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  • Volume 104, Issue 18

    • Volume 104, Issue 18

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    Refining & Processing

    RFS will require more blendstock production

    May 8, 2006
    The US Energy Policy Act of 2005 has ensured the continued growth of ethanol use through its renewal fuels standard (RFS) provisions.
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    Companies

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: $2.5 billion going to Korean yards for new drillships

    May 8, 2006
    Drilling contractors have given contracts worth $2.5 billion to two Korean shipyards to build five new drillships.
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    IOR/EOR

    Gas injection affects Marun field PVT properties

    May 8, 2006
    A study determined the changes in pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) properties caused by gas injection in the Marun field Asmari carbonate reservoir in Iran.
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    Companies

    Technology maintains pace in bustling offshore industry

    May 8, 2006
    The offshore oil and gas industry’s elaborate technology stood up to last year’s Gulf of Mexico hurricanes and shows no sign that the storms slowed its development.
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    Production Operations

    OTC Spotlight on Technology recognizes 13 projects

    May 8, 2006
    The Spotlight on Technology at the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference recognized 13 recent innovations.

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 18

    Reserves

    Saudi Aramco developing several fields, boosting drilling for oil and gas

    May 8, 2006
    Saudi Aramco is responding to rising global oil demand and limited spare production capacity by developing several fields and increasing drilling, a company official said in an...
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Devon acquiring Barnett shale acreage from Chief

    May 8, 2006
    Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, projects drilling of 800 wells in 5 years on Barnett shale acreage it will acquire from privately owned Chief Holdings LLC for $2.
    Refining & Processing

    Industry groups reply to anger over gasoline prices

    May 8, 2006
    Trade association officials cited aggressive reinvestment rates and already announced commitments to increase US refining capacity in response to public anger over high gasoline...
    Economics & Markets

    Trinidad and Tobago helps PetroCaribe agreement

    May 8, 2006
    Trinidad and Tobago has announced it will help facilitate the PetroCaribe agreement by supporting the removal of the Common External Tariff (CET) on petroleum products.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 8, 2006
    Bolivian President Evo Morales decreed the nationalization of gas and oil industries on May 1, dispatching troops to oil and gas fields, refineries, and strategic points along...
    Companies

    Senate Republicans offer $100 tax rebate as gasoline price relief

    May 8, 2006
    US Senate Republicans on Apr. 27 introduced legislation including a $100 tax rebate aimed at relieving the impact of higher gasoline prices on consumers.
    HSE

    Russian pipeline challenges Europe, gets route change

    May 8, 2006
    The planned Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean crude oil pipeline, which has taken some route-and possibly economic-swerves recently, is raising supply questions for Europe.
    Companies

    Watching the World: Bolivia now, who's next?

    May 8, 2006
    Amid the heady talk coming out of South America over efforts by Bolivia’s president to nationalize the country’s oil and gas industry, there are at least some voices of sobriety...
    Companies

    Ecuador raises taxes on international oil companies

    May 8, 2006
    Ecuador planned to start collecting a revised “extraordinary profits” oil tax May 1, Minister of Economy Diego Borja Cornejo told Dow Jones Newswires in Quito.
    Discoveries

    Working out the bugs

    May 8, 2006
    That old mother of invention-necessity-has reared its troublesome head again. A US natural gas shortfall projected for 2025 is prodding industry researchers to concoct viable ...
    Refining & Processing

    US, Saudi energy officials see need for cooperation

    May 8, 2006
    Oil-producing and consuming countries must cooperate to effectively and economically meet the world’s growing oil demand, top energy officials from Saudi Arabia and the US agreed...
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    Production Operations

    GULF SEVERE STORMS-2: Empirical models help gauge production lost due to storms

    May 8, 2006
    The Minerals Management Service collects shut-in production data from the survey response of operators following major storms, but the pre-Andrew record is sparse and, for early...
    Government

    Market Journal

    May 8, 2006
    After falling during four consecutive sessions, crude futures prices rebounded above $72/bbl during intraday trading Apr.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    May 8, 2006
    Oilex NL, Sydney, plans to drill wells and may acquire 3D seismic data as a buildup to possibly redeveloping the western high of Cambay oil and gas field in Gujarat.
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    Pipelines

    IN-LINE INSPECTION-Conclusion: Tool performance, corrosion data drive POE approach

    May 8, 2006
    The practical application of a probability-of-exceedance approach within an integrity-management program assumes the availability of two important data sets: in-line inspection...
    Refining & Processing

    A worst-case scenario

    May 8, 2006
    When will oil prices recede? No one knows. The conditions that will cause prices to recede are clear: lower demand and higher supply.
    Government

    Republicans offer $100 to victims of "05 energy bill

    May 8, 2006
    Energy graft has come full circle in the US Congress.
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    Companies

    Laterals tap Texas Panhandle Granite Wash gas

    May 8, 2006
    Horizontal drilling and slick water frac jobs have come together to fuel a new area of activity in the Pennsylvanian Granite Wash play in the northeastern Texas Panhandle.
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