Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
07/06/2009
Volume 107, Issue 25
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Regular Feature
- OGJ Newsletter
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Letters
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Journally Speaking
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Groningen field turns 50
Last month, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM), a joint venture of ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its discovery of the massive Groningen natural gas field in the northern part of the Netherlands.
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Groningen field turns 50
- Equipment/Software/Literature
- Advertisers Index
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The Editor's Perspective
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A new government foray: commerce in highway rest areas
Government is encroaching into private affairs in ways other than the big-headline issues like automaker takeovers and fuel selection.
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A new government foray: commerce in highway rest areas
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Market Journal
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Lack of peace boosts prices
Crude prices are sure to rise since “world peace isn’t breaking out,” said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc.
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Lack of peace boosts prices
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General Interest
- Editorial: Climate bill misinformation
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Special Report: Hydraulic fracturing, water use issues under congressional, public scrutiny
The need for communication of accurate information to the public, lawmakers, and regulators is imperative on various drilling-related topics, including hydraulic fracturing, water use and supply,
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Researchers develop ways to treat, recycle frac water
The use of membrane filtration to recycle water from fracturing flowback is among the research projects being funded by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA),
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Special Report: States regulate hydraulic fracturing well, officials testify
US states already regulate hydraulic fracturing aggressively and effectively, and a federal law would be redundant, two officials told a US House subcommittee in early June.
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Watching Government: Protesting BLM lease sales
The US Department of the Interior has made progress in the last 6 months in responsibly developing oil and gas on public land, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on June 24.
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Industry groups condemn climate bill passed by House
Oil and gas associations generally condemned the climate-change bill narrowly passed by the US House of Representatives on June 26.
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COMMENT: Industry stands at early dawn of new energy future
We stand at the early dawn of a new energy future. It will be powered by alternative energy and cleaner fossil fuels.
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FACTS: 2008 Chinese LPG production, imports, demand drop
Chinese refinery production of LPG fell for the first time in history last year.
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Recent reports reveal shifting LNG trends in 2009
At mid-2009, prospects for global LNG demand “remain bleak,” according to a research report issued at the end of June by Barclays Capital.
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CLNG: Regulatory, market questions dog US LNG industry
The US LNG industry faces several questions, according to Center for Liquefied Natural Gas Pres. Bill Cooper. He spoke recently with OGJ about the state of the industry at mid-2009.
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Watcing The World: Will UK’s Brown act swiftly?
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as we have said before, has very rarely been viewed as a friend of the oil and gas industry. But the time has come for that to change.
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Gazprom seeks to rattle EU with Azerbaijan gas agreement
Russia’s OAO Gazprom, in an apparent effort to exert greater control over the European Union’s energy supplies, signed an agreement to import natural gas from Azerbaijan and transport it to Europe.
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Shale plays push up US gas resource estimate
Reevaluation of shale plays has pushed the Potential Gas Committee’s assessment of the US natural gas resource to its highest level ever.
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Exploration & Development
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Gas find sets water depth mark in Norwegian Sea
A/S Norske Shell has drilled a potentially large gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea in the deepest water of any find there, said the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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Quebec shales due tests after TBR yields gas
Talisman Energy Inc. plans to stimulate and test multiple shale intervals in the St. Edouard-1 exploration well in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands after the well tested gas from Ordovician Trenton-Black River.
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St. Mary Land tests Eagle Ford in Webb County
St. Mary Land & Exploration Co., Denver, completed its first operated horizontal Cretaceous Eagle Ford shale well in South Texas, where it is running two rigs in the play.
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East Resources gets funds for Marcellus work
East Resources Inc., a privately-owned independent in Warrendale, Pa., said Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR), New York, bought a minority equity position in the company with a “significant investment” from private equity funds.
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Apache reports work in three Argentine basins
Apache Corp., Houston, reported progress in its operations in Argentina, where it has positions in the Neuquen, Austral, and Cuyo basins.
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Gas find sets water depth mark in Norwegian Sea
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Drilling & Production
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Produced-water VOC, HAP emissions concern Rocky Mountain regulators
Increasing volatile organic compound and hazardous air pollutant emissions from a growing number of private and commercial produced-water surface disposal facilities, using evaporation ponds, are raising regulatory and public concerns in the Western US. Various studies have identified VOC emissions as contributors to ground-level ozone formation.
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Produced-water VOC, HAP emissions concern Rocky Mountain regulators
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Processing
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FIRST-HALF 2009: US petchems experience rebound with new year
While economic activity in North America remained weak during first and second-quarters of 2009, petrochemical industry developments call into question the most bearish views of a protracted global economic recession for 2009-10.
- Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexs
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Canadian gas plant handles NORM in replacing C3 treater’s mol sieve
The presence of naturally occurring radioactive materials complicated 2007 plans at Shell Canada Ltd.’s Jumping Pound gas plant, near Calgary, to replace the molecular sieve in two propane treaters.
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How Nelson-Farrar indexes of chemical costs have changed
The costs of two important chemicals used in crude-oil refining changed very little during 2006-08, while the costs of three others varied significantly.
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FIRST-HALF 2009: US petchems experience rebound with new year
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Transportation
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Process control upgrade boosts system flexibility
Comprehensive modernization of process control systems at gas storage facilities can increase gas-transfer flexibility and shorten response times, even with existing field equipment.
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Process control upgrade boosts system flexibility
