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  • Volume 117, Issue 9b

    • Volume 117, Issue 9b

    Sept. 16, 2019 | BP PLC and coventurers Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chevron North Sea Ltd., and ConocoPhillips in November 2018 began production at the giant Clair Ridge project, West of Shetland, 75 km offshore UK. Clair Ridge is the second phase development of Clair field. Discovered in 1977, Clair holds an estimated 7 billion boe. Clair Ridge was designed to recover an estimated 640 million bbl of oil at a peak rate of 120,000 b/d. BP in August awarded Sparrows Group a contract for deck operations services. Photo from Sparrows Group.
    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 24, 2019
    GENERAL INTEREST Quick Takes Alberta starts promised review of AER The Alberta government has begun a review of the Alberta Energy Regulator, a campaign promise of Premier Jason...
    General Interest

    Journally Speaking: Home sickness

    Sept. 24, 2019
    Every once in a blue moon, it’s a good idea for an Oil & Gas Journal editor to take a trip abroad, to get into the world to see what it’s like outside the US.
    General Interest

    Editorial: The auto-fuel mess

    Sept. 24, 2019
    Separate messes created by overregulation of vehicles and their fuels have begun to ooze together in the US. Before they become a blob, refiners, automakers, and ethanol producers...
    General Interest

    Higher production supported US firms’ second-quarter earnings

    Sept. 24, 2019
    A sample of 57 US-based oil and gas firms posted a combined net income of $15.2 billion in this year’s second quarter compared with earnings of $13.56 billion in the previous ...
    16 Sep Equinor Dorian Terminal
    General Interest

    Equinor addresses hurricane-damaged terminal in Bahamas

    Sept. 23, 2019
    Equinor continues the work with resources from the Bahamas, the US, and Norway to respond to the effects of Hurricane Dorian on the South Riding Point terminal on Grand Bahama...

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    IER lawsuit alleges USDA withholding RFS documents

    Sept. 23, 2019
    The Institute for Energy Research (IER) has sued the USDA to compel the department to release certain documents the public policy group sought in April out of concern that the...
    General Interest

    ExxonMobil enters exclusive Norway sale talks with Var Energi

    Sept. 23, 2019
    ExxonMobil Corp. is in exclusive discussions with Var Energi—a joint venture of Eni SPA and private investment firm HitecVision—regarding the possible sale of the remainder of...
    General Interest

    Arctic LNG 2 development reaches FID

    Sept. 23, 2019
    Total and the other project shareholders have approved final investment decision for the Arctic LNG 2 development on Gydan peninsula, Russia.
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    Watching Government: Utah’s evolving ground rules

    Sept. 23, 2019
    The US Bureau of Land Management did more than propose new plans on Aug. 23 for what remained of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah following US President...
    General Interest

    Poland wins OPAL pipeline case

    Sept. 23, 2019
    The Court of Justice of the European Union has annulled European Commission Decision No. C(2016) 6950 of Oct. 28, 2016, which had granted Gazprom a monopoly over access to Germany...
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    Dorado-3 appraisal well confirms hydrocarbons in three reservoirs

    Sept. 23, 2019
    Wireline results in the Santos Ltd.-operated Dorado-3 appraisal well in the Bedout subbasin of northwest Western Australia have confirmed hydrocarbons in the three main reservoirs...
    Editor's Perspective

    Editor's Perspective: Opioid-case ruling a legal worry for oil, gas industry

    Sept. 23, 2019
    Oil and gas companies should worry about the $527 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson for the drug maker’s connection with the US opioid crisis.