News for the Oil and Gas Industry
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Policy & Politics | Despite getting the go-ahead from foreign jurisdictions, the proposed Baker Hughes acquisition of BJ Services is still awaiting approval from the US Department of Justice's antitrust division ... |  Read More | |
| There are few starker signs of the decline of the principles over which decades of Cold War were fought such as US/ Western style free enterprise, free economy and democratic institutions than the demagogic populism that has engulfed and infected man... | | Read More |
Tags: continent:south america, fieldterminology:capitalism, person:michael j economides, city:caracas, country:venezuela, country:colombia, person:hugo chavez, organization:barack obama administration, organization:cullen college of engineering, univer, person:michael j, organization:farc |
| 'The Future of the Offshore Drilling Industry to 2015-Market Analysis, Capital Expenditure, and Competitive Landscape' report forecasts an annual average growth of 6.6% for global drilling expenditure between 2009 and 2015 ... | Read More | |
| While operating in Brazil's pre-salt region does require an array of technologies, Petrobras CEO Jose Gabrielli told a Houston lunch that a bigger challenge lies in meeting logistical demands for operating in deep waters offshore ... | | Read More | |
| Statoil will pay the Norwegian government NOK 875 ($148 million) in a settlement to a long-running dispute over cost allocations at the Kårstø terminal expansion project north of Stavanger ... | | Read More | |
| Statoil will pay the Norwegian government NOK 875 ($148 million) in a settlement to a long-running dispute over cost allocations at the Kårstø terminal expansion project north of Stavanger ... | | Read More | |
| The deepwater sector of the oil & gas business should recover quickly from the economic downturn and resume the growth the sector enjoyed before the recession, according to a new report from Douglas-Westwood ... | | Read More |
Tags: continent:latin america, person:russell mcculley, country:us, continent:north america, person:steven kopits, continent:africa, company:eamp;p, city:new york, country:china, region:western europe, continent:asia, city:houston, organization:world deepwater market |
| It was, and still is, an unassailable dogma throughout the Middle East, among barely beneath-the-surface anti-American European intellectuals, and certainly, the American left: the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003 just for oil . . . | | Read More |
Tags: continent:america, country:iraq, person:michael j economides, organization:bush administration, region:middle east, fieldterminology:oil prices, country:united states, city:baghdad, organization:barack obama administration, organization:cullen college of engineering, univer |
| A new study is underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico that scientists hope will produce new knowledge about the availability of food for endangered sperm whales ... | | Read More | |
| The Texas oil and gas economy took a noticeable turn for the better during January, as the Texas Petro Index (TPI) increased to 189.4, registering the first month-to-month gain in 16 months ... | | Read More | |
| It’s not just oil and gas that are exercising Middle East minds these days . . . | | Read More |
Tags: person:russell mcculley, city:copenhagen, fieldterminology:energy efficiency, country:the netherlands, region:middle east, country:uk, city:abu dhabi, country:ghana, person:president mohamed nasheed, person:van der hoeven, person:maria van der hoeven, country:maldives, company:masdar, person:ed miliband, fieldterminology:sustainable energy company, person:hanny sherry ayittey |
| Despite growing protests in Latin America, a UK company's offshore drilling program in the Falkland Islands will not lead to military conflict between Britain and Argentina, a security analyst said ... | Read More |
Tags: continent:latin america, continent:south america, country:united kingdom, person:russell mcculley, person:jane, country:britain, country:falkland islands, country:argentina, region:great britain, country:mexico, region:caribbean, person:cristina fernández, person:islas malvinas, person:robert munks |
| As the drilling technique hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' becomes more common, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee is examining the impact it may pose to human health ... | Read More |
Tags: organization:us house energy and commerce committe, fieldterminology:natural gas, country:us, organization:congress, person:matt simmons, continent:north america, company:simmons amp; co international, fieldterminology:domestic natural gas, organization:us environmental protection agency, fieldterminology:gas companies, city:houston, person:trevor demara, person:lee fuller, person:rep henry waxman |
| The UK's National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) is targeting 20 subscribing members by Easter 2010 ... | | Read More | |
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