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  • Vol 110, Issue 2c

    • Vol 110, Issue 2c

    Tankers

    Watching The World: Trafigura in hot water

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Trafigura Beheer BV was in hot water last week after buying a cargo of Nile Blend crude aboard the MT Ratna Shradha, which was poised to offload at Japan's Kiire terminal, owned...
    Reserves

    Horizon-Talisman to develop PNG Stanley gas-condensate

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Horizon Oil Ltd., Sydney, said its board approved the final investment decision to develop a condensate recovery project at Stanley field in western Papua New Guinea subject to...
    Exploration & Development

    Tanzania deepwater wildcat penetrates gas reservoir

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Statoil and ExxonMobil have reported gas shows at a deepwater wildcat in the Mafia Deep subbasin offshore Tanzania which, if successful, will further cement the emerging vast ...
    Home

    Teak Midstream to expand Eagle Ford shale gas gathering, processing

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Teak Midstream LLC is building more than 200 miles of natural gas gathering and residue delivery pipelines and an adjoining 200 MMcfd cryogenic gas processing plant in South Texas...
    Companies

    Encana, Mitsubishi form Cutbank Ridge shale gas partnership

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Mitsubishi Corp. agreed to acquire a partnership with EnCana Corp. to develop Cutbank Ridge undeveloped lands in northeastern British Columbia.

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 2c

    Companies

    Oil and gas air hugs

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Around the agreement between Mexico and the US allowing drilling near the maritime border, a question quietly nags: Would the administration of Barack Obama have pursued the deal...
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Feb. 27, 2012
    New system cuts time it takes to stimulate wellA new lower completion ball drop sleeve system has been developed that can help reduce the time it takes to stimulate a well.Fifty...
    LNG

    LNG at risk if Hormuz blocked

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Much media attention has been given to Iran's ongoing threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and a blockade's potential consequences to global oil supply.
    Home

    Surface effects part of fracing in popular view

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Political conflict over hydraulic fracturing turns on a semantic point crucial but perhaps not evident to the oil and gas industry.
    Government

    US, Mexico sign Gulf of Mexico transboundary agreement

    Feb. 27, 2012
    The US and Mexico have signed an agreement allowing exploration and development of oil and gas resources along the two countries' maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Exploration & Development

    Zodiac praises Kreyenhagen formation characteristics

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Zodiac Exploration Inc., Calgary, has completed a 10-stage stimulation in the Upper Kreyenhagen formation in its 1-10 horizontal well in Kings County, Calif., followed by a flowback...
    HSE

    BSEE approves Shell's Chukchi Sea oil spill response plan

    Feb. 27, 2012
    The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.'s Chukchi Sea oil spill response plan in one of four US Department of the Interior...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 27, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    Feb. 27, 2012
    ChinaA group led by ROC Oil Co. Ltd., Sydney, will drill a second appraisal well in 2012 in Bohai Bay offshore China.The petroleum contract covering the 28 sq km Zhao Dong block...
    Companies

    API: Oil costs, taxes still key gasoline price components

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Crude oil costs and taxes are still bigger influences than refinery production and product exports in gasoline price increases, American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist John...
    Home

    Watching Government: Remote wellsite activity

    Feb. 27, 2012
    A West Virginia University research associate professor has developed a technology to remotely monitor Marcellus shale natural gas wells with help from a research partnership ...
    New Plants

    INGAA Foundation study outlines midstream gas development pluses

    Feb. 27, 2012
    A study commissioned by the INGAA Foundation concluded that $229.1 billion in projected US midstream oil and gas investments and operations and maintenance outlays through 2035...
    Tankers

    Baker Institute examines alternatives to Strait of Hormuz

    Feb. 27, 2012
    Improvements to the pipelines crossing the Arabian Peninsula would allow more of the oil produced in the Persian Gulf to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, according to a paper from ...