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Industry seizes opportunities amid challenges in election year

Feb 6, 2012

Conventional wisdom dictates that not much gets accomplished in Washington, DC, when it's a presidential election year.

DOI says leases remain idle; industry groups dispute claim

May 21, 2012 More than two thirds of federal offshore tracts leased by the oil and gas industry and more than half of the federal onshore acreage companies hold in the Lower 48 remains idle, the US Department o...

Watching Government: Redundant regulations

May 21, 2012

The White House announced five final rules on May 10 that it said would save nearly $6 billion in the next 5 years by eliminating outdated regulations and unjustified requirements.

Chesapeake believes asset sales will help ease financial woes

May 21, 2012 Oklahoma City independent Chesapeake Energy Corp. is confident it will complete assets sales to help resolve financial concerns, its chief executive officer told analysts and investors during a con...

Salazar applauds collaboration, authorizes eastern Utah gas project

May 21, 2012 US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar hailed the collaboration that made an agreement possible as he signed the record of decision authorizing Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s Greater Natural Buttes natural gas p...

Regulation, good and bad

May 21, 2012 Polarization of US politics distorts conversation about regulation. The oil and gas industry has witnessed too often the default assertion that one side supports regulation while the other opposes ...

CBO study examines policy options to reduce oil price volatility

May 21, 2012 Policies that reduce the US transportation system's heavy reliance on petroleum products would more effectively shield consumers from volatile prices and supply interruptions in the long term than ...

API outlines main issues for GOP, Democrats' 2012 platforms

May 21, 2012 The American Petroleum Institute announced it will try to make more access to federally controlled energy resources, commonsense regulations, quicker permit decisions, and market-based renewable an...

Former ambassadors cite foreign policy impacts from oil imports

May 18, 2012 More decisive action is needed to reduce US reliance on imported crude oil, which pushed the foreign trade deficit past $500 billion in 2011 to unsustainable levels, Securing America’s Future Energ...

BLM releases first Pinedale Anticline groundwater monitoring report

May 18, 2012 The US Bureau of Land Management’s field office in Pinedale, Wyo., released the first of four groundwater monitoring reports for the Pinedale Anticline. The report aims to address hydrogeologic dat...

UK: Land, offshore well data made available on line

May 16, 2012 The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and the British Geological Survey have authorized TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. to release on line new and historical data for all land and offshore wells...

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