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  • Volume 105, Issue 20

    • Volume 105, Issue 20

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    New Plants

    SPECIAL REPORT: Could a future gas OPEC shape LNG import plans?

    May 28, 2007
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has influenced both the supply and the price of oil internationally for more than 30 years.
    Drilling & Production

    Venezuela nationalizes oil rigs; deepens Chinese ties

    May 28, 2007
    Venezuela’s Minister of Energy and Petroleum Rafael Ramirez announced that the country would be nationalizing oil rigs, currently in private hands.
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    Production Operations

    Sinai well logging compares TDT, CHFR applications

    May 28, 2007
    Logs from wells in a Sinai, Egypt, oil field provide a comparison between the use of thermal decay time (TDT) and cased-hole formation resistivity (CHFR) techniques for monitoring...
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    Refining & Processing

    Offshore processing plant uses membranes for CO2 removal

    May 28, 2007
    The Cakerawala production platform (Figs. 1 and 2), an offshore processing facility in Block A18 of the Malaysia Thailand Joint Development Area in the Gulf of Thailand, installed...
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    New Plants

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Companies report positive first-quarter 2007 results

    May 28, 2007
    Drillers and drilling service companies continue to build new land and offshore rigs, although yards are full and there is some softening in the North American land rig market...

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 20

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    Companies

    Sudan’s oil production, refining capacity climb

    May 28, 2007
    Sudan is climbing on the list of African oil producing countries and is seeing its refining capacity expand as well.
    Companies

    Ridgeway to delineate CO2 field, eyes Permian EOR

    May 28, 2007
    A Houston independent has decided to commence its own Permian basin carbon dioxide pilot floods hoping to jump-start demand for CO2 from a world-class helium and CO2 resource ...
    Companies

    Noble Energy’s Israel natural gas business builds

    May 28, 2007
    Gas production from Mari-B field in the Mediterranean Sea off southern Israel averaged 103 MMcfd in the quarter ended Mar. 31 net to the 47% interest of project operator Noble...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    May 28, 2007
    Baker Hughes IncorporatedHughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.comCarbone Lorrainewww.carbonelorraine.comCGGVeritaswww.cggveritas.comCrosco Ltdwww.crosco.comFMC Technologieswww.fmctechnolog...
    Gas Processing

    OPEC’s changes

    May 28, 2007
    Much of what has been written about the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries lately concerns not the group but the model.
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    LPG Markets

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 28, 2007
    Pneumatic actuator has aluminum bodyThis new Apollo-brand pneumatic actuator has an extruded aluminum body and twin rack and pinion design that delivers constant torque output...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    May 28, 2007
    IndiaReliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, gauged a gas-condensate discovery on Block GS-OSN-2000/1 in the Gujarat-Saurashtra basin off India’s west coast.The B1 well, drilled to ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US politicians need to calm down on energy

    May 28, 2007
    Before taking another step on energy, US politicians should calm down.
    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    May 28, 2007
    Chadbourne & Parke LLPNew York, has announced the opening of an office in Dubai to provide a hub for the firm’s expanding energy/project finance and cross-border acquisition practices...
    Companies

    Supply fears influence markets

    May 28, 2007
    The June contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes topped $65/bbl in intraday trading May 17 on the New York Mercantile Exchange as unexpected shut-ins of US refining capacity...
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    Companies

    Chromatograph, equation yield usable field dewpoint prediction

    May 28, 2007
    Pipelines can use gas-chromatograph analysis in conjunction with an equation of state to predict hydrocarbon dewpoint in the field.
    Companies

    Taxing creativity

    May 28, 2007
    I concur with the position of your editorial “Fuels and political favors” (OGJ, May 7, 2007, p. 17).
    General Interest

    Mixing coffee and crude

    May 28, 2007
    Energy expert Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a best-seller history of the oil industry, is now appearing...
    Companies

    Kerr-McGee, EPA settle Rockies air pollution allegations

    May 28, 2007
    Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to spend $18 million on pollution controls and pay a $200,000 fine in a comprehensive settlement covering operations in Colorado and Utah, the US Environmental...
    Petrochemicals

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Japan’s energy explorations

    May 28, 2007
    If you ever thought exploration and production meant huge outlays of cash for oil and gas projects in far-off locales, think again.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 28, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesUK planning policy to speed energy projectsThe UK has launched a white paper to revamp the planning system and ensure that large energy projects ...
    Companies

    Price-gouging bill heads for US House amid protests

    May 28, 2007
    Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) convened a US House subcommittee hearing May 22 to examine rising gasoline prices amid record oil company profits.