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  • Volume 105, Issue 22

    • Volume 105, Issue 22

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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Strategies: How two busy operators approach the gulf

    June 11, 2007
    Petrobras America Inc. and a segment of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., both of Houston, were among the top five companies with the highest number of accepted high bids of leases in...
    New Plants

    Brazil unveils growth program based on oil, gas

    June 11, 2007
    Energy projects included in the strategic plan of Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) are underpinning the country’s new “Program for Accelerated Growth” (...
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    Production Operations

    Heat-stable salts reduce H2S leaking from amine absorbers

    June 11, 2007
    An amine heat stable salt (HSS) is the thermally unregenerable protonated form of the amine.
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    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: Louisiana adds new reef sites for storm-damaged structures

    June 11, 2007
    Widespread destruction during the 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico has led to Louisiana creating additional Special Artificial Reef Site (SARS) locations for disposing...
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    Companies

    Custom-built rig uses reverse-circulation pipe to drill basalt

    June 11, 2007
    EnCana Corp. had a new rig built for reverse-circulation airlift drilling to prevent lost-circulation through thick, fractured, vuggy basalts.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 22

    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    June 11, 2007
    American Petroleumwww.api.orgBaker Hughes IncorporatedDrilling Fluidswww.bakerhughes.com/drillingfluidsCapstone Turbine Corp.ww.microturbine.comChampion Technologieswww.champ-...
    HSE

    Policy by the numbers

    June 11, 2007
    The making of energy and environmental policy has become a contest of numbers. Governments set measurable targets to boost consumption of fuels they like and to cut use of fuels...
    General Interest

    What? No global warming panic? How shocking!

    June 11, 2007
    An eminent prophet of global-warming doom is shocked that a colleague doesn’t share his anxiety.
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 11, 2007
    Clamp speeds up panel saw setup, alignmentA quick-clamp assembly for the APS-438 air powered saw helps simplify setup and alignment on boiler tube panel fitup work and eliminates...
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    Production Operations

    WCSB STRUCTURAL DOMAINS-2: Massive rock ploughs formed structures in western Canada

    June 11, 2007
    This second of four parts on the formation and potential of the structured belt of the Western Canada Sedimentary basin begins with discussion of how the structures formed.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Improved database management yields pipeline integrity benefits

    June 11, 2007
    Current industry trends in software design and careful examination of work patterns at pipeline operators have led to the development of new data management and analysis tools...
    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    June 11, 2007
    MacGregor Group ABGothenburg, Sweden, has announced formation of a new division, MacGregor Offshore. The division is built on two recently acquired companies, Hydramarine in Kristiansan...
    LNG

    Natural gas nudges $8/MMbtu

    June 11, 2007
    The front-month natural gas contract was knocking at the $8/MMbtu level in intraday trading May 30-31 in New York, with investors expecting warmer temperatures across most of ...
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    Economics & Markets

    Speaking journally...

    June 11, 2007
    It has been this OGJ editor’s habit-well, at least since Jan. 10, 2001-to keep a journal at work.
    Refining & Processing

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Of chopsticks and ethanol

    June 11, 2007
    Is the oil and gas industry shaking? Maybe not, but Iowa corn growers could be doing so after billionaire investor George Soros last week called on the US and Europe to drop tariffs...
    Exploration & Development

    UK energy strategy stresses efficiency, nuclear power

    June 11, 2007
    Oil and gas from the UK North Sea will remain important in meeting the country’s energy needs, the UK government confirmed in its long-awaited Energy White Paper on May 23, but...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Deep water, deep drilling stimulate Gulf of Mexico

    June 11, 2007
    The US Gulf of Mexico is one of three regions-including the North Sea and South China Sea-that together are expected to receive half of total offshore spending through 2011.
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Dominion sells assets in deals totaling $6.5 billion

    June 11, 2007
    Loews Corp. and XTO Energy Inc. agreed to buy certain oil and natural gas producing properties in two separate deals from Dominion Resources Inc. for a total of $6.5 billion.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 11, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesNorway plans $17.6 billion budget for NCSNorway expects operators will spend $17.6 billion on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 2007, according ...
    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: BP Refining names R&M chief executive

    June 11, 2007
    BP PLC has appointed Iain Conn chief executive of BP’s refining and marketing business, effective June 1.
    Exploration & Development

    GAO report shows US receives one of world’s lowest oil, gas revenue takes

    June 11, 2007
    The US government receives one of the world’s lowest government takes-revenue as a percentage of the value of production-from oil and gas produced from its lands, the US Government...