API, INGAA call on PHMSA to reconsider some recent actions

The US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration should reconsider several rules and procedures it adopted late in the Obama administration, officials from the American Petroleum Institute and Interstate Natural Gas Association of America told a subcommittee of the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in separate written testimony on Apr. 26. Source: News


Drilling commences in Egypt’s Al Jahraa field

A two-well drilling program will target the Cretaceous Abu Roash-C reservoir in the fault block immediately south of the Al Jahraa SE-1X discovery in Abu Sennan concession in Egypt, according to partner Rockhopper Exploration PLC, Salisbury, UK. Source: News


EIA: US crude stockpiles down 3.6 million bbl in third straight weekly drop

US commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, decreased 3.6 million bbl during the week ended Apr. 21 compared with the previous week’s total, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Source: News