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    Companies

    Refining technology advances focus on reliability, efficiency

    March 26, 2007
    Operators and contractors are continually pressing the technology envelope in efforts to improve the reliability and efficiency of refineries.
    Refining

    Safety, security concerns growing challenge for refiners, contractors

    March 26, 2007
    Safety and security concerns in the refining industry have become a greater challenge for refinery operators and contractors in the wake of terrorism threats and megadisasters...
    Refining & Processing

    Shortage of skilled personnel tops refining industry concerns

    March 26, 2007
    The global refining industry faces huge challenges in keeping up with rising demand for petroleum products in the years to come.
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    Drilling Operations

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Plenary panel addresses effect of high prices on performance

    March 26, 2007
    At the International Association of Drilling Contractors conference in Amsterdam, Feb. 20-22, 2007, leaders from two of the world’s largest operating companies, the largest offshore...
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    Reserves

    Iran becoming mega petchem producer, natural gas consumer

    March 26, 2007
    Iran’s government is moving away from an oil-export based economy by increasing the priority of its gas resources development, including the expansion of its petrochemical industry...

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    Companies

    Part 1: Oil companies adjust as government roles expand

    March 26, 2007
    In the energy industry, the world is not flat. Concentration of oil and gas resources in a handful of small, powerful, and resource-nationalistic governments and their respective...
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    Production Operations

    Procedure calculates base gas compressibility factors

    March 26, 2007
    This article presents an easy and simple spreadsheet procedure for custody-transfer calculations of the base compressibility factor for any pair of pressure and temperature conditions...
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    Production Operations

    Russian oil service outlays to double, analyst says

    March 26, 2007
    Expenditures for drilling, seismic surveying, and workover programs in Russia amounted to $11.4 billion in 2006 and is forecast to rise to $22.5 billion by 2011, according to ...
    Pipelines

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Indonesian gas figures wobble

    March 26, 2007
    Indonesian gas is a hot topic, judging by the number of e-mails crowding my inbox these days.
    LNG

    GAO recommends fuller studies of LNG spill impacts

    March 26, 2007
    Government policymakers seeking to determine where new LNG terminals are to be located and how existing facilities and tankers can be protected need additional studies conducted...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 26, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesSenator proposes extension on 1998, 1999 leasesUS Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) reported plans to propose 3-year extensions of federal Gulf of Mexico...
    Discoveries

    API prepares standards after Texas City plant accident

    March 26, 2007
    US refiners are applying lessons learned from the Mar. 23, 2005, fire and explosion at BP America Inc.’s Texas City, Tex., refinery to improving existing operating practices and...
    Discoveries

    CSB’s final report cites ‘broken safety culture’ at BP

    March 26, 2007
    BP PLC had a “broken safety culture” at the time of the Mar. 23, 2005, fire and explosion at its 460,000 b/d Texas City, Tex., refinery that killed 15 people and injured 180 others...
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    Companies

    Company sales dominate 2006 global upstream mergers, acquisitions

    March 26, 2007
    Worldwide transaction values for upstream corporate and asset deals totaled more than $166 billion last year compared with more than $160 billion during 2005, consultants said...
    Production Operations

    Frontier exploration lamp is lit

    March 26, 2007
    Large and small operators are moving to explore many of the world’s remote and nonproducing regions.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Exploration spreads into numerous remote and nonproducing basins

    March 26, 2007
    Remote and nonproducing basins and areas are pulling in a small but important share of exploration expenditures worldwide.
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    Tankers

    New API publication gives IM guidance

    March 26, 2007
    API Publication 353, released in November 2006, provides an organized approach to facility integrity management and provides examples of two different methods for performing a...
    Economics & Markets

    OPEC takes no action

    March 26, 2007
    As expected, ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries made no move either to reduce or to increase production at their Mar. 15 meeting in Vienna, vowing ...
    General Interest

    Stop the press: Scientists doubt Gore’s alarms

    March 26, 2007
    It’s newsworthy when the mainstream press takes notice of unfrenzied approaches to climate change.
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    Tankers

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 26, 2007
    Weld purge monitor complies with RoHS directiveFollowing changes to the procedures and materials used in the production of weld purge monitors, this firm says its MkV weld purge...
    HSE

    Technology surge ahead

    March 26, 2007
    It is the business of energy forms not now much in use to await technological breakthrough.
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