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    Petrochemicals

    PROCESS CONTROL-Conclusion: Ethylene plant uses best practices to improve controller performance

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Nova Chemicals Corp. used a holistic, best-practices approach to help sustain and improve the performance of control system assets at its Joffre, Alta., ethylene plant.
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    Tankers

    Best practices limit fluid effects on CRA tubulars

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Proper procedures in the design of clear brine completion fluids combined with proper handling of the fluids can mitigate annular environmentally assisted cracking (AEAC) in wells...
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    Companies

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: New jack ups will soon hit the water

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Without accounting for likely attrition of older units, the world’s supply of jack ups will expand more than 16% by 2009, adding 61 jack ups now under construction, in addition...
    Production Operations

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Japan exploring methane hydrate

    Oct. 16, 2006
    In a bid to move Japan toward energy self-sufficiency, the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry is promoting technologies to provide new fuel sources, among them...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 16, 2006
    General Interest - Quick TakesHostages released from Nigerian Shell facilityMost hostages taken Oct. 10 from a Royal Dutch Shell PLC facility in southern Nigeria have been released...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 39

    Refining

    Cavaney: Industry needs to reconcile good with bad

    Oct. 16, 2006
    The oil and gas industry faces a huge paradox as executives from its biggest companies gather in Washington, DC, for the American Petroleum Institute’s 2006 annual meeting Oct...
    Refining & Processing

    FACTS: Oil market suffering from investment lull of 1990s

    Oct. 16, 2006
    The global oil market is suffering now from a lack of investments in the 1990s when oil prices were low and refining margins poor, said analysts at Fesharaki Associates Consulting...
    Companies

    Congressional panel hears of produced water potential

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Water produced with oil and gas can help relieve pressure on surface-water resources, witnesses told a US House Resources subcommittee hearing Sept. 26.
    Companies

    GAO recommends spending limits for SPR fill

    Oct. 16, 2006
    The US Department of Energy could have saved about $590 million from late 2001 through 2005 if it had used a steady dollar value of crude oil over time to assure that more purchases...
    Companies

    Gazprom to develop Shtokman alone, pipe gas to Europe

    Oct. 16, 2006
    In a surprise move, Russia’s OAO Gazprom announced on Oct. 9 that it will develop giant Shtokman (Shtokmanovskoye) natural gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea without foreign...
    Refining & Processing

    Biofuels in transportation

    Oct. 16, 2006
    In pursuit of energy independence, the US government is promoting the use of biofuels as transportation fuels.
    Economics & Markets

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Those elusive pass-throughs

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Oil and gas prices have fallen more quickly than autumn leaves in the past few weeks, which has helped improve the US economic outlook.
    Economics & Markets

    Crude prices dip below $59/bbl

    Oct. 16, 2006
    The November contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes fell $2.35 to $58.68/bbl Oct. 3, the lowest front-month closing on the New York Mercantile Exchange since Feb. 16.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Oct. 16, 2006
    ArgentinaGold Point Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, took farmouts from APCO Argentina Inc., Tulsa, Okla., and Antrim Energy Inc., Calgary, on the Capricorn License (Yacimiento Norte...
    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Baker Hughes Inc.Houston, has appointed Frank M. Davis as president of Baker Hughes Russia Inc., William P. Faubel as vice-president of enterprise marketing for Baker Hughes oilfield...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Field use supports move to suspension-based DRA

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Suspension-based drag-reducing agents (DRAs) have proven to be an alternative to gel-based technology for ConocoPhillips Pipeline Co.'s US crude pipelines.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 16, 2006
    New scroll vacuum pump-compressorThis new semihermetic scroll vacuum pump-compressor comes in a variety of materials, with appropriate seals, that allows it to handle almost any...
    Home

    Who said crude wouldn’t drop below $60/bbl?

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Here’s an assignment for anyone who has at any time this year declared that the price of crude oil would never again fall below $60/bbl.
    Government

    New US diesel era

    Oct. 16, 2006
    As US fuel consumers enter a new era of highway diesel fuel this week, the first and probably only thing many of them will notice is the price.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Oct. 16, 2006
    ADIPECwww.adipec.comApex Engineering Products Corp.www.rydlyme.comArielBaker HughesHughes Christensenbakerhughes.comBredero Shawwww.brederoshaw.comCameronwww.c-a-m.com/distributedvalves...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Study evaluates viscosity prediction of crude blends

    Oct. 16, 2006
    Transporting crude oil blends via pipeline requires careful estimation of their viscosities.
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    Companies

    Drilling confirms radar-mapped atmospheric seepage anomalies

    Oct. 16, 2006
    This article will discuss three types of atmospheric seepage anomaly (ASA).