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    European refiners face new investment requirements at a difficult time, warns the International Energy Agency.
    April 23, 2007
    The most important trend in energy production over the last two centuries is decarbonization, a trend that will see methane overtake oil and coal to become the next two generation...
    April 23, 2007
    Enhanced oil recovery is merely the first step in a national effort to capture and store or reuse industrially produced carbon dioxide, witnesses told the US Senate Energy and...
    April 23, 2007
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    Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, led by Angola and Saudi Arabia, will increase total capacity to produce crude oil this year and next by a net 2.6...
    April 23, 2007
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    Since the early 1990s China’s skyrocketing demand for energy has dramatically affected global markets and international policy.
    April 23, 2007
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while seeking security of demand, is fully committed to a continuous supply of oil on the international market, according to...
    April 23, 2007
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    General Interest - Quick TakesIraq study sees output hike, confirms reservesIraq could double oil production capacity to 4 million b/d in 5 years with little effort, according...
    April 23, 2007
    Deepwater royalty relief will cost the US government billions of dollars, but uncertainty about prices and production levels make precise estimates impossible at this time, the...
    April 23, 2007
    Three main challenges facing the oil industry-stable and reasonable prices, security of both demand and supply, and the relationship between national oil companies (NOCs) and ...
    April 23, 2007
    Steady increases in offshore oil and gas production will drive up industry’s annual spending to more than $275 billion by 2011 from $219 billion in 2006, according to a forecast...
    April 23, 2007
    Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Davudi last week said that his country would do its level best to prepare a proper ground free from tension for attraction of foreign investment...
    April 23, 2007
    Lloyd N. Unsell, who rose from reporting for a small Oklahoma newspaper to become one of the US oil and gas industry’s most influential leaders in Washington, DC, as president...
    April 23, 2007
    IPR Inc., Irving, Tex., and ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), Mumbai, have made an oil discovery with the first exploration well on the North Ramadan concession in the Gulf of Suez.
    April 23, 2007
    Energy prices fluctuated Apr. 9-13 with fast-paced changes in US inventories and political threats to Middle East crude supplies.
    April 23, 2007
    To the oil and gas industry’s detriment, World Bank Pres. Paul Wolfowitz has sustained a blow likely to destroy his effectiveness in a crucial fight.
    April 23, 2007
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    Enhanced diamond protection offered for drillbitsClick here to enlarge imageThis drillbit supplier has expanded its offering of enhanced diamond protection for customers drilling...
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    The 20-in. steel catenary riser, connecting the Independence Hub (IHUB) production platform to the Independence Trail natural gas export pipeline, ranks as the largest and deepest...
    April 23, 2007
    NigerCNPC International Tenere Ltd. spudded the Fachi West-1 exploration well on the 17.3 million acre Tenere Block in Niger. The drillsite is 27 km north of Saha-1, where one...
    April 23, 2007
    ConocoPhillips has adopted a thoughtful approach to climate change that comes up one step short of comprehensive.
    April 23, 2007
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comAgencia Nacional de Hidrocarburoswww.CaribbeanRound2007.comAir francewww.airfrance.comAirBridgeCargowww.airbridgecargo.comAmerican Petroleumwww...
    April 23, 2007
    Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. (BRPC), operator of the ADL 47468 lease on Alaska’s North Slope, has made an apparent discovery with one of two wells in the Gwydyr Bay Prospect Area...
    April 23, 2007
    The world is consuming oil at a rate that will result in oil production peaking in 15 to 25 years, a group of geoscientists told the American Association of Petroleum Geologists...
    April 23, 2007
    Apache Corp. plans to drill 120 wells in 2007 in Argentina, where its early-year production averaged 11,000 b/d of oil and 200 MMcfd of gas.
    April 23, 2007
    Tullow Oil PLC, London, said it has reached agreement to sell to Japan’s Itochu Corp. a 20% interest in its Republic of Namibia Production License No. 001, which contains giant...
    April 23, 2007