
Westmont Resources Inc. has completed an agreement to acquire 92 wells in Tennessee’s Chattanooga shale region, currently operated by AG Oil & Gas, a division of Domestic Energy Corp.
....Williams Partners LP plans to expand its cryogenic processing capacity in the Piceance basin, the partnership announced July 29 as part of its second-quarter 2010 earnings release.
....US Sen. Mark Begich (R-Alas.) proposed extending the Regional Citizens Advisory Council concept to the Arctic as an alternative to continued legal challenges of offshore oil and gas activities in northern Alaska.
....European Union foreign ministers adopted extra sanctions on Iran, in particular targeting investment in the country’s oil and gas industries, as well as curtailing its refining and natural gas capabilities.
....Natural gas reserves off New Guinea are the target of a cooperative development agreement by DSME E&R, Hoegh LNG Ltd., and New Guinea’s state-owned Petromin PNG Holdings Ltd.
....Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. plan to invest $9 billion in a joint venture 300,000 b/d refinery in Balongan, West Java.
....China has rejected an assessment by the International Energy Agency that it had overtaken the US to become the world's top energy consumer.
....US drilling activity increased with the addition of 1 rig, bringing the total working units to 1,586, up from 948 in the comparable period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
....Crude oil prices rallied for the commodity’s first positive finish of the week “despite the down market,” said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc.
....Australia’s Federal Court has approved the $3.5 billion (Aus.) acquisition of Brisbane-based coal seam gas producer Arrow Energy Ltd. by Royal Dutch Shell PLC and PetroChina.
....The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ordered Enbridge Energy Partners Ltd. on July 28 to immediately correct deficiencies in its Line 6B crude oil pipeline, which sprung a leak 2 days earlier.
....The US Environmental Protection Agency rejected 10 petitions challenging climate science behind its Dec. 7, 2009, finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment, and therefore can be regulated under the federal Clean A.......
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'Static kill' on Macondo well likely delayed to Aug. 3
July 30,2010 --
BP PLC is cleaning some debris from the bottom of the first relief well being drilled to intercept the Macondo well, and the “static kill” probably will be delayed until Aug. 3, National Incident Commander and retired US Coast Guard.......
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BP sets up $100 million fund for gulf oil workers
July 30,2010 --
BP PLC plans to voluntarily establish a $100 million fund to support unemployed rig workers experiencing economic hardship as a result of the US deepwater drilling moratorium, the company said July 30.
....EQT Corp., Pittsburgh, said its production subsidiary sold 31.9 bcf of natural gas equivalent in the quarter ended June 30, up 31% for the second consecutive quarter.
....Melrose Resources PLC, Edinburgh, began shooting 360 sq km of 3D seismic and 160 line-km of 2D seismic on the South East Mansoura concession in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
....Noble Energy Inc., Houston, will become operator of the Rhone Maritime concession in the Mediterranean off France under an deal with Melrose Resources PLC, Edinburgh.
....Melrose Resources PLC, Edinburgh, said its Kavarna East-1 wildcat in the Black Sea off Bulgaria found 89 ft of net gas pay with 29% average porosity and has a preliminary recovery estimate of 12 bcf.
....The US Bureau of Land Management record of decision on the environmental impact statement authorizes full-field development at West Tavaputs in Utah’s Uinta basin, said Bill Barrett Corp., Denver.
....Rowan Cos. Inc. received a notice of declaration of force majeure on July 6 from Apache Corp. regarding Apache’s contract for Rowan’s Bob Palmer independent leg cantilever jack up, Rowan said in a report with the US Securities and E.......
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Chevron secures Wheatstone native title agreement
July 29,2010 --
Chevron Australia has signed a native title heads of agreement for land required to develop its Wheatstone LNG project on the coast of Western Australia.
....Crude oil prices held steady July 28 “dropping only 0.8% despite a surprisingly bearish [US Department of Energy] report citing a total petroleum inventory increase well above consensus estimates,” said analysts at Raymond James &am.......
