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  • Volume 117, Issue 7d

    General Interest

    Watching Government: Pennsylvania impact fees

    July 29, 2019
    Pennsylvania is held up often as an example of how a state can help local and county governments meet increased community needs resulting from relatively rapid oil and gas resource...
    General Interest

    Editorial: The Mexican retreat

    July 29, 2019
    Mexico hastened its retreat from oil and gas reform this month with a business plan for the state-owned oil company that pursues sharply increased oil production with changes ...
    General Interest

    Libyan security woes seen in field closure

    July 29, 2019
    The July 19-22 shutdown of Libya’s largest oil field indicates “the deteriorating security conditions at oil and gas sites,” says an analyst at Verisk Maplecroft.El Sharara oil...
    General Interest

    Journally Speaking: Midstream capital

    July 29, 2019
    The midstream business has propped up the energy industry’s involvement in capital markets in this year’s second quarter, all the while remaining popular with private equity groups...
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Photo from Syncrude.
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Photo from Syncrude.
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Photo from Syncrude.
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Photo from Syncrude.
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Photo from Syncrude.
    General Interest

    Alberta approves Mildred Lakes bitumen mine extension

    July 29, 2019
    Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd. joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator (OGJ Online, Jan. 20, 2015).The ...

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    General Interest

    Energy splits Canadian ministers’ meeting

    July 29, 2019
    Political tension over energy and the environment escalated in Canada on July 19 when officials of three provinces refused to endorse the federal government’s communique on the...
    General Interest

    Mexico retreats from oil, gas reforms

    July 29, 2019
    Mexico is retreating from the 2014 liberalization of its oil and gas regime.“It is contemplated that public investment will be complemented by private investment through long-...
    General Interest

    API issues updated refinery fire prevention recommended practice

    July 29, 2019
    The American Petroleum Institute published an updated standard aimed at preventing fires and improving safety at US refineries. RP 2001, Fire Protection in Refineries, includes...
    General Interest

    House panel asks if federal leasing is back to ‘business as usual’

    July 29, 2019
    The US Department of the Interior realistically can’t return to a “business as usual” attitude and aggressively issue oil, gas, and mineral leases on land it oversees without ...
    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 29, 2019
    GENERAL INTEREST Quick TakesRange divests assets in deals worth a total $634 millionRange Resources Corp., Fort Worth, reported it has agreed to sell a 2% proportionately reduced...
    General Interest

    Analytics firm finds Permian basin stats misleading

    July 29, 2019
    Oil and gas companies under-reported hydraulic fracturing activity for producing light, tight oil by more than 20% in the Permian basin during 2018, estimates Kayrros, a data ...
    General Interest

    US-Iran tensions escalate with tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman

    July 29, 2019
    Brent crude oil prices hovered under $65/bbl on the London market in late July despite geopolitical risks, especially US-Iran tensions, that typically would support higher prices...
    General Interest

    CERI: Canadian crude oil production to rise until 2025

    July 29, 2019
    Canadian crude oil production is expected to continue to rise until 2025 followed by a decline by yearend 2039. That was the conclusion of a recent study released by the Canadian...
    Editor's Perspective

    Government denies crisis as conditions worsen in Venezuela

    July 19, 2019
    As humanitarian conditions worsen in Venezuela, the government seeks belief in the unbelievable.