The oil and gas industry will need more time to respond to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emission requirements and its proposed refinery emissions rule, American Petroleum Institute officials said.
Total SA and Eni SPA said they have resumed production of crude oil in Libya, while state-owned Sirte Oil said it has restarted output from its eastern gas fields.
The US Energy Information Administration still sees higher global crude oil demand and prices over the long run as national economies recover,
Libya’s state-owned Arabian Gulf Oil Co (Agoco) said it will resume operations at its two refineries by late September, coinciding with the start-up of production at the Sariri and Mesla oil fields.
Enterprise Products Partners LP is nearing completion on a series of infrastructure projects designed to enhance operations at its Neptune cryogenic natural gas processing facility in St. Mary Parish, La.
3Legs Resources PLC completed tests at two shale gas wells, one of which encountered a new shale interval, in Poland’s Baltic basin while Talisman Energy Poland has spudded its first well.
Gaz Metro, Montreal, hailed a decision to Quebec regulators to permit the company to extend its natural gas pipeline 80 km from Vallee-Jonction to Black Lake near Thetford Mines, Que., in the St. Lawrence Lowlands.
Statoil and its partners submitted to Norwegian authorities a 10 billion kroner plan for development and operation (PDO) of Skuld on Blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11 in the Halten Bank of the Norwegian Sea.
Energy prices continued falling although at a slower rate Sept. 23 with markets still cautious amid signs of a worsening economic crisis.
Marine Well Containment Co. (MWCC) has taken delivery of a Aframax tanker, the Eagle Texas, to add to its expanded oil spill containment system that will be operational in 2012.