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    Pipelines & Transportation

    SPECIAL REPORT: Identifying sources key to detailed troubleshooting of amine foaming

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Investigation and troubleshooting of foaming in two Saudi Aramco amine sweetening facilities reduced reliance on continuous antifoam injection at the company’s Berri gas plant...
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Middle East condensate production will complicate refining operations

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Condensate production, especially in the Middle East, will rise substantially in the next few years.
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    ESTIMATING DRILLING COSTS-Conclusion: Systems approach combines hybrid drilling cost functions

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Drilling costs can be estimated with a combination of established, analytic techniques.
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    COMMENT: Industry needs fresh approach to petroleum engineer training

    Aug. 27, 2007
    As I contemplate attending the Oct. 13 homecoming at Louisiana Tech University to be recognized as a member of the graduating class of 1957, I look back with fond memories.
    Companies

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Environmental impacts

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Environmentalism has long hindered development of the oil and gas industry. But now-in a variety of places around the world-it also has become the means of taking projects away...

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    Exploration & Development

    COMPANY NEWS: Transocean, GlobalSantaFe agree to merger of equals

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Offshore drilling contractors Transocean Inc. and GlobalSantaFe Corp. agreed to a merger of equals, creating a company valued at about $53 billion.
    Reserves

    Chinese NOCs double domestic upstream spending

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Upstream spending on oil and gas operations in China by that country’s three national oil companies jumped to $21.5 billion in 2006 from $12.6 billion in 2004, a greater increase...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: ConocoPhillips announces management changes

    Aug. 27, 2007
    ConocoPhillips has announced changes in several management positions effective Sept. 1.
    Economics & Markets

    ‘Measured’ approach needed for US fuels development, task force says

    Aug. 27, 2007
    The US government must use its authority to stimulate timely technical advances and industry investment if it expects to use the nation’s unconventional fuel resources before ...
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    MMS Lease Sale 204 attracts $290 million in apparent high bids

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Apparent high bids totaling nearly $290 million were offered for 282 tracts in the western Gulf of Mexico at Lease Sale 204, reported the US Minerals Management Service Aug. 22...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 27, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesIndustry seeks more time to meet fuel rulesThe Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) on Aug. 13 petitioned the California Air Resources Board...
    Companies

    Ethics survey

    Aug. 27, 2007
    In a time when media reports focus largely on the negative aspects of business news-corruption, unethical behavior, and the like-it was nice to see some positive news recently...
    LNG

    Correction: Camisea project

    Aug. 27, 2007
    The July 23, 2007, edition of Oil & Gas Journal has a listing of major oil and gas projects being developed.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Net WAGP economic benefit requires Ghana development

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Ghana needs to complete its domestic pipeline infrastructure before start-up of the 470-MMcfd West African Gas Pipeline if the country is to take full advantage of the new high...
    Production Operations

    It’s just Erin and Dean, not Katrina and Rita

    Aug. 27, 2007
    On Aug. 19 as Dean, the first hurricane of the 2007 season, pounded Jamaica’s south coast, residents of Houston some 1,427 miles away were emptying grocery shelves of bread, bottled...
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    Companies

    Lampasas gets first commercial field with Strawn gas in Fort Worth basin

    Aug. 27, 2007
    The Fort Worth basin was noted for prolific oil and gas production long before the discovery of Newark East field in 1981 and the extensive Barnett shale gas play.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Pure Group ASStavanger, has announced that it will merge with Montreal-based Torr Canada Inc.Torr Canada Inc. develops and manufactures proprietary water treatment solutions for...
    Home

    Chavez wrong on price path, cutoff threat

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Hugo Chavez says the darnedest things.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 27, 2007
    New 200,000 lb lift side boomHere’s a newly engineered 200,000 lb side-boom attachment for a Caterpillar Inc. D9H tractor body.The new unit has a maximum lift of 200,000 lb and...
    HSE

    Restating temperatures

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Too much can be made about mistakes in US surface-temperature data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 27, 2007
    TajikistanTethys Petroleum Ltd., Guernsey, Channel Islands, said it is negotiating a production sharing contract with the Tajikistan government covering the large Kulibsky (Kulob...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 27, 2007
    Aramco Services Companywww.aramco.jobs/OGJBaker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Atlaswww.bakerhughes.comBCCK Engineering Inc.www.bcck.comCarbone Lorrainewww.carbonbrush.comwww.elec.carbonelorr...