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    Capacities

    Method calculates crude cut properties

    Jan. 7, 2008
    An investigation of 28 crude samples from Russia, FSU countries, the Middle East, North Africa, and Bulgaria showed that the crude true boiling point (TBP), or ASTM D-86 distillation...
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    Production Operations

    Waterflood boosts oil production from field in Egypt

    Jan. 7, 2008
    A cost-effective waterflooding plan allowed Khalda Petroleum Co. (an international joint-venture company) to improve oil recovery from the Tut field in Egypt’s western desert....
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    Refining

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Yearly refinery construction indexes listed for 80 years

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Here are yearly values for the Nelson-Farrar refinery inflation cost index since 1926.
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    Drilling Operations

    POINT OF VIEW: Shell VP Sharpe sees safer operations, continued success

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Supermajor Shell is spending record sums, said Peter J. Sharpe, allocating more than $20 billion/year in capital for new projects and more than $2 billion/year for exploration...
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    Jan. 7, 2008
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    More content from Volume 106, Issue 1

    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: US presidential politics to brighten spotlight on energy security issue

    Jan. 7, 2008
    What should make 2008 an interesting year for writing about the oil and gas industry is the developing news about “energy security” in the US and its relationship to the presidential...
    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Oil market heading for surprises in ’08

    Jan. 7, 2008
    This year the oil market will see a few surprises. Commodity price volatility will continue, but it will moderate, and prices will move lower.
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    LNG

    SPECIAL REPORT: LNG questions loom amid wave of project completions

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Each recent year has brought global LNG capacities to levels only dreamed of 10 years ago.
    Production Operations

    DOI budget takes bite from states’ revenue shares

    Jan. 7, 2008
    US oil and gas producing states will lose nearly $43 million of their shares of revenues from federal oil and gas production within their borders under a provision of the Department...
    Government

    California suing EPA over greenhouse gas rules

    Jan. 7, 2008
    California has filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency. The anticipated action comes after the EPA last month denied California a waiver that the state ...
    Reserves

    SPECIAL REPORT: Personnel and access constraints to test the worldwide E&D industry

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Worldwide exploration and development, stimulated by high prices of oil and natural gas, should have a positive but challenging year in 2008.
    Government

    Colorado state, federal officials discuss future of Roan Plateau

    Jan. 7, 2008
    The US Department of the Interior and Colorado state officials have begun discussing the Roan Plateau’s future and will continue talks over coming weeks, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter...
    Pipelines

    Khelil says Sonatrach seeking major player status

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister and the current president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, spoke to OGJ about his plans to position Sonatrach as ...
    Gas Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Offsetting demand gains will limit ethanol’s ability to cut oil imports

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Ethanol will fail this year to fulfill promises made on its behalf about lowering US dependence on imported oil.
    Production Operations

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Moments to savor in 2007

    Jan. 7, 2008
    This year promises to be an exciting and challenging year in Washington, DC, for the oil and gas business.
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    Ecuador lifts emergency decree; will probe abuses

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Ecuador has reached an agreement with human rights organizations and regional leaders and has lifted the state of emergency it decreed on Nov. 29 in the province of Orellana.
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    Economics & Markets

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 7, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesMMS proposes OCS royalty relief amendmentsThe US Minerals Management Service proposed changes to its Outer Continental Shelf deepwater royalty relief...
    Government

    BLM publishes draft program EIS for commercial oil shale development

    Jan. 7, 2008
    The US Bureau of Land Management published a draft programmatic environmental impact statement on Dec. 21 to guide future management of 1.9 million acres in Utah, Colorado, and...
    Government

    Down under, out yonder

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Educators have been taking “giant strides” off the M/V Fling to investigate marine communities at two High Island platforms, just within the boundaries of the Flower Garden Banks...
    Companies

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Khodorkovsky’s new year

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Whatever the new year may hold for most of us in the oil and gas industry, it will likely resemble nothing close to what’s in store for jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
    Government

    Independent panel completes DOI mineral royalty review

    Jan. 7, 2008
    An independent panel completed its review of the US Department of Interior’s mineral royalty collection program on Dec. 18 and forwarded its findings and recommendations to the...
    Tankers

    Molecular sieves

    Jan. 7, 2008
    Knowing the plants of Saudi Aramco well and being in charge of product management of CECA SILIPORITE molecular sieves, I would like to comment on the article by Ahmed Ghazal (...
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    Production Operations

    Sequence stratigraphic control on prolific HC reservoir development, Southwest Iran

    Jan. 7, 2008
    The Lowermost Cretaceous Fahliyan formation is an important carbonate reservoir in the Persian Gulf and the onshore oil fields of Southwest Iran.
    Refining

    A December run for $100/bbl oil

    Jan. 7, 2008
    With many observers convinced they had seen the last major run up in oil prices for 2007, the market mounted another run at $100/bbl crude in late December.
    General Interest

    Report redraws global warming caricatures

    Jan. 7, 2008
    The global-warming discussion long ago fell victim to a style of politics in which one side turns the opposition into a self-debunking caricature.
    Economics & Markets

    A new energy agenda

    Jan. 7, 2008
    In an intensely political year, the US oil and gas industry should seek opportunities to reconcile energy politics with consumer interests.
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 7, 2008
    LouisianaNeumin Production Co., Point Comfort, Tex., has completed a gas-condensate discovery in St. Mary Parish, La.The Shadyside-1 stabilized at 3 MMcfd and 200 b/d on a 7⁄64...
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    Jan. 7, 2008
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    Pipelines

    DNV pipeline standard sharpens integrity focus

    Jan. 7, 2008
    DNV released a new revision of Submarine Pipeline Standard—DNV OS F101, effective Nov. 13, 2007, harmonizing the existing standard with ISO, increasing its focus on integrity...