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  • Volume 105, Issue 6

    • Volume 105, Issue 6

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    Refining

    FSU refiners to build more isom capacity

    Feb. 12, 2007
    The isomerization process is playing a significant role for refiners in the FSU as they try to maintain gasoline pool octane and comply with more stringent gasoline pool requirements...
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Particle-impact drilling blasts away hard rock

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Houston-based Particle Drilling Technologies Inc. has successfully tested a new drilling system, designed to enhance the rate of penetration through hard rock.
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: BP, Baker run first expandable monobore liner extension system

    Feb. 12, 2007
    In September 2006, BP and Baker Oil Tools achieved an industry milestone with the successful installation of the world’s first monobore expandable liner extension system, in a...
    Government

    White House again cuts oil, gas R&D from DOE budget

    Feb. 12, 2007
    The administration of President George W. Bush increased its request for fossil fuels by 33% to $863 million as it released its fiscal 2008 budget proposals on Feb. 5.
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    Reserves

    CERA: Rising gas production costs diminishing returns

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Fewer natural gas reserves are being added for every dollar spent on exploration and production, and higher costs are undermining the economics of drilling more gas wells, Cambridge...

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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 12, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesShell, Repsol may face probe over S. Pars dealRepsol YFP SA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC may come under investigation by US authorities for an agreement...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Senators told of alternative-fuel transport challenges

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Congress should resist mandating higher volumes or quicker implementation of biofuels beyond the existing federal renewable fuels standard (RFS), a National Petrochemical & Refiners...
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    Companies

    COMMENT: West should consider ramifications of its off-oil rhetoric

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Environmental and political enthusiasm in the West for getting rid of oil as an energy source may have major unintended consequences through its impact on decisions by a handful...
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    Reserves

    Part 1: Russia seeks global influence by exploiting energy geopolitics

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Russia is blessed with a significant share of the world’s energy resources.
    Home

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Khodorkovsky’s woes continue

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky knows where he stands in Vladimir Putin’s Russia regarding new charges brought against him and business associate Platon Lebedev.
    Petrochemicals

    Comparing alternatives

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Whether written about in an industry trade publication such as Oil & Gas Journal or a consumer magazine such as Popular Mechanics (PM), the discussion about what fuel will power...
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    Pipelines

    DECOMMISSIONING-1: NEB case study shows abandonment pitfalls

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Pipeline abandonment must consider environmental remediation beyond simple closure or removal of the line in question.
    Refining

    Cold boosts crude price above $59/bbl

    Feb. 12, 2007
    The March contract for benchmark US crude closed above $59/bbl on the New York market for the first time in 2007 on Feb. 2 on the strength of forecasts that a severe cold front...
    Drilling Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Stress Engineering Services Inc.Houston, has appointed Kimberly Flesner, David Garrett, Ramon San Pedro, and Matthew Stahl as principals in the firm’s upstream practice.Flesner...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Feb. 12, 2007
    ColombiaEmerald Energy PLC, London, set casing at 8,745 ft MD to test log-indicated hydrocarbon shows in the Cretaceous La Luna formation at its Aureliano-1 wildcat on the Fortuna...
    Government

    Energy bill tries to annul question on royalty relief

    Feb. 12, 2007
    The energy bill passed by the House Jan. 18 tries to annul a question at the core of the year-long, price-threshold controversy about deepwater royalty relief.
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    LPG Markets

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Tool measures environmental, air quality parametersThe new Multinorm universal instrument monitors indoor environmental and air quality parameters.Available measurements include...
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    Companies

    Newark basin log data indicate big gas potential in Pennsylvania, New Jersey

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Exploration geologists have expressed an interest in the hydrocarbon potential of the Mesozoic basins of eastern North America in the last three decades.
    HSE

    Furnishing crisis

    Feb. 12, 2007
    The story often is told that in 1897 William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal, sent artist Frederic S. Remington to Cuba to record a developing war between the...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Feb. 12, 2007
    Baker Botts L.L.P.www.bakerbotts.comBaker Hughes Inc.Baker Hughes (Div is) Hughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.comCeradyne, Inc.www.ceradyne.comChevronGreater Houston CVBwww.VisitHoustonT...