North Sea Cormorant platform incident shuts down Brent pipeline system
Mar 4, 2013
Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA) confirmed a hydrocarbon release was detected in one of the Cormorant Alpha platform legs in the northern UK North Sea, adding there was no hydrocarbon release into the sea or air. |
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Transferred geothermal energy heats wellbore
Mar 4, 2013
Theoretical calculations and laboratory experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of heat transfer with a sucker rod string. Liaohe field tests of the wells show this technology can heat the wellbore in steam-stimulated wells. |
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Watching Government: Dalrymple's different problems
Mar 4, 2013
Governors descended on Washington, DC, Feb. 23-25 eager to exchange ideas and share experiences at the National Governors Association's 2013 Winter Meeting. |
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Governor wants Ohio to 'modernize' severance tax
Mar 4, 2013
It's time for Ohio to "modernize" its severance tax so the state can more fully benefit from oil and gas discoveries there, Gov. John Kasich (R) said in his 2013 State of the State address. |
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Delphi Energy brings Montney horizontal wells on stream
Mar 1, 2013
Delphi Energy Corp. of Calgary reported encouraging results from its initial development of its Montney play at Bigstone where Delphi last year brought three horizontal Montney wells on stream and recently brought on stream a fourth horizontal well (OGJ Online, May 22, 2012). |
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ConocoPhillips planning to divest some LNG, oil sands assets
Feb 28, 2013
ConocoPhillips is planning to sell some of its interest in the Australia Pacific LNG project and in the Canadian oil sands in a strategy to devote more cash to US shale plays, ConocoPhilips Chief Executive Ryan Lance said during a Feb. 28 investor and analyst meeting. |
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UT study forecasts reliable supply from Barnett shale through 2030
Feb 28, 2013
A new study of the Barnett shale foresees reliable supply with slowly declining production through the year 2030, said the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin and financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a New York philanthropic grant-making institution. |
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Alberta, Swan Hills Synfuels end CCS pact
Feb 26, 2013
The government of Alberta and Swan Hills Synfuels have agreed to cancel an agreement under which the province was to have helped fund a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. |
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Statoil lets contracts for Dagny oil field
Feb 20, 2013
Statoil has let a contract to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for design and construction of the topsides of the platform to be installed on Dagny oil and natural gas field offshore Norway. Aker Solutions will be a major subcontractor. |
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Queensland okays Aussie oil shale project
Feb 19, 2013
Australia’s Queensland state government said it will allow Queensland Energy Resources Ltd. to proceed with efforts to develop commercial oil shale operations at a Gladstone plant, provided QER comply with environmental requirements, the government said. |
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Sinjhoro gas field starts up in Pakistan
Feb 19, 2013
State-owned Oil & Gas Development Co. of Pakistan and partners have started production from Sinjhoro natural gas field about 65 km northeast of Hyderabad City, Pakistan (OGJ Online, Sept. 4, 2009). |
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ConocoPhillips cleared to resume full oil production at Penglai 19-3
Feb 18, 2013
ConocoPhillips received permission to resume full production at Penglai 19-3 oil field in China’s northern Bohai Bay after being sanctioned by the Chinese goverment for oil seeps during 2011, China's State Oceanic Administration said. |
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Argentina drilling unconventional well in Chubut province
Feb 18, 2013
Argentina’s YPF SA plans to spend $12 million to drill an unconventional well in Chubut province, marking YPF’s strategy to expand beyond Neuquen province in its search for unconventional oil and gas. |
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Fright in perspective
Feb 18, 2013
A tip for survival in 21st Century America: When someone on television warns of grave threats to human welfare from the environmental consequences of some regular activity, change channels. |
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Statoil's Mariner field development plan approved
Feb 15, 2013
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has approved the Mariner heavy oil field development plan. |
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July 23, 2013 | |
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