Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
02/25/2008
Volume 106, Issue 8
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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Letters
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Peak-oil context
The letter by Al-Husseini and Al-Husseini about the Cambridge Energy Research Associates decline-rate study, as well as comments by other peak oil theorists on the subject, demonstrates their habit of ignoring historical context.
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Peak-oil context
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Journally Speaking
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Winter woes
Extreme weather tests even the richest, most well-managed economies. So, when winter 2007-08 brought cold and suffering to two countries whose hydrocarbon wealth should have softened the blows, the world took note.
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Winter woes
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Editorial
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The oil price floor
As the price of crude oil flirts again with its $100/bbl threshold, the question naturally arises: How high can the price go?
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The oil price floor
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Area Drilling
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Services/Suppliers
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Editor's Perspective
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Congress offers bad reasons for bad energy bill
Doing good things for good reasons is best; good things for bad reasons, lucky; bad things for good reasons, wrong; and bad things for bad reasons, stupid.
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Congress offers bad reasons for bad energy bill
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Market Journal
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Greenspan: Odds favor recession
At Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ annual energy conference in Houston, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said there is a “50% or better” chance that the US will experience an economic recession that will curtail energy demand.
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Greenspan: Odds favor recession
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General Interest
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SPECIAL REPORT: Lenders likely to tighten LNG project financing
For several years prior to 2004, the LNG industry was a buyers’ market, and buyers were in the driver’s seat with respect to pricing terms and flexibilities introduced into LNG sales agreements.
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CERA: Industry aims to fuel world, lower GHG emissions
The global oil and gas industry faces the simultaneous goals of producing more energy while lowering emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), speakers told Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference in Houston.
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CERA: Stage set for more global gas market
The stage appears set for natural gas to become more of a global energy commodity in 2008 and 2009 than in the past, largely because of an expanding LNG industry, Cambridge Energy Research Associates said at its annual conference in Houston.
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CERA: Action needed now on demand, supply fronts to avoid crisis, Hess says
Oil companies, oil-producing countries, and consumers need to act now to avoid the oil crisis that is coming within the next 10 years, said John B. Hess, chairman and chief executive of Hess Corp.
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CERA: Refiners face change in liquids supply composition
The refining industry faces new reconfiguration and investment challenges to avoid shortages of diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel while minimizing the risk of a decline in refining capacity utilization, said officials of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Houston.
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IEA sees boost in peak OPEC flow from ’08 projects
Production projects due on stream this year in members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries represent peak gross capacity additions of 3.1 million b/d of crude oil and other liquids, says the International Energy Agency.
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US House Dems reintroduce bill taxing oil majors
US House Democrats reintroduced a bill Feb. 12 to fund renewable energy tax incentives by increasing major oil companies’ taxes.
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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Troubling attitudes
Shell Oil Co. Pres. John D. Hofmeister discovered some troubling attitudes as he met with local business and government leaders during his most recent visits to 50 US cities.
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Alaska progressing on gas line, FERC tells Congress
Alaska’s selection of a preferred applicant to build a huge natural gas pipeline highlighted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s fifth progress report to Congress on the project.
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Shell tables Nigerian restructuring plans
Shell Petroleum Development Co. (SPDC) has suspended its plans to restructure its joint venture in Nigeria following a request from Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) to resolve its oil production problems and improve efficiency.
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WATCHING THE WORLD: South Korea’s diplomacy
South Korea’s new government has become keenly aware of the need to pursue diplomacy in securing its supplies of oil and gas—especially from Iraq.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Lenders likely to tighten LNG project financing
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Exploration & Development
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Mexico’s oil decline rate to steepen through 2010
Mexico will face difficulties in producing crude oil over the coming 2 years, according to a media report, which claims that Cantarell and Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) fields will decline simultaneously in 2010.
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BG lifts Tupi reserves estimate; Petrobras mum
Brazil’ Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has declined to comment on revised production estimates BG Group has made concerning the supergiant Tupi oil discovery in the Santos basin.
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Mexico’s oil decline rate to steepen through 2010
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Drilling & Production
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North Amethyst, first White Rose satellite to be developed
North Amethyst is the first of several White Rose field satellite discoveries that Husky Energy Inc. plans to develop off Newfoundland.
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CLASSIC BIT KINEMATICS—3: Pure rolling of bit cones doubles performance
The first two parts of this series showed that roller cone bit design analysis can predict cone behavior when heel teeth have equal pitch and how bit kinematics are modeled differently when the heel teeth on roller cones have varied pitch.
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North Amethyst, first White Rose satellite to be developed
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Processing
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SPECIAL REPORT: Global LNG trade to 2020 marked by uncertainty
The current outlook for LNG is probably more uncertain than it has been for many years.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Global LNG trade to 2020 marked by uncertainty
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Transportation
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SPECIAL REPORT: Emerging Asia-Pacific LNG markets must sort pricing, supply uncertainties
Preliminary data for 2007 show that worldwide LNG trade grew by 7.9% to 172 million tonnes.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Emerging Asia-Pacific LNG markets must sort pricing, supply uncertainties
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