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    Petrochemicals

    SPECIAL REPORT: Global ethylene capacity increases slightly in 2006

    July 16, 2007
    The global ethylene industry added only 245,100 tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity in 2006, a large decrease from the 2005 addition of 4.4 million tpy, according to the latest Oil ...
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    Companies

    Arrays prevent lightning strikes at production facilities

    July 16, 2007
    An option available to petroleum producers for protecting facilities in high-lightning-risk areas is to install lightning-prevention arrays such as developed by Lightning Eliminators...
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    Drilling & Production

    New rig control system provides closed-loop drilling automation

    July 16, 2007
    Continued innovation in modeling and algorithm development has led to new process control for the Cyberbase/SDI drilling command center.
    Petrochemicals

    SPECIAL REPORT: International survey of ethylene from steam crackers-2007

    July 16, 2007
    Click here to download a PDF of the International survey of ethylene from steam crackers-2007
    Refining

    WATCHING THE WORLD: An Argentine gas squeeze

    July 16, 2007
    Wracked by the need to boost its supplies of natural gas, Argentina is putting the screws to producers and certain consumers.

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    Companies

    Investment risky in Russia as politics affects profits

    July 16, 2007
    Increasing scrutiny this year of TNK-BP’s Siberian natural gas assets and actions subsequently taken follow unsettling patterns of behavior in the way the Russian government has...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Ecuador taking measures to increase oil production

    July 16, 2007
    Ecuador is taking steps to boost the country’s production of oil after output from state-run Petroecuador declined 14% during the first half of this year compared with the same...
    Reserves

    UK’s DTI revamped, renamed; Hutton picked to lead

    July 16, 2007
    The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has been revamped and renamed the Department for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform (DBERR).
    Companies

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Survey reveals energy muddle

    July 16, 2007
    American Petroleum Institute officials have said for several years that the public doesn’t understand how the oil and gas industry works.
    Refining

    Biofuels pitfalls need more study, say conferees

    July 16, 2007
    Amid the current clamor for biofuels development came cautions from a number of speakers at the first International Biofuels Conference in Brussels July 5-6 that biofuels are ...
    Government

    DOI issues Utah oil shale lease to OSEC

    July 16, 2007
    The US Department of the Interior issued a research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) lease June 28 to Oil Shale Exploration Co. LLC of Mobile, Ala., for 160 acres of public...
    Gas Processing

    IEA: Oil market to stay tight through 2012

    July 16, 2007
    The oil market, despite 4 years of elevated prices, will tighten further by 2012, predicts the International Energy Agency, Paris.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Bolivia vice-president assures Argentina to meet natural gas needs

    July 16, 2007
    Bolivia Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera has given assurances that his country will make every effort to meet Argentina’s rapidly increasing needs for natural gas.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 16, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesTexas officials order abandoned rig removedTexas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson ordered the immediate removal of a derelict jack up, Zeus, that...
    Government

    Senate panel told CSB needs more funding, authority

    July 16, 2007
    The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) needs more funding and authority if it is to be truly effective, witnesses told a US Senate subcommittee July 10.
    HSE

    You can’t have it all

    July 16, 2007
    US drivers continue to harbor the notion that they can have it all: gasoline prices that won’t affect their driving habits, less carbon dioxide emissions, and a broader menu of...
    Production Operations

    Oil in Arizona

    July 16, 2007
    In the article entitled “Ridgeway to delineate CO2 field, eyes Permian EOR” (OGJ, May 28, 2007, p. 41), the statement was made that none of the 26 wells has encountered oil or...
    Economics & Markets

    OPEC spare productive capacity ‘diminished’

    July 16, 2007
    Increasing global demand for crude and natural production declines have diminished the excess productive capacity of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its ...
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    July 16, 2007
    Turner Mason & Co.Dallas, has announced the appointments of John R. Auers, Thomas R. Hogan, and James W. Jones as senior vice-presidents. Charles L. Miller has been named vice...
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    Production Operations

    CHINA THRUST BELT EXPLORATION-2: Modern technology revitalized China’s mature Jiuxi basin

    July 16, 2007
    This is the second of two parts on oil and gas exploration in the Jiuxi basin in northwestern China.
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    LPG Markets

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 16, 2007
    Filtration system aids process plant lube reservoirsThe new VURSA Series of high-performance filtration systems is suited for refinery and petrochemical operations.Designed to...
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    Companies

    Study forecasts softer tanker market ahead

    July 16, 2007
    Tanker market earnings for the half-year ended March 2007 were largely unchanged even while market rates eroded as the fleet expanded, leading to forecasts of softer market conditions...
    HSE

    Poison ivy seen as thriving on carbon dioxide

    July 16, 2007
    As if rising sea levels and malaria plagues weren’t frightening enough, the world has another malign effect of global warming over which to panic: poison ivy.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    July 16, 2007
    PakistanThe Dewan Group was to start production at 15-20 MMcfd in late June from two wells in Salsabil, formerly Rodho, gas-condensate field on the Safed Koh block in Pakistan...
    Refining & Processing

    First of three parts: A dozen antitrust facts

    July 16, 2007
    Energy initiatives of the 110th Congress should alarm learned observers of the oil and gas industry.
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