World Oil News Center
World Oil News Center is collection of current headlines and select press releases from around the upstream, oil and gas industry.
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Headlines
05/20/2013: Plains Exploration board approves merger with Freeport-McMoRan
05/17/2013: Plains: Majority of voting shareholders choose Freeport stock as merger payment
05/17/2013: Ophir Energy to drill five wells in Tanzania, Ghana
05/17/2013: Total CEO: Unlikely probed oil firms involved in alleged price rigging
05/17/2013: Southwestern Energy announces closing of acquisition of Marcellus shale properties
05/17/2013: Total wins 10 exploration licenses in Brazil
05/17/2013: Transocean CEO confirms shareholders rejected Icahn's dividend proposal
05/17/2013: Total rules out oil exploration in Congo's Virunga National Park
05/17/2013: Landmark DOE decision OKs Freeport LNG export permit
05/17/2013: Natural gas futures climb 3.3%, top $4/MMbtu level
05/17/2013: NYSE busts trades as Anadarko stock falls temporarily to a penny
05/17/2013: Oando Energy Resources announces additional 2,500 bopd production capacity from Ebendo field
05/17/2013: Apache shareholders don't approve executive compensation
05/16/2013: Board chairman of Quicksilver Resources to retire
05/16/2013: Chevron, YPF sees Argentina as possible shale oil pioneer
05/16/2013: Kongsberg wins automation contract for four drillships
05/16/2013: Indian cabinet panel to soon discuss natural gas price rise
05/16/2013: Former BP chief exec to serve as interim chairman for mining trader
05/16/2013: Ernest Moniz confirmed U.S. Secretary of Energy
05/16/2013: Wireless Seismic delivers 7,500-channel rt system 2 to Asian Oilfield Services
05/16/2013: ValvTechnologies appoints new VP of Human Resources
05/16/2013: St. Anselm Exploration defendants exonerated in Ponzi case
05/16/2013: Statoil awarded 6 licenses offshore Brazil
05/16/2013: Shell to start Iraq oil output amid plans for Saudi investments
05/16/2013: Shell declares force majeure on gas supplies to Nigeria LNG
05/16/2013: OGX sells 50% stake in new Brazilian oil, gas blocks to MPX
05/16/2013: Rosneft CEO to offer BP partnership on Barents Sea blocks
05/16/2013: Rosneft, Petrovietnam sign production agreement on Vietnam shelf
05/15/2013: Repsol signs offshore exploration agreement with Guyana
05/15/2013: Poland to adopt shale exploration regulations this year
05/15/2013: Pertamina embarks on shale gas exploration
05/15/2013: Schlumberger releases new information management solution for IT professionals
05/15/2013: Vietnam & Russia sign deals for three oil and gas projects
05/15/2013: YPF & Chevron executives meet in Argentina for energy deal talks
05/15/2013: Brazil's HRT plans new exploration, production wells at Polvo field
05/15/2013: GE Oil & Gas expands Batam subsea manufacturing facilities in Indonesia
05/15/2013: New insight on gas hydrates in Gulf of Mexico
05/15/2013: Chevron, YPF to sign $1.5 billion deal to develop shale in July
05/15/2013: BP, partners win eight deepwater exploration blocks in Brazil’s round 11 auction
05/15/2013: BG Group satisfied after winning 10 of 12 Brazil exploration blocks
05/15/2013: Brazil's 11th bidding round for oil and gas exploration blocks receives record bids
05/15/2013: Brazil's first oil auction in five years draws record bids
05/15/2013: Atwood Oceanics announces contract for the Atwood Aurora
05/14/2013: ANP says CNOOC pulls out of latest Brazil oil and gas auction
05/14/2013: Clariant Oil Services invests in an enhanced oil recovery technology and services company
05/14/2013: Buccaneer Energy spuds Cosmopolitan #1 well offshore Alaska
05/14/2013: Det Norske Oljeselskap agrees transfer of licenses with Total
05/14/2013: Mississippi signs legislation to reduce severance tax on horizontally drilled wells
05/14/2013: Moody's to decide this year on Petrobras downgrade
05/14/2013: Ithaca Energy sells 20% of UK license P1792 to Shell