Army Corps of Engineers denies ANS permit
February 8,2010 –
The US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit application from ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. to construct a drill pad identified as CD-5 west of the Colville River Delta to expand the Alpine petroleum field on the North Slope.
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Eni bows to Tullow, pulls out of Uganda agreement
February 8,2010 –
Heritage Oil PLC said ENI International BV terminated “with immediate effect” its previous agreement to buy with Heritage’s interest in Blocks 1 and 3A in Uganda.
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Argentina protests new Falklands exploration program
February 8,2010 –
Argentina’s government lodged a protest with UK’s government over plans by UK firms to begin oil exploration off the north coast of the long-disputed Falkland Islands.
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Niko to buy Trinidad player Voyager Energy
February 8,2010 –
Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary, will buy Voyager Energy Ltd., which has interests in Trinidad onshore blocks.
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Senate bill would extend chemical security rules
February 8,2010 –
Four members of the US Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee introduced bipartisan legislation to extend by 5 years existing federal regulations on chemical plant security.
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Schlumberger appoints chief operating officer
February 8,2010 –
Schlumberger Ltd. appointed Paal Kibsgaard as chief operating officer, effective immediately.
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EV Energy buying Ohio assets from Range Resources
February 8,2010 –
EV Energy Partners LP and institutional partnerships managed by EnerVest Ltd. agreed to buy a stake in tight gas sands properties in Ohio from Range Resources Corp. for $330 million, Range Resources announced.
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Verizon Wireless Temporarily Blocks Some 4chan Traffic
Verizon Wireless said Monday that its recent blocking of parts of 4chan was caused by “potentially disruptive” traffic from the popular site.
“Our network security system found traffic from some of the 4chan web sites that were potentially disruptive of the Verizon Wireless network and could affect our customers’ use of their services,” Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for the wireless carrier, said. “Upon further investigation, and ensuring no current risk of harm, [we] are giving the green-light to all 4chan traffic.”
4chan itself wasn’t blocked, he added.
Christopher Poole, 4chan’s founder, said in a blog post Sunday that visitors who were Verizon Wireless customers reported problems reaching the site’s image boards.
If this all sounds familiar, it’s because AT&T had a similar encounter with 4chan over the summer. It blocked the site after a business customer was targeted by a denial-of-service attack that emanated from IP addresses connected to 4chan.
Like AT&T said at the time, Verizon Wireless pointed out that the move didn’t relate to 4chan’s content, which is infamous for Internet pranks like Rickrolling.
“Verizon Wireless doesn’t care where you browse: CNN, 4Chan, Boy Genius, Twitter. We will give you the best network to connect through,” Mr. Nelson added in a tweet.
UPDATE, 3:37 p.m. ET: Verizon weighs in on its policy blog, saying: “We take being the nation’s most reliable wireless network seriously. Seriously enough to protect our customers and our network from malicious attacks, even if we get dinged in the blogosphere. It’s easy to complain about ‘blocking’ when your wireless data connection is stable, fast and reliable. But try connecting to the web from your Droid or BlackBerry when attacks slow — and potentially block — use of our network altogether.”
China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
Chinese authorities have broken a hacking-tool dissemination ring, according to state media. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
OGJ Newsletter
February 8,2010