Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
07/12/2010
Volume 108, Issue 25
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Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Fracing film's flim flam
Hydraulic fracturing, as many OGJ readers know, has been around for decades.
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Fracing film's flim flam
- Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
- Advertisers Index
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The Editor's Perspective
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A changed market able to absorb jolt will change again
A supply scare happened in May that not so long ago would have pushed up crude oil prices by $5/bbl or more. Prices instead declined.
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A changed market able to absorb jolt will change again
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Market Journal
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Low-key hurricane signals active season
Alex, the first hurricane of 2010, came ashore on Mexico's Tamaulipas coast in a Category 2 status June 30, flooding Matamoras but scarcely impacting Brownsville or other parts of South Texas just across the border.
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Low-key hurricane signals active season
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General Interest
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Editorial: China's one-way quest
The Chinese government has reinforced an already clear message that its global quest for oil and gas supplies is a one-way proposition.
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Climate litigation threat lurks behind twisty case
A federal court case on which may depend a serious litigation threat to oil and gas companies and other emitters of greenhouse gases now has nowhere to go except the US Supreme Court.
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Congressional spill responses keep lobbyists busy
Oil and gas lobbyists worked hard to keep up before the Independence Day recess as several congressional committees and subcommittees reviewed bills responding to the Macondo well blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Watching Government: Making policy after tragedy
WOffshore producers and drilling contractors expected members of Congress to offer ideas in response to the Gulf of Mexico well blowout and oil spill.
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BP's bill for oil spill response tops $3 billion
BP PLC, operator of the runaway Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, has spent $3.12 billion on oil spill response efforts since an Apr. 20 blowout, the company said July 6.
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Watching The World: BP fights 'reckless' charge
Reckless" is a charge the oil and gas industry has heard a lot since BP PLC's Macondo blowout.
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Enterprise Products to expand Eagle Ford gas pipeline system
Enterprise Products Partners LP announced June 29 an additional expansion of its natural gas and natural gas liquids pipeline system in South Texas and Mont Belvieu, Tex. serving the Eagle Ford shale play.
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COMPANY NEWS: Noble to buy Frontier Drilling for $2.16 billion
Drilling contractor Noble Corp. plans to buy privately owned Frontier Drilling for $2.16 billion even though no near-term new drilling is expected for the Gulf of Mexico during court battles over the US moratorium on deepwater drilling.
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PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Qatargas names chief executive officer
Qatar named Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Thani as chief executive officer of Qatargas. Al-Thani succeeds Faisal Al-Suwaidi.
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Editorial: China's one-way quest
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Exploration & Development
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Sole Cupiagua field operations revert to Colombia's Ecopetrol
Ecopetrol SA assumed direct operation of Colombia's giant Cupiagua and Cupiagua Sur fields in the Llanos basin as of midnight June 30, following 28 years of joint operation with BP PLC affiliates and others.
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Norse's New York seismic clarifies multiple pays
Norse Energy Corp., Oslo, reported encouraging initial results from a 3D seismic survey on its acreage in central New York state.
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Amerisur eyes seismic in Paraguay's Parana basin
Amerisur Resources PLC, Cardiff, UK, said it may shoot seismic on the 8,000-sq km San Pedro block in the Parana basin in Paraguay in 2010 subject to service company availability.
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Sole Cupiagua field operations revert to Colombia's Ecopetrol
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Technology
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ogj Focus: Model reduces operating costs of long-distance twinned pipeline
A new methodology maximizes the efficiency of a long-distance twinned natural gas pipeline system, adjusting for seasonal fluctuations in both demand and climate.
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OGJ FOCUS: In-line pressure isolation tool averts subsea line bleed
TDW Offshore Services AS in May successfully completed a key pipeline pressure isolation and joint testing operation offshore western Borneo in Malaysia for Sarawak Shell Berhad.
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Continued Alberta oil sands production growth seen
Forecasts are starting to indicate a rebound in activity for developing bitumen production from the oil sands in Alberta.
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GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Deepwater Agbami field produces light, low-sulfur crude
Agbami field off Nigeria—the country's largest deepwater producing field, according to Statoil—began producing oil in July 2008 and was to reach plateau production of 250,000 bo/d by late last year (OGJ Online, Aug. 1, 2008).
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ogj Focus: Model reduces operating costs of long-distance twinned pipeline
