Total SA has started production from Laggan and Tormore gas-condensate fields in the West of Shetland area. The fields will produce 90,000 boe/d. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil prices dropped modestly, settling under $31/bbl on the New York market Feb. 5 to end another volatile week for oil prices. Analysts attributed the volatility to a stronger dollar and world oil oversupply concerns. Source: News

The public may have grown complacent about oil and gas issues after 2015’s crude and product price plunge. Trade associations in Washington plan to be anything but in 2016. Source: News

Creative pragmatism challenges environmental dogma in Alberta. With two important decisions important to oil sands development, a government less than a year in office has eased fear it will yield to pressure from climate extremists. Source: News

SOCO International PLC has commenced drilling of its Baobab Marine-1 (BABM-1) wildcat on the Mer Profonde Sud Block in the Lower Congo basin offshore Congo (Brazzaville). The well is targeting early Miocene channel complexes on the RR Prospect, which are mappable in the seismic data and delineated by stratal discontinuities and variations in seismic amplitudes, […]

In what has become an annual tradition for this editor, this column will highlight the top 10 news stories, based on the number of impressions, posted to Oil & Gas Journal’s Twitter feed for calendar year 2015. Source: News

PBF Energy Inc., Parsippany, NJ, has brought forward planned maintenance work at its 190,000-b/sd Delaware City, Del., refinery after severe winter storm in late January halted processing operations at the plant. Source: News