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IPCC can’t stop mixing climate science, politics · 03/09
September 3,2010 --Responding to criticism for letting politics sway science, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change resorted to politics.....
Denbury-Encore Elk basin field deal stalls · 03/09
September 3,2010 --Denbury Resources Inc. and Encore Energy Partners LP have ended plans to exchange assets under a deal that was to have supported a carbon dioxide-injection project at Elk basin oil field on the Wyoming-Montana border.....
BP removes Deepwater Horizon BOP from Macondo · 03/09
September 3,2010 --BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well, removed the failed Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer on Sept. 3 and started to slowly lift it through 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico to the Helix Q4000 multiservice vessel.....
Rowan to move two Gulf of Mexico rigs to Middle East · 03/09
September 3,2010 --Rowan Cos. Inc. said two of its jack up drilling rigs are expected to leave the Gulf of Mexico late this year for work in the Middle East under contract with Saudi Aramco.....
BOE begins inquiry into Mariner offshore platform explosion · 03/09
September 3,2010 --The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOE) has launched an investigation of the Sept. 2 explosion at a Mariner Energy Inc. production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, BOE Director Michael R. Bromwich said on Sept.......
BHP brings Ravensworth oil field on stream off W. Australia · 03/09
September 3,2010 --BHP Billiton has brought its Ravensworth oil field on stream off Western Australia.....
MARKET WATCH: Oil prices push past $75/bbl mark · 03/09
September 3,2010 --Crude oil futures prices pushed past the $75/bbl mark helped by encouraging US economic data, supportive production news, and a fire on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico, analysts said.....
US drilling dips after 12 weeks of increases · 03/09
September 3,2010 --US drilling activity fell with 1,653 rotary rigs working, 3 less than the previous week. The count was up sharply, however, from the 1,009 units drilling during the comparable period in 2009, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.....
Fire extinguished on Mariner Energy platform in gulf · 03/09
September 3,2010 --Mariner Energy Inc. reported a fire was extinguished Sept. 2 at its production platform in 340 ft of water on Vermilion Block 380 in the Gulf of Mexico about 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay, La.....
BP starts removing Deepwater Horizon BOP · 03/09
September 3,2010 --BP PLC has started operations to replace the Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible's failed blowout preventer with the Development Driller II’s BOP so that a relief well can be completed on the deepwater Macondo well i.......
Judge rules Salazar exceeded authority in canceling Utah leases · 02/09
September 2,2010 --US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar exceeded his authority when he order 77 federal oil and gas leases in Utah withdrawn in early 2009, a federal court judge ruled on Sept. 1 in Salt Lake City.....
Husky buys Talisman gas assets, properties in Alberta · 02/09
September 2,2010 --Husky Energy Inc. will acquire certain conventional west-central Alberta natural gas assets from Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, for $450 million.....
Russia, China resolve Tianjin refinery oil supply issue · 02/09
September 2,2010 --Russia’s oil companies will supply most of the oil needed for a joint refinery project between China National Petroleum Corp., 51%, and Russia's Rosneft, 49%, according to a senior Chinese government official.....
Petronas makes oil, gas discovery off Vietnam · 02/09
September 2,2010 --Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali Overseas Bhd. made an oil and natural gas discovery with its Ham Rong-2X well in the Ham Rong oil field off northern Vietnam, according to local media reports.....
MARKET WATCH: Oil prices recover from day-earlier losses · 02/09
September 2,2010 --Oil prices in the New York market recovered Sept. 1 from heavy losses a day earlier, lifted by better-than-expected macroeconomic data, analysts said.....
Platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico; 13 people evacuated · 02/09
September 2,2010 --An oil and natural gas platform owned by Mariner Energy Inc. exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay off Louisiana on Sept. 2, and 13 people went into the water, the US Coast Guard in New Orleans reported.....
Devonian shows more gas in Brazil Parnaiba well · 02/09
September 2,2010 --The OGX Maranhao joint venture reported gas indications in two more Devonian intervals at an exploratory well in Brazil’s onshore Parnaiba basin.....
USCG coordinating subsurface oil monitoring plan · 02/09
September 2,2010 --The federal onscene coordinator for the oil spill response is developing a comprehensive subsurface oil monitoring plan to help scientists from various institutions and agencies measure any oil remaining in the Gulf of Mexico following the deep.......
Contract let for Abu Dhabi pipelines · 02/09
September 2,2010 --Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer) let a $623 million contract to GS Engineering & Construction Corp. for a pipeline project that will connect Abu Dhabi’s two refineries with various terminals in the emirate.....
Bulgaria · 02/09
September 2,2010 --A unit of JKX Oil & Gas PLC has spudded Staro Oryahovo South R-1, the first of two wells that will test amplitude-supported gas prospects in Bulgaria.....