George Hooper, executive director of the Centre for Advanced Engineering, told a recent Oil and Gas conference in Wellington that exploitation of methane hydrates [...]
George Hooper, executive director of the Centre for Advanced Engineering, told a recent Oil and Gas conference in Wellington that exploitation of methane hydrates [...]
Xinhua. PetroChina expects that its Changqing oilfield—currently the country’s third-largest—will post an annual growth of 24 percent in oil and gas output this year.
By Dec. 19, the oil and gas equivalent production at Changqing had exceeded 30 million tonnes, and the figure would reach 31 million by the [...]
After quietly grabbing up unconventional natural gas reserves for years, Exxon Mobil Corp. moved boldly yesterday to buy one of the largest U.S. independent gas companies, XTO Energy, in a deal valued at $41 billion.
The oil and gas behemoth announced that it planned to use XTO to establish a new [...]
The Energy Report submits:"If gas stays in the $5–$6 range, that's what I would call purgatory," says Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin writer Keith Schaefer, adding "and anything less than that would just be hell." Learn about new technologies that are greatly increasing the amount of recoverable [...]
The increase shown by the survey [...]
While ExxonMobil (XOM) and XTO Energy (XTO) may have stolen the spotlight Monday, this week has yielded some notable news on the smaller end of the exploration and production spectrum. Let's take [...]
Crimson Exploration (CXPO), an independent oil and gas E&P company in East and South Texas, is expected to float its IPO this week.
Business Overview (from prospectus)
The new Cardium oil play in Alberta is rapidly approaching the stature of Saskatchewan’s famous Bakken play – and this is very good news for investors in Canada’s junior oil and gas sector.
The four year old Bakken play has created huge shareholder wealth for investors, as companies like Crescent Point [...]
The storm, off Western Australias Kimberley region, was upgraded to a category four, [...]
China’s completion of an historic natural gas pipeline with Kazakhstan bypassing Russia this week tightens the Asian behemoth’s grip on energy resources needed to fuel a burgeoning economy, a desire also forcing it on a quest for oil and gas wealth in other corners of the globe.
China is [...]
Kurt Wulff (McDep Associates) submits: Investors looking for high income distributions might consider the units of Freehold Royalty Trust (FRHLF.PK), unique in Canada for the right to oil and gas production free of investment and operating cost. That [...]
China is not alone [...]
Russia's resources ministry said in a statement Norway had proposed to sign [...]
The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Minerals Management Service (MMS) has approved, with conditions, Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s Exploration Plan to drill three exploratory, information-gathering wells in the Chukchi Sea.
In 2008, Shell’s subsidiary paid $2.1 billion for leases during Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193. [...]
Doug Koplow, an expert who studies oil and gas subsidies, points out that financial support comes in many' [...]
Green is gone and gas is good, according to early word trickling out of Deloitte LLPs oil and gas conference in The Woodlands on Wednesday.
A survey of 200 oil and gas professionals conducted in early November and released this week shows that most industry insiders expect climate change legislation to [...]
by James Keller
James Keller is an analyst with Thermopolis Partners, a hedge fund specializing in commodity stocks, and is located in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Thermopolis Partners is an infrequent contributor to Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin.
Now the biggest Chinese manufacturers want to expand to [...]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations that allow for drilling do [...]
It’s clear advancements in well-completion technologies and processes have been, and will continue to be, vital to the oil and gas industry’s ability to fully develop the reserves that remain on the planet. Whether it’s trillions of cubic feet of natural gas trapped in the hardest of [...]
AS THE world prepares for the largest investment in nuclear power in decades, owners of uranium mines last week raised the prospect of fuel shortages. To make things worse, the reliability of estimates of the amount of uranium that can be economically mined has also been questioned.
Volatile oil and gas [...]
