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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Global biofuels will struggle to match ambitious objectives

    April 2, 2012
    When the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) published the September 2011 edition of its Petroleum Supply Monthly, it marked the sixth month out of the previous 9 in which...
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    General Interest

    Analysis yields turnaround benchmarks for allowance, contingency

    April 2, 2012
    Turnarounds—also known as planned outages or shutdowns—are major events for refineries and other petrochemical facilities.
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    Refining

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for selected equipment items continue trend begun in 1983

    April 2, 2012
    Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly to 2,378.1 in December 2010 from 2,281.6 in January that year (see table at right...
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    April 2, 2012
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    Government

    Senate agrees to debate Menendez's latest oil tax bill

    April 2, 2012
    The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to proceed with debate on Sen. Robert Menendez's (D-NJ) bill to increase taxes on the five largest US oil companies by repealing several federal...

    More content from Vol 110, Issue 4

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Lawsuit asks WOGCC to review frac fluid trade secret exemptions

    April 2, 2012
    The Powder River Basin Resource Council (PRBRC) and other groups asked Wyoming's Seventh District Court to require the Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) in Casper...
    HSE

    CEA-backed study contests impact of regional low-carbon fuel standard

    April 2, 2012
    Establishing a regional low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) for 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US states would not establish its proponent's goals and would significantly increase ...
    Reserves

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS—Unconventional resource estimates subject to uncertainty, future costs

    April 2, 2012
    Unconventional resource estimates, especially US natural gas resource estimates, have escalated in recent years. Simultaneously, debate about the accuracy of particular shale ...
    Pipelines

    AOPL cites need for more pipelines as Obama visits Cushing

    April 2, 2012
    More pipeline capacity will be needed to handle changing US crude oil and refining markets, the Association of Oil Pipe Lines said as US President Barack Obama prepared to visit...
    Tankers

    Watching Government: Still seeking a quick fix

    April 2, 2012
    The Silly Season has arrived earlier than usual in Washington—undoubtedly because gasoline prices have soared, and many members of Congress feel their constituents' pain more ...
    Discoveries

    McMoRan logs new pays at gulf shelf deep program

    April 2, 2012
    Hydraulic perforating equipment malfunctioned during initial attempts to perforate and flow-test the Wilcox F sand at the Davy Jones indicated discovery well on South Marsh Island...
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    COMMENT—Beyond transparency: EITI stretches 'civil society' role

    April 2, 2012
    Michael Socarras Chadbourne & Parke Washington, DCThe Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), endorsed by US President Barack Obama and supported by oil companies...
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    IOR/EOR

    Research seeks new chemical methods to improve CO2 floods

    April 2, 2012
    Research sponsored by the US government seeks development of new chemical methods for improving mobility and conformance of carbon dioxide floods in enhanced oil recovery.
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    IOR/EOR

    COMMENT—EOR can extend the promise of unconventional oil and gas

    April 2, 2012
    A new chapter is unfolding in the story of the unconventional oil and natural gas development boom that has revolutionized the global energy industry: its embrace of cutting-edge...
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    IOR/EOR

    Survey: Miscible CO2 now eclipses steam in US EOR production

    April 2, 2012
    Miscible CO2 now accounts for more oil production in the US than any other enhanced oil recovery method, eclipsing steam injection in Oil & Gas Journal's 2012 EOR/Heavy Oil Survey...
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    IOR/EOR

    2012 worldwide EOR survey

    April 2, 2012
    Click here to download the pdf of the "Planned EOR projects" TablesClick here to download the pdf of the "Producing thermal EOR in US" TablesClick here to download the pdf of ...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 2, 2012
    International news for oil and gas professional
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration/Development Briefs

    April 2, 2012
    ArgentinaApache Corp. in February initiated a long-term test of the Vaca Muerta shale at the Hua.x-1 well on the 250,000-acre Huacalera block in the western Neuquen basin in Argentina...
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    EQUIPMENT |SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    April 2, 2012
    New gas compressorHere's the new T-Style (THG600 Series) horizontal gas compressor.These units offer the largest capacity of any of the company's compressors. Uses include wellhead...
    Production Operations

    API launches campaign as Senate considers oil tax legislation

    April 2, 2012
    The American Petroleum Institute launched a new campaign to educate consumers in seven states about the consequences of increasing oil and gas production costs as the US Senate...
    Reserves

    Can't outsmart world markets

    April 2, 2012
    Some 30 years after Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in 1859, an official in the US Geological Service declared that all the available crude in the world had been found....
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    April 2, 2012
    Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (GSP),Meanwhile, GSP recently secured a long-term drilling contract for the jack up GSP Saturn as well as its first pipe-lay contract for the GSP Falcon...
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    Walking the talk

    April 2, 2012
    When it comes to reducing prices and regulating oil supplies, political leaders seem to produce more talk than action.
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    Bakken's maximum potential oil production rate explored

    April 2, 2012
    North Dakota began producing oil in 1951, and production in the late 1970s reached 100,000 b/d where it remained until the early 2000s.
    General Interest

    Corruption and information

    April 2, 2012
    The recent article "Focusing on corruption" argues that the fight against corruption "is too important to be allowed to serve as cover for other political agendas..
    General Interest

    The broader tax threat

    April 2, 2012
    In its fight against prejudicial tax increases, the US oil and gas industry receives welcome support from business in general.
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    Exploration & Development

    Reducing environmental risk associated with Marcellus shale gas fracturing

    April 2, 2012
    This article was written to express a professional opinion regarding the use of available groundwater technology to reduce both real and perceived water quality impacts from shale...
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    Energy independence better as sales slogan than as policy target

    April 2, 2012
    In service to the quality of discourse, the oil and gas industry should fall silent on energy independence and hope that others who converse about energy recognize the consequent...
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    Exploration & Development

    Deepwater, land discoveries high-grade East African margin

    April 2, 2012
    World-class deepwater natural gas discoveries offshore in the Indian Ocean have turned the East African margin into one of the planet's hottest exploration theaters.Early exploratory...
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    LNG

    LNG UPDATE: Shale, East Africa plays could boost global LNG supplies

    April 2, 2012
    If global LNG players looked to 2011 for clarity about and even solutions to some of their most vexing problems—a global imbalance in supply and demand chief among them—the year...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Regulatory complexity increasing for companies handling chemicals

    April 2, 2012
    New federal safety rules on offshore oil and gas activities are among several developments making it very important for operators to have up-to-date information on chemicals at...
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    LNG

    LNG's role in post-Fukushima Japanese energy policy

    April 2, 2012
    As a result of the disruption in nuclear power operations since Mar. 11, 2011, Japan's demand for LNG as well as low-sulfur fuel oil and crude oil for power generation increased...