Habitat preservation partnerships (HPP) have become increasingly important. Environmental impacts don’t respect boundaries. Groups working to preserve potentially threatened or endangered species’ homes have grown beyond environmental organizations and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Source: News
Recruitment problem
WANTED: Talented engineer or geoscientist willing to work at the pleasure of a volatile commodities market in an industry whose legitimacy is questioned by world leaders including the US president and Roman Catholic pope. Source: News
Bamboo trees in the stream
Despite surviving a nearly 8-year-long career as a crude-oil price reporter for the petroleum industry before finding a home at Oil & Gas Journal, this editor rarely gave much thought to the language used to describe and distinguish-perhaps to our collective detriment-the various sectors of the oil and gas industry. Source: News
US House approves bill to repeal crude-oil export ban
The US House approved, by a 261-159 vote, a bill to repeal a 40-year ban on exporting domestically produced crude oil. Balloting ran largely along party lines as 235 Republicans supported HR 702 and 153 Democrats opposed it. The vote came days after the White House announced that the measure would be vetoed if it […]
Crude-export veto threat fits agenda pointing to crisis
Congress should let the US government go idle for lack of funding if that’s what’s necessary to stop the Obama administration from creating an energy crisis. Source: News
BHI: US rig count down for 7th-straight week, falls below 800
The US drilling rig count dropped 14 units during the week ended Oct. 9 to 795, remaining at its lowest level since May 3, 2002, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. Source: News
NEB notes shift to tight gas production in western Canada
Canada’s National Energy Board says a decade-long shift away from conventional natural gas resources toward tight gas production has been led by large midsized producers. Source: News
EPA: Higher reported GHG totals from oil, gas in 2014 came from more sites
Petroleum and natural gas systems remained the second-largest greenhouse gas emitting group as the US Environmental Protection Agency released its 2014 summary of reported emissions on Oct. 6. But it quickly became hard to determine how much of the nearly 3.5% increase in the group’s total emissions increase from 2013 was because the number of […]
Medco buys Lundin’s Indonesian business
PT Medco Energi Internasional TBK, Jakarta, has agreed to acquire Lundin Petroleum AB’s Indonesian oil and gas assets for aggregate cash consideration of $22 million. The deal is effective Oct. 1. Source: News
Statoil lets two more platform jacket contracts for Johan Sverdrup
Statoil ASA let contracts for platform jackets for the Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway to Kvaerner Verdal and Dragados Offshore SA. Source: News