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    BP PLC agreed to establish a $20 billion escrow fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from its well, US President Barack Obama and BP announced separately...
    June 28, 2010
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    Exploration & Development — Quick TakesEPA takes on more air permits in TexasThe US Environmental Protection Agency said it was taking over the issuances of operating permits ...
    June 28, 2010
    At any time, one can turn on the television or read on the internet to find numerous stories focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the devastation caused by BP's Macondo well blowout...
    June 28, 2010
    There's an eerie similarity between the cancellation of 51 American nuclear reactor builds after the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown and President Obama's cancellation of 30 ongoing...
    June 28, 2010
    New wellsite computer upload systemThe newly released web based "reconnect uploader" is designed to help improve data flow to the operating company and its partner companies from...
    June 28, 2010
    The front-month crude futures contract continued climbing above $78/bbl, and natural gas rose in early trading June 21 after China said it will end the yuan's 2-year peg to the...
    June 28, 2010
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    A Box For U,Wichita, has added Sharon Dauterive and Sandra Baucom to the company's sales team. Both will focus efforts on US Gulf Coast sales. Dauterive has a strong sales background...
    June 28, 2010
    An important, mid-June test of the post-Macondo political mood favored the oil and gas industry.
    June 28, 2010
    The outlook for crude oil and natural gas markets is uncertain, said Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency at the June 23 launch of the agency's ...
    June 28, 2010
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    Rising production of natural gas and the growing need for light products are reshaping the market for condensate, especially in the East of Suez region encompassing the Middle...
    June 28, 2010
    Japanese containership operators are taking advantage of their seamanship to enter the offshore oil and gas industry, setting sail in particular for Brazil's presalt layer.
    June 28, 2010
    Atlantic Council of the United States ...... www.acus.orgExxon Mobile Corp. ...... www.acus.orgIndustrial Rubber, Inc. ...... www.iri-oiltool.comMarcus Evans ...... www.marcusevans...
    June 28, 2010
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    Analyses and computer simulations during the front-end engineering design of a 167-mile long high-pressure interstate natural gas pipeline predicted that, without suitable mitigation...
    June 28, 2010
    The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident and resulting oil spill must change the way industry works, according to Steve Westwell, BP PLC's chief of staff.
    June 28, 2010
    A bedrock question for deepwater drilling off the US is whether the Macondo well would have blown out if a different company had been operator.
    June 28, 2010
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    Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd. reported the start up of its 10,000 b/d Algar steam-assisted gravity drainage plant at its Great Divide oil sands complex in northeastern Alberta.
    June 28, 2010
    The Indonesian government believes that construction of three new LNG receiving terminals in West Java, East Java, and North Sumatra is the best way of reducing the country's ...
    June 28, 2010
    Controversy over the fatal Macondo well blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took an abrasive turn June 18 when a partner in the well accused the operator of recklessness...
    June 28, 2010
    Aggressive asset purchases and mergers will push net overseas oil and gas production by China's three large national oil companies (NOCs) to a record 1 million boe/d this year...
    June 28, 2010
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    Winter 2009-10 in the US was in stark contrast to the previous winter in terms of both propane supply and consumption.
    June 28, 2010
    The global costs of building and operating upstream oil and gas facilities showed signs of an upturn in this year's first quarter following last year's slump, according to IHS...
    June 28, 2010
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    Drilling is ahead of schedule on the first of two relief wells aiming to kill the flow from the runaway Macondo well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico, BP ...
    June 28, 2010
    US gasoline deliveries fell 0.4% year-to-year to an average 9.05 million b/d last month—their lowest May level since 2003, the American Petroleum Institute said in its latest ...
    June 28, 2010