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It's High Stakes for Oil, Gas Industry in Pennsylvania Governor's Race

Polls show Pennsylvania's Republican Gov.Tom Corbett narrowing the double-digit lead that Democratic challenger Tom Wolf has enjoyed for much of the campaign. The election has high stakes for the oil and gas industry as Wolf has pushed a severance tax and made energy reform a mainstay of his campaign. Read More

Stampede Field in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico in Production by 2018, Hess Says

Hess. Corp., operator and partial owner of the Stampede oil and natural gas project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM), will move forward with the project and expects it to begin production in 2018, the company said Thursday. Read More

Independent Eyes More Drilling in Northern California

San Diego-based Royale Energy Inc., a small independent with some big plans for Alaska's North Slope shale plays, is launching a drilling program in the Sacramento Basin dry natural gas fields, following a successful well in Tehama County, 130 miles north of the state capital. Read More

$126B in Colorado Oil, Gas Economic Benefits Outlined in Study

Economic benefits from Colorado's upstream and midstream oil and natural gas industry totaled $126 billion between 2008 and 2012, according to a study highlighted Thursday by the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business. Read More

University of Texas to Lead $58M Methane Hydrate Research Project in GOM

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is leading a research consortium that is getting $58 million to study methane hydrate under the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Read More

Alaska Awards Leases on Disputed Acreage

Alaska has awarded two Beaufort Sea leases that had been pending since 2011 based on the state's belief that it -- and not the federal government -- controls 3,000 acres of tidal and submerged lands along the Beaufort coastline. Read More

Pemex and Pacific Rubiales Agree to Cooperate on Mexican Oil/NatGas Efforts

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., which has a base in Colombia and claims to be the largest independent oil and gas producer in Latin America, have entered into a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to analyze potential oil and natural gas cooperation in Mexico. This will include exploration, deep-water projects, revitalization of mature fields, heavy and extra-heavy oil onshore and offshore fields, high water production fields and other upstream activities. Read More

Virginia's Energy Vision Supports Pipelines, Offshore Drilling, Vehicle Conversions

Virginia will pursue offshore oil and natural gas drilling; support the improvement and expansion of intrastate and interstate gas pipelines; and expand... Read More

Pemex Awards Subsea Contract for Lakach Field

The first deepwater subsea project to be developed by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has been awarded to OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger Ltd. company, for the natural gas-rich Lakach field offshore Mexico. Read More

Two Workers Hurt in Colorado Encana Wellhead Rupture

Two contract workers were hurt, one critically, on Wednesday in far western Colorado's Mesa County while working on a valve at an Encana Corp. gas well that ruptured, a Denver-based company spokesperson told NGI Thursday. Read More