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  • Volume 104, Issue 46

    • Volume 104, Issue 46

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    Production Operations

    Marginal wells account for much US production

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Marginal wells remain an important segment of US oil and gas production operations.
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    Refining

    CERA: US motor fuel market being transformed

    Dec. 11, 2006
    The US motor fuel market is being transformed by higher prices, tightening environmental requirements, changing demographics, growing world demand for oil, and expanding fuel ...
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    Companies

    POINT OF VIEW: Canadian Superior looks at size of the prize in Trinidad, Nova Scotia

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Calgary’s Canadian Superior Energy Inc., an aggressive independent, operates in Western Canada, the Maritimes, and off Trinidad and Tobago.
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    Production Operations

    Egyptian gas plant employs absorbents for Hg removal

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Initial mercury measurements in 2000 for gas upstream of Khalda Petroleum Co.’s Salam gas plant in Egypt’s Western Desert showed mercury content between 75 and 175 μg/std. cu ...
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    Companies

    Cubic EOS calculates heavy oil SARA fractions

    Dec. 11, 2006
    A new cubic equation of state (EOS) predicts densities of Western Canadian heavy oils and their SARA (saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes) fractions.

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 46

    Reserves

    Billions of barrels in Bakken recovery seen in Williston

    Dec. 11, 2006
    The Bakken formation play in the Williston basin is writing a new chapter in the oil reserves history of the US onshore Lower 48, thought by many to be a mature and fast-depleting...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Dec. 11, 2006
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    Home

    An open letter to the noble Iranian people

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Noble Iranians, Because your president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took the trouble to write a letter to US citizens-“noble Americans,” in his words-a reciprocal gesture, albeit from...
    Government

    The OCS leasing struggle

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Meager offshore oil and gas leasing reform tested political winds in the US House of Representatives Dec. 5 and nearly got blown away.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Programmed route markers increase efficiency, safety

    Dec. 11, 2006
    New buried identification marker technology offers potential improvements in oil and gas pipeline-maintenance efficiency and reduction of the likelihood of accidental damage and...
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Dec. 11, 2006
    New gas sensor has 6 month calibration cycleThis new 5100-02-IT catalytic bead combustible gas sensor comes with a 6 month calibration cycle.The firm says users can have long ...
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 11, 2006
    EN EngineeringWoodbridge, Ill., has announced several promotions and a new appointment. David Schramm has been promoted to vice-president and senior project manager. Schramm is...
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    Companies

    SEISMIC EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-1: Seismic used to directly map reservoir permeability fields

    Dec. 11, 2006
    This two-part article summarizes a series of tests indicating that a technology now exists for near real-time 3D mapping of the reservoir-scale permeability field using surface...
    Economics & Markets

    Cold weather raises energy prices

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Energy prices soared to the highest levels in months during the final 4 days of November as an arctic cold front moved across the Midwest US toward the East Coast, dumping several...
    Companies

    A Malaysian perspective

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Fresh from several years of exploration success in Malaysia, Arkansas-based Murphy Oil Corp. said another place it would like to be in Southeast Asia is Indonesia.
    Production Operations

    Small producers cite struggles in UK N. Sea

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Small oil and gas companies are struggling to acquire and develop acreage in UK licensing rounds because of intense competition and high taxes, company executives said at a conference...
    Economics & Markets

    WATCHING THE WORLD: The switch to biofuels

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Is the day approaching when countries around the globe will switch from oil and natural gas to biofuels?
    Government

    OCS leasing bill pulled from House floor

    Dec. 11, 2006
    US House leaders pulled the Senate’s Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing reform bill from the floor on Dec. 5 because there were not enough votes to pass it under special...
    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Petrobras changes international area executives

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has made several changes to its international area executive staff, all effective Jan. 1.
    Refining & Processing

    Tighter oil market likely in 2007, analyst says

    Dec. 11, 2006
    The oil market is likely to tighten in 2007 with global demand for crude up by 1.7 million b/d, non-OPEC production growing by just 1 million b/d, and only a 1.1 million b/d increase...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 11, 2006
    General Interest - Quick TakesWoodMac: Output boost forecast for VenezuelaProduction from Venezuela’s marginal fields will surge within 3 years, predicts Wood Mackenzie Ltd., ...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Interest heats up Southeast Asia discovery, production

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Exploration and appraisal drilling in Southeast Asia has continued at high levels through 2006 as oil companies, flush with cash, seek to replace reserves.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Calderon proposes opening Mexico’s oil industry

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Mexico’s new President Felipe Calderon proposes opening the country’s oil industry to international oil corporations to help increase crude oil exports.
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Talisman sells noncore oil sands assets in two deals

    Dec. 11, 2006
    Talisman Energy Inc. agreed to sell some of its noncore oil sand assets in two deals worth a total of $582.5 million (Can.).