California litigation firm over Ecuadorian lawsuit

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Chevron Corp. has reached a settlement agreement whereby H5, a California-based e-discovery and litigation services firm, has withdrawn its support from litigation against Chevron...
    General Interest

    WoodMac: New minimums for Mexico's Round One are 'internationally competitive'

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Newly announced minimum acceptable bids for the shallow-water development phase of Mexico's Round One are internationally competitive, according to analysis from research and ...

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 9c

    General Interest

    Conditions seen worsening for majors until late 2016

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Fundamental business conditions for integrated oil and gas companies will worsen before signs of improvement appear late next year, according to a Moody's Investors Service assessment...
    Government

    API: EPA should heed cities' inability to meet current ozone limits

    Sept. 28, 2015
    New US Environmental Protection Agency data, which show states and cities are having trouble meeting current ground-level ozone limits, cast doubt on their ability to meet stricter...
    Government

    Watching Government: Obama's ozone remarks

    Sept. 28, 2015
    When he addressed the Business Roundtable on Sept. 15, US President Barack Obama acknowledged there could be problems for states and cities when the US Environmental Protection...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    White House not inclined to end crude oil export ban, official says

    Sept. 28, 2015
    The White House believes a decision on whether to end a 40-year-old ban on exports of US-produced crude oil should come from the US Department of Commerce instead of the Oval ...
    General Interest

    Habitat conservation collaboration keeps greater sage grouse unlisted

    Sept. 28, 2015
    An unprecedented habitat conservation collaboration led the US Fish and Wildlife Service to not list the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species.
    Pipelines

    Partnerships are essential for success, new PHMSA administrator says

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Partnerships with pipeline owner-operators, state and local governments, and Congress will be critical as the US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) strives...
    Government

    Owning the agenda

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Senate Democrats and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton have joined US President Barack Obama's escalating campaign to sacrifice welfare from fossil energy to newly sanctified...
    Companies

    Poland's energy challenge

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Amid the economic chaos of the past decade that has befallen Europe, Poland has managed a steady, uninterrupted climb.
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 28, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    Study finds EISA 2007 law's renewable fuel mandates won't work in 2015

    Sept. 21, 2015
    It will not be feasible for the US to reach renewable fuel volumes that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) mandates in 2015 and beyond, a study commissioned...
    Drilling Operations

    Watching Government: Improving offshore safety

    Sept. 21, 2015
    Making offshore oil and gas operations safer is never far from some people's minds. Recent reports and ongoing activities remind the rest of us that it still matters.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Environmentalists urge Obama to end federal leasing, draw criticism

    Sept. 21, 2015
    A coalition of more than 400 environmental organizations and individuals planned to formally ask the Obama administration to stop new federal fossil fuel leasing on public lands...
    Companies

    Capital spending, revisited

    Sept. 21, 2015
    A double-dip in oil prices over the past few months has dashed hopes raised in May that prices would hold steady at $60/bbl.
    HSE

    Oil, gas divestment would cost colleges more than money

    Sept. 21, 2015
    Money is the second-best reason for colleges and universities not to shed oil and gas investments.
    Government

    Forgotten principles

    Sept. 21, 2015
    Energy policy helps explain why real estate mogul Donald Trump dominates competition to become the Republican Party's candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
    Companies

    Williams, Chesapeake expand gas gathering in Utica, change Haynesville contracts

    Sept. 20, 2015
    Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, reported an expansion of gas-gathering services in growing dry gas production areas of the Utica shale in eastern Ohio.
    Companies

    Oil Search rejects Woodside's takeover bid

    Sept. 20, 2015
    The board of Oil Search Ltd. has unanimously rejected Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s takeover bid for the company, calling Woodside's move highly opportunistic and one that grossly...
    Production Operations

    STEO: Global oil consumption revised down on weak China economic data

    Sept. 20, 2015
    In its most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook, the US Energy Information Administration reported it expects global oil consumption to increase 1.2 million b/d in 2015 and 1.3 million...
    Production Operations

    EIA: US shale oil output to drop 80,000 b/d in October

    Sept. 20, 2015
    Crude oil production in October from seven major US shale plays is expected to drop 80,000 b/d to 5.21 million b/d, according to the US Energy Information Administration's latest...
    Production Operations

    IEA: Most recent OMR shows oil markets tightening

    Sept. 20, 2015
    Oil markets are tightening, as stockpiling gradually slows and inventories start to draw in the second half of 2016, the International Energy Agency forecast in its most recent...
    IOR/EOR

    'Glass half full' for gulf deepwater, UDW operations, SPE Gulf Coast chair says

    Sept. 20, 2015
    In the opening session of the Ultradeepwater (UDW) Technology Conference in Houston, jointly hosted by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) and the Society...
    Drilling & Production

    Offshore drilling woes to last through 2017, Moody's says

    Sept. 20, 2015
    The offshore drilling industry will remain under severe distress through 2017, predicts Moody's Investors Service.Most troubling for the industry is overcapacity, as the number...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US House poised to approve crude export ban repeal, bill's sponsors say

    Sept. 20, 2015
    The US House is likely to move quickly and approve legislation repealing a 40-year-old ban on exports of domestically produced crude oil, Reps. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) and Henry Cuellar...