PennEnergy's Top Oil & Gas News 6/21

This Week's Most Popular Oil & Gas News
• House panel approves offshore drilling legislation
• Chevron confirms first cargo from Angola LNG
• Turkish company offered oil blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan
• BSEE to host offshore energy hurricane preparedness forum
• Tiandi President talks data management and skilled staffing
• Total finalizes acquisition of gas production acreage in Tajikistan
• Statoil makes another oil find offshore Newfoundland
• GE turbines to power oil production platform offshore Brazil
• SNG pilot plant construction in China gets cooperation agreement
• FTTN works to increase oil and gas holdings in Texas
• Financing secured for Sadara integrated petrochemicals project
• Dong cuts first steel for Danish offshore platform

All Energy, All the Time: The Nuclear Power Rollercoaster Nuclear power is again in the spotlight as uncertainty grips the industry and a new documentary challenges naysayers of atomic power while stirring controversy among some experts. Although neither controversy nor uncertainty is new to nuclear power, the volume of each most recently has given the industry a rather precarious feeling. Full Article Share:

Governing Energy: Big Data: Ethics and Morals As noted in the news recently, in the era of Big Data society is becoming increasingly dependent on high ethical standards and controls by increasingly larger organizations. The root of the current debate over storage of phone records by the U.S. government is the “level” of an individual’s right to privacy. Full Article  North Dakota reports record oil production in April North Dakota's oil production in April rose 1.3 percent to more than 793,000 barrels of oil per day during the state's coldest April on record. Home to the Bakken shale formation, production is expected to continue growing as forecasters say as many as 850,000 bpd could be reached by the end of the year. Full Article