Tier 3 gasoline costsAccording to the US Environmental Protection Agency's latest proposal to change gasoline chemistry, the refining industry was wrong in its warnings about economic effects of a previous initiative so it must be wrong now. |
Federal Arctic working group calls for review of agencies’ activitiesAn Alaska interagency working group called for a review yearend of more than 20 federal agencies, departments, and executive offices at work in the Arctic as it issued a report to US President Barack Obama on Apr. 4. It did not recommend any new regulations or policies. |
BSEE issues new rule increasing offshore safety requirementsThe US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued a new Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule for offshore oil and gas activity that aims to improve SEMS requirements under the original workplace safety rule that became effective on Nov. 15, 2010. |
EIA: US energy-related carbon dioxide emissions at lowest levels since 1994US energy-related carbon dioxide emissions reached 5.3 billion tonnes in 2012—the nation’s lowest level since 1994, the US Energy Information Administration reported. |
Federal judge favors CSB access to Transocean data on MacondoA federal judge in Houston has upheld the US Chemical Safety Board’s legal authority to investigate the April 2010 deepwater Macondo well blowout and subsequent explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible in the Gulf of Mexico, which resulted in a massive oil spill. |
EPA proposes sulfur cut in move toward California gasolineUS refiners would need to lower the sulfur content of gasoline to levels in place in Europe and elsewhere under a Mar. 29 proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at aligning federal regulations with those in effect in California. |
NEPA and the climateAn economy teetering despite interest rates barely above zero soon will have a new load to bear. The White House will blame Congress, especially the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. But Americans should know otherwise. |
Salazar finalizes oil shale plan; BLM proposes revisionsUS Interior Sec. Ken Salazar issued a record of decision that finalizes a development process for oil shale and tar sands resources in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. |
Flores, House members file bill to curb ESA settlement abusesUS Rep. Bill Flores (R-Tex.) introduced a bill that aims to curb costs and regulations resulting from federal Endangered Species Act closed-door litigation settlements between the US Fish and Wildlife Service and environmental organizations. |
Gazprom faces growing pressure to change, experts say in reportChanging global natural gas markets may compel Russia’s state gas company Gazprom to dramatically change, two Washington observers suggested, but the changes won’t be easy, and will take time, they said during a seminar at the Atlantic Council. |
Independent panel formed to review EPA's fracing researchA panel of 31 experts has been formed to review the US Environmental Protection Agency’s hydraulic fracturing research, EPA’s independent Scientific Advisory Board announced on Mar. 25. |
PHMSA proposes ExxonMobil pay $1.7 million fine for pipeline leakThe US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. pay a $1.7 million fine because of a July 2011 failure of its Silvertip crude oil pipeline across the Yellowstone River near Laurel, Mont. |
PHMSA issues CAO to Chevron Pipe Line for products leak in UtahThe US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a corrective action order on Mar. 22 outlining steps Chevron Pipe Line Co. must take in response to a leak 4 days earlier in its products pipeline near Willard, Utah. |
India seeks petroleum assessment, more E&PIndia is considering ways to boost assessment of its oil and gas potential and is working to lower bureaucratic impediments to exploration and production. |
Energy from politics?From a president who seems to think energy comes from politics, yet another innovation emerged Mar. 15 in a speech at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. "The only way to really break this cycle of spiking gas prices," said President Barack Obama, "the only way to break that cycle for good is to shift our cars entirely—our cars and trucks—off oil." |
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Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies |
July 23, 2013 | |
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October 21, 2013 | |
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October 22, 2013 | |
PetroWorld India |
October 24, 2013 | |
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November 05, 2013 | |
