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Vol 106 Issue 27
Jul 21, 2008 |
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New stories appear on this page regularly, so please check back often. Every Friday, OGJ Washington Pulse assembles the prior week’s stories into a printable newsletter format, posted by date under "Past Weeks’ Issues." To subscribe, visit
www.ogjpulse.com, or e-mail Judith Morrall at jmorrall@pennwell.com.
Capital Commentary
(July 21, 2008)
In a week that began with President Bush's rescinding the presidential OCS withdrawal and ended with the House defeating the latest "use it or lose it" bill, Red Cavaney raised some important points.
Update
(July 22, 2008)
Democrats and Republicans traded charges of obstructing debate as the US Senate began to discuss Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's (D-Nev.) bill to reform energy commodity markets.
(July 18, 2008)
US oil demand dropped 3% in 2008's first six months as gasoline deliveries fell 1.7% in their first significant six-month decrease since 1991, the American Petroleum Institute reported.
(July 18, 2008)
The US House of Representatives rejected the Democratic leadership's latest energy bill in a 244-173 vote on July 17 when H.R. 6515, which came to the floor under a rules suspension, fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote for passage.
(July 17, 2008)
Expectations that supplies will continue to dwindle as demand keeps growing have pushed crude oil prices dramatically higher since the beginning of 2008, two leading energy analysts told US senators.
Duly Noted
(July 23, 2008)
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), during debate on S. 3268, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's (D-Nev.) bill to enact energy commodities trading reforms, late in the afternoon of July 22.
(July 18, 2008)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), as House Republicans traveled to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on July 18.
Other Headlines
(July 24, 2008)
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged a global proprietary trading fund based in the Netherlands, two subsidiaries and three employees with manipulating and attempting to manipulate US petroleum commodities markets.
(July 23, 2008)
The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion bbl of undiscovered, technically recoverable crude, the US Geological Survey said in its first petroleum resource estimate of the region.
(July 23, 2008)
Two US House Democrats said on July 22 that they plan to introduce legislation which would provide incentives for consumers to buy natural gas vehicles, automakers to manufacture NGVs and retailers to install NGV refueling systems.
(July 22, 2008)
The US Bureau of Land Management published proposed regulations to establish a commercial oil shale development program which it said could add up to 800 billion bbl of recoverable oil to US reserves.
(July 22, 2008)
Fundamental supply and demand forces provide the best explanation for recent crude oil price increases, a staff report for the federal Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets concluded.
(July 21, 2008)
A federal district court on July 18 overturned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a proposed expansion of Dominion Resources' Cove Point liquefied natural gas installation in Maryland.
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