The Western Energy Alliance and North Dakota Petroleum Council jointly sued the US Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, charging that the agencies developed amended land use plans for the greater sage grouse that impose restrictions on new oil and gas leases and on development of existing leases. Source: News

When the world’s leading governments committed last fall in Paris to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to reduce global climate change impacts, one immediate question was where natural gas would fit. That concern has only grown as the administration of US President Barack Obama has tried to move aggressively to curb methane emissions from oil […]

Jack F. Harper, currently executive vice-president of Concho Resources Inc., Midland, Tex., has effective immediately assumed the additional roles of chief financial officer and treasurer with the company. Source: News

Cambodian Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (CPC) has let a contract to China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) subsidiary Northeast Refining & Chemical Engineering Co. to build the first phase of a proposed 5 million-tonne/year refinery in Cambodia’s southwestern province of Preah Sihanouk, along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand.  Source: News

Cairn Energy PLC’s SNE-4 well, drilled 85 km offshore Senegal on the Sangomar Offshore block in 942 m of water, confirms the extension of reservoirs in the eastern extent of SNE field, more than 5 km to the east and down-dip of SNE-3. Source: News

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Faroe Petroleum Norge AS a permit for well 31/7-1 on its jointly owned Brasse prospect in PL740. The area in this licence is part of Blocks 31/7 and 30/9. PL740 was awarded in APA 2013. This is the first well to be drilled in the licence. Source: News