Geological

A political trap has been added to the geological, technical and environmental obstacle course faced by Canadian natural gas suppliers. A sore spot in industry relations with native communities is worsening to the point where the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) has warned that “a point of crisis” is at hand.

A political trap has been added to the geological, technical and environmental obstacle course faced by Canadian natural gas suppliers. A sore spot in industry relations with native communities is worsening to the point where the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association has warned that “a point of crisis” is at hand.

A new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA), an area covering 24.2 million acres that is west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), concludes that there is “significantly greater petroleum resources than previously estimated.” However, it also concludes that ANWR is a better target with more recoverable oil at prices under $35/bbl.

Texas oil and gas well records, production reports, geologicaldata and research information is now available online at the TexasRailroad Commission’s web site (www.rrc.state.tx.us). The serviceswill allow users to browse the history of an estimated 132 millionpages of documents collected for more than one million wells in68,000 oil and gas fields in the state.