Losses sustained by crude oil prices on June 24 as the London and New York markets reacted to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union continued on June 27 amid feelings of uncertainty about Europe’s economic future. Source: News

The Woodside Petroleum Ltd.-Mitsui E&P Australia joint venture has given final approval for the $1.9-billion Greater Enfield oil development offshore Western Australia. Source: News

Legislative obstacles are nothing new to US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.). The 49th State’s senior senator, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has encountered many in her career. Source: News

Republican members of the US House of Representatives proposed a series of policy changes to tackle excessive regulations, develop more American energy, and curb lawsuit abuse as a third plank in their “Better Way” for the next administration. Source: News

A federal district court judge in Wyoming set aside the US Bureau of Land Management’s final hydraulic fracturing rule after finding the agency did not have the necessary congressional authority to impose it. Source: News

Antero Resources Corp., Denver, has agreed to acquire 55,000 net acres of undeveloped Marcellus shale leasehold-including deep rights on 41,000 net acres prospective for the underlying dry Utica-and 14 MMcfed of net production from Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, for $450 million. Source: News

How many protestors dressed as dinosaurs to disparage fossil energy-tagged as symbols of activism in the first part of this editorial series-can define “climate sensitivity?” How many can explain why climate sensitivity is important to the politics of energy? Source: News

As publisher of the OGJ150 each September, editors at Oil & Gas Journal already have a pretty good idea of which US industry firms are handling the downturn better or worse relative to their peers. Source: News