PennEnergy's Top Oil & Gas News 3/15

Top Oil & Gas News
	Gas pipeline erupts in flame after barge strike A tugboat pushing an oil barge crashed into a gas pipeline in a Louisiana bayou located about 30 miles south of New Orleans on March 12. Precautionary measures such as a protective boom and oil skimmers were placed in the water, although no oil leak was expected. Full Article Share:
	PennEnergy Video News Update From Japan's successful methane hydrate extraction, to Chevron's expectations for 2017, to a refinery interdiction in Buenos Aires, all of the week's biggest headlines are in the PennEnergy Video News Update. Full Article Share:

This Week's Most Popular Oil & Gas News
• Japan first to extract gas from "methane ice"
• Chevron reaffirms 2017 oil production target
• Interdiction at Petrobras refinery in Buenos Aires
• Tunisia issues oil exploration permit to YNG
• Baker Hughes announces February 2013 rig counts
• Eni announces first production from Junin-5 oil field in Venezuela
• Gazprom and Greece talk potential privatization of DEPA
• EIA: Syrian unrest threatens potential role as an energy transit country
• Kvaerner wins $1.5B EPC contract for Hebron oil project offshore Canada
• Talisman scraps Yme project with final settlement of $470MM
• Total restarts Elgin/Franklin production in UK North Sea
• Statoil: Vigdis North East on stream