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Occidental Burns Off Gas
A filthy oil flare was observed yesterday afternoon and again early this morning. Must be the cheapest way to get rid of foul gas but it sure doesn't help our air quality.
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Oxy Announcement Not So Good For Planet
If you don't believe fossil fuel use is causing global warming then you may be rejoicing a little at the announcement by Occidental that they have found the equivalent of 250 million barrels of oil in western Kern County.
I understand the excitement about...
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The owner of Big West refinery in Bakersfield expects to sell the plant this summer, according to an internal memo that some suggest may be overly optimistic.
The May 4 memo, said to have been issued by top management at Utah-based Flying J Inc., states that interest in the refinery “has...
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Local oil producers’ complaints that their regulators should be exempt from state worker furloughs have been duly added to the pile.
The industry’s primary regulatory body — the state Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources — is funded through a tax on oil...
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A sale might not be the only way to solve the problems that have shut down Big West refinery on Rosedale Highway. But industry observers say it is the most likely resolution.
But this only begs the question: What kind of buyer are we talking about? People in the business shared their thoughts...
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Now we wait.
As many expected, Big West on Rosedale Highway has stopped refining oil.
What's next is harder to predict.
Will Big West sell? Will it work out a deal with its suppliers to get running again? Will the state Attorney General's office — or maybe the California Energy...
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It's getting time again. The federal Bureau of Land Management has set another of its Bakersfield oil and gas auctions.
The announcement we received by e-mail today is pasted below. May it serve you well.
BLM Plans Oil and Gas Competitive Lease Auction
The Bureau of Land Management is...
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What a relief it would be to hear Flying J come clean on what it intends to do with Big West refinery.
That’s probably not going to happen, by the way. The company has steadfastly refused to share with the news media its plans for the Rosedale Highway plant.
Will it take some of the $75...
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The author of the blog, Beat Diaspora: Beats, Buses, Bricks, visited Bakersfield recently and drew parallels between Buck's blinged-out Pontiac and rap music's excesses.
But it was a visit to the Black Gold exhibit at the Kern County Museum which really got the author going:
I choose to live a...
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Here's a press release from the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce:
Meeting the Challenge: 12th biennial Oil & Gas Conference addresses energy concerns and related issues
Designed to provide an informal forum where oil and gas operators can dialogue with regulatory agencies, the 12th...
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It seems the democrats just love making their detractors right. They love to prove themselves to be disingenuous and manipulative and they have done it again. Their bill to open up the coastlines for oil drilling as a gateway to energy independence is no more serious than the promises they made...
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You see it everywhere. People smiling at the gas stations because prices are falling. It's a warm fuzzy feeling because now they can take the wife to dinner or the kids to the beach. Then they get there and reality sets in. The twenty they saved at the pump isn't the same twenty they were holding...
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For a long time now, gas prices have soared to ridiculous levels with no relief in sight. We were told that there was no help for it due to the high price of oil. Still, oil companies and investors reported record profits, and the Bush administration shrugged its collective shoulders...
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Reporter James Burger talked to Les Clark of the Independent Oil Producers' Agency today about Ike. Here's what he found:
Les Clark of the Independent Oil Producers’ Agency said Hurricane Ike will have some impact on the local oil market, but it is hard to predict exactly what it...
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President Bush is expected to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling at a press conference this morning.
New exploration won't take place unless Congress approves, something it has shown no sign of doing so far.
Read the whole story here.
The White House says it wants to do something about high...
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I have been getting e-mails on how to bring down the price of gas since it first went over $2.00 per gallon. Don't buy gas on Tuesdays, Don't buy from this company or that, impeach the president, etc. Novel ideas, I suppose, but all totally ineffective.
It doesn't matter which day you buy gas,...
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A new tax to lower gas prices? Please tell me they are joking! As the senate grilled the heads of Americas largest oil companies as to why prices are so high and what they intend to do about it, they hung thinly veiled threats (probably culled from Obama's speech which he stole from Hillary...
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I am sick of the "War For Oil" mantra of the uninformed people who blame everything from gas prices to the lastest supernova on Bush. If this war is for oil, where is the OPEC glut that would flood the market to drop oil prices as it did in the 80s and again in the 90s? The Arabs may...
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The company's moving its headquarters to Denver.
Read reporter Gretchen Wenner's report. She'll be bringing us more information throughout the day.
For now, what's this going to mean for the oil industry here?
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Here's a report from Roy Burlingame and Joyce Holtzclaw, organizers of this event. Joyce is with Nations Petroleum, and Roy is with Dynamic Graphics, Inc.:
The SPE Western North American Region of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum...
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OK - right after I ranted about this flik only being in 1 other theater, it opened yesterday at the Marketplace. So I hopped right down and caught the noon show.
What a GREAT movie! Oh man - first 15 minutes had no dialog but what a marvel of cinematic exposition.
I only had 1 complaint:...
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Fascinating stuff about an upcoming petroleum rights auction:
"...the censoring of the Arctic report was typical of the actions of the White House. "It fits a pattern of downplaying, denying, and suppressing climate science at every turn. It's all part of the Bush-Cheney strategy of...
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Ever wondered what Kern's most famous export looks like? I took this video of crude oil during a visit Tuesday to Hathaway Oil Company, an independent producer in northern Kern County. Oil from this region is notorious for being thick and goopy ... and it definitely was. Company owner Chad...
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In case if you haven't noticed it, gas prices have actually been going down, despite the upcoming Labor Day holiday. They're down about $0.50 from a couple of months ago. Still high though at $2.50 to $2.90 a gallon. Now if only it would come down to about $1.80.
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ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips heve pulled their financial backing and resources for the heavy crude refinement programs in Venezuela in the face of the nationalization of the oil industry in that country and ceding majority ownership and control to the government. Hugo said he was...
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I don't drive a car, but that doesn't mean that I like seeing these insanely high gas prices. I get a ride from my parents to and from work and other places, and will start paying them for gas soon.
It now costs over $3 per gallon and experts say were one mishap away from $4 per...
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Pete’s comment the other day about churches tapping into the power of God by way of renewable energy got me to thinking about writing up another bit on some of the stuff going on in the realm of renewables. One of the exciting developments that is just getting started is using algae...
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As this exclusive article in the Independant states, the Iraqi government, along with their "friends" in the Bush administration, are planning on allowing Oil companies to profit from their oil reserves: "Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be...
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First, lets revisit a remark from "The Donald": Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS Radio in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil."
Now, lets see what the Shrub had to say on the campaign trail this week..from a WaPo article today:...
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