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    Drilling & Production

    ESTIMATING DRILLING COSTS-1: Joint association survey, mechanical risk index methods common in GOM

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Over the past several decades, various methods have been proposed to evaluate drilling costs and complexity, but because of the large number of factors and events that affect ...
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    Companies

    Refiners suffer penalties when overtreating diesel

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Continuously operating distillate hydrotreaters at a finished ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) product target just a few ppm below the requirement for refinery specifications to ...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Oil industry researching nonfood biofeedstocks

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Agrifuels’ promise from an oil industry perspective hinges on unlocking the answers to two root questions.
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    Home

    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Aug. 6, 2007
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    Economics & Markets

    House energy bill draws fire from producers, consumers

    Aug. 6, 2007
    US House Democratic leaders announced a wide-ranging energy bill on July 30 that incorporates work by the Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, and other committees.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 29

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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 6, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesLuthi nominated to MMS director postUS Sec. of the Interior Dirk A. Kempthorne has nominated Randall Luthi, currently deputy director of the US Fish...
    Companies

    NPC report: All energy options should be pursued

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Every option, from developing unconventional fossil fuel resources to pursuing renewable and other alternatives, will need to be pursued if the world expects to meet its growing...
    Companies

    WATCHING THE WORLD: A Caribbean chessboard

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Oil companies from the Middle East, North America, East Asia, and South America are lining up to build refining capacity in Central America.
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    Refining & Processing

    Free markets and biofuels

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Without exception, everyone interviewed for the special report beginning on p. 20, Agrifuels-Promise and Progress, expressed a desire to avoid unintended consequences.
    Companies

    Marathon to buy Western Oil Sands, gain Athabasca stake

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Marathon Oil Corp., which is increasing capacities of its US refineries to handle heavy feedstocks, has agreed to buy Western Oil Sands Inc. for $6.5 billion (Can.) in a cash-...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Taxing oil for biofuels

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Skeptics may have wondered what a “conservation fee” on some holders of federal deepwater Gulf of Mexico leases issued in 1998 and 1999 without price thresholds had to do with...
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    LNG

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Parker Drilling Co.David C. MannonClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has announced the appointment of David C. Mannon as president and chief operating officer. He succeeds Robert...
    LNG

    Equities market, GDP rattle oil prices

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Futures prices for crude and petroleum products took unusual bounces in the last full week of July, influenced by a falling equities market and US economic growth with virtually...
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    Companies

    World’s largest LNG compressors designed, tested for Qatargas II

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Growing global demand for LNG has spurred an increase in LNG liquefaction capacity.
    LNG

    Explosion? Fire? Must be an oil and gas disaster

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Ignorance and suspicion frolic again at the expense of oil and gas.
    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 6, 2007
    New process designed to solubilize NORM wasteResearchers at the University of Mississippi, in collaboration with an independent researcher now with the Mississippi Office of Geology...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 6, 2007
    AlbaniaManas Petroleum Ltd., Baar, Switzerland, said it is in advanced stages of finalizing a production sharing agreement covering four exploration blocks in Albania.Previous...
    Economics & Markets

    Last of three parts: The final four facts

    Aug. 6, 2007
    A three-part editorial series concludes here with the last of 12 points in a monograph by two former US Federal Trade Commission officials entitled “A Dozen Facts You Should Know...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 6, 2007
    American Petroleum Institutewww.api.org/meetingsBaker HughesBaker Highes Incorporatedwww.bakerhughes.comChevronIndustrial Rubber, Inc.www.iri-oiltool.comLAGCOE 2007www.lagcoe....
    Companies

    Firms to explore Fergana basin in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan

    Aug. 6, 2007
    A large exploration block is taking shape in the underexplored Fergana basin in former Soviet Central Asia between the Caspian and Tarim basins.
    Companies

    Interest rising in New Zealand’s East Coast basin

    Aug. 6, 2007
    Exploratory drilling will be increased late next year in the onshore portions of New Zealand’s East Coast basin as Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. begins a drilling program.