Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, made net investments of S$4 billion ($3.16 billion) in its energy and resources portfolio in the year to March 31, the fund said Thursday. The new investments included acquiring an additional 5% ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on the development of the chemical and petrochemical industries. The attendees of the meeting included Deputy Prime Minister, Arkady Dvorkovich, Alexander Novak, the Minister of ...
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Metal manhole covers, as we know them, first appeared with the advent of gas companies and waterworks, beginning in the late 1840s. The cover surfaces were originally designed with raised patterns to prevent horses' hooves from slipping on ...
Total capital spending in 2012 for the top 100 US producers, including acquisitions, rose 18% year over year to the highest level on record at $316.6 billion, driven by development capital spending of a combined $208 billion, according to a ...
If cross-border rules currently proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are not harmonized, international derivatives markets could be damaged, according to exchange executives and ...
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There are some very specific problems that need to be overcome when dealing with produced waters from offshore oil and gas production. In the first of a series of three articles, oil industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment ...
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Chengde Iron and Steel Co. has received an order for 7,000 mt of rebar from China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), one of China's major ...
Tags: CNOOC, Chengde Steel, Metallurgy
The architects of Congress' looming tax policy reform have a lot of choices when it comes to energy tax breaks and federal subsidies, the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee said Monday. "The broad proposals include ...
Tenaris announced on May 3, 2013 that it will invest US$70 million to build a new sucker rods mill with a production capacity of 1,800,000 units per year, to reduce lead times and improve service for customers in the growing North American ...
EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...
Two US Senate Democrats Monday introduced bills aimed at cutting some federal support for oil and gas companies. California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced the Drilling Royalty Relief Prohibition Act, which would prohibit the Interior ...
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South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp, the world's largest buyer of LNG, said Thursday it imported 34.97 million mt of LNG in 2012, up 2.9% from a year earlier. The state utility said it plans to import 37.90 million mt of LNG in 2013, ...
China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe), a regular gathering in petroleum and petrochemical industry and a high-quality exhibition which gets the authentication from UFI in Mainland China, ...
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China's oil and gas companies could lift their total overseas equity production to 3 million b/d by 2015, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. "Chinese national oil companies are present everywhere in ...
Tags: oil, gas, overseas equity