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  • Volume 105, Issue 16

    • Volume 105, Issue 16

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    Companies

    Study updates refinery investment cost curves

    April 23, 2007
    In this article, we have updated and extended the refinery investment cost curves presented in Gary and Handwerk’s “Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics.
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: SAKHALIN RMR-1: Elvary Neftegaz plans riserless system for Sakhalin drilling program

    April 23, 2007
    In 2006, CJSC Elvary Neftegaz deployed a riserless mud-recovery (RMR) system off Sakhalin Island.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Long intelligent completion assemblies save rig time

    April 23, 2007
    Running extra-long intelligent bottomhole assemblies (BHAs) reduced rig time for completing wells in the ultradeepwater Independence project in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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    Tankers

    SPECIAL REPORT: Construction start nears for concrete-hull, heavy-lift vessel

    April 23, 2007
    To satisfy demand for new lifting capacity for offshore decommissioning and installation, MPU Offshore Lift ASA in July will begin construction of a concrete hull vessel at the...
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    Tankers

    SPECIAL REPORT: Wellheads provide means for abandoning hurricane-damaged wells

    April 23, 2007
    Diver-installed wellheads facilitate plugging and abandoning wells damaged in recent storms in the Gulf of Mexico.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 16

    Home

    APPEA: Energy production trends toward decarbonization

    April 23, 2007
    The most important trend in energy production over the last two centuries is decarbonization, a trend that will see methane overtake oil and coal to become the next two generation...
    Government

    Senate panel considers carbon sequestration strategy

    April 23, 2007
    Enhanced oil recovery is merely the first step in a national effort to capture and store or reuse industrially produced carbon dioxide, witnesses told the US Senate Energy and...
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    Companies

    IEA sees 2.6 million-b/d near-term gain in OPEC capacity

    April 23, 2007
    Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, led by Angola and Saudi Arabia, will increase total capacity to produce crude oil this year and next by a net 2.6...
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    Pipelines

    THE OIL MARKET’S HARD CHARGERS-1: China expands energy mix, seeks investment

    April 23, 2007
    Since the early 1990s China’s skyrocketing demand for energy has dramatically affected global markets and international policy.
    New Plants

    Al Hamli: OPEC ‘fully committed’ to continuous oil supply

    April 23, 2007
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while seeking security of demand, is fully committed to a continuous supply of oil on the international market, according to...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 23, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesIraq study sees output hike, confirms reservesIraq could double oil production capacity to 4 million b/d in 5 years with little effort, according...
    Government

    GAO: Deepwater royalty relief impact hard to pin down

    April 23, 2007
    Deepwater royalty relief will cost the US government billions of dollars, but uncertainty about prices and production levels make precise estimates impossible at this time, the...
    Production Operations

    Oil summit notes industry challenges, uncertainties

    April 23, 2007
    Three main challenges facing the oil industry-stable and reasonable prices, security of both demand and supply, and the relationship between national oil companies (NOCs) and ...
    Drilling & Production

    Report: Offshore spending to reach $275 billion by 2011

    April 23, 2007
    Steady increases in offshore oil and gas production will drive up industry’s annual spending to more than $275 billion by 2011 from $219 billion in 2006, according to a forecast...
    General Interest

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Tension: the Iranian view

    April 23, 2007
    Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Davudi last week said that his country would do its level best to prepare a proper ground free from tension for attraction of foreign investment...
    Companies

    Remembering Lloyd N. Unsell

    April 23, 2007
    Lloyd N. Unsell, who rose from reporting for a small Oklahoma newspaper to become one of the US oil and gas industry’s most influential leaders in Washington, DC, as president...
    Refining

    Problems for European refiners seen in EC sulfur-cut proposals

    April 23, 2007
    European refiners face new investment requirements at a difficult time, warns the International Energy Agency.
    Petrochemicals

    Supply outlook pressures prices

    April 23, 2007
    Energy prices fluctuated Apr. 9-13 with fast-paced changes in US inventories and political threats to Middle East crude supplies.
    Reserves

    World Bank chief loses ground in corruption fight

    April 23, 2007
    To the oil and gas industry’s detriment, World Bank Pres. Paul Wolfowitz has sustained a blow likely to destroy his effectiveness in a crucial fight.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 23, 2007
    Enhanced diamond protection offered for drillbitsClick here to enlarge imageThis drillbit supplier has expanded its offering of enhanced diamond protection for customers drilling...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Independence Hub sees record SCR installation

    April 23, 2007
    The 20-in. steel catenary riser, connecting the Independence Hub (IHUB) production platform to the Independence Trail natural gas export pipeline, ranks as the largest and deepest...
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    April 23, 2007
    NigerCNPC International Tenere Ltd. spudded the Fachi West-1 exploration well on the 17.3 million acre Tenere Block in Niger. The drillsite is 27 km north of Saha-1, where one...
    Companies

    The painful climate step

    April 23, 2007
    ConocoPhillips has adopted a thoughtful approach to climate change that comes up one step short of comprehensive.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    April 23, 2007
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comAgencia Nacional de Hidrocarburoswww.CaribbeanRound2007.comAir francewww.airfrance.comAirBridgeCargowww.airbridgecargo.comAmerican Petroleumwww...
    Exploration & Development

    BRPC’s Gwydyr Bay well apparent success

    April 23, 2007
    Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. (BRPC), operator of the ADL 47468 lease on Alaska’s North Slope, has made an apparent discovery with one of two wells in the Gwydyr Bay Prospect Area...
    IOR/EOR

    World oil production to peak in 15-25 years, AAPG told

    April 23, 2007
    The world is consuming oil at a rate that will result in oil production peaking in 15 to 25 years, a group of geoscientists told the American Association of Petroleum Geologists...
    Companies

    Apache lists Argentina plans, budget shift

    April 23, 2007
    Apache Corp. plans to drill 120 wells in 2007 in Argentina, where its early-year production averaged 11,000 b/d of oil and 200 MMcfd of gas.
    Home

    Tullow to spud well in Kudu field off Namibia

    April 23, 2007
    Tullow Oil PLC, London, said it has reached agreement to sell to Japan’s Itochu Corp. a 20% interest in its Republic of Namibia Production License No. 001, which contains giant...
    Exploration & Development

    IPR, OVL find oil on North Ramadan block

    April 23, 2007
    IPR Inc., Irving, Tex., and ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), Mumbai, have made an oil discovery with the first exploration well on the North Ramadan concession in the Gulf of Suez.