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    As crude oil prices continue hitting record levels, prices for US on-highway diesel fuel hit an all-time high as well.
    April 28, 2008
    Centurion Pipeline LP launched an open season to determine interest in a proposed reversal project that would deliver heavy Canadian crude from Cushing, Okla., to West Texas.
    April 28, 2008
    Turkmenistan will allow international oil companies to develop Caspian Sea offshore deposits under production-sharing agreements, said Tacberdi Tagyyew, deputy chairman of the...
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    General Interest - Quick TakesAlaska rejects ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson planAlaska state officials have rejected ExxonMobil Corp.’s latest plan to develop Point Thomson Unit (...
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    Capital spending for oil and gas projects in the US will increase this year, buoyed by growth in upstream, midstream, and downstream developments and maintenance.
    April 28, 2008
    Three weeks after winning Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval, a large floating liquefied natural gas terminal and regasification facility proposed for construction ...
    April 28, 2008
    Coal-to-liquids appears to be one of the more credible alternatives to oil “for the long-term supply of transport fuels,” said Institut Francais du Petrole Pres. Olivier Appert...
    April 28, 2008
    The 2008 Atlantic Basin hurricane season could be as active as ever, with 15 named storms expected, two Colorado State University scientists predicted on Apr. 9.
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    Earlier this month, Australian engineering and construction firm Clough completed float-off of the Maari wellhead platform in New Zealand for OMV New Zealand Ltd. on behalf of...
    April 28, 2008
    The oil and gas industry is not alone in taking heat from environmentalists these days.
    April 28, 2008
    The US Department of Energy provided technology that helped Australia launch the Otway basin pilot project, which will inject carbon dioxide into a depleted gas field in southeastern...
    April 28, 2008
    Record high crude prices, combined with the declining value of the US dollar and growing signs of a recession, make increased US oil and gas production necessary not only for ...
    April 28, 2008
    Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, estimated that its properties in the Spraberry Trend in West Texas contain 1 billion boe of net resource potential in addition to the 481...
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    Between 2010 and 2012, barring a drastic decline in the price of natural gas that would curtail the current growth trajectory of US production, incremental domestic production...
    April 28, 2008
    The US dollar at record lows against the euro, China’s robust demand for diesel, and market concerns about supply and demand have pushed up oil prices more than 18% so far this...
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    Martin International,MartinClick here to enlarge imageLaPlace, La., named Russell D. Martin its new CEO. He started in the business as an ordinary seaman with Otto Candies in ...
    April 28, 2008
    The climate-change proposal by US President George W. Bush deserves credit for damage control.
    April 28, 2008
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    Drilling sites are focus of application reportsA series of application reports focuses on worldwide drilling sites.Three recent additions to these 2-4 page educational reports...
    April 28, 2008
    Energy policy for many years has been impossible to discuss outside an environmental context.
    April 28, 2008
    NewfoundlandNWest Energy Inc., St. John’s, let a contract to Geophysical Service Inc., Calgary, to shoot industry’s first 3D seismic survey off western Newfoundland in the 2008...
    April 28, 2008
    ABBwww.abb.com/oilandgasASME/UH Cajun Crawfish BoilBaker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Oil Toolswww.multilateralwells.comButler Manufacturing Corp.Cameronwww.c-a-m.com/otc08Capstone...
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    Shale formations can contain vast stores of hydrocarbons, and it can take industry decades to develop them commercially.
    April 28, 2008
    Sudan’s National Petroleum Commission (NPC) has mapped out a new oil concession in the southern region of the country, calling it Block Ea, according to officials.
    April 28, 2008
    A Jurassic Haynesville shale play in Louisiana, with only a few wells producing gas so far, could eventually be worth 7.5-20 tcf of recovery net to Chesapeake Energy Corp., the...
    April 28, 2008