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  • Volume 104, Issue 10

    • Volume 104, Issue 10

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    Pipelines

    Aramco’s Haradh GOSP-3 starts up

    March 13, 2006
    The third of three gas-oil separation plants in the Haradh area of Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar field came on stream in January, according to an article last month by Rick Snedeker in...
    Companies

    Company News: E&P firms continue to report higher capital budgets

    March 13, 2006
    Oil and gas companies are still reporting increased capital spending plans for 2006.
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    Companies

    Refiners to see strong returns near-term despite looming capacity buildup

    March 13, 2006
    Overcapacity and associated low margins are an unlikely outcome of 66 announced grassroots refinery projects.
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    Refining & Processing

    Study finds optimum compressor interstage pressure

    March 13, 2006
    A study has found that the choice of the optimum compressor interstage pressure is an economic decision that can be estimated by equal compression ratios for each stage and adjustments...
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    Refining

    Better fractionation hikes ULSD yields, hydrotreater run lengths

    March 13, 2006
    Improved fractionation will allow many refiners to increase their ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) yields and hydrotreater run lengths by segregating the easy and difficult-to-treat...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 10

    Exploration & Development

    Neuquen basin oil discoveries due pipeline

    March 13, 2006
    Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, plans to lay a 25-km, 6-in., 13,500 b/d pipeline to connect oil discoveries on its Puesto Morales block in the eastern Neuquen basin of northern...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    March 13, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Pipelines

    CENTRAL ASIA OIL AND GAS-2: Russian-Chinese competition may marginalize US, European influence

    March 13, 2006
    This is the second of two parts on the growth of Chinese energy investment in Central Asia, which has traditionally fallen within Russia’s sphere of influence.
    New Plants

    Fuel price crunch fix: Lift ethanol tariff and credit

    March 13, 2006
    Despite rapid growth, US capacity to produce fuel ethanol from grain faces a crunch this year.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    STANDARDS ACTIVITY-Conclusion: Ormen Lange HTHP lessons prompt design, standard adjustments

    March 13, 2006
    The high temperatures and high pressures associated with the 30-in. multiphase lines of the Ormen Lange project off Norway crossing very uneven seabed forced a reevaluation of...
    Economics & Markets

    Crude price at 3-week high prior to meetings

    March 13, 2006
    The April contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes opened at a 3-week high of $63.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    March 13, 2006
    Solana Resources Ltd., Calgary, declared commercial and placed on long-term test the Guariquies-1 well in the Middle Magdalena basin.
    Discoveries

    DOE sees large remaining US oil resource

    March 13, 2006
    The US holds as much as 430 billion bbl of technically recoverable oil in a resource in place of 1.
    Production Operations

    Letters

    March 13, 2006
    Tucked away on p. 35 of the Feb. 6, 2006, Oil & Gas Journal is a short item headlined “Saudis, Chinese agree to landmark energy accord.” Although details of the “accord” are not...
    Reserves

    Editorial: Spinning oil potential

    March 13, 2006
    The US Department of Energy had an important message to tell about future oil supply, but communication got in the way.
    Government

    Cuba seen pushing oil, gas work close to Florida

    March 13, 2006
    Cuba is moving to develop its offshore oil and gas resources, which would result in development closer to Florida’s coast than the US government allows, Rep.
    Economics & Markets

    Economic amnesia

    March 13, 2006
    Last year was one of the most volatile business environments for the oil and gas industry.
    Companies

    Watching the World: Extrapolating the port issue

    March 13, 2006
    The current debate among US lawmakers about Dubai Port World’s (DPW) proposed takeover of terminal operations at six US ports may seem far from the oil industry.
    Production Operations

    Query targets missing deepwater lease price thresholds

    March 13, 2006
    The US Minerals Management Service is investigating why price thresholds were absent from federal offshore leases covered by deepwater royalty relief during fiscal 1998 and 1999...
    Government

    EPA queried on producer exemption in storm-water rule

    March 13, 2006
    US Sen. James L. Jeffords (I-Vt.) and five Senate Democrats have raised questions about possible involvement of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl C. Rove and the Office of...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 13, 2006
    The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill to begin oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico’s Sale 181 area.
    Economics & Markets

    High gas costs push shift in ethylene trade

    March 13, 2006
    High gas commodity prices in North America have accelerated a shift in investment strategy by the region’s ethylene producers.
    Government

    EPA issues mobile-source emissions reduction proposal

    March 13, 2006
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new mobile source emissions reduction standards targeting benzene levels in gasoline, hydrocarbon emissions from vehicles in...
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    HSE

    Comment: EU may miss Kyoto targets despite EEA recommendations

    March 13, 2006
    At a roundtable organized by major Italian environmental group Legambiente, Romano Prodi, Italy’s 1996-98 prime minister and current leftist candidate for that same position, ...