Energy statistics are necessary to keep up with industry research. While browsing the US Energy Information Administration's web site for an upcoming survey, this OGJ editor found...
Regulatory framework complications, and not water quality, limit effective management of produced water from coalbed methane wells in five western US basins, a new National Research...
The US Environmental Protection Agency rejected 10 petitions challenging climate science behind its Dec. 7, 2009, finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the ...
Mexico's formation of deepwater policies in response to the Macondo well blowout, Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, and crude oil spill probably will push drilling of Mexico's ...
US Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alas.) proposed draft legislation to move discussions forward on developing alternatives to eliminating offshore oil spill liability limits.
Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, has taken another step into US unconventional resource plays by entering a venture that envisions the drilling of 1,000 wells in the Marcellus...
Implementation of a nationwide low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) would increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by as much as 19 million tonnes/year, a study commissioned by the ...
A federal judge in Anchorage clarified his order enjoining Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. from exploring its Chukchi Sea leases by allowing permitted seismic surveying to start, Alaska...
A group of investors sent letters to 27 oil and gas companies asking each company to disclose information by Nov. 1 regarding its spill prevention and response plans for offshore...
"Production volumes from our commercial operations at Christina Lake, which commenced in August 2009, have safely ramped up more rapidly than any other [steam-assisted gravity...
Explosives experts in the United Arab Emirates confirmed a Japanese-owned oil tanker steaming through the Strait of Hormuz last week came under a terrorist attack.
BP PLC planned another pressure test last week on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico to gain more information about the condition of the annulus before penetration by a relief...
Denbury Resources Inc., Plano, Tex., started carbon dioxide injection June 29 in Oyster Bayou field in eastern Chambers County, Tex., and hopes to begin injecting at Hastings ...
Mergers and acquisitions in the US oil and gas sector hit the highest level in 1¾ years during the second quarter, said officials at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC) in a recent...
