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  • Volume 103, Issue 27

    • Volume 103, Issue 27

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    LPG Markets

    Kentucky refiner reconfigures resid FCC unit for normal FCC service

    July 18, 2005
    In 2004, Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC revamped a 20-year-old, 40,000 b/sd resid FCC (RFCC) unit into a 95,000-b/sd FCC unit (Fig.
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    New Plants

    Drilling Market Focus: Chinese build rigs, drillers venture abroad

    July 18, 2005
    China’s increasing industrialization is expanding its drilling market. The need for petroleum is driving increased drilling and Chinese yards will build more than 100 new land...
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    Gas Processing

    Electric subsea control module slated for Norne template

    July 18, 2005
    The project for the installation of a new subsea template in the Norne field includes the retrofitting of an electric subsea control module on an existing subsea template.
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    Companies

    Higher natural gas demand has China looking worldwide

    July 18, 2005
    China’s natural gas industry has been developing rapidly since the late 1990s, but the pace of development has been particularly fast in recent years as overall energy supply ...
    Refining & Processing

    First Chinese oil import pipeline a step towards supply diversity

    July 18, 2005
    Amid new projections last month that growth in China’s oil demand was slowing, construction progressed on a nearly 1,000-km (621-mile) segment of a much longer oil pipeline from...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 27

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    Companies

    BP’s Thunder Horse platform listing in Gulf of Mexico

    July 18, 2005
    BP PLC said the Thunder Horse semisubmersible platform on Mississippi Canyon Block 778 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, was discovered listing...
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions: Al-Khalifa elected SPE International president

    July 18, 2005
    AbdulJaleel A. Al-Khalifa, manager of reservoir description and simulation for Saudi Aramco, was elected as 2007 president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International ...
    Companies

    Company News: Pogo to acquire Unocal’s Canadian E&P assets

    July 18, 2005
    Pogo Producing Co. agreed to acquire Northrock Resources Ltd.
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    Companies

    Comment: The search for reasonable certainty in reserves disclosures

    July 18, 2005
    The system for disclosing proved oil and gas reserves needs to undergo significant modernization, which is overdue.
    Construction

    Watching Government: NPRA’s timely capacity tally

    July 18, 2005
    The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association normally releases its annual US refining and storage capacity report around mid-July each year.
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    Reserves

    Investment cited as most likely limit to oil supply

    July 18, 2005
    Any limitations on worldwide supply of oil until 2030 will be due to a lack of the investments in development, transportation, and refining “in the correct places at the correct...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 18, 2005
    Presidents Hu Jintao of China and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan have agreed to form a strategic energy partnership by linking their two nations with oil and gas pipelines...
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    LNG

    Comment: New president likely to change Iran’s oil industry

    July 18, 2005
    On June 24, the mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won the second round of Iran’s presidential elections, upsetting Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with 61.
    Home

    Drilling applications up in most states

    July 18, 2005
    Regulators in several states are handling record numbers of drilling applications, reported the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching the World: Mackenzie gas line advances

    July 18, 2005
    Canada has announced an agreement with the Deh Cho First Nations (DFN) aboriginal group that could allow construction of the $7 billion (Can.
    LNG

    Kogas, Vopak consider building LNG terminal in Asia

    July 18, 2005
    The International Projects Group of Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) and Koninklijke Vopak NV subsidiary Vopak Asia Pte.
    Drilling & Production

    Research yields results

    July 18, 2005
    Despite funding uncertainty, energy research by the US Department of Energy yields steady results.
    Refining

    Venezuela pushes plan for cheap oil in Caribbean

    July 18, 2005
    Venezuela has agreed to sell crude oil and petroleum products to Caribbean countries at concessionary rates as part of the PetroCaribe agreement.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Editorial: Oil-import politics

    July 18, 2005
    Condemnation of foreign oil produces better energy politics than energy policy. In the US, it has become a powerful rallying cry.
    Refining & Processing

    Letters

    July 18, 2005
    Judson Jaffe's article titled �US should reconsider fuel ethanol's excise tax exemption" is 'spot on,' as the Brits say (OGJ, June 13, 2005, p. 26). The 51¢/gal subsidy for the...
    Production Operations

    Demand, price, and surprises

    July 18, 2005
    Energy futures prices skyrocketed to all-time highs on July 6, with crude topping $61/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange among fears that Hurricane Dennis might disrupt oil...
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    LPG Markets

    Services/Suppliers

    July 18, 2005
    Morris Township, NJ, has appointed David Sundin as field market development manager for its Spectra high-performance synthetic ropes business.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US explanations diverge over high gasoline prices

    July 18, 2005
    Two explanations of contrasting credibility emerged last month for why, beyond crude oil fundamentals, US gasoline prices are high.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 18, 2005
    Here’s the HPMC Series MultiPort Rotary Union for uses requiring high pressures and more than one media.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    July 18, 2005
    Tanganyika Oil Co. Ltd.
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    Companies

    Exploration picks up off several countries in the Mediterranean

    July 18, 2005
    Recent events point toward acceleration of exploration off several countries in the central and eastern Mediterranean Sea.
    Companies

    More operators join Williston basin Bakken oil hunt

    July 18, 2005
    Exploration for oil and natural gas in the Mississippian Middle Bakken formation in the Williston basin is drawing more operators in the US and Canada.
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    Advertising Index

    July 18, 2005
    Print advertisers for this issue.
    Companies

    Multiple pays aid East Texas Deep Bossier gas play

    July 18, 2005
    Multiple gas pay zones are easing the economics for operators in a growing gas play in the Deep Bossier formation in southern East Texas.
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    Exploration & Development

    Operators discover more gas in Bay of Bengal off India

    July 18, 2005
    Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, and Niko Resources Ltd.
    Companies

    Arkoma Fayetteville shale gas play delivering expected variability

    July 18, 2005
    Arkansas has designated two new unconventional gas fields in the Mississippian Fayetteville shale play east of the main Arkoma basin conventional gas-producing fairway.