An otherwise frustrating 2015 ended triumphantly when the 40-year-old ban on exports of US-produced crude oil ended as part of fiscal 2016 omnibus budget bill. But it still was possible to wonder if the US oil and gas industry was becoming a victim of its own success. Source: News

In Israel, does the fat lady ever sing? Source: News

Spudded in November 2015, Cairn’s SNE-2 appraisal well was successfully tested in two intervals offshore Senegal on the Sangomar Block. Source: News

Traditional techniques for addressing vibration in gas turbines are unable to adapt to complex modern operating environments.  Source: News

Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has made a natural gas discovery offshore Myanmar with its first well, Shwe Yee Htun-1 (previously known as Saung-1). Source: News

Thermal insulation properties of fiber-reinforced (FRP) plastic crude oil pipelines are superior to seamless steel pipelines. Operating a crude oil pipeline at too low a temperature can lead to wax precipitation, a major economic and safety problem. Source: News

LLOG Exploration Co. LLC, Covington, La., and joint venture partner, Blackstone Energy Partners, announced the Delta House floating production system on Mississippi Canyon Block 254 achieved production of 80,000 b/d. Source: News

Swift Energy Co., a Houston independent focused on the Eagle Ford shale of South Texas, filed voluntary petitions on Dec. 31, 2015, for relief under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The action includes eight of its subsidiaries. Source: News

Here are yearly values for the Nelson-Farrar refinery inflation cost index since 1926. Source: News

Syncrude Canada Ltd. has devised and implemented a feedstock monitoring strategy to prevent the reemergence of popcorn coke that previously caused several production outages of a light gas oil (LGO) hydrotreater at its 350,000-b/d oil sands operations in Fort McMurrary, Alta. Source: News