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  • Volume 105, Issue 19

    • Volume 105, Issue 19

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    IOR/EOR

    Gas injection enhances recovery from polymer flood pilot

    May 21, 2007
    A field pilot showed that gas polymer, two-phase flooding could increase oil recovery from a low and intermediate permeable reservoir.
    HSE

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: The benefits of initiative

    May 21, 2007
    Kenneth Irving, chief executive of Irving Oil Ltd. in St. John, NB, has a recommendation for his refining competitors in the US: Don’t resist the push for action on global warming...
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    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Close monitoring, quick action reduce CW system problems

    May 21, 2007
    Stress variations in any cooling-water system bring about changes in the potential for scale, corrosion, and fouling.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Study measures effect of leading indicators on plant turnarounds

    May 21, 2007
    Many factors with varying degrees of controllability affect the outcomes of refinery and petrochemical plant turnarounds.
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    Gas Processing

    Russian field tests yield cements for arctic wells

    May 21, 2007
    Field tests of arctic cements in the Bovanenkovo gas-condensate field on the Yamal peninsula in northern Russia will benefit an upcoming drilling program.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 19

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    New Plants

    Qatar conducts reef restoration along three pipeline corridors

    May 21, 2007
    Qatar Gas contracted CSA International, Inc. to conduct a coral reef restoration project, designed as mitigation for three pipeline corridors off Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar...
    Tankers

    Pipelay, construction vessel design takes shipshape turn

    May 21, 2007
    Designs for future heavy-lift pipelay vessels and deepwater construction vessels are taking on increasingly shipshape characteristics, as contractors seek to increase their operational...
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    Production Operations

    OFFSHORE ENERGY LOSS-3: Weather’s role importantin marine E&D operations

    May 21, 2007
    The third and final part of this series examines the impact of weather on offshore losses.
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    May 21, 2007
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    Companies

    DNV certifies pipe for LNG projects

    May 21, 2007
    Det Norske Veritas in early May issued a “Certificate of Fitness for Service” for use in LNG projects to Houston-based ITP InTerPipe’s triple-wall insulated pipe-in-pipe technology...
    Government

    Arguing over cosmetics

    May 21, 2007
    US President George W. Bush doesn’t know how much gasoline Americans should use.
    Refining & Processing

    Cellulose will strain ethanol’s political unity

    May 21, 2007
    The US ethanol craze will become a political battle under current presuppositions.
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 21, 2007
    Service searches web-based energy intelligenceMetaCarta GeoIntel for Petroleum, an online geographic search service, provides a way to geographically search and discover web-based...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    May 21, 2007
    AlgeriaGulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., London, established a stabilized oil flow at HEK-3, a 2004 Sonatrach oil and gas discovery on Djebel Bottena Block 129 in the Southeast Constantine...
    Drilling Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    May 21, 2007
    Wärtsilä Corp.Helsinki, Finland, has announced the opening of an office in Hanoi, and a new service workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both facilities will support development...
    Production Operations

    Sufficient supply or possible shortage?

    May 21, 2007
    Energy prices fluctuated sharply in early May because of differing assessments of sufficient supplies or possible shortages of crude and petroleum products.
    Home

    When gasoline prices rise

    May 21, 2007
    When people find out that my job entails tracking US gasoline prices, they often ask, “Why are prices so high?” and “Are they going to continue to rise?” Many accept the explanations...
    HSE

    Canada to regulate greenhouse-gas, other air emissions

    May 21, 2007
    The Canadian government has issued a proposed framework for regulation of air emissions that it says contains “the toughest action on greenhouse gases ever proposed by a Canadian...
    Pipelines

    Bolivia decrees foreigners may not export products

    May 21, 2007
    Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has issued a decree that forbids Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and other foreign companies from exporting certain oil...
    Refining & Processing

    Oil costs, demand push gas prices up, House panel told

    May 21, 2007
    High crude costs remain the single biggest force behind rising gasoline prices, said John C. Felmy, American Petroleum Institute chief economist, on May 9.
    Home

    Bolivia to pay $112 million to buy back Petrobras refineries

    May 21, 2007
    After days of tense negotiations between Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and the Bolivian government, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced that his...
    Refining & Processing

    China’s crude production rising slower than demand

    May 21, 2007
    China reached production of 3.6 million b/d of oil, 50 billion cu m of natural gas, and 5.8 million b/d of refining capacity by 2005, Facts Global Energy Group (FGE) reported ...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 21, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesBodman to Europe: rethink Russia’s line proposalUS Sec. of Energy Samuel Bodman has criticized Russia’s plans to construct a new pipeline from Turkmenistan...
    Companies

    US states seize opportunities to maximize oil, gas production

    May 21, 2007
    US oil and gas-producing states must continue to work together to explore for and develop oil and gas resources and maximize production with a high sense of environmental awareness...
    LNG

    IEA members seek energy security, sustainability

    May 21, 2007
    Ministers of the International Energy Agency’s member countries, having confronted growing energy challenges since their last meeting in 2005, gathered in Paris May 14-15 to identify...
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    Economics & Markets

    THE OIL MARKET’S HARD CHARGERS-2: India steers new course toward energy reform

    May 21, 2007
    India is the world’s second most populous country (after China). Its population is projected to increase to 1.46 billion by 2030 from 1.09 billion in 2006.
    Pipelines

    Deloitte: Gas supply question makes Europe edgy

    May 21, 2007
    European countries are increasingly apprehensive about Russia’s attempts to control natural gas supplies and transmission, noted speakers at the 2007 Deloitte Energy Conference...
    Government

    Bush orders action on CAFE, motor fuel alternatives

    May 21, 2007
    US President George W. Bush ordered federal agencies to implement proposals to increase motor fuel efficiency and develop motor fuel alternatives more quickly.
    Refining & Processing

    Refiners pull back on plans for capacity additions, EIA chief says

    May 21, 2007
    US refiners apparently have scaled back plans for additional capacity from levels of a year ago, the head of the US Energy Information Administration told a Senate committee on...
    Production Operations

    WATCHING THE WORLD: China’s Sudan work criticized

    May 21, 2007
    Critics are eyeing Chinese oil and gas exploration activity around the world, not least in Sudan where, it is claimed, Beijing is ruthlessly exploiting the government’s economic...