Eric Watkins, who began writing as Middle East Correspondent for the Oil & Gas Journal in 2001, now serves as its Oil Diplomacy Editor, drawing out the political implications of the global industry. His column Watching the World appears weekly in Oil & Gas Journal, while his news articles appear daily on Oil & Gas Journal Online. |
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The US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit application from ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. to construct a drill pad identified as CD-5 west of the Colville River Delta to expand the Alpine petroleum field on the North Slope.
Argentina’s government lodged a protest with UK’s government over plans by UK firms to begin oil exploration off the north coast of the long-disputed Falkland Islands.
Elixir Petroleum Ltd., Sydney, will acquire East Paris Petroleum Development Ltd., which holds France’s largest onshore exploration block.
Partners in Athena oil field in the Outer Moray Firth of the UK North Sea have approved spending to begin development, expecting production to start in the second quarter of 2011.
Well control measures are being implemented at the Kurdamir-1 indicated discovery in the northern part of the 2,120 sq km Kalar Bawanoor Block 44 in the southern part of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
Citing “changes in the market situation and particularly in the LNG market,” Shtokman Development AG has delayed by 3 years the start-up of production from Shtokman gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea.
Rafael Sandrea, Ph.D. and President of IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc., provides insights into global crude production in his microblog, Future Oil & Gas Supply-Potholes & Options.