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  • Volume 104, Issue 42

    • Volume 104, Issue 42

    Production Operations

    UKOOA urges tax change to boost UKCS production

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The UK government must change the fiscal regime to ensure production of the 27 billion bbl of oil and gas equivalent that might be recoverable from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS...
    LNG

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Saudi Aramco looking east

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Situated in a relatively quiet corner of Southeast Asia, Malaysia tends to be overlooked by some oil and gas analysts.
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    Reserves

    Novel centrifugal process removes gas contaminants

    Nov. 13, 2006
    A new technique based on centrifugal separation can economically process gas from fields contaminated with large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) or hydrogen sulfide (H2S).
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    Companies

    Holistic approach to safety systems produces improvement methodology

    Nov. 13, 2006
    To improve the safety of the operating environment, a holistic method for defining and evaluating the systems that aid an operator with the safe operation of a process unit is...
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    Companies

    Drilling continues in Ecuador

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Although several foreign operators have abandoned Ecuador operations this year, 118 wells were drilled during the first 9 months of 2006 (see table).

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    WA LNG projects’ fortunes reflected in Greater Gorgon

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Problems faced by the Greater Gorgon Project in Western Australia reflect challenges to all the potential LNG projects in the region (map).
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: World’s Arctic basins pose array of unique work opportunities

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The Arctic is often considered as a single frontier for the oil and gas industry with a unique set of challenges that require unique exploration and development solutions.
    Production Operations

    After the US elections

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Instead of talking and not acting on meaningful energy supply, Congress now will stop talking.
    Reserves

    Confusion evident in blast at OPEC about production

    Nov. 13, 2006
    It has long been a mystery how the US Congress can so consistently wander astray on oil and gas.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 13, 2006
    New mobile stimulation pumping systemStimFORCE, a new modular, mobile stimulation pumping system, provides the capabilities of a traditional, stimulation pumping vessel with skid...
    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Gray Energy Services LLCFort Worth, has announced the acquisition by its subsidiary, Gray Wireline Service Inc., of Southern Wireline Service Inc., a longstanding independent ...
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    LNG

    French beginning to open natural gas market

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Recent project announcements suggest that, however small the initial steps, France is finally moving toward liberalization of its natural gas market.
    LNG

    2006 crude prices may have bottomed out

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The December contract for benchmark US crudes apparently bottomed out at a new floor of $57.05/bbl in intraday trading Oct. 31 before closing at $58.73/bbl, up 37¢ for the day...
    Economics & Markets

    Managing oil dependency

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The timing may be right.
    Drilling & Production

    Louisiana, MMS reach settlement in lease sale lawsuit

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said attorneys for the state have negotiated a settlement in a lawsuit against the US Minerals Management Service, and the settlement ...
    Companies

    API: US well completions broke records during 3Q

    Nov. 13, 2006
    US oil and gas drilling reached its highest quarterly level in more than 20 years with an estimated 12,687 completions in the 3 months ended Sept. 30, the American Petroleum Institute...
    General Interest

    SPECIAL REPORT: WoodMac: Arctic has less oil than earlier estimated

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The entire international Arctic region contains “much less” potential petroleum resources, with a mix of more natural gas, than previously estimated, according to a joint study...
    Pipelines

    Gas Summit analyzes European Union gas supply-demand issues

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Two new features this year marked the 11th Gas Summit held Oct. 26-27 in Paris and organized by Pétrostrategies consultant and publisher, Institut Français du Pétrole, oil and...
    Drilling & Production

    Hurricanes spotlight jack up design, placements

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The storm magnitudes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exceeded the design criteria of most of the jack up rigs caught in their paths through the central Gulf of Mexico, said industry...
    Reserves

    Foreign oil firms agree to Bolivia’s contract terms

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed a victory Oct. 29 when key foreign energy companies agreed to remain in Bolivia, operate under state control, and cede larger shares of ...
    Government

    DOJ, SEC probe Bonny Island partners for violations

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are formally investigating whether a joint venture in which Halliburton Co. has a 25% interest played a...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 13, 2006
    General Interest - Quick TakesCalifornia votes down state oil production taxCalifornia voters rejected a state ballot measure that would have taxed state oil production at varying...
    Economics & Markets

    UKOOA: Skills shortage worries UK oil industry

    Nov. 13, 2006
    An acute lack of skilled engineers and technologists is threatening the development of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), speakers warned Nov. 7 at the UK Offshore Operators’ Association...
    Government

    EPA proposes further gasoline vapor controls

    Nov. 13, 2006
    The US Environmental Protection Agency wants to expand, to nationwide locations, its air toxic standards designed to prevent gasoline spills and evaporation at urban distribution...
    Production Operations

    Chavez again threatens to stop oil exports to US

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut oil sales to the US if it does not recognize the results of Venezuela’s December presidential election or if irregularities...
    Refining & Processing

    NPRA’s Slaughter: ‘Biofuels are not the answer’

    Nov. 13, 2006
    Biofuels are not the answer to US energy supply problems, said the president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association at a management forum in Houston.