News for the Oil and Gas Industry
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Policy & Politics | Finally, some sanity has surfaced in Europe on the subject of climate change and it is from a real scientific heavyweight to boot. Rarely have I found . . . |  Read More | |
| A federal judge in New Orleans on Wednesday 1 September 2010 refused the Obama administration's request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico .... | | Read More | |
| The Texas Rally for Jobs is an opportunity for both the countless men and women whose livelihoods depend on the oil and natural gas industry and consumers who rely on access to affordable energy to express their concerns about these harmful proposals... | | Read More | |
| Addressing an audience on 26 August 2010, Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy called for replacing the current popular debate about whether the country needs offshore drilling with a focus on what changes can be made for offshore drilli... | Read More | |
| Mineral and petroleum permitting review begins New Zealand's energy agency aims to update, streamline and 'future-proof' the Crown Minerals Act of 1991, energy and resources minister Gerry Brownlee said on 27 August 2010 ... | | Read More | Published: 8/27/2010
Posted in: Features, Policy & Politics, Australia |
| BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil leak is an unmitigated disaster, not just because of the amount of oil that has to be skimmed, the oil-soaked birds that have to be cleansed and the beaches that require purification . . . | | Read More | |
| The Macondo oil spill will have a lasting impact, but not the same repercussions on the petroleum industry that the Three Mile Island accident had on the nuclear industry . . . | | Read More | |
| Sir, OE’s article by Ian Fitzsimmons on preventing future Macondo spills [‘Macondo and other titanic struggles’, OE July] was excellent and; Sir, I loved Michael Economides’ piece on China (‘Ebb and Flow’, OE July). It seems hard to think that he wa... | | Read More | Published: 8/23/2010
Posted in: OE Magazine News, Policy & Politics |
| Unfair though it may seem, it is conceivable that the Macondo incident will have at least as damaging and persistent an impact on the offshore industry as Chernobyl does on the nuclear power industry . . . | | Read More | |
| Platts - China's apparent* oil demand slowed in July, dropping from June's record high of 36.74 million metric tons (mt) to 35.82 million mt or about 8.47 million barrels per day (b/d) ... | | Read More | |
| Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced that the department will restrict its use of categorical exclusions for offshore oil and gas d... | | Read More | |
| During yesterday's Railroad Commission conference, Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones led the effort to pass a resolution serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist mandates that are beyond the scope of the federal government ... | Read More | |
| Ultimately, the life of existing offshore assets will have to be extended, safely and reliably, and balancing production against integrity requires a comprehensive understanding of those assets and the use of management strategies that engage employe... | Read More | |
| The competitive playing field in the international oil and gas business has become more crowded, both with new entrants and the growth of existing players ... | Read More | |
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon (July 30, 2010) in support of two pieces of legislation in response to the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ... | Read More | |
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