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  • Volume 104, Issue 20

    • Volume 104, Issue 20

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    General Interest

    Special Report: Real-time information optimizes condition-based maintenance

    May 22, 2006
    Top performers (pacesetters) in the refining industry are using real-time equipment data to prioritize and optimize their maintenance resources.
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    Drilling & Production

    Engineers consider wear in designing new casing strings for Tarim field

    May 22, 2006
    A new method to design casing strings is based on predicted and actual wear of strings in the Tarim oil field, China.
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    Production Operations

    Well repair required analysis of multiple scenarios

    May 22, 2006
    Repair of a casing leak on a well in the Magid field in eastern Libya required engineers to examine multiple scenarios for what may have caused the failure.
    Refining & Processing

    Gasoline hearing probes boutique fuel, ethanol issues

    May 22, 2006
    The conflict between specialized motor fuel blends’ air-quality benefits under normal supply conditions and the logistical problems they create when supplies are restricted came...
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    Refining & Processing

    Questions linger as refiners cut US diesel sulfur content

    May 22, 2006
    Just days from the Environmental Protection Agency’s June 1 deadline for production of ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) for highway vehicles, refiners and pipeline companies appear...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 20

    Production Operations

    OTC: US production boost seen from R&D consortium

    May 22, 2006
    Falling US oil and gas production could be turned around if a controversial section of a recently passed bill is implemented, members of a technology panel said May 3 at the Offshore...
    General Interest

    OTC: Energy players present varied views on alternative energy

    May 22, 2006
    Representatives of several segments of the energy industry approached alternative energy from various perspectives during an Offshore Technology Conference panel discussion May...
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    Companies

    OGJ NEWSLETTER

    May 22, 2006
    Bolivian President Evo Morales said oil companies, including Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) and Spain’s Repsol YPF SA, won’t be compensated after nationalization...
    Refining & Processing

    House panel hears how fuel suppliers meeting challenges

    May 22, 2006
    US motor fuel suppliers apparently are meeting challenges raised by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) and new pollution-reduction requirements from the Environmental Protection...
    Production Operations

    Editorial: Sources of instability

    May 22, 2006
    A prominent feature of the oil market these days is instability. Because global spare capacity to produce crude oil is perilously low in relation to consumption, worry about the...
    Companies

    House Dems plan to revive refining reserve proposal

    May 22, 2006
    US House Democrats intend to bring back their proposal to create a strategic refining reserve as an alternative to a Republican bill aimed at simplifying refinery construction...
    Companies

    Watching the World - Ecuador tries on a fig leaf

    May 22, 2006
    Fig leaves are all the rage these days, especially in Latin America. But the one being tried on by Ecuador over its seizure of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
    Companies

    Coal’s liquid potential

    May 22, 2006
    When the prices of oil and natural gas rise substantially, as they have recently, the attention of consumers and fuel producers naturally turns to alternative fuels.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    LEAK-DETECTION SYSTEMS - CONCLUSION: Leak-detection efficiencies gauge system effectiveness

    May 22, 2006
    All decisions to make significant changes to the effective threshold for an existing pipeline leak-detection system (PLDS) should consider the larger context.
    Reserves

    Soft demand cuts energy prices

    May 22, 2006
    Two reports of reduced demand undercut energy prices on May 12, dropping the June crude contract within pennies of $72/bbl after two consecutive sessions of gains on the New York...
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    Drilling & Production

    Early new field production estimation could assist in quantifying supply trends

    May 22, 2006
    A severe slump in the global E&P industry in 1998-99 saw oil prices bottoming at $10/bbl, the lowest in 27 years, US drilling levels hitting their lowest point in 66 years, and...
    Refining & Processing

    The Editor’s Perspective

    May 22, 2006
    US Democrats have pulled ahead of Republicans in the congressional competition for the silliest proposal for energy.
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    Refining & Processing

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 22, 2006
    An advanced hose design in Convoluted PTFE is available for use in chemical plant applications.
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    May 22, 2006
    UK independents Gold Oil PLC and Plectrum Petroleum PLC plan to explore Block Z-34 in the Talara basin.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    May 22, 2006
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