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  • Vol 110, Issue 11

    • Vol 110, Issue 11

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    ALASKA IN-STATE PIPELINE—2 (Conclusion): Study finds in-state gas pipeline feasible

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Analysis of Alaska natural gas supply and demand shows an Alaska in-state gas pipeline is critically needed. An LNG plant is also necessary for an Alaska in-state gas pipeline...
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    Avoiding US oil resource surprises requires enhanced information system

    Nov. 5, 2012
    This article urges action by government or the petroleum community to inform policymakers better (and confuse them less) about two energy information basics
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    LPG Markets

    US PROPANE — FOURTH QUARTER 2012, FIRST QUARTER 2013: US, Canada flush with propane at winter's end; markets to adjust

    Nov. 5, 2012
    All major supply hubs in US and Canada had surplus inventory of propane at the end of winter 2011-12. Propane markets in North America are dynamic, however, and possess various...
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    Production Operations

    Restricting North Dakota gas-flaring would delay oil output, impose costs

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Public concerns about flaring of natural gas have led to suggestions that the practice be prohibited in booming North Dakota even if it means permanently or temporarily halting...

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 11

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    Tankers

    Device capitalizes on flow stream strengths in pumping gas wells

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Using downhole pumps to lift interfering liquid from gas wells is not a new activity. Using these pumps at very low surface pressure is also not a new activity.
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    New Plants

    Survey shows increase in petrochemical construction

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Oil and Gas Journal's semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows an increase in petrochemical construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update (OGJ, ...
    New Plants

    Energy on voters' minds as elections approach, API says

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Energy is clearly on voters' minds as the 2012 elections approach, American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard declared.
    Reserves

    Watching Government: How Norway avoided mistakes

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Careful strategic decisions soon after crude oil was discovered off its coast in the 1960s helped Norway dodge the "resource curse" that often plagues other countries with similar...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 5, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Niko sees scope for higher gas prices in India

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Press reports indicate that India's government has decided in principle that the price of gas from the D6 block offshore in the Krishna-Godavari basin can be raised, said minority...
    Drilling & Production

    RPSEA issues RFPs for more ultradeepwater R&D

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), Sugar Land, Tex., has sought responses by Dec. 18 to its October release of the remaining four 2011 ultradeepwater program...
    Companies

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: More companies investing in Duvernay liquids potential

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Canada's Duvernay shale play is gaining the attention of more investors, including ExxonMobil Corp., which recently announced plans to acquire Celtic Exploration Ltd. in a move...
    HSE

    BP caps abandoned cofferdam used on Macondo

    Nov. 5, 2012
    BP PLC has capped and plugged an abandoned piece of subsea equipment known as a cofferdam that was believed to be the source of a recent surface oil sheen observed near Mississippi...
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Nov. 5, 2012
    ComorosThe government of the Comoros Islands off East Africa between Mozambique and Madagascar issued a statement that Mozambique Channel Discovery, a unit of Boulle Mining Group...
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Nov. 5, 2012
    New slurry density meterThe new DM3 density meter performs nonnuclear continuous in-line measurement of processed slurries.It calculates density by measuring direct mass over ...
    General Interest

    BP, SOCAR officials meet on ACG production declines

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Under criticism from Azeri officials about production declines from the ACG oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea, BP PLC has held meetings in London and Baku with representatives...
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Nov. 5, 2012
    SOR Inc.,Lenexa, Kan., manufacturer of high-quality pressure and level measuring instruments for the oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, and power industries, named Robert Cobb...
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    Storms, oil, and elections

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the East Coast at presstime last week, disrupting oil supplies, energy demand, and early voting in the last full week before the US presidential...
    Government

    Markey's 'use it-lose it' logic

    Nov. 5, 2012
    In an attempt to support a US president whose energy policies have been hostile to oil and gas, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) asked for a status report on Gulf of Mexico leases...
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    Exploration & Development

    Detailed gravity, magnetics successful in exploring Azerbaijan onshore areas

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Azerbaijan contains a large number of undiscovered hydrocarbon deposits of probable commercial value.
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    Companies

    PIPELINE INTEGRITY—2 (Conclusion): Model choice governs accuracy of corrosion predictions

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Pipeline reliability analysis requires selection of a defect growth model that will accurately predict both the time evolution of corrosion defects and the probability of these...
    Reserves

    Industry tax preferences

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Favorable tax options available to US oil and gas companies have been under siege throughout the Obama presidency and would remain so if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ...
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    Freedom of Thought prizes underscore pressures in Iran

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Much about the price of crude oil this year has had to do with Iran, but Iran has to do with much beyond the price of oil.
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    Exploration & Development

    California's dense urban environment spawns friendlier 3D seismic survey design

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Southern California oil producers have long faced the added challenge of making exploration and production compatible with urban life.
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    Exploration & Development

    Broadband acquisition, processing improving marine seismic surveys

    Nov. 5, 2012
    Refinements to marine seismic work through broadband acquisition and processing are improving the precision of geophysical interpretation and the imaging of deep features.
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    Marble Falls horizontal oil play developing in Fort Worth basin

    Nov. 5, 2012
    At about the time in the mid-20th century that the Fort Worth basin of North Central Texas was being abandoned by the major oil companies as a worn-out backwater area, a young...
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    Marble Falls yields Jack County's most productive well

    Nov. 5, 2012
    The early Pennsylvanian Marble Falls formation has recently been determined to be a fractured carbonate reservoir much like the famous Barnett shale.