Between the Lines: December 13

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The Best (Or Worst) Laid Airline Plans

For now, the new American will still operate as two distinct companies as the integration of U.S. Air with American will take nearly a year to complete. If successful, the full merger will have taken less time than other recent mergers. The combined American now offers nearly 6,500 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries. This merger marks a new beginning for American, as they previously filed for bankruptcy in 2011.

Although technically a “merger” of two equals, the new American more closely resembles U.S. Airways. At the helm of the new company is U.S. Airway’s CEO, Doug Parker. The new airline’s headquarters will stay adjacent to the Dallas Fort Worth airport. Yet, even as former U.S. Airways executives arrived in Texas, many American executives were on their way out the door.

Transportation Sec. LaHood Tours Site Of PG&E Gas Explosion

Top 10 oil and gas market predictions

Dramatic changes in supply and demand have altered the oil and gas industry and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. To meet these challenges, oil and gas companies need to strive for operational resiliency, deliver productivity, enhance product, process and people reliability and facilitate superior resource performance,” said Jill Feblowitz, vice president, IDC Energy Insights. “Following upon digital oilfield and integrated operations initiatives, we see the industry stepping up investment in new information and communications technology to support these objectives.

House Dems press Obama to halt Keystone XL review

At issue is the contractor brought on by State, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), which did not disclose its previous contracts with pipeline developer TransCanada when vying to preform the environmental review on Keystone XL.

The contractor worked with TransCanada in 2011 on the Alaska Petroleum pipeline, Grijalva’s office said in a statement on Thursday.

Poll: Americans support more pipelines, including Keystone XL

The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive for the American Petroleum Institute, also shows a majority of people back the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry Canadian oil sands crude to the Gulf Coast. Seven out of 10 people surveyed said they supported the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, with 17 percent opposed to the $5.4 billion project.

The State Department is readying a final environmental impact statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, after being inundated with 1.2 million comments on a draft analysis released in March. A 2004 executive order tasks the State Department with deciding whether the border-crossing pipeline would be in the national interest, a verdict that may come next year.

Exxon Presses for Exports

Exxon Mobil Corp., the nation’s largest energy producer, is calling for the U.S. to lift restrictions on exporting domestic oil that date back to the Arab oil embargo of 1973.







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