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Exxon Mobil Corp.’s plans to increase its exploration and production (E&P) capital spending 10% this year is part of an aggressive move to grow overseas oil and natural gas projects as its North American production dwindles, the company said Thursday. The major also plans to continue strengthening its liquefied natural gas (LNG) business to give it an edge in U.S., European and Asian markets.

The Senate is expected to take up consideration of a Republican-crafted comprehensive energy package next Monday, with a vote to come within two to three weeks, according to Capitol Hill observers.

Oklahoma’s energy secretary has unveiled an aggressive 25-year program designed to reverse the state’s dwindling oil and natural gas production and also ensure its status as one of the top industry leaders into the future.

Oklahoma’s energy secretary has unveiled an aggressive 25-year program designed to reverse the state’s dwindling oil and natural gas production and also ensure its status as one of the top industry leaders into the future.

Energy trading companies should leap into action with “an aggressive compliance program in-house,” including a regimen of standards and procedures to weed out unacceptable market behavior, a veteran attorney in the regulatory arena told the mid-year meeting of the Energy Bar Association.

Energy trading companies should leap into action with “an aggressive compliance program in-house,” including a regimen of standards and procedures to weed out unacceptable market behavior, a veteran attorney in the regulatory arena told the mid-year meeting of the Energy Bar Association.

The Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) has set up an “aggressive” and “ambitious” schedule to carry out its integrity-management approach to ensure the safe operation of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. But the agency could fall short of its goal if it doesn’t formulate a workforce plan to identify the additional federal inspectors it will need to hire and state inspectors it will need to train to implement its new inspection strategy, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report that became publicly available on Friday.

The United States needs an integrated, aggressive, activist, long-term energy policy and the country needs it now, according to Mitch Daniels, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The nation needs it “although there still seems to be some people who do not have their eye on that ball, or even those who are taking an obstruction approach,” he said.

The United States needs an integrated, aggressive, activist, long-term energy policy and the country needs it now, according to Mitch Daniels, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The nation needs it “although there still seems to be some people who do not have their eye on that ball, or even those who are taking an obstruction approach,” he said.