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  • Volume 104, Issue 30

    • Volume 104, Issue 30

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    Drilling & Production

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Bentec expands options with new AC drawworks

    Aug. 14, 2006
    A German engineering and fabrication firm has designed new AC drawworks suitable for Arctic drilling conditions.
    Companies

    Concerns arise from Prudhoe Bay oil field shutdown

    Aug. 14, 2006
    BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. said it’s unsure how long Prudhoe Bay oil field might be shut down pending replacement of an estimated 16 miles of a severely corroded oil transit...
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    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Study: Most-active catalyst improves ULSD economics

    Aug. 14, 2006
    A recent study of four commercial hydrodesulfurization (HDS) catalysts found that using the most active one for ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) production resulted in significant...
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    Production Operations

    CO2 sequestration: Storage capacity guideline needed

    Aug. 14, 2006
    The emerging CO2 sequestration industry needs guidelines that will establish a common basis for estimating and classifying CO2 storage capacity.
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    HSE

    SPECIAL REPORT: Market for US catalysts to rise 3%/year to 2010

    Aug. 14, 2006
    The US market for petrochemical and refining catalysts is currently about $2.7 billion and will increase to about $3.2 billion at a growth of 3.0%/year, according to a technical...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 30

    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Axenswww.axens.netBAKER ATLASwww.bakeratlas.comBCCK Engineering, Inc.www.bcck.comCaprockwww.c-a-m.comConocophillipsDMG World Mediawww.petroleumshow.comGTIwww.gastechnology.org...
    HSE

    ENERGY MARSHALL PLAN-1: Politics and energy choice

    Aug. 14, 2006
    It might have been Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) who started it. In October 2004, near the end of his unsuccessful campaign for the presidency, Kerry suggested in a speech in Santa...
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    Companies

    Afghan resource assessment fed positive outlook for exploration

    Aug. 14, 2006
    A research team recently estimated mean volumes of undiscovered conventional recoverable hydrocarbons in northern Afghanistan at 1.596 billion bbl of crude oil, 15.687 tcf of ...
    Government

    Not every missing $2 billion raises fuss in Congress

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Ever vigilant where public money is concerned, congressional leaders think the US government is missing $2 billion and want to know why.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Enhancements added to gas network modelingThe time-varying module (TVM), unsteady-state module (USM), facilities management module (FMM), and cost of service module (COSM) for...
    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Digital Oilfield Inc.Calgary and Houston, has announced the opening of an office in London. The UK staff will focus on sales and support of Digital Oilfield’s software solutions...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Ethanol imported to meet demand

    Aug. 14, 2006
    US demand for ethanol is outstripping supply and raising imports of the product, said Jacques Rousseau, senior energy analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc., Arlington...
    Tankers

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Enter the Oil Weapon

    Aug. 14, 2006
    It’s been years since anyone really took seriously the idea of the oil weapon.
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    Pipelines

    Indentation technique provides pipeline integrity monitoring

    Aug. 14, 2006
    With the international transportation networks of oil and gas pipelines aging, automated ball indentation (ABI) testing provides a means of monitoring their structural integrity...
    Refining & Processing

    Bodman cites sources to replace cut ANS supplies

    Aug. 14, 2006
    US energy officials tried to assure markets and consumers that other crude supplies are available to offset up to 400,000 b/d of production, which will be missing as BP Exploration...
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    Drilling & Production

    Azerbaijan: land of fire

    Aug. 14, 2006
    On the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea thousands of years ago, flames rising from the ground that never flickered out so astonished itinerant Persians that they named the...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 14, 2006
    General Interest - Quick TakesEU warned against Gazprom-Sonatrach linkupItaly’s Economic Development Minister Pierluigi Bersani wants the European Union to take action against...
    Companies

    House reform panel seeks more royalty relief data

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Dissatisfied over responses from US Department of the Interior officials, a House committee’s chairman and the chairman of its energy and resources subcommittee demanded more ...
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    Companies

    POINT OF VIEW: DGH’s Sibal: India keen to attract foreign investment

    Aug. 14, 2006
    India’s recent licensing rounds for oil, natural gas, and coalbed methane assets continue to attract international attention, partly due to the efforts of V.K. Sibal.
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    Production Operations

    Plan forecasts continued increases in Brazilian production

    Aug. 14, 2006
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s (Petrobras) new 5-year plan (2007-11) shows Brazil’s oil production increasing to 2.374 million b/d in 2011 from 1.684 million b/d produced in 2005.
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    Refining

    Hurricanes and production: Do more disruptions loom?

    Aug. 14, 2006
    The Atlantic hurricane season of 2005 was the most active season since accurate record-keeping began more than 60 years ago.