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    LNG

    LNG17: Speakers urge industry toward more openness, cooperation

    April 22, 2013
    Calls for more and better cooperation between global LNG suppliers and market countries pervaded opening remarks from some of the world's leading players at the first day of the...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 22, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Government

    States best qualified to regulate oil, gas, House panel told

    April 22, 2013
    US states are the most qualified to regulate oil and gas development within their boundaries because they're well acquainted with unique geological and environmental conditions...
    Government

    McCarthy promises collaborative, commonsense approach at EPA

    April 22, 2013
    Gina McCarthy pledged to use a collaborative, commonsense approach if the US Senate confirms her nomination to become the US Environmental Protection Agency's administrator.
    Government

    House panels discuss Terry's Keystone XL authorization bill

    April 22, 2013
    A second US House subcommittee heard testimony in support of a bill to let Congress approve the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project as the first, which held a hearing...

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 4c

    Government

    Learning from mistakes

    April 22, 2013
    The US and the UK should learn from each other's mistakes with renewable transportation fuel. As the US Congress stepped toward rationalizing fuel ethanol this month, a new biofuel...
    Home

    Pioneer of climate alarm retires to fight fossil fuels

    April 22, 2013
    A pioneer of climate alarm has turned to full-time warfare against fossil energy.
    Government

    Bill due to remove corn ethanol from Renewable Fuels Standard

    April 22, 2013
    Bipartisan legislation will be introduced to remove corn-based ethanol from the federal Renewable Fuels Standard in 2014, a group of US House members announced on Apr. 10.
    Companies

    Chinese NOCs' expansion

    April 22, 2013
    Backed by vast foreign exchange reserves and taking advantage of the world economic downturn, Chinese national oil companies (NOCs) have purchased assets in the Middle East, North...
    New Plants

    Chatham House report warns against expansion of UK biofuels

    April 22, 2013
    A London think tank study warned against expansion of biofuel use in the UK as the requirement rose to 5% by volume in transportation fuel on Apr. 15 and faced European pressure...
    Gas Processing

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    April 22, 2013
    MoroccoCairn Energy PLC has secured a long-term contract for the Transocean Cajun Express semisubmersible for a multicountry West African exploratory drilling campaign to begin...
    IOR/EOR

    New UAE energy minister seeks energy efficiency

    April 22, 2013
    Concerned about rising domestic oil consumption, the new minister of energy of the United Arab Emirates has called for national-level improvements in energy-use efficiency.
    Government

    Senate confirms Jewell's nomination as DOI secretary

    April 22, 2013
    The US Senate confirmed Sally Jewell's nomination as US Interior Secretary on Apr. 10, clearing the way for her to succeed Ken Salazar and lead the federal department during US...
    Government

    Watching Government: Jobs and Keystone XL

    April 22, 2013
    During Bill Clinton's first US presidential campaign in 1992—or so the story goes—workers at its headquarters kept their focus by periodically glancing at a poster which proclaimed...
    LNG

    Woodside pulls plug on JPP LNG hub

    April 22, 2013
    Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has decided against using the Western Australian government's James Price Point LNG hub for development of its Browse basin gas fields.
    Exploration & Development

    Tullow tests oil in Kenya, finds indications in Ethiopia

    April 22, 2013
    A Tullow Oil PLC group has tested oil from the lowermost pay zone at the Ngamia-1 discovery well in the Lokichar basin in Kenya and encouraging hydrocarbon indications at an exploratory...