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  • Vol 110, Issue 10

    • Vol 110, Issue 10

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    Refining

    AFPM Q&A—3 (Conclusion): Discussion turns to crude processing

    Oct. 1, 2012
    This final of three articles that present selections from the 2011 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 9-12; San Antonio) highlights crude...
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    IOR/EOR

    Egyptian fields have large potential for enhanced oil recovery technology

    Oct. 1, 2012
    A number of fields in Egypt are expected to undergo one or more enhanced oil recovery methods in the near future. This article summarizes an investigation on the applicability...
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    Government

    Market, production conditions will prevent meeting RFS

    Oct. 1, 2012
    US refining industry's compliance with the current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) appears impossible in the near future and could result in massive fines by the US Environmental...
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    Petrochemicals

    RVP blending values listed for light HCs

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Reid vapor pressure (rvp) blending values of non-aromatic hydrocarbons increase with the aromatic content of the gasoline, an aromatic effect.
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Equipment costs rise moderately during 2010-11

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Costs for the five equipment items that make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed during 2010-11. The miscellaneous equipment index average rose ...

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 10

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    Reserves

    Market for transport fuels in the US will remain subject to diversification

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Natural gas and oil from unconventional resource plays, rightly characterized as "revolutionary," will supplement but not necessarily dominate a market for transportation fuel...
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    Major Upstream Projects: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger join as hosts of major upstream projects

    Oct. 1, 2012
    OGJ's annual list of major upstream megaprojects contains ventures in four more countries than it did in 2011.
    Home

    Watching Government: Missing in Marcellus debate

    Oct. 1, 2012
    At the heart of the Marcellus shale natural gas development debate in Pennsylvania lies a basic question that John H. Quigley feels hasn't been satisfactorily answered: Does gas...
    Government

    Freudenthal urges Obama, Romney to supply energy policy details

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freduenthal (D) urged the two major parties' presidential nominees to more specifically outline their energy policy plans if they win the 2012 election...
    Government

    States would remain primary fracing regulators under bill

    Oct. 1, 2012
    US Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said he will introduce a bill, the Empower States Act, to ensure that states remain primary regulators of hydraulic fracturing and similar oil and gas...
    LPG Markets

    LPG market dynamics on brink of change, study says

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Global LPG trade, generally supply-driven in the past and likely to continue to be, is nonetheless seeing sharp changes in its dynamics, according to a report recently compiled...
    Government

    House bill aims to combat RIN fraud in RFS biodiesel program

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Four US House Energy and Commerce Committee members—Republicans Pete Olson (Tex.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Democrats Gene Green (Tex.) and Jim Matheson (Utah)—introduced...
    Home

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS — Some E&P companies changing plans for Utica shale prospects

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. and most other companies having stakes in Ohio's Utica shale say they remain optimistic about the emerging play's potential, but one company, EnerVest ...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 1, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Refining

    API: US oil demand declined in August, first 8 months

    Oct. 1, 2012
    US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, decreased by 4.3% in August from a year earlier to 18.6 million b/d, according to the latest monthly statistics from American Petroleum...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    CGES: Sanctions stifle Iran's oil production, exports

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Western-led sanctions against Iran's oil exports aiming to push Tehran to return to negotiations on uranium enrichment have displaced from the market more than 1 million b/d of...
    IOR/EOR

    Senators offer bill to boost use of carbon dioxide in EOR

    Oct. 1, 2012
    US Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced a bill on Sept. 20 designed to expand the use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery...
    Companies

    ExxonMobil to buy Bakken assets from Denbury

    Oct. 1, 2012
    ExxonMobil Corp. agreed to buy Bakken formation assets in North Dakota and Montana covering 196,000 net acres from Denbury Resources Inc. for $1.6 billion.
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Oct. 1, 2012
    New current-sensing switchThe ASXP current-sensing switch is now available with a user-adjustable set point of 1-80 amp.Units are powered versions of the company's current switches...
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    Playing in space

    Oct. 1, 2012
    An editor frets about matters that might escape the notice of someone not professionally engaged with words.
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Horton Wison Deepwater Inc.,Houston, named Gregory Navarre president of the company and a member of its board of directors, succeeding Jim Maher who recently resigned to pursue...
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    Oil prices roiled by data

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Oil prices fluctuated widely in mid-September as analysts and traders tried daily to interpret market indicators from a flood of economic data. The result was an energy market...
    Production Operations

    Relying on wind

    Oct. 1, 2012
    On May 24, President Barack Obama visited wind turbine blade manufacturer TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa. While there, he announced that his "to do list" for Congress included...
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    LNG

    ALASKA IN-STATE PIPELINE—1: Study confirms feasibility of in-state Alaskan gas pipeline

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Construction of an Alaska in-state natural gas pipeline is feasible at any of three flow rate scenarios: 500 MMcfd, 750 MMcfd, and 1,000 MMcfd. Selection of a particular rate ...
    HSE

    A tough month for EVs

    Oct. 1, 2012
    The US oil and gas industry has good reasons to question heavy subsidization by the federal government of vehicles powered partly or wholly by electricity.
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    Companies

    PIPELINE INTEGRITY—1: Accurate corrosion modeling improves reliability estimations

    Oct. 1, 2012
    Researchers derived five corrosion rate distributions from different pit growth models and used them to perform reliability analyses of underground pipelines from synthetic and...
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    Economies cooling in countries key to oil demand growth

    Oct. 1, 2012
    The economies of two countries crucial to oil-demand growth are cooling and, in one case, might be worse than indicated by official data.
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    Home

    Louisiana drilling and production activity review

    Oct. 1, 2012
    This article highlights results from an OGJ Executive Report on oil and gas activity in Louisiana.
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    Reserves

    US SHALE OIL-GAS PRODUCTION POTENTIAL—3 (Conclusion): US shale oil output likely to offset decline from conventional fields

    Oct. 1, 2012
    This is the third of three parts on the potential of domestic unconventional shale oil and gas production to displace oil imports to the US.