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FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS — Montney, Duvernay will be key to Canada shale oil, gas growth

Apr 1, 2013 The oil and gas industry continues working to develop unconventional plays in British Columbia and Alberta, particularly oil and liquids with an emphasis toward the Duvernay and Montney in the West...

Capital spending in US, Canada to rise led by pipeline investment boom

Mar 4, 2013 Led by an investment boom in pipeline construction, capital expenditures for oil and gas projects in the US will increase 10% to $348 billion in 2013, following a 7% increase in spending last year.

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Industry awaits permission to explore South Africa's Karoo shale gas

Jan 7, 2013 With the lifting of a ban on hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas companies hope the South African government will authorize natural gas development in the Karoo basin, which awaits actual exploration...

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: More companies investing in Duvernay liquids potential

Nov 5, 2012 Canada's Duvernay shale play is gaining the attention of more investors, including ExxonMobil Corp., which recently announced plans to acquire Celtic Exploration Ltd. in a move that will give Exxon...

Oil, liquids-rich shales dominate capital spending budgets for 2012

Mar 5, 2012

Capital expenditures for all oil and gas projects in North America will increase modestly this year, according to Oil & Gas Journal's annual spending outlook.

UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS FOCUS: Poland shale gas could change European supply mix

Nov 7, 2011 Poland's push toward exploration, development, and anticipated production of shale gas appears to have become almost a national mission for the European nation seeking to break its reliance upon co...

OGJ150 firms post improved 2010 results with stronger prices, production, reserves

Oct 3, 2011 The OGJ150 group of oil and gas producers recorded much-improved 2010 financial and operating results compared with results from a year earlier, buoyed by stronger crude prices and increased produc...

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Multiple models likely for Niobrara horizontal play

Sep 5, 2011

Companies using horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing are taking a fresh look at the Niobrara shale play in the Rocky Mountain region.

Statoil to get stake in Tanzania Block 6

May 24, 2013

Statoil has agreed to acquire a 12% working interest in 5,549-sq-km Block 6 offshore Tanzania from Petrobras Tanzania Ltd., the operator.

PetroBakken renamed Lightstream Resources

May 23, 2013

PetroBakken Energy Ltd., Calgary, has received shareholder approval for a name change, effective immediately, to Lightstream Resources. Ltd.

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS — Montney, Duvernay will be key to Canada shale oil, gas growth

Apr 1, 2013 The oil and gas industry continues working to develop unconventional plays in British Columbia and Alberta, particularly oil and liquids with an emphasis toward the Duvernay and Montney in the West...

Capital spending in US, Canada to rise led by pipeline investment boom

Mar 4, 2013 Led by an investment boom in pipeline construction, capital expenditures for oil and gas projects in the US will increase 10% to $348 billion in 2013, following a 7% increase in spending last year.

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Industry awaits permission to explore South Africa's Karoo shale gas

Jan 7, 2013 With the lifting of a ban on hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas companies hope the South African government will authorize natural gas development in the Karoo basin, which awaits actual exploration...

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: More companies investing in Duvernay liquids potential

Nov 5, 2012 Canada's Duvernay shale play is gaining the attention of more investors, including ExxonMobil Corp., which recently announced plans to acquire Celtic Exploration Ltd. in a move that will give Exxon...

Oil, liquids-rich shales dominate capital spending budgets for 2012

Mar 5, 2012

Capital expenditures for all oil and gas projects in North America will increase modestly this year, according to Oil & Gas Journal's annual spending outlook.

UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS FOCUS: Poland shale gas could change European supply mix

Nov 7, 2011 Poland's push toward exploration, development, and anticipated production of shale gas appears to have become almost a national mission for the European nation seeking to break its reliance upon co...

OGJ150 firms post improved 2010 results with stronger prices, production, reserves

Oct 3, 2011 The OGJ150 group of oil and gas producers recorded much-improved 2010 financial and operating results compared with results from a year earlier, buoyed by stronger crude prices and increased produc...

FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Multiple models likely for Niobrara horizontal play

Sep 5, 2011

Companies using horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing are taking a fresh look at the Niobrara shale play in the Rocky Mountain region.

Statoil to get stake in Tanzania Block 6

May 24, 2013

Statoil has agreed to acquire a 12% working interest in 5,549-sq-km Block 6 offshore Tanzania from Petrobras Tanzania Ltd., the operator.

PetroBakken renamed Lightstream Resources

May 23, 2013

PetroBakken Energy Ltd., Calgary, has received shareholder approval for a name change, effective immediately, to Lightstream Resources. Ltd.

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