Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
03/13/2006
Volume 104, Issue 10
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Print Ad Index
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Advertising Index
Advertisers in the print issue.
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Advertising Index
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Drilling & Production
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Aramco’s Haradh GOSP-3 starts up
The third of three gas-oil separation plants in the Haradh area of Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar field came on stream in January, according to an article last month by Rick Snedeker in Saudi Aramco Week.
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Study finds optimum compressor interstage pressure
A study has found that the choice of the optimum compressor interstage pressure is an economic decision that can be estimated by equal compression ratios for each stage and adjustments to minimize total power requirements
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Aramco’s Haradh GOSP-3 starts up
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Regular Features
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Area Drilling
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Area Drilling
Solana Resources Ltd., Calgary, declared commercial and placed on long-term test the Guariquies-1 well in the Middle Magdalena basin.
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Area Drilling
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Market Journal
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Crude price at 3-week high prior to meetings
The April contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes opened at a 3-week high of $63.
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Crude price at 3-week high prior to meetings
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Journally Speaking
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Economic amnesia
Last year was one of the most volatile business environments for the oil and gas industry.
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Economic amnesia
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Editor's Perspective
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Fuel price crunch fix: Lift ethanol tariff and credit
Despite rapid growth, US capacity to produce fuel ethanol from grain faces a crunch this year.
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Fuel price crunch fix: Lift ethanol tariff and credit
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Letters
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Letters
Tucked away on p. 35 of the Feb. 6, 2006, Oil & Gas Journal is a short item headlined “Saudis, Chinese agree to landmark energy accord.” Although details of the “accord” are not known, its implications for the US are immense.
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Letters
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill to begin oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico’s Sale 181 area.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Special Report
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Better fractionation hikes ULSD yields, hydrotreater run lengths
Improved fractionation will allow many refiners to increase their ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) yields and hydrotreater run lengths by segregating the easy and difficult-to-treat sulfur species.
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Refiners to see strong returns near-term despite looming capacity buildup
Overcapacity and associated low margins are an unlikely outcome of 66 announced grassroots refinery projects.
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Better fractionation hikes ULSD yields, hydrotreater run lengths
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General Interest
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Company News: E&P firms continue to report higher capital budgets
Oil and gas companies are still reporting increased capital spending plans for 2006.
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Cuba seen pushing oil, gas work close to Florida
Cuba is moving to develop its offshore oil and gas resources, which would result in development closer to Florida’s coast than the US government allows, Rep.
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DOE sees large remaining US oil resource
The US holds as much as 430 billion bbl of technically recoverable oil in a resource in place of 1.
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EPA issues mobile-source emissions reduction proposal
The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new mobile source emissions reduction standards targeting benzene levels in gasoline, hydrocarbon emissions from vehicles in cold weather, and evaporative standards for fuel containers.
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EPA queried on producer exemption in storm-water rule
US Sen. James L. Jeffords (I-Vt.) and five Senate Democrats have raised questions about possible involvement of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl C. Rove and the Office of Management and Budget in development of an Environmental Protection Agency proposal affecting oil and gas producers.
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Comment: EU may miss Kyoto targets despite EEA recommendations
At a roundtable organized by major Italian environmental group Legambiente, Romano Prodi, Italy’s 1996-98 prime minister and current leftist candidate for that same position, described himself as a “Kyoto fighter” or advocate of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
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Watching the World: Extrapolating the port issue
The current debate among US lawmakers about Dubai Port World’s (DPW) proposed takeover of terminal operations at six US ports may seem far from the oil industry.
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High gas costs push shift in ethylene trade
High gas commodity prices in North America have accelerated a shift in investment strategy by the region’s ethylene producers.
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Query targets missing deepwater lease price thresholds
The US Minerals Management Service is investigating why price thresholds were absent from federal offshore leases covered by deepwater royalty relief during fiscal 1998 and 1999 but has not determined the cause, the MMS deputy director told a House subcommittee Mar.
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Editorial: Spinning oil potential
The US Department of Energy had an important message to tell about future oil supply, but communication got in the way.
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Company News: E&P firms continue to report higher capital budgets
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Exploration & Development
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Neuquen basin oil discoveries due pipeline
Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, plans to lay a 25-km, 6-in., 13,500 b/d pipeline to connect oil discoveries on its Puesto Morales block in the eastern Neuquen basin of northern Argentina.
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CENTRAL ASIA OIL AND GAS-2: Russian-Chinese competition may marginalize US, European influence
This is the second of two parts on the growth of Chinese energy investment in Central Asia, which has traditionally fallen within Russia’s sphere of influence.
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Neuquen basin oil discoveries due pipeline
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Transportation
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STANDARDS ACTIVITY-Conclusion: Ormen Lange HTHP lessons prompt design, standard adjustments
The high temperatures and high pressures associated with the 30-in. multiphase lines of the Ormen Lange project off Norway crossing very uneven seabed forced a reevaluation of standards addressing allowable pipeline free-span lengths.
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STANDARDS ACTIVITY-Conclusion: Ormen Lange HTHP lessons prompt design, standard adjustments
