Obama administration outlines Arctic energy policy initiatives
Feb 7, 2012
Obama administration officials announced a series of initiatives that they said are aimed at bringing the best available science to energy-related decisions in the Arctic. The initiatives include development of an Arctic environmental emergency response mechanism by this summer, they told the Alaska Forum on the Environment in Anchorage. |
US House panel passes bill requiring more studies of E15 impacts
Feb 7, 2012
The US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved legislation that would require the US Environmental Protection Agency to further study possible impacts of increasing allowable ethanol levels in gasoline to 15%. |
MARKET WATCH: WTI price dips, natural gas price rises in mixed market
Feb 7, 2012
The front-month crude contract dipped below $97/bbl in a mixed New York market Feb. 6, but front-month natural gas rebound 1.9% on forecasts of colder weather across the US. |
Canada, Alberta commit to 'improve' environmental monitoring of oil sands
Feb 6, 2012
The governments of Canada and Alberta, stung by the recent US decision to postpone development of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project, have agreed to step up their monitoring of the environmental effects of oil sands developments. |
IHS: Shale plays driving demand for oil field chemicals
Feb 6, 2012
The global market for oil field specialty chemicals reached nearly $16 billion in 2010 with the US and Canada accounting for 52%, which an IHS Chemical market study attributed to increasing oil and natural gas drilling activity in shale plays. |
MARKET WATCH: Oil prices rebound in New York; gas futures price drops again
Feb 6, 2012
Oil prices rebounded Feb. 3 after the US Department of Labor reported unemployment has fallen to 8.3%—the lowest level since February 2009. But natural gas gave back a sizeable portion of the previous session’s gain in the New York market. |
Turkey: Gas storage field joint venture formed
Feb 6, 2012
Sky Harvest Windpower Corp., Vancouver, BC, said it has formed a joint venture under the name Levant Energy Inc., a British Columbia corporation, to develop underground natural gas storage fields in Turkey. |
PetroChina to buy 20% of Shell's Canadian shale gas assets
Feb 6, 2012
PetroChina, a unit of China National Petroleum Corp., has signed a binding agreement to purchase a 20% stake in Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Groundbirch assets in northeastern British Columbia. |
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