FuelFix Newslinks |03.24.11|
Why the fail-safe failed: Conoco keeps selling. Is Anglo Suisse leaky? More »
Oil rises for 4th day on intense Libya fighting
Crude gained as much as 0.9 percent as the U.K. launched further attacks by submarine against Libyan air-defense systems. More »
Gasoline prices in Houston hold steady
The average price of gas in Galveston and Texas City is $3.46 this week. More »
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ConocoPhillips is sharply expanding asset sales
ConocoPhillips will sell up to $10 billion in additional assets over the next two years, significantly upping a previous target, as it steers more money to capital projects and stock buybacks, CEO James Mulva told analysts Wednesday.
The Houston oil gi… More »
Report says damaged pipe thwarted ‘fail-safe’ device
WASHINGTON — A piece of drill pipe knocked askew as BP’s Macondo well surged out of control kept its blowout preventer from averting last year’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an investigation released Wednesday.
In the firs… More »
Houston company eyed in oil slick
An estimated one-quarter to one-half-mile of shoreline has been affected by patches of oil, the Coast Guard said. Preliminary test results on the oil may match with a Houston firm’s well.
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Houston firm could pick up coal tracts
The U.S. government would give an estimated 145 million tons of publicly owned coal to a Houston company under an exchange supported by members of Congress that calls for future royalties and other coal reserves to go to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
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Report: Blowout preventer failed because of off-center drill pipe *updated*
A forensic testing firm that has spent months examining the blowout preventer used at BP’s doomed Macondo well concludes that off-center drill pipe prevented the emergency equipment from blocking surging oil and gas — and stopping the Gulf spill last year. More »
Alternative energy in the heart of OPEC
Last month, I wrote about how Egypt had gone from an oil exporting nation to an importing one in the past two decades. It’s a change that’s facing other oil-producing nations as well. Across the Persian Gulf region, rising domestic consumption is outpa… More »
Occidental settles natural gas royalty claims for $2 million
A lawsuit filed by a private citizen claims the company took improper deductions from the gas production values it reported to federal officials. More »
Energy Transfer, Regency to buy NGL business for $1.93 billion
ETP and Regency will form a joint venture to buy the natural gas liquids pipelines and processing plants from Louis Dreyfus. More »
FuelFix Newslinks |03.23.11|
Another deepwater permit. Gas gooses Gulf chemical biz. Qatar asked for handouts. More »
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