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NGPL said a gas quality problem was reported at the CEM/NGPL BECKHAM receipt point in Beckham County, OK, and the point became unavailable for scheduling Wednesday until further notice.

Chevron Corp.’s Blind Faith project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has been delayed until the last half of the year because of a problem with the mooring lines. The project, which is expected to have production capacity of 45,000 MMcf/d of natural gas and 45,000 b/d of crude oil, had been scheduled to ramp up by the end of June.

Nearly 90% of human resources (HR) executives at 22 top international oil and gas companies believe their industry faces a talent shortage and call the problem one of the top five business issues facing their companies, according to a recent survey.

Nearly 90% of human resources (HR) executives at 22 top international oil and gas companies believe their industry faces a talent shortage and call the problem one of the top five business issues facing their companies, according to a recent survey.

After completing 27 mergers and acquisitions in 15 years, Devon Energy Corp. always had a surplus of people, but the “new” people masked a problem that began to surface about two years ago, the company’s manager of project support said Wednesday. Ten percent of Devon’s workforce now is eligible for early retirement and nearly 60% will be eligible to leave within 10 years, and the producer now is stepping up its recruitment and retention program.

In an effort to prove that coal can be part of the greenhouse gas (GHG) solution instead of part of the problem, Dominion said late last week that its Brayton Point Power Station in New England will become the site of a large-scale demonstration project designed to convert biomass, coal and petroleum coke into separate streams of natural gas and carbon dioxide.

In an effort to prove that coal can be part of the greenhouse gas (GHG) solution instead of part of the problem, Dominion said Thursday that its Brayton Point Power Station in New England will become the site of a large-scale demonstration project designed to convert biomass, coal and petroleum coke into separate streams of natural gas and carbon dioxide.

El Paso canceled Tuesday’s warning of a potential Strained Operating Condition Thursday, saying high-linepack conditions had improved.

Power companies should have no problem refinancing maturing debt in the near-term despite the current credit crunch, given the improvement in the sector over the past couple of years, according to a new report issued by Standard & Poor’s (S&P).