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    For editors at Oil & Gas Journal deadlines are many and frequent simply due to OGJ's weekly publishing schedule in addition to its daily online news coverage.
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    Although the first test of a shale-gas reservoir in India failed, plans for other tests continue.
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    T1 Decade Of Reserves
    Oil and Gas Journal's annual look at reported worldwide oil reserves shows an increase to 1.52 trillion bbl from 1.47 trillion in last year's survey (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 46)...
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    World crude oil distillation capacity has contracted slightly in 2011 after growing slowly in 2010 (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 50), according to the latest OGJ Refinery Survey.
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    US Congress should promptly restore federal funding for the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and the State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (Stronger...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Worldwide Look P1
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    The UK government said it will consider "carefully" a report commissioned by explorer Cuadrilla Resources that acknowledges recent earthquakes in the country were caused by hydraulic...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    International sanctions and an unfavorable investment climate continue to limit Iran's development of its considerable oil and gas resources, the US Energy Information Administration...
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    The Petroleum Services Association of Canada forecasts a total of 15,100 wells to be drilled across Canada in 2012, an increase of 10% over the expected final tally of 13,700 ...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects are being built or are planned in North Dakota's Bakken formation to transport oil and associated gas to market.
    Dec. 5, 2011
    The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) completed its review of 1,413 deepwater oil and gas lease extension requests in the Gulf of Mexico and extended 1,...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Biofuels, touted as one of the great competitors to the oil and gas industry, are coming under international criticism for adversely affecting world food supplies.
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    The contribution of the Haynesville shale to Louisiana's gas production has been phenomenal: After 3 years, almost 60% of the state's gas output is now sourced from the Haynesville...
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    New vacuum debris removal toolThe new Well Scavenger vacuum debris removal tool is designed to capture and remove debris from the wellbore during intervention activities.The tool...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    The "Arab Spring" that ousted four authoritarian leaders—including Ali Abdullah Saleh who in late November gave up the presidency of Yemen after 33 years in power—might evolve...
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    International news for oil and gas professionals
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    Foster Wheeler AG,Zug, Switzerland, named Michelle Davies as general counsel for the firm, effective as of Nov. 1. She had served as acting general counsel for the last 22 months...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    The US Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges to facts it has offered to support a crackdown on air pollution from oil and gas wells.
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Installing a recycle valve in parallel with the antisurge valve of a turbine-driven multistage (low pressure/high pressure) centrifugal compressor, in combination with control...
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    Research into the collapse and buckling of deepsea pipelines and the UOE method of line pipe production are moving the industry closer to being able to build and operate intercontinenta...
    Dec. 5, 2011
    So far, oil and gas companies have been strangely absent from Democratic Party explanations for why the congressional super committee failed.
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Analysis of drilling and test data from 14 wells drilled since the 1950s has indicated the presence of a world class shale gas play in the Basque Country of northern Spain.
    Dec. 5, 2011
    Results from more than 1,700 water wells sampled and tested prior to proposed gas drilling in Susquehanna County, Pa., show methane to be ubiquitous in shallow groundwater, with...
    Dec. 5, 2011