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  • Volume 105, Issue 44

    • Volume 105, Issue 44

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    Refining & Processing

    Energy system limits future ethanol growth

    Nov. 26, 2007
    The rapid increase in ethanol consumption during 2002-06 will prove to have been a one-time event that captured two thirds of the ultimate near-term market.
    HSE

    BP plans company-wide review of operating procedures

    Nov. 26, 2007
    BP PLC, as part of its response to a series of accidents, plans next year to review the quality and safety of its operating procedures company-wide.
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    Companies

    Method aids execution, improves subsea equipment reliability

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Consistent practical methods for defining equipment qualification and testing requirements can improve subsea equipment reliability and facilitate project execution.
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    Gas Processing

    Common errors can cause mol-sieve desiccant deterioration

    Nov. 26, 2007
    This article describes the Yanbu gas plant’s dehydration facility and the plant’s encounter with solid-desiccant deterioration in October 2006.
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    Drilling & Production

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Operators build-to-own in tight DW rig market

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Operators are building their own deepwater rigs to ensure availability for their drilling commitments.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 44

    Production Operations

    Large two-part block granted in southern Belize

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Providence Energy Belize Ltd., Houston, has acquired exploration and production rights to 531 sq miles in and off southern Belize.
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    EnCana ends Columbia River exploration

    Nov. 26, 2007
    EnCana Corp., Calgary, said it concluded its Columbia River basin exploration program in south-central Washington without establishing commercial gas flow rates.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Pipeline JV risks require preagreement planning

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Risks and burdens of joint-venture pipeline projects need to be managed and mitigated with fully termed project agreements addressing the potential problems involved in pursuing...
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    Discoveries

    Frontera Resources opening play in northern Kura basin, Georgia

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Oil and gas industry interest in searching for additional production potential throughout the Black Sea region has been on the increase for several years.
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    Print Ad Index

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Advanced Pedestals, Ltd.Baker Hughes IncorporatedDivision of Baker Hughes Drilling Fluidswww.bakerhughes.com/drillingfluidsCarbone Lorrainewww.carbonbrush.comwww.elec.carbonelorraine...
    Economics & Markets

    Markets under assault

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Governmental activism has roared back into fashion in the energy-consuming world.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 26, 2007
    New power plant engine burns heavy oilHere’s the new 20-cylinder 46F engine for power plant installations burning heavy fuel oil.The new engine develops 23,000 kW at 600 rpm, ...
    Drilling Operations

    Area Drilling

    Nov. 26, 2007
    New BrunswickPetroWorth Resources Inc., Calgary, spud the Feenan-2 well in Albert County, NB, about 1 km west of Stoney Creek oil and gas field.It is projected to 1,600 m to evaluate...
    Companies

    Cost study plus math should doom US energy bills

    Nov. 26, 2007
    The oil and gas industry should welcome an important study projecting the costs of energy bills under consideration in Congress.
    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Rockwell Automation Inc.Milwaukee, has announced its acquisition of Pavilion Technologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced process control, production optimization, and environmenta...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: CORROSION MODELING—1: Model predicts internal pitting corrosion of oil, gas pipelines

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Laboratory experiments and observation of pit growth rates in six operating fields have yielded a model to predict internal pitting corrosion of oil and gas pipelines.
    Refining

    Crude price waffles above $90/bbl

    Nov. 26, 2007
    The front-month crude futures contract fell $3.45 to $91.17/bbl Nov. 13 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest level in nearly 2 weeks, after the International Energy...
    Companies

    Rocks and docs

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Two of Houston’s major industries—medicine and oil and gas—surprisingly have discovered many similarities in the technologies they use and the challenges they face.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 26, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesWEC: TNK-BP calls on Russia to change tax regimeRussia will have to change its tax regime if it is to attract future investment from energy companies...
    Companies

    ASPO: Depletion, technology affect peak oil

    Nov. 26, 2007
    The peak oil issue is essentially a race between resource depletion and the continuing development of technology, according to industry and academic experts at the third annual...
    Government

    US senators press Bush on deepwater royalties

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Forty-three US senators, including five Republicans and one independent, asked US President George W. Bush what steps the administration will take to recover several billion dollars...
    Production Operations

    Ecuador resumes membership in OPEC

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Ecuador has resumed its membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which it left in 1992, with the arrival of President Rafael Correa at a summit of the ...
    Economics & Markets

    CFTC report urges expansion of oversight to exempt markets

    Nov. 26, 2007
    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has requested oversight authority over some contracts and products in unregulated electronic trading venues known as exempt commercial...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: A deepwater royalty storm

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Many members of Congress already were upset over the absence of price thresholds from federal deepwater leases issued in 1998 and 1999 under which royalties were not paid.
    Exploration & Development

    Bush includes energy among Congress’s ‘unmet priorities’

    Nov. 26, 2007
    Calling it “another priority that Congress has failed to meet,” US President George W. Bush criticized federal lawmakers on Nov. 13 for failing to act on energy proposals he outlined...
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    WATCHING THE WORLD: Chavez rebuked again

    Nov. 26, 2007
    If you think we are the only ones who are concerned about the negative effects that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is having on the oil industry, think again.