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  • Volume 105, Issue 31

    • Volume 105, Issue 31

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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Snorre A upgrade includes new module

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Statoil AS is nearing completion for upgrading the Snorre A platform, with the recent installation of a new module.
    Refining

    WATCHING THE WORLD: The Chavez oil evangel

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Is oil diplomacy driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez over the edge? If I compared myself with Jesus, most people would think me a candidate for a straitjacket.
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    Refining & Processing

    China fills first SPR site, faces oil, pipeline issues

    Aug. 20, 2007
    After 10 years of indecision, China is building a strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) to protect against possible oil supply cutoffs and is addressing the companion issues of securing...
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    Production Operations

    Solvent conversion at Canadian plant hikes sales gas, cuts CO2, S emissions

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Shell Canada’s conversion of the sour-gas treating solvent at its Burnt Timber gas plant from a Sulfinol-D solution to methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) increased processed sales-gas...
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    Companies

    First of new Nomad-class desert rigs heads to Algeria

    Aug. 20, 2007
    BP Exploration (Algeria) Ltd. has chosen a newly designed desert rig to drill in the Illizi basin.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 31

    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Air francewww.airfrance.comAmerican Petroleum Institutewww.api.orgBaker HughesBaker Oil Toolswww.expandableproducts.comCapstone Turbine Corp.www.microturbine.comChampion Technologieswww...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Free brochure discusses casing/liner shoeA new brochure, yours free for the request, discusses EZReam technology, which is a casing/liner shoe.The steel reaming shoe is PDC drillable...
    Government

    Raising gasoline taxes

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Tragic events give the US oil industry a chance to claim principled ground in its relations with customers.
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Fusion Petroleum Technologies Inc.Houston, has announced agreements which expand the company’s presence in the Middle East.Fusion has formed an alliance with the National Petroleum...
    Home

    New energy bills fill many pages, raise many costs

    Aug. 20, 2007
    People facing overhaul of fundamental energy systems should read the legislation that proposes to change their lives.
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    Production Operations

    Wireless sensors enhance system safety, efficiency

    Aug. 20, 2007
    A new pipeline wireless sensor network system used by Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica is improving operational efficiency and safety and should help reduce theft and sabotage....
    Refining

    Data vital to energy markets

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Fear that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would undersupply peak market demand for crude in July and August increased the price at which refiners were willing...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Basins off NW Europe offer opportunities in troubled seas

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Despite recent production decline, Europe is still the world’s largest offshore oil and gas producer.
    LNG

    Evolution of an industry

    Aug. 20, 2007
    China is looking for workers with engineering or technical skills or otherwise able to provide specialty energy services to a country experiencing explosive economic growth and...
    Pipelines

    Trans-Sahara gas line start-up planned for 2015

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger hope to start gas exports via the proposed 18-25 billion cu m/year Trans-Sahara gas pipeline (TSGP) in 2015, Algeria’s energy minister, Chakib Khelil...
    Reserves

    Nigeria’s president assumes energy minister role

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s new president, has taken on the responsibilities of the energy ministry and has appointed three junior ministers to support him in the role.
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    Drilling & Production

    MMS: Ultradeepwater gulf drilling remains strong

    Aug. 20, 2007
    A record number of drilling rigs are currently working in the ultradeep water in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the US Minerals Management Service.
    New Plants

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Rockies price event planned

    Aug. 20, 2007
    Rocky Mountain oil producers think they aren’t getting a fair price. Royalty owners and state governments agree.
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    Companies

    Mulva: Industry must ‘act with courage and forethought’ on energy

    Aug. 20, 2007
    US energy policies should diversify sources, lower carbon intensity, improve energy efficiency, and encourage investments in new technologies, recommended ConocoPhillips Chief...
    Government

    New BLM director faces Colorado leasing protests

    Aug. 20, 2007
    The US Senate voted to confirm James L. Caswell as US Bureau of Land Management director on Aug. 3 after Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) removed the hold he had placed on the nomination...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 20, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesUS House panel considers gasoline tax increaseThe US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is considering raising the federal gasoline...