April 18,2011 --The goal reasserted by US President Barack Obama last month to cut US imports of oil by one-third can be good or bad, depending on the
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April 18,2011 --The recent estimates from the US Energy Information Administration on world shale gas show that these sediments contain considerable
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April 18,2011 --Both sides claimed victory after the US Senate cast a 50-to-50 vote on Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Environment and Pu
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April 18,2011 --The making of US energy policy suffers from automatic resistance to any initiative that promises to boost supply of fossil energy. ..
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April 18,2011 --The US House approved Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton's (R-Mich.) bill aimed at halting the US Environmental Protec
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April 18,2011 --Strong state enforcement programs are essential to ensure that drinking water supplies are protected as more natural gas is produced
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April 18,2011 --The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index said Apr. 7 North Sea Brent crude oil "will be specifically considered for the index" beginning in
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January 31,2011 --Training in the oil and gas industry can consist of several types: hands-on, lectures, and even multimedia. .... More: continue
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January 31,2011 --A core message of the report to US President Barack Obama on the Macondo tragedy of 2010 is the need for the oil and gas producing
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Brent oil prices have traded through $100 a barrel this afternoon, the first time oil prices have been in triple digits since August of 2008, with con
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January 24,2011 --Two important facts will shape offshore safety regulation after the Macondo tragedy of April 2010: US regulation will change, and o
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January 24,2011 --The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Jan. 3 issued seven safety recommendations, six of them classified as urgent, based
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January 24,2011 --On Jan. 12, the benchmark February crude contract increased 0.8% to a 2-year high of $91.86/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange
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Oil giant BP and Rosneft, Russia’s leading energy company have signed a joint venture to exploit potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in Rus
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January 10,2011 --The US Bureau of Land Management has lifted suspensions on 45 Montana oil and gas leases it issued in 2008, its Montana state offic
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January 3,2011 --Jim O'Neill, chairman of asset management at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., predicted the Standard & Poor's 500 index will continue i
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January 3,2011 --Two plausible scenarios for gas price recovery may alter the current shift of North American unconventional gas companies, diverting
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January 3,2011 --The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board can't meaningfully examine the Macondo well's blowout preventer as long as the
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January 3,2011 --With worldwide capital spending budgets of exploration and production companies expected to rise 11% in 2011 to $490 billion from $4
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January 3,2011 --US President Barack Obama feinted toward the political center as 2010 ended, but no one in the oil and gas industry should be fooled
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December 27,2010 --Chevron suspended operations of the Dibi-Abiteye oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta in an effort to minimize potential environm
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December 27,2010 --A discovery well on the Corcel block in Colombia's Llanos basin has tested light oil at the rate of more than 10,000 b/d, said Pet
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December 27,2010 --The international oil and gas industry understands the need for diplomacy, a skill that is coming to dominate the matter of constr
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