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NORTH AMERICA Fuel Fix ConocoPhillips CEO: Skeptics warnings of shale bubble are unfounded - ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan

n Lance targeted shale boom skeptics Friday, refuting arguments that the surge in oil and gas production will be short-lived. - Some skeptics notably Canadian geoscientist David Hughes and Houston geologist Arthur Berman have suggested the U.S. is facing a shale bubble, and energy production declines much more dramatically from shale drilling relative to conventional techniques. U.S. Issues Emergency Testing Order To Crude Oil Rail Shippers - WSJ.com - The move comes as U.S. authorities investigate Bakken crude oil after a series of accidents involving exploding tank carsincluding one in Quebec last July that killed 47 people and leveled a town. While crude oil is considered hazardous, it isn't usually explosive. Derailments, which are typically caused by track problems or equipment failure, triggered the accidents. Fuel Fix Chesapeake Energy mulls sale, spinoff of division - Chesapeake Energy Corp. is considering selling or possibly spinning off its oil field services unit to help maximize shareholder value. Fuel Fix BP starts pumping crude at major deep-water Gulf project - BP said Monday it began pumping crude from a new well at one of its four major deep-water hubs in the Gulf of Mexico last week, the second major startup in U.S. offshore region this year. - By 2016, new projects could push the regions daily oil production past its previous peak of 1.8 million barrels per day, according to research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. Fuel Fix Surge in fuel exports boosting US trade balance - Dramatic growth in the export of refined petroleum products, such as jet fuel and gasoline, has led the way. The value of net refined exports increased 55 percent in 2013 over the prior year, reaching $33 billion, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. - U.S. refiners are finding cheaper domestic alternatives to overseas oil, causing a rally in the ratio of refined fuel exports to imports. Overall energy export values increased 8 percent in 2013 over the prior year. Fuel Fix Rail projects boosting oil flow to California refineries - California, the third-biggest refining state in the U.S., is about to see a flood of oil by rail from places such as Canada and North Dakota as suppliers seek to tap a market isolated from the rest of the country. - The Western U.S. may bring 500,000 barrels of light oil by rail a day in 2015 as the regions refiners seek to replace shrinking output in California and Alaska and more costly foreign imports, Mark Smith, Tesoro Corp. (TSO)s vice president of development, supply and logistics, said at a conference yesterday in Glendale, California. California refineries can run 1.63 million barrels a day, the most in the U.S. after Texas and Louisiana, government data show. Fuel Fix Houston-area company lastest to seek approval to build LNG export facility - The Woodlands-based company announced Monday that it has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting authorization to build and operate a liquefied natural gas export facility in Lavaca Bay, about 30 miles southeast of Victoria, Texas. One difference between that and a slew of other proposed projects: It floats.

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