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    A subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told that growing demand for oil and gas is one of the main drivers of increasing "friction and tension" over maritime...
    July 27, 2009
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    A well recently drilled off Mexico, Bolontiku 43, provides an example of numerous drilling problems encountered when drilling tectonically active zones that included extensive...
    July 27, 2009
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    New deterministic and stochastic models for external pitting corrosion in underground pipelines can help improve integrity and reliability analyses.
    July 27, 2009
    We have tried to use our good will to encourage each party, particularly their security forces, to not get into violent situations.
    July 27, 2009
    California's legislature might vote soon to authorize the first new oil activity off Santa Barbara in 40 years as a way to help resolve the state's budget crisis.
    July 27, 2009
    Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (Gasco) has awarded more than $9 billion in lump-sum turnkey contracts for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of its integrated...
    July 27, 2009
    The oil and gas industry now and then suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
    July 27, 2009
    The US government should be ready to engage local and state governments overseas in addition to national officials as it tries to secure foreign oil and gas supplies, a US senate...
    July 27, 2009
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    Far from learning any lessons from their ill-conceived foray into biofuels through the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Congress and the Obama administration...
    July 27, 2009
    Contradictions of energy policy emerge so spontaneously these days in the US that it's rare to have the chance to warn of one before it has fully developed and begun gorging itself...
    July 27, 2009
    The European Biodiesel Board (EBB), representing the major biofuels producing industry in the European Union, praised the European Council for approving what it called "definitive...
    July 27, 2009
    New high pressure, high temperature packer elementA new high pressure, high temperature packer element, featuring newly formulated AFLAS compound, is capable of holding pressures...
    July 27, 2009
    The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has readjusted the borders of Sudan's oil-rich Abyei region, effectively awarding control of key oil facilities in the area to ...
    July 27, 2009
    Testing of LNG regasification packages for floating installations is taking place this summer in advance of commissioning off Brazil, Boston, and Dubai.
    July 27, 2009
    Ghana has formally approved the first development phase of giant Jubilee oil field, which will tap 300 million bbl and is to begin producing in the second half of 2010.
    July 27, 2009
    Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has let a $350 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Petrofac Ltd. for the Kauther gas-condensate field depletion-compression...
    July 27, 2009
    The Indonesian government, seeking international investment to boost the country's falling output of oil, has released 24 new oil and gas blocks for exploration and production...
    July 27, 2009
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    Worldwide ethylene producers added more than 7 million tonnes/year of capacity in 2008, according to Oil & Gas Journal's latest ethylene survey.
    July 27, 2009
    ExxonMobil Exploration Co.'s Libyan affiliate has spud the first deepwater exploration well off Libya.
    July 27, 2009
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    General Interest — Quick TakesIHS: Global upstream M&A activity rebounded in 2QGlobal upstream mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals nearly doubled in the second quarter, up from...
    July 27, 2009
    Forty-one years after discovery on Alaska's North Slope, Prudhoe Bay field remains the largest oil-producing field in the US.
    July 27, 2009