Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
07/05/2010
Volume 108, Issue 24
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Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Karsto's upgrade
The Karsto gas processing plant near Haugesund on Norway's west coast is currently undergoing a major upgrade.
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Karsto's upgrade
- Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
- Advertisers Index
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The Editor's Perspective
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Offshore spill not a reason to oppose an onshore pipeline
Follow the logic: A blowout in deep water causes a massive oil spill that soils beaches, disables wildlife, and disrupts fishing and tourism; therefore, a pipeline that would carry oil produced onshore over land shouldn't be built.
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Offshore spill not a reason to oppose an onshore pipeline
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Market Journal
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Global oil demand to outgrow decline
Global oil demand will grow more this year than it declined in 2009 and will surpass the 2007 record high "at least 2 years earlier than consensus projections" a year ago, said Paul Horsnell, managing director and head of commodities research at Barclays Capital.
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Global oil demand to outgrow decline
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Generarl Interest
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Editorial: Politics and the MMS
What now for what used to be the US Minerals Management Service? Even before the Macondo blowout put its credibility in question, the agency was under siege.
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Special Report: Midyear Forecast: US energy demand gears up for expansion
Demand for oil and gas in the US will climb this year, boosted by tepid economic growth.
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Special Report: Midyear Forecast: US, Canada drilling rekindled as gulf faces uncertainty
Drilling onshore in the US and in western Canada is enjoying a brisk uptick from 2009 as US Gulf of Mexico activity succumbs to federal regulatory uncertainty.
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Study: Gas to play major GHG reduction role in near term
While tight carbon constraints could lead to less natural gas being used to generate power in the long run, gas will play a substantial part in the coming decades in enabling substantial near-term carbon emissions reductions, a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study concluded.
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TransCanada cites benefits of proposed Keystone oil line
The sponsor of the proposed Keystone crude oil pipeline from Canada emphasized its safety and reliability prior to the US Department of State's public hearing before the comment period ends on July 2.
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Encana, CNPC to speed BC gas developments
Encana Corp. and China National Petroleum Corp. signed a heads of agreement under which they would negotiate a joint venture to develop Encana's Northeast British Columbia gas plays
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Iraq woos companies to invest in refineries
Iraq, seeking to double its domestic refining capacity and reduce expensive imports, has offered discounted oil and acreage to companies willing to invest $20 billion on four refineries.
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Watching The World: Wiesel supports Khodorkovsky
The oil and gas industry should be pleased to hear that Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel has launched a global campaign to free imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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BP spill: First relief well detects runaway Macondo well
The first of two relief wells was within 16 ft horizontally of the runaway deepwater Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana on June 30, and drilling continued while Hurricane Alex approached Mexico, spill response spokesmen said.
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Planners see 5 days to evacuate spill-response vessels
Spill-response officials estimate they need 120 hr to move vessels and rigs away from the runaway Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico before the anticipated arrival of any gale-force winds.
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Watching Government: An independent's points
The US Senate Energy and Environment Committee's June 24 hearing attracted a crowd to hear senators discuss four bills responding to the Gulf of Mexico deepwater well blowout.
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Salazar, Bromwich pledge real, but careful, changes at BOE
Changes at what used to be the US Minerals Management Service will be more than cosmetic, the agency's new director and Interior Sec. Ken Salazar told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Editorial: Politics and the MMS
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Exploration & Development
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Apache sees ample prospects in Egypt Western Desert basins
Apache Corp., whose Egyptian subsidiary has doubled its Egypt Western Desert output since 2005, sees much more potential in the area.
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Reliance enters Eagle Ford venture with Pioneer, Newpek
A subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), Mumbai, has entered a joint venture with Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, and a partner in a $1.35 billion deal that will support the drilling of 356 horizontal wells/year in the Eagle Ford shale play of South Texas through 2013.
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Beach Energy signs PSA for Tanzanian block
Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, has signed a production-sharing agreement with the Tanzanian government for a 100% interest in the Lake Tanganyika South concession in the western part of the country.
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Apache sees ample prospects in Egypt Western Desert basins
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Technology
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Cash flow analysis assesses China's CBM resource viability
A cash flow analysis determined that the coalbed methane resources in 42 major basins in China were 36% economic, 14% marginally economic, and 50% uneconomic to develop.
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NLNG maximizes LNG production in supply constraint
Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas achieves a wide variety of operating modes, depending on the degree gas supply is constrained, with NLNG's 3 water-cooled liquefaction trains, 3 air-cooled liquefaction trains with waste-heat recovery, 10 gas-turbine power generators, in-train and common NGL fractionation units, and 5 condensate stabilizers.
- Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes
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Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for finished steels register sizable shifts during 2006-09
Nelson-Farrar indexes for finished steels changed drastically during 2006-09. Generally speaking, the alloy steels changed less than carbon steel products.
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Risk-based pipeline routing improves success probability
A project performing pipeline-risk mapping of the Persian Gulf region using a geographic information system has validated an early emphasis on risk management in making pipeline routing decisions.
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Cash flow analysis assesses China's CBM resource viability
