GeoPark, Wintershall make oil find in Argentina’s Neuquen basin

GeoPark Ltd. and Wintershall Energia SA, a subsidiary of BASF group, has drilled and completed the Rio Grande Oeste 1 exploration well on CN-V block in Argentina’s Neuquen basin to a total depth of 5,500 ft targeting the Grupo Neuquen formation. Source: News

API urges EPA to reconsider, not just stay, new VOC emissions limits

The American Petroleum Institute urged the US Environmental Protection Agency to go beyond a proposed 3-month stay and fully reconsider recently issued volatile organic compound emissions limits at new, reconstructed, or modified US oil and gas operations. Source: News

Slattery named TRC VP, project services

Susan Slattery has been named vice-president of project services at TRC Cos. Inc., Lowell, Mass., and Tulsa, responsible for proposals, contract administration, procurement, and project controls for engineering and field services for the oil and gas industry. Source: News

US business associations want better ISDS mechanism in next NAFTA

One hundred eleven US business associations, including seven from the oil and gas industry, said they would like to see robust market commitments and investment protections, enforceable through investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), maintained and upgraded in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. Source: News

OPEC output climbed 173,000 b/d in July

Total crude oil production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries increased 173,000 b/d month-over-month in July to average 32.87 million b/d, according to five secondary sources used in the cartel’s August Monthly Oil Market Report. Source: News

AGL names preferred site for gas import terminal

Sydney-based gas and electricity provider AGL Energy has chosen Crib Point, near Hastings on Western Port Bay in southern Victoria, as its preferred site for a gas import jetty and pipeline. Source: News