regulations

Regulatory uncertainty continues to hamper Canadian provinces in competition for hydrocarbon investment.

Selling reservoirs’ empty pore space may become a new, big business.

Pennsylvania regulators have released a long-awaited final draft of rules to cut releases of methane from the state’s existing oil and natural gas well sites, but they will still not require companies to find and fix leaks at tens of thousands of low-producing wells.

After an oilfield tank battery explosion killed a 14-year-old girl, Louisiana regulators have put new rules in place for the storage tanks and are launching a campaign to identify all of them statewide.

Proposed US West Coast LNG terminal had long been a source of dispute between nearby property owners, indigenous peoples.

The auction was held as the result of a US district court order issued in June that overruled the Biden administration's attempt to suspend lease sales.

The White House is taking a governmentwide approach to reducing emissions in the oil and gas industry.

Four top oil executives will appear before the House Oversight Committee this week in a landmark moment for environmental activists who have spent years calling for investigations of the industry.

A California appellate court has ruled against a Monterey County ban on new oil and gas wells, possibly paving the way for Chevron and a bevy of smaller oil companies to begin drilling new wells.

This paper discusses various best practice technical strategies for decommissioning which can be applied in the Southeast Asia region, and throughout the world. The strategies proposed can result in an estimated operator saving of more than 30% over the entire decommissioning execution expenditure. The processes discussed are included in the typical steps of prelimina…