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From platts.com
Is the party over for Iraq after first bid round? (The Barrel blog)
The prognosis has been mixed after Iraq's first oil bidding round,with some seeing the award of just one out of eight fields on offer as a fiasco and others hailing the event as a success for oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani.
Sharp spending cuts further impede oil capacity expansion: IEA (podcast)
Managing editor for Platts EMEA oil news, Richard Swann, and senior correspondent, Margaret McQuaile, discuss the recently published International Energy Agency (IEA) Medium-Term Oil Market Report; and focus on the impact of sharp cuts in upstream spending on the agency's forecast of capacity growth within the OPEC oil cartel.
ExxonMobil brings out big 'guns' to extract gas (Power Lines blog)
The old cliché "What goes up must go down" could be used to describe the germ of an idea that led todevelopment of a state-of-the-art fracture-stimulation technology that ExxonMobil is using to unlock the gas trapped in tight sands formations in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado.
IEA sees OPEC capacity growth at just 1.7 million b/d between 2008-2014 (Platts web feature update)
Having forecast late last year that OPEC capacity would grow by 3.2 million b/d by 2014, the International Energy Agency now sees OPEC capacity growth at just 1.7 million b/d between 2008 and 2014.

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