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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.

API, IPAA criticize Salazar's plan to raise royalty rates

Feb 20, 2012 US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar’s plans to raise onshore oil and gas royalty rates by nearly 50% are a bad idea, the American Petroleum Institute and Independent Petroleum Association of Americ...

US, Mexico sign Gulf of Mexico transboundary agreement

Feb 20, 2012 The US and Mexico have signed an agreement allowing exploration and development of oil and gas resources along the two countries’ maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico. The accord, which still re...

State Department OIG finds no Keystone XL EIS irregularities

Feb 20, 2012 The US Department of State's Office of Inspector General found no significant irregularities in the preparation of an environmental impact statement for TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL cru...

API warns of possible EPA refinery regulatory 'tsunami'

Feb 20, 2012 Proposed US Environmental Protection Agency regulations directed at refiners could put several US refiners out of business and place others at a significant disadvantage to overseas petroleum produ...

New clean-energy standard move shows failure to learn

Feb 20, 2012

As Congress begins its latest effort to choreograph energy choice, Americans should lock their cash drawers.

White House retains oil tax increases in proposed 2013 budget

Feb 20, 2012

US oil and gas producers' federal taxes would climb by nearly $27 billion over 10 years under the Obama administration's budget proposal that was released on Feb. 13.

Federal frac rules could lead to national standards, Salazar says

Feb 20, 2012 US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar told the US House Natural Resources Committee that regulations covering hydraulic fracturing on federal lands are necessary, and will be developed after full con...

BSEE approves Shell's Chukchi Sea oil spill response plan

Feb 17, 2012 The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.’s Chukchi Sea oil spill response plan in one of four US Department of the Interior actions aimed at l...

Producers oppose federal frac standard idea, groups say

Feb 16, 2012 The presidents of five US oil and gas trade associations quickly disputed US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar’s Feb. 15 statement that producers might welcome a national hydraulic fracturing standa...

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