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BPNA settles environmental charges at Whiting, Ind., refinery

May 24, 2012 BP North America Inc. (BPNA) agreed to pay an $8 million fine and spend more than $400 million to install state-of-the-art air pollution controls at its Whiting, Ind., refinery to settle charges th...

El Paso spokesman calls fracturing controversy misdirected

May 24, 2012 Much of the public concern about possible water contamination from unconventional oil and gas operations is misdirected, David Blackmon, director of government affairs for El Paso Corp., told a May...

Texas regulators to review natural gas flaring rules

May 24, 2012 The Texas Railroad Commission and the TRC’s Eagle Ford Task Force plan to study whether existing state regulations on flaring and venting associated with oil and natural gas operations need to be u...

Deloitte report sees crucial energy role for water management

May 22, 2012

Water management will play an increasingly crucial role in energy globally as well as in the US, experts at Deloitte LLP’s 2012 Washington area energy conference forecast on May 21.

Total confirms G4 well top kill completely stopped Elgin gas leak

May 21, 2012 Total UK Ltd. said 5 days of close monitoring confirms the success of a May 15 top kill operation on the leaking G4 natural gas well on the Elgin complex, 240 km from Aberdeen in the UK North Sea.

Diamond Offshore orders drillship, sells jack ups

May 21, 2012

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. ordered a $655 million ultradeepwater drillship from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. with delivery scheduled for fourth-quarter 2014.

Cuba drilling continues as US groups press spill response need

May 21, 2012 Repsol SA continues drilling Cuba's first offshore oil well as some US government agencies, oil and gas organizations, and environmental groups press to ease restrictions that would keep US compani...

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announced five final rules on May 10 that it said would save nearly $6 billion in the next 5 years by eliminating outdated regulations and unjustified requirements.

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...

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...

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