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Last Tuesday was slated to be all about oil at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ (CERA) CERAWeek 2010 in Houston. But ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva, who keynoted the afternoon session, was all about natural gas.

Tuesday was slated to be all about oil at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ (CERA) CERAWeek 2010 in Houston. But ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva, who keynoted the afternoon speech, was all about natural gas.

Tuesday was slated to be all about oil at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ (CERA) CERAWeek 2010 in Houston. But ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva, who keynoted the afternoon speech, was all about natural gas.

The costs to build and operate upstream facilities have plunged over the past six months, but they still have further to fall, according to IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA).

The costs to build and operate upstream facilities have plunged over the past six months, but they still have further to fall, according to IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA).

Demand, rather than supply, will challenge North American natural gas markets over the coming decade, according to a Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) multi-client study.

The oil and natural gas industry is positioned to lead and benefit from the commercialization of various carbon sequestration strategies, according to a report issued Feb. 12 by Cambridge, MA-based Emerging Energy Research (EER). The report concludes that there is a potential $30-70 billion annual industry waiting to emerge by 2030 in the carbon capture and storage (CCS) business.

Costs to construct new oil and natural gas upstream facilities reached a record high in the second half of 2008, according to the most recent report by IHS and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). However, as the financial crisis began to affect markets worldwide, costs began to moderate toward the end of the third quarter.

The costs to construct new oil and natural gas upstream facilities have jumped 6% in the past six months and have doubled since 2005, according to the most recent IHS/Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) Upstream Capital Costs Index.