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  • Volume 105, Issue 23

    • Volume 105, Issue 23

    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Ethane varies by region

    June 18, 2007
    Ethane is seldom transported in ships from one region to another due to the high costs of shipping cryogenic products and a general lack of petrochemical demand beyond indigenous...
    LPG Markets

    SPECIAL REPORT: LNG, liquids projects to push LPG into markets

    June 18, 2007
    Future global production of LPG will be greatly affected by the additional natural gas produced in conjunction with liquefaction projects.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Mideast leads global growth; shift from US, Canada holds

    June 18, 2007
    Worldwide natural gas production in 2006 increased by less than 2%, with production in major gas processing countries US and Canada advancing by 0.3% and 0.9%, respectively.
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    Reserves

    SPECIAL REPORT: Global markets facing adjustment to surge in LPG supply

    June 18, 2007
    LPG production is rising in nearly every region of the world.
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    Companies

    BHP Billiton’s Neptune platform sails out to gulf

    June 18, 2007
    BHP Billiton Petroleum Inc. launched the hull for the Neptune tension-leg platform (TLP) on May 19, 2007.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 23

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    Exploration & Development

    WCSB STRUCTURAL DOMAINS-3: Six domains characterize W. Canada structured belt

    June 18, 2007
    This is the third of four parts on the formation of the structured belt in western Canada that encompasses the Rocky Mountains, Foothills, and the western structured portion of...
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    June 18, 2007
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comAgencia Nacional de Hidrocarburoswww.CaribbeanRound2007.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedHughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.com/fastmaxBCCK Engineering...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    June 18, 2007
    ArgentinaLa Pampa Province awarded the Gobernador Ayala III exploration concession in the Neuquen basin to Petro Andina Resources Inc., private Calgary firm.The 82,800-acre block...
    HSE

    The wrong energy fix

    June 18, 2007
    Minor tweaks won’t fix the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT). But no one believes HR 2337 is really about fixing flawed energy law.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 18, 2007
    New corrosion inhibitor helps well productionNew Clean N Cor cleaning and corrosion inhibitor treatment program is designed to protect and maximize production from oil fields ...
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    Pipelines

    Method determines axial force in subsea pipelines

    June 18, 2007
    A new method allows for determination of axial force on subsea pipelines within the context of DNV-RP-F105-2006, expanding the scope of current recommended practices and benefiting...
    General Interest

    Restrained oil investment seen in biofuel push

    June 18, 2007
    When the head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries warns that a global rush toward biofuels might push oil prices “through the roof,” is he issuing a calculated...
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    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    June 18, 2007
    RBG Ltd.SlatteryClick here to enlarge imageAberdeen, has announced the appointment of Tadg Slattery as chief operating officer. Slattery came to Aberdeen in 1976 to work for AOC...
    Economics & Markets

    Good year for independent refiners

    June 18, 2007
    Although the summer season of gasoline demand in the US has barely started, Eitan Bernstein of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Inc., Arlington, Va., said, “It already looks like...
    LPG Markets

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Sea terrorists threaten oil

    June 18, 2007
    Even as increased demand strains supplies of crude oil and natural gas around the world, seaborne terrorism continues to pose a major threat of disruption to international deliveries...
    Companies

    A Mideast processing tilt

    June 18, 2007
    New data for Oil & Gas Journal’s exclusive Worldwide Gas Processing report (beginning on p. 50) show, among other trends, that Middle East gas processing is solidly in third place...
    Production Operations

    BP: World oil demand growth rate weakened in 2006

    June 18, 2007
    Global demand for oil in 2006 saw its weakest growth rate since 2001, at 0.7% or half the average for the past decade, according to BP PLC’s Statistical Review of World Energy...
    Drilling Operations

    CSB blames unsafe work practices for oil field blast

    June 18, 2007
    Unsafe work practices caused a 2006 fire and explosion in a Mississippi oil field that killed four employees of a contractor and seriously injured a fifth employee, the US Chemical...
    New Plants

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Hot gasoline fuels hearing

    June 18, 2007
    When US Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Domestic Policy Subcommittee, announced that he would hold a hearing...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 18, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesNigeria’s May production lowest since 2003Violence pulled Nigerian oil production in May to its lowest level since early 2003, according to the Internation...
    Refining & Processing

    API lists concerns about House, Senate energy bills

    June 18, 2007
    American Petroleum Institute officials expressed concern that provisions before the 110th US Congress could effectively reduce available oil and gas supplies and harm US consumers...
    Government

    BLM authorizes natural gas wells on Colorado’s Roan Plateau

    June 18, 2007
    The US Bureau of Land Management authorized the drilling of as many as 1,570 natural gas wells over 20 years on part of the Roan Plateau in western Colorado.
    Refining & Processing

    Themes emerge as Congress works on separate energy bills

    June 18, 2007
    Legislative activity at the US Capitol on June 13 centered on the full Senate’s debate of the Democratic leadership’s energy legislation and the House Natural Resource Committee...
    Economics & Markets

    Energy reform bill approved by US House committee

    June 18, 2007
    On June 13 the US House Natural Resources Committee approved HR 2337, the energy reform bill proposed by NRC Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-W.Va.), after less than a week of markup...
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    Tankers

    Dynamically positioned monohull flotel under construction

    June 18, 2007
    The Ice Maiden will be the first dynamically positioned multisupport construction vessel capable of working anywhere in the world, according to the vessel owner C&M Group.
    General Interest

    ACCF: Price-gouging legislation could be costly

    June 18, 2007
    Legislation calling for price controls on gasoline could have counterproductive and costly consequences if passed by US Congress, a spokeswoman for the American Council for Capital...
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    Companies

    Refining props up earnings as upstream results weaken

    June 18, 2007
    First-quarter 2007 earnings for a sample of companies were mixed, as service and supply firms fared much better than oil and gas producers and refiners based in the US and Canada...