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  • Volume 105, Issue 2

    • Volume 105, Issue 2

    Pipelines & Transportation

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Price wars

    Jan. 8, 2007
    The Russians continue to have problems over oil and gas with their fellow states in the former Soviet Union.
    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Exploration Co. elects Sigmon as chairman

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Exploration Co., San Antonio, has elected James E. Sigmon as chairman to succeed Stephen M. Gose Jr., retired after more than 20 years of service.
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    Drilling & Production

    North Sea data yield insight on fatigue life of drill pipe

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Failure of drill pipe due to fatigue is very costly problem in the oil and gas industry.
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    General Interest

    Study tests accuracy of methods that estimate hydrate formation

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Because inhibitors are important in reducing formation of hydrates in gas streams, we performed a study to investigate and evaluate the accuracy of available tools that predict...
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    Production Operations

    Ion exchange helps CBM producers handle water

    Jan. 8, 2007
    In western US, ion-exchange technology is helping coalbed methane operators handle the large amounts of water produced with the gas.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 2

    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Baker Hughes Incorporatedwww.bakerhughes.com/casefileCambridge Energy Research AssoChevronIndustrial Rubber, Inc.www.iri-oiltool.comOGJ Online Research Centerwww.ogjresearch.comPolyguar...
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    Companies

    WEST AFRICA-1: Undiscovered oil potential still large off West Africa

    Jan. 8, 2007
    For more than half a century the West Africa region, in particular the countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea and Congo Delta, has been one of the most exciting and attractive...
    Home

    The role of business

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Fad words come and go in business, usually without hurting anything but communication.
    Drilling & Production

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 8, 2007
    KenyaA group led by Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has spudded an exploration well on the Pomboo prospect on Block L-5 in the Indian Ocean off northern Kenya.The Lamu basin well...
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 8, 2007
    New resin family for drilling usesXponent, a new resin family, helps enable downhole instrument manufacturers to design and fabricate a variety of measurement-while-drilling and...
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    Exploration & Development

    ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION-2: ROV, diver-collected data show postconstruction epifaunal health

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC gathered ROV and diver-collected data to determine the extent and severity of project construction effects on hard-live bottom areas within the...
    Production Operations

    Hot news: Oil profits to be down this year

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Here’s news you won’t read on the front pages of newspapers this year.
    New Plants

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Intec EngineeringHouston, has announced that E.G. Skip Ward has joined the firm as a technical advisor. Ward will continue to serve as associate director of the Offshore Technology...
    Production Operations

    Inventory, weather influence markets

    Jan. 8, 2007
    The February contract for benchmark US sweet, light crudes increased 26¢ to $63.72/bbl Dec. 20 as the US Energy Information Administration reported a larger-than-expected 6.3 ...
    Companies

    EOR awaits new CO2 sources

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Field examples continue to show the value of carbon dioxide injection for enhancing oil production.
    LNG

    Iranian, Russian project woes hinder Japanese strategy

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Troubled projects in Iran and Russia have set back the Japanese government’s newly aggressive effort to secure international oil and gas supplies, reports Tomoko Hosoe of FACTS...
    Production Operations

    Iran’s nuclear stance may reflect oil export declines

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Iran may need to develop nuclear power plants to meet domestic energy requirements because its crude oil operations are seriously declining, a Johns Hopkins University researcher...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 8, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesClarke resigns as BLM directorUS Bureau of Land Management Director Kathleen Clarke resigned to rejoin her family in Utah, Sec. of the Interior Dirk...
    Companies

    CFTC expected to bring action against BP in futures probe

    Jan. 8, 2007
    BP PLC expects the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff to recommend that a civil enforcement action be brought against the company over alleged violations of federal...
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Linn Energy plans three oil, gas acquisitions

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Linn Energy LLC has agreed to acquire a private oil and gas company in the Texas Panhandle for $415 million and two Appalachian basin properties for $39 million in three separate...
    Government

    LNG facility incident prompts security measures

    Jan. 8, 2007
    A mid-August security breach at an LNG facility in Lynn, Mass., should remind other operators of LNG terminals, peak-shaving plants, and other facilities to implement security...
    New Plants

    Gastech: LNG driving changes in gas markets

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Driven by the rapid development of LNG, gas markets are being transformed from regional into global markets and have been undergoing other major changes, said Total SA Executive...
    Production Operations

    Russia to increase oil, natural gas exports in 2010

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Russia’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry, in forecasting the country’s oil and gas production and exports to 2010, said gas exports in 2010 will increase to 223.4 billion...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: US industry expects political excitement to continue in ’07

    Jan. 8, 2007
    The US oil and gas industry is entering 2007 with much the same fervor as a year ago, according to industry and trade association executives.
    Companies

    Producers to pay royalties for 1998-99 deepwater leases

    Jan. 8, 2007
    Five Gulf of Mexico producers agreed to pay royalties on their 1998 and 1999 deepwater leases that were originally issued without price thresholds, the US Department of Interior...