Regular Features
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
    Transeuro Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, set up a website data room to disseminate information about its underexplored Block 2 operations in Armenia.
- Editor's Perspective
  - Project Kuwait heads for vote in mid-January
    While mid-December attention has focused on historic parliamentary elections in Iraq, another important vote is shaping up to the south for mid-January.
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
    Recently created AGA-3 orifice plate and AGA-7 turbine meter flow measurement calculations now can be added to any of this firm’s IPm RTU controllers.
- Journally Speaking
  - LNG’s future: promise, peril
    Recent years have been good ones for the oil and gas industries. This year seems set to continue that trend.
- Market Journal
  - Weather drives natural gas prices at yearend
    Weather drove energy prices in the final days of 2005, with the front-month natural gas futures contract dropping just before the Christmas holiday to the lowest point since November on the New York market.
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
    The US Minerals Management Service has issued a final rule that will allow suspensions of operation (SOOs) to oil and gas operators contemplating ultradeep wells (deeper than 25,000 ft TVD) in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
    Leiden, The Netherlands, has named John B. Reed as chief executive officer upon the retiremenet of Hein Mulder.
General Interest
- Deloitte analysts expect oil, gas prices to stay high
  Deloitte & Touche LLP analysts foresee continued strength in crude oil prices for more than a year and expect natural gas prices to remain high throughout the winter.
- Devon touts attractiveness of unconventional gas
  Higher natural gas prices and advances in technology are making the economics of producing unconventional gas more attractive, said William A.
- Domenici to bring ANWR leasing legislation back
  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici announced that he would try to bring back legislation authorizing federal oil and gas leasing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain in the new year.
- Editorial: Failing on energy
  The US Senate kept Congress true to form Dec. 21 when it rejected the latest effort to authorize oil and gas leasing of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain.
- Watching the World: Here comes the sun
  China’s new “Law on Renewable Resources,” implemented on Jan.
- House task force offers NEPA reform proposals
  A US House Resources Committee task force has proposed establishing a 180-day time limit for legal challenges to final federal agency decisions under the National Environmental Policy Act.
- Watching Government: Looking back, looking ahead
  Happy New Year! It promises to be every bit as lively for oil and gas-and the industry’s interactions with government-as 2005 was.
- MMS notes nine deepwater Gulf of Mexico discoveries
  There have been nine deepwater (greater than 1,000 ft) oil and natural gas discoveries announced by operators in the Gulf of Mexico through November in 2005, the US Minerals Management Service reported.
- Senate blocks oil and gas leasing in ANWR
  The US Senate blocked a provision to authorize oil and gas leasing of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain that was included in a defense appropriations bill.
- Company News: Shell sets $19 billion capital budget for 2006
  Royal Dutch Shell PLC was among several oil and gas companies to have reported its capital budget plans for 2006.
- State-owned oil companies expanding internationally
  The oil industry can expect changing relationships between international companies and national oil companies (NOCs) within 36 months, said John Knight, Statoil ASA senior vice-president, business development and acquisitions.
- World Bank funding up for small investors, renewables
  New figures in the World Bank’s extractive industries portfolio show increased financing for small and local investors, renewable and natural gas industry lending, and transparency initiatives to reduce corruption, according to leaders of the multilateral lending institution’s oil, gas, mining, and chemicals department.
Transportation
- INDIA GAS-Conclusion: Economics to determine LNG's role
  The expansion of India’s economy over the next decade will push the country’s demand for natural gas beyond supply, but whether LNG can fill this supply gap is a function of both domestic and global economics.
Processing
- Nelson-farrar cost indexes refinerery construction
- Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating
  Indexes for selected equipment items
- SAUDI PETROCHEMICALS-1: Saudi Arabia to become major petrochemical hub by 2010
  Saudi Arabia’s position in the global petrochemical market will grow during the next 5 years due to an ongoing and significant growth wave that will add substantial petrochemical capacity.
Exploration & Development
- SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES-1: Web service standards provide access to real-time E&P operations data
  Due to the high degree of diversity in which real-time operations and production data are stored and distributed within BP PLC-indeed, within almost any large oil company today-E&P professionals who carry out similar activities in different assets or business units must access data in distinctly different ways.
Special Report
- Previews of 2006 reflect new variable: hurricanes
  After the surprises of 2005, it will be a surprise in 2006 if a monster hurricane doesn’t disrupt oil and gas operations in and along the Gulf of Mexico.
Drilling & Production
- Ultra-HPHT conditions will be the next challenge
  Working in ultrahigh pressures and temperatures will require an industry-wide research and development effort in order to deliver reliable completions.
- Water content affects low pressure, acid-gas metering
  Failure to consider the water content at metering conditions can lead to a significant error in the calculation of the actual acid-gas flow rate.
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