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Senate Democrats include spill provisions in broader energy bill
July 29,2010 --
US Senate Democrats took a different approach than their counterparts in the House and included provisions responding to the Gulf of Mexico well blowout, rig explosion, and crude oil spill in a larger energy bill on July 27.
....ExxonMobil Corp. appointed Steve Greenlee as president of ExxonMobil Exploration Co. (EEC) and elected him a vice-president of the parent company effective Sept. 1.
....Atlas Pipeline Partners LP reported entering into a definitive agreement to sell its Elk City natural gas gathering and processing system to Enbridge Energy Partners LP for $682 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments.
....ConocoPhillips announced plans to sell all its holdings in Russia’s OAO Lukoil.
....Hess Corp., building on several recent acquisitions aimed at diversifying its worldwide portfolio, has agreed to acquire American Oil & Gas (AOG) in an all-stock transaction.
....Enbridge shut down a leaking pipeline near Marshall, Mich., after oil spilled into a creek and entered the Kalamazoo River. Initial estimates are that 19,500 bbl might have been released.
....Producers are successfully implementing new, tougher drilling standards and resuming activity in the Gulf of Mexico, US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar said on July 28 after visiting three rigs in the gulf.
....BP PLC has removed a storm packer that crews placed in the first relief well aimed at intercepting the Macondo runaway well, and federal officials noted that July 28 marked 100 days since the deepwater blowout on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in.......
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Pioneer to ramp up Spraberry multizone work
July 28,2010 --
Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, expects to be internally providing 30-60% of its own service requirements in West Texas’ giant Spraberry Trend by 2012, when it foresees running 40 rigs and drilling 1,000 wells/year.
....Eni SPA, Egypt’s largest foreign oil and gas operator, signed a strategic framework agreement with the Egyptian government and government oil and gas entities to develop joint upstream and downstream initiatives even as it brought a Weste.......
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Oneok to increase Oklahoma-Texas NGL pipeline capacity
July 28,2010 --
Oneok Partners LP announced July 28 plans to install seven additional pump stations for about $36 million along its existing Sterling I natural gas liquids distribution pipeline, increasing its capacity by 15,000 b/d to be supplied by the partn.......
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MARKET WATCH: Economy pushes oil down; hot weather lifts gas prices
July 28,2010 --
The front-month crude contract fell 1.9% in the biggest drop since July 1 in the New York market amid negative economic signs. However, natural gas prices continued to advance, up 1.4% on forecasts of hotter weather in the Midwest and along the.......
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Turkey
July 28,2010 --
Exile Resources Inc., Toronto, took farmouts on five blocks operated by Aladdin Middle East Ltd., Wichita, Kan., in eastern Turkey on the North Arabian shield near the borders with Syria and Iraq.
....Saudi Aramco signed contracts with local and international contractors for detailed engineering, procurement, and construction of the planned export refinery project at Yanbu Industrial City in Saudi Arabia’s Western Province.
....An appraisal well in the Butiaba region of Uganda Block 1 encountered more than 40 m of net oil-bearing reservoir, the thickest oil pay encountered in the Butiaba sector, said Tullow Oil PLC.
....A Turkish concern has awarded a contract to Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, to provide project management consultancy for a 212,000 b/cd grassroots refinery in Yumurtalik near Ceyhan on Turkey’s eastern Mediterranean coast.
....The Macondo well blowout, rig explosion, and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico show closer regulation of the oil and gas industry is needed offshore, US House committee chairmen said July 27 as they explained an oil spill bill that was released t.......
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Crosstex to expand Barnett gas pipeline capacity
July 27,2010 --
Crosstex Energy LP and Crosstex Energy Inc. announced plans to expand the natural gas gathering system serving the Barnett shale play in North Texas by building a $25 million, 15-mile pipeline.
....Tullow Oil PLC, following approval by the Uganda government, completed its planned acquisition of 50% interest in Blocks 1 and 3A from Heritage Oil & Gas Ltd. for $1.35 billion, with a further contractual settlement amount of $100 million.
....Mitra Energy (Indonesia Sibaru) Ltd. has spudded the Mojo-1 exploratory well on the Sibaru block in the East Java Sea off Indonesia.
