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February 23, 2015

Oil's Survival Of The Fittest: Interview With Stan Szary
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 23, 2015
With crude oil prices collapsing and small American oil producers faced with grim choices for survival, the Darwinian nature of commodity market cycles rears its head, dictating that only the fittest will survive-and only the fittest of the fittest will thrive. As the herd of small companies that formed the backbone of the shale boom is culled, there emerges a new focus on junior players who are sitting on prime prospects where oil can be produced at $20 per barrel or lower and still turn a health ... read more

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Methane leaks from three large US fields in line with federal estimates Tens of thousands of pounds of methane leak per hour from equipment in three major natural gas basins that span Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, according to airborne measurements publis ... more		Panda Power Funds to Jointly Develop 1,000 MW Penn Power Project Panda Power Funds has entered into a joint venture with Sunbury Generation LP to develop, finance, construct and operate a 1,000 megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power project near Shamok ... more		GE Capital: 2015 Energy (Oil and Gas) Trends Oil prices continued their slide in early January 2015 following the OPEC decision on November 27, 2014 to hold output levels. The surprise to the market was not so much that OPEC did not cut produc ... more
				Methane emissions from natural gas industry higher than previously thought World leaders are working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it's unclear just how much we're emitting. In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new program to track these e ... more		Oil prices recover slightly in Asia Oil prices climbed Friday, recovering slightly from a sell-off caused by news that US stockpiles had reached record highs, adding to worries about a global supply glut. ... more

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Senators want oil door opened to Mexico A group of 21 U.S. senators called on the Commerce Department to liberalize trade relations and allow for greater crude oil trade with Mexico. ... more		Union cries foul after Exxon refinery blast The United Steelworkers union said the fire at an Exxon Mobil refinery in California is a reminder of the lopsided policies in the downstream energy industry. ... more		Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study		North Dakota oil boom deflating Low oil prices haven't yet dimmed confidence in North Dakota, though there may be concerns lingering over the mid-term horizon, those on the ground said. ... more
				Gas leak stops North Sea production It's too early to say when production from the Gudrun platform in the North Sea will resume following reports of a gas leak, Norway's Statoil said Thursday. ... more		Oil prices off more than 4 percent Crude oil prices were down sharply in Thursday trading after U.S. data showed more crude oil held in inventories, putting pressure on the recent rally. ... more

Environmental team surveying W. Va. oil-train disaster Crews are on the ground in and around the site of Monday's oil-train derailment in West Virginia deploying containment boom, the response team said. ... more		Libya, Yemen, leave bruises on OMV Austrian oil and gas company OMV said Thursday it posted a net fourth quarter loss in part because of low oil prices and Libyan and Yemeni security issues. ... more		NASA Dragonfly Mission Advances Through Crucial Development and Testing Stages SATNUS completes third NGWS flight campaign with autonomous systems integration SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion		Canada federal police warn of growing anti-oil threats Canadian police warned in a leaked document Wednesday of growing threats to the country's oil industry by militant climate activists opposed to the use of fossil fuels. ... more
NTSB: Oil by rail needs scrutiny after W. Va. incident The derailment of a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota through West Virginia is another sign of the need to address safety, a federal regulator said. ... more		U.S. shale oil shows resiliency Despite the slump in crude oil prices, production from two premier basins in the United States increased by a combined 33 percent, a forecast from Platts finds. ... more		Air running out of recent crude oil rally A string of weak figures from Western economies took some of the steam out of the growth momentum in crude oil prices during the Wednesday trading session. ... more		BP: Post-Arab Spring conflicts curb oil potential Regional conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have left a historic amount of oil on the sidelines, an annual report from BP found. ... more

	Halliburton, Baker Hughes plan stakeholder meeting Oil and gas services companies Baker Hughes and Halliburton unveiled plans to review stakeholder options for the planned Halliburton takeover. ... more		Fatality figure raised in Brazilian oil incident The number of fatalities attributed to an explosion on an oil production facility off the coast of Brazil was raised by one, contractor BW Offshore said. ... more

HawkEye 360 expands signals intelligence network with operational deployment of Cluster 12

York confirms successful deployment and health of 21 satellites for SDA Tranche 1 mission

Spain faces uphill battle to cut Israel military ties: experts

EU gas security at risk, commissioner says		Heavy fighting in South Sudan oil zones: defence minister		Russia expects prolonged economic slump		CSX oil-train blaze to burn out on its own		Libya's oil economy at risk, envoy says
Crude oil rally hits snag		Scotland's Wood Group upbeat in weak market		UAE says renewed air strikes hit IS oil refineries		Blaze extinguished at Libya's largest oil field		Kiev sued by shale natural gas explorer

Crude oil markets extend rally

BG Group comes up empty in North Sea

Kurds say Baghdad has failed to respect oil deal

Iran sees oil investments dwindling

Feds may open arctic Alaska to drillers

Oil slump not necessarily bad news for climate

Crude oil prices extend rally, up 3 percent

U.S. oil sector slowing, on and offshore

Earthquake activity linked to injection wells may vary by region

Plans submitted for Norway's Johan Sverdrup field

World Bank: Oil-rich Kurdish economy shrinking

Methane emissions vary at natural gas gathering and processing facilities

Bodies recovered from Brazilian oil installation

Shale industry irked by Pennsylvania tax proposal

Exxon moves ahead with Alaska LNG project

Oil rallies on back of Ukrainian truce

Peru gives Argentine oil firm three days to leave Amazon

Alberta weighs in on Keystone XL measure

Gazprom seeks Ukrainian gas payments

Poland's dream of shale gas riches begins to dim

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