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  • Volume 105, Issue 43

    • Volume 105, Issue 43

    Pipelines & Transportation

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Chavez seeks oil price charity

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries should devise a plan to sell oil to poor countries at prices lower than those...
    Economics & Markets

    Energy bills would cost $1 trillion, study says

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Energy legislation currently before the 110th Congress would cost nearly 5 million jobs and drain $1 trillion from the US economy, a study commissioned by the American Petroleum...
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    Companies

    US gasoline supply deficit to more than halve by 2010

    Nov. 19, 2007
    The US gasoline supply deficit has grown considerably in recent years because demand growth has outpaced refinery output.
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    Drilling Operations

    Norwegians develop new method to measure shaker screen performance

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Proper solids control is essential for optimum drilling fluid performance.
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    Companies

    UNCONVENTIONAL GAS-Conclusion: Outlook sees resource growth during next decade

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Modeling and analyses indicate that as long as natural gas prices do not fall dramatically unconventional gas production will continue to expand, particularly as investment in...

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 43

    Exploration & Development

    Egypt’s Kom Ombo due more exploring

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Groundstar Resources Ltd., Calgary, plans to shoot 2D seismic in early 2008 over five high-potential structures on the 42,291 sq km West Kom Ombo Block in southeastern Egypt.
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    Reserves

    US gas reserves climb as oil declines again

    Nov. 19, 2007
    US proved reserves of gas were up 3.3% in 2006 compared with 2005, natural gas liquids reserves were up 3.8%, and crude oil reserves fell 3.6%, the Energy Information Administration...
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    Reserves

    Fergana basin draws seismic surveys, drilling

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Operators are shooting 1,500 line-km of 2D seismic surveys in the Fergana basin in Kyrgyzstan and starting some of the first drilling in the basin since Soviet times.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Nov. 19, 2007
    AXENSwww.axens.netBaker Hughes IncorporatedDivision of Hughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.comBCCK Engineering Inc.www.bcck.comCHEVRONERNST & YOUNGEuropipe GmbHwww.europipe.comGasTech...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    PIPELINE INSPECTION-Conclusion: Corrosivity modeling helps determine current condition

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Modeling the corrosivity of liquids transported over the life of a pipeline can determine the current condition of pipelines in which in-line inspection is not possible.
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    HSE

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 19, 2007
    New laser technology gives fast moisture detectionNew water moisture and carbon dioxide analyzer technology is available that uses tunable laser diode (TDL) spectroscopy to provide...
    Drilling & Production

    Area Drilling

    Nov. 19, 2007
    ColombiaKappa Energy Colombia Ltd. has spud the Kristie-1 wildcat on the 62,500-acre Abanico Block in the Upper Magdalena Valley in Colombia.The well, on a structural-stratigraphic...
    HSE

    Clinton’s energy plan-2

    Nov. 19, 2007
    The energy plan that US Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) recently made part of her presidential campaign requires perspective available from a national biofuels program already in ...
    Economics & Markets

    Failure to enact bad energy bill would be triumph

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Given what it has to work with, the 110th Congress will not have failed on energy if it enacts no legislation on the subject.
    LPG Markets

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 19, 2007
    TechnipParis, has announced the appointment of Bernard di Tullio as president and chief operating officer. Di Tullio, who joined Technip in 1975, most recently served as president...
    Companies

    High crude price divides market

    Nov. 19, 2007
    >With front-month benchmark US crude touching a record high of $98.62/bbl in overnight electronic trading Nov. 7, the oil market essentially split into two main groups, said Paul...
    HSE

    Warming response

    Nov. 19, 2007
    In a letter in the Oct. 15 issue, Andrew Palmer took you to task for your attack of Rep. John Dingell’s suggestion that government should take action to reduce consumption as ...
    Refining

    Help wanted: construction

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Demand for skilled construction workers is great in the processing industries along the US Gulf Coast, especially in Port Arthur, Tex., where Motiva Enterprises LLC is proceeding...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Project numbers up in pipeline, US gas processing categories

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in the number of planned pipeline projects as well as new and expanded gas processing plants...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 19, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesUS independents urge Congress to changeAs oil prices approach $100/bbl, eight associations representing US independent oil and gas producers asked...
    Production Operations

    House GOP members demand energy bill with ‘energy in it’

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Having been excluded from energy bill discussions, US House Republicans said they are counting on “fossil fuel Democrats” to safeguard 2005 Energy Policy Act provisions designed...
    Government

    Colonial CEO describes workforce recruitment, retention challenges

    Nov. 19, 2007
    The nation’s largest oil products pipeline system faces the impending retirement of a quarter of its workforce and competition from other industries for new employees as it prepares...
    Companies

    Resource nationalism among hot topics at WEC

    Nov. 19, 2007
    Resource nationalism is threatening the world’s economy and energy security in the long term, Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, told the World...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: CFTC, FERC ‘conflict’ noted

    Nov. 19, 2007
    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn’t standing around, waiting to resolve market manipulation jurisdiction questions with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....