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  • Volume 103, Issue 42

    • Volume 103, Issue 42

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    Drilling & Production

    ReedHycalog: US fleet activity up 15% from 2004

    Nov. 14, 2005
    According to the annual ReedHycalog rig census, utilization of the North American rig fleets increased substantially from 2004: 15% in the US and 8% in Canada.
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    Isolation chambers for hot work lessen platform shut in

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Four custom built isolation chambers for structural welding proved effective for minimizing platform shut downs on BP PLC’s operated APN-MM development project in the Java Sea...
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    Production Operations

    Tidal effects influence design of water-disposal piles

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The effect of sea level changes due to tidal action influences the design and operation of offshore water-disposal piles on offshore platforms.
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    New Plants

    New cetane index is more accurate for Canadian oil sands-derived diesels

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Syncrude Canada Ltd.’s Edmonton Research Center has developed a new cetane index (CI), using laboratory data from 306 middle distillates obtained from various pilot and commercial...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Pressure surges may lead to low-pressure failures

    Nov. 14, 2005
    A strain-amplification phenomenon sometimes associated with pressure surges in liquid petroleum pipelines may cause a latent defect in a pipeline to fail at an unexpectedly low...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 42

    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Petrochemicals

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Here’s the new Tri-Phaze System, a patented progressing cavity solution for multiphase pumping uses.
    Area Drilling

    Area Drilling

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Primeline Energy Holdings Inc., London, let a contract to Hispec Research Corp.
    Refining

    All perspectives can’t be right on oil, gas prices

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Three interesting perspectives on prices of oil and natural gas are crisscrossing through the news.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Houston, has signed an agreement with Don-Nan Pump & Supply, Midland, Tex., whereby Don-Nan will have exclusive right to install Petrovalve Plus and Gas Breaker valve products...
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    Discoveries

    Diagenetic Reservoirs —1: Systematic exploration approach for diagenetic traps advanced

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Recent hydrocarbon discoveries in diagenetic reservoirs, particularly in New York state and western Canada, have focused attention on these underexplored types of fields.
    Refining & Processing

    Energy prices remain volatile

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Energy prices were volatile during the week ended Nov. 4 as traders reacted to reports of increased crude stocks, warmer-than-normal weather, and continued recovery of storm-damaged...
    Companies

    Aboveground resources

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Even as assurances come from industry and analysts that world oil and gas output has not yet peaked, one caveat is almost always attached: Future output growth depends on continued...
    General Interest

    Watching the World: Separating wheat from chaff

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The Volcker Committee report on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program has certainly seen some heads roll since its publication.
    Production Operations

    Tax hikes seen likely for UK North Sea oil firms

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The North Sea oil industry should brace for tax hikes from the UK Treasury, given rising oil prices worldwide, said an Ernst & Young LLP tax analyst in Aberdeen.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The number of onshore US marginal oil wells increased last year, but production totals for those wells dropped from the previous year, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission...
    HSE

    Editorial: Energy prices and Kyoto

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Abnormally high oil and gas prices don’t just lift profits of oil and gas companies.
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    Drilling & Production

    RMI: Prices, expiring leases push gulf E&P

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Record-high oil and natural gas prices, driven in part by a severe tropical storm cycle in the Gulf of Mexico as well as upcoming lease expirations, are pushing vigorous exploration...
    Reserves

    FACTS: Asia-Pacific products demand to keep growing

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Asia-Pacific regional demand for petroleum products will continue to grow while supply, despite plans for additional refining capacity, struggles to keep pace, said Fesharaki ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Former oil minister links Iraq’s recovery to political stability

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Iraq has set a 2006 yearend oil production target of 3 million b/d, but it will have to become much more stable politically to do so, the country’s former oil minister said Nov...
    Companies

    ‘Flat out’ industry faces enormous challenges, SEG told

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Operators and service companies face shortages of manpower, equipment, and services as they try to keep up with rising world oil and gas demand in the coming decades, speakers...
    LNG

    Gas summit speakers note changing market patterns

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Soaring prices of natural gas are changing traditional market patterns by breaking up the gas-electricity link and increasing price volatility in LNG trade, speakers said Nov....
    Companies

    Pipelines seek new production aggregation methods

    Nov. 14, 2005
    Natural gas pipelines are moving aggressively to expand transmission and storage capacity, but new approaches to aggregate production for capacity commitments will be necessary...
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    Production Operations

    Mexico’s presidential elections trigger oil policy debate

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The sexennial presidential season in Mexico (fall 2005-spring 2006) promises to be more than flag-waving in oil policy, as was the case in the elections of 2000.
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    Companies

    Buried, subsea line advanced as LNG alternative

    Nov. 14, 2005
    The large number of proposed LNG projects currently vying for public and governmental approval on a global basis has led to an increased focus on associated safety, economic, ...