The bill would allow for the early payment of the winter fuel allowance to people whose homes are not connected to the mains gas grid and whose principal source of fuel is home fuel oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas.
Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has cut its losses and has increased the amount of oil it expects to produce this year.
Ivanhoe Energy, run by former Occidental Petroleum executives, produces oil and gas in places like China and California.
Allow early payment of Winter Fuel Allowance to pensioners whose homes are not connected to the mains grid, and instead use oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas for heating.
There are a bevy of big publicly traded oil and gas companies looking for CEOs including Marathon Oil and Occidental Petroleum, Bill Barrett and Encana.
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This is because of a relatively small contribution of natural gas to ConocoPhillips? stock value compared to other petroleum products produced by ConocoPhillips such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, gasoline, distillates, fuel oil, and a variety of others.
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In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Its shipbuilding activities include the building of bulk carriers, crude oil carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers and submarines.
The Times report describes a letter recently sent by a coalition of funds to the following foreign oil companies doing business in Iran: Royal Dutch Shell, Total of France, Repsol of Spain, Eni of Italy, Gazprom of Russia, the China National Petroleum Corporation, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India and Inpex Corporation of Japan.
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Speaking at a conference in Dublin this week, organised by the Institute of International and European Affairs and the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, Chris Skrebowski, a consulting editor of Petroleum Review, argued that spare capacity in the oil market could be eroded by 2015.
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has described 2011 as a "truly exceptional year of success".
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has bowed to pressure from shareholders and shelved a proposed new management bonus scheme.
Oil and gas firm Dana Petroleum has reported "strong results" from a gas appraisal well in the southern North Sea.
In September 2012, its subsidiary, Unit Petroleum Company, acquired certain oil and natural gas assets from Noble Energy (NBL), increasing its proved reserves 38% from year-end 2011, and sold certain of its Bakken properties.
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The Shell Petroleum Development Co is the largest oil and gas company in Nigeria - Africa's top energy producer - with an output of more than one million barrels of oil or equivalent per day.
Norway is salting away a big chunk of its oil income in a State Petroleum Fund to help pay the pensions of its ageing population when oil and gas production tails off.
Shares in Faroe Petroleum fell sharply on news that the oil and gas firm is to relinquish its licence for a field to the west of Shetland.
It has set up a rapid response team to counter publicity for the film by using two Washington-based groups that lobby for gas and oil companies: the Independent Petroleum Association of America and Energy in Depth.
And Canada is still fighting for an exemption from a rule inserted into the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act that bars the American government from buying fuels whose production causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional petroleum sources, as producing oil from tar sands does.
The US sanctions aim to stop international companies from investing in Iran's oil and gas industries or supplying it with petroleum products by preventing them from trading in the US if they trade with Iran.
Despite its huge oil and gas reserves, Iran still cannot refine enough petroleum products for domestic demand and depends on imports for 30-40% of its petrol needs.
The Alliance is particularly proud of its role in getting the Obama team in 2012 to lock up half of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve set aside 90 years ago specifically for oil and gas.
"If you're disclosing and the other guy doesn't have to, you're not really on a level playing field, " says Chris Joyner, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute (API), an industry group for oil and natural gas companies.
One reason the world is not awash in petroleum is that in many countries, governments have taken over oil and natural gas production.
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The Petroleum Association of Wyoming says that 2-BE isn't an oil and gas chemical but is a common fire retardant used in association with plastics and plastic components used in drinking wells.
We are all facing the same peril -- during my last visit to India, I met with the country's minister of petroleum and natural gas, and we spoke about the challenges of weaning a country off oil.
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When the price of oil and natural gas was highly regulated, back in the 1970s, petroleum production failed to respond to rising prices.
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Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
When coupled with state and local taxes and fees, the average American pays 45.8 cents per gallon in gas taxes alone, according to the American Petroleum Institute, the industry group that represents big oil companies.
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