Pengrowth Energy Corp., Calgary, is selling its remaining Swan Hills assets in north-central Alberta for $185 million (Can.). Source: News

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, has shut more than 3,000 producing vertical wells, or a total of 13,000 net boe/d of production, in northeast Colorado following a home explosion and fire in Firestone on Apr. 17. Two men were killed in the incident, which is being investigated by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. […]

Three Republicans in the 115th Congress—Louisiana’s two senators and a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia—introduced legislation to keep a US president from using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and Antiquities Act to block offshore energy development and production. Source: News

Statoil ASA selected a consortium to provide a system to remove seawater sulfate from Injection seawater to protect Statoil’s production wells at the Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Source: News

The light, sweet crude oil price for June delivery gained a few cents to settle under $50/bbl on the New York market Apr. 26 while Brent crude oil for June delivery in London dropped modestly to settle under $52/bbl. Source: News