Anadarko Petroleum's Colombia unit will begin acquiring 2D and 3D seismic data at deepwater offshore blocks it operates in Colombia with an eye to begin a drilling program with partner Ecopetrol in 2014. Anadarko has six offshore blocks ...
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Shell said Thursday it remains on track to grow its oil and gas production by over 20% in the next five to six years, despite weak North American fuel prices continuing to dent the performance of its key upstream growth centre. ...
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $4 billion settlement hammered out between BP and the US government over the 2010 Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. US District Court Judge Sarah Vance issued the ruling after hearing ...
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China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
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Halco Lighting Technologies® partners with a local high school – donating ProLume® F54T5/850/HO/ECO/IC 5000K 54W HO lamps to Kell High School Robotics Team in Marietta, Georgia. Halco ProLume lamps were installed in the ...
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The newly appointed chairman of Indonesia's special taskforce for the upstream sector will focus on various issues during his tenure, among them increasing oil and gas production and boosting reserves, he told Platts Monday. Rudi ...
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Production from wells in Shell's ultra-deepwater Perdido Hub in the US Gulf of Mexico is now reaching over 115,000 b/d of oil equivalent, nearing total capacity, Shell Oil President Marvin Odum said Wednesday. "The project is doing ...
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Norway's Statoil and its partners are going ahead with the development of the major Aasta Hansteen natural gas field project in the Norwegian Sea, as well as the planned Polarled pipeline linking it to shore, at a combined cost of NOK57 ...
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Driller Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties and to plead guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US ...
McDermott signs shipyard contract for construction of deepwater S-Lay vessel Friday, Dec 28, 2012 McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) (''McDermott'') announced today that one of its subsidiaries has signed a contract for the design ...
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In a sweeping change of ownership, Chevron is taking control of Canada's Kitimat LNG project, with two of the three partners bowing out after failing in their attempts over the past year to secure offtake customers in Asia. The ...
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Reuters reported that a new deepwater port on Australia's Indian Ocean Coast was supposed to be the showpiece of the country's decade long mining boom and open up a huge new iron ore belt to export to Asian markets. But twice in the past ...
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By 2030 around 70 percent of the Europe's energy requirements is predicted to come from abundant reserves of gas in Russia, the Artic and the neighboring areas of southeast Asia and North Africa. Also to the European Union's 27 member ...
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The ability to spin a good yarn recently kept an international team of researchers focused on Gossypium raimondii,the simplest cotton genome.The researchers,including Jeremy Schmutz,faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha and head of the plant ...
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BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
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