....Occidental Petroleum Corp. drilled six conventional exploratory and extension wells in California in the first half of 2010, five of which were outside the company’s 2009 Kern County oil and gas discovery area (OGJ Online, Feb. 23, 2010)........
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Pennsylvania
July 27,2010 --
Five companies have joined a collaborative exploitation project for the Marcellus shale in northeastern Pennsylvania, said Object Reservoir Inc., Houston.
....Energy prices generally were little changed with crude and natural gas trading relatively flat in the New York market July 26 as Tropical Storm Bonnie drizzled into a nonevent balanced by price support from the higher-than-expected gains in US .......
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Norton, Kempthorne defend OCS decisions in House hearing
July 27,2010 --
Two former US Interior secretaries firmly refused to accept some US House members’ efforts to second-guess the DOI officials’ offshore oil and gas decisions in light of the Apr. 20 Gulf of Mexico deepwater well blowout, rig explosio.......
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Oneok Partners to build Bakken NGL pipeline
July 27,2010 --
Oneok Partners LP announced plans to build a 525-615-mile, 60,000 b/d NGL pipeline to move unfractionated NGLs from the Bakken shale in the Williston basin in North Dakota to the partnership's Overland Pass Pipeline, a 760-mile NGL pipeline ext.......
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IEA's Tanaka: World will continue to depend on OPEC
July 27,2010 --
The global economy’s reliance on oil supplies from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, especially its Middle Eastern producers, will continue to rise over the medium to long term, according to the head of Paris-based Intern.......
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BP reports $32 billion charge related to gulf oil spill
July 27,2010 --
BP PLC announced a pretax charge of $32.2 billion for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including a previously announced $20 billion escrow compensation fund.
....Crews drilling the first relief well to the deepwater Macondo well prepared for a final casing run tentatively scheduled to begin July 28, National Incident Commander and retired US Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters on July 26.
....BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward agreed to step down from his post, effective Oct. 1, and he will be succeeded by Robert Dudley, executive director who is currently overseeing the Macondo oil spill response.
....Investcan Energy Corp. has the right to earn a further 20% working interest in EL1107 off Labrador from Vulcan Minerals Inc., St. John’s, Newf., by funding a 2D seismic survey to a limite of $8.2 million by Dec. 1, 2010.
....Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, hiked its 2010 capital budget $215 million to $1.2 billion, all but $5 million of which is related to expanding activity in the Marcellus shale play in Pennsylvania.
....Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, in June 2010 acquired from a unit of Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas properties in Virginia for $135 million.
....US House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Transocean Ltd. on July 23 seeking more information on safety practices aboard the Deepwater Horizon and the semisubmersible rig’s condition before it caught fire and explode.......
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Discovery starts Keathley Canyon gas line open season
July 26,2010 --
Discovery Producer Services LLC (DPS), owned by Williams Partners LP and DCP Midstream Partners LP, announced July 23 a nonbinding open season for its Keathley Canyon Connector natural gas project in the central Gulf of Mexico.
....Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, expects to exit 2010 producing at least 25,000 b/d of oil from Utah’s giant Monument Butte oil field and 6,500 b/d from its Williston basin oil properties.
....Energy prices declined in the New York market as Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled into a tropical depression over south Florida July 23 and dissipated over the weekend.
....China’s unconventional gas production will climb sharply to 2030 to help meet the country’s growing demand for gas, but China will have to boost its imports over the next decade, says a study by Wood Mackenzie.
....Quebec extended St. Lawrence Lowlands and Lower St. Lawrence-Gaspe exploration licenses held by Petrolympic Ltd., Toronto, and Ressources & Energie Squatex, Brossard, Que., for 10 years to 2019.
....US refineries were operating at 91.5% of capacity in the week ended July 16—“the highest level since August 2007” and up from 90.5% the previous week, said Jacques H. Rousseau, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets under the Royal.......
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Russia
July 26,2010 --
OAO Novatek and OAO Gazprom Neft established the OOO Yamal Development joint venture to develop potential hydrocarbon assets in northern Russia’s Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region.
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