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    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Global crude capacity will rise nearly 11 million b/d by 2012

    March 10, 2008
    Global crude distillation capacity will increase 10.6 million b/d during 2007-12—9.1 million b/d of new capacity and 1.5 million b/d of capacity creep—according to a...
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    Production Operations

    CLASSIC BIT KINEMATICS—Conclusion: Kinematics-improved bit drills 1,000 m in hard formations

    March 10, 2008
    The calculation method proposed in this series, using actual gear ratio for the cones, allows the designer to determine and optimize kinematic parameters of drill bits.
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    Production Operations

    Feed-gas molecular weight affects centrifugal compressor efficiency

    March 10, 2008
    A study has shown how relative density (molecular weight) affects the performance and efficiency of two centrifugal compressors.
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    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Iran’s gasoline woes persist despite rationing, price hikes

    March 10, 2008
    Iran’s gasoline shortage and its growing dependency on imports have been the subject of discussion and debate, both in and outside Iran.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    ExxonMobil offers latest development plan for Alaska

    March 10, 2008
    ExxonMobil Production Co. submitted the latest in a series of development plans for the Point Thomson Unit (PTU) gas-condensate lease on Alaska’s North Slope.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 10

    Production Operations

    Transneft to start ESPO export terminal this month

    March 10, 2008
    Russia’s state-owned pipeline concern OAO Transneft will begin construction for the export terminal of the East Siberia Pacific Ocean oil pipeline this month, according to company...
    HSE

    Supreme Court hears Exxon Valdez punitive damages arguments

    March 10, 2008
    The US Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 27 over whether ExxonMobil Corp. should pay punitive damages arising from the 1989 crude oil spill into Alaska’s Prince William Sound...
    Companies

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Venezuela’s deadly gambit

    March 10, 2008
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is pulling out all stops in his effort to undermine the US, even calling on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to back his country...
    Companies

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Domenici’s call for reason

    March 10, 2008
    US Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) could see a storm coming. The US House had just passed its latest bill to deny financial incentives to major oil companies and use the money to...
    Government

    Shell Oil executive outlines 12-point energy plan

    March 10, 2008
    Shell Oil Co. Pres. John D. Hofmeister said his company proposes a 12-point energy plan, noting that he believes World War II was the last time the US had a “coherent, comprehensive...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 10, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesSenate Republicans pressed to support billDemocratic leaders in both houses of the US Congress used record-high crude oil prices to press Senate ...
    Companies

    US House passes latest oil-tax-for-alternatives bill

    March 10, 2008
    The US House of Representatives passed a bill Feb. 27 that proponents said would shift $18 billion in tax breaks from major oil companies to alternative and renewable energy projects...
    Drilling & Production

    Subsea market to remain strong, study says

    March 10, 2008
    The global subsea oil and gas market will remain strong for the foreseeable future and is forecast to total $218 billion over 2008-12, reports Scottish Enterprise in a study to...
    HSE

    Emission cost-effectiveness

    March 10, 2008
    Lately there has been a preponderance of company ads claiming that they are “going green” or reducing their carbon “footprint.
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    Refining & Processing

    AnthropLetterEthanol

    March 10, 2008
    The Energy Independence and Security Act requires 15 billion gal of corn ethanol in 2016.
    Refining

    Crude topped $100/bbl in February

    March 10, 2008
    Traders pushed crude prices well above $100/bbl in late February, turning from equities to commodities as a haven for investments as fear of a US recession sent the US dollar ...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Shuttle tankers offer competitive deep US gulf transport choice

    March 10, 2008
    Petrobras’ development of Cascade and Chinook fields in the US Gulf of Mexico will use a floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel in the initial phase.
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    Petrochemicals

    Services / Suppliers

    March 10, 2008
    Wood Group Pressure Control,Denyko and BoisvertClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has named Will Denyko US service director and Loren Boisvert US operations manager. Denyko’s...
    Government

    House energy bill an exercise in childishness

    March 10, 2008
    Kicking oil companies in the shins is not energy policy. It’s childishness.
    Production Operations

    Area Drilling

    March 10, 2008
    ArgentinaArgenta Oil & Gas Inc., Toronto, said the first well on its 100% owned Loma El Divisadero Block in Argentina’s Neuquen basin found 19° gravity oil in the Chorreado member...
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    Tankers

    Equipment / Software / Literature

    March 10, 2008
    New vacuum powered vessel lifterThis new high-capacity, custom battery powered vacuum lifter is designed for handling large vessels in a plant with cranes or outdoors using a ...
    Government

    The EISA effect

    March 10, 2008
    A champion of last year’s energy bill reads too much into a revision by the Energy Information Administration of its long-term outlook for US energy.
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    March 10, 2008
    ABB Inc.www.abb.com/totalflowBaker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Petrolitewww.bakerpetrolite.comBCCK Engineeringwww.bcck.comButler Manufacturing CompanyChevronDakil Auctioneers, Inc...
    Discoveries

    McMoRan reenters Blackbeard gas prospect in gulf

    March 10, 2008
    McMoRan Oil & Gas Corp. LLC, New Orleans, has entered into a multiwell drilling contract with Rowan Cos. Inc. that includes its reentering the ultradeep Blackbeard gas prospect...
    Reserves

    Nile Delta Oligocene find boosts Egypt’s gas outlook

    March 10, 2008
    Egypt’s gas production and exports are building with the recent opening of several pipelines, and BP PLC is sizing up its first discovery of deep Oligocene nonassociated gas offshore...
    Companies

    EOG pursuing Colorado North Park Niobrara oil

    March 10, 2008
    EOG Resources Inc., Houston, plans to drill seven wells in 2008 and is shooting a 36 sq mile 3D seismic survey in a horizontal play for oil in Cretaceous Niobrara in Colorado’...
    Production Operations

    Partners move to develop Usan field off Nigeria

    March 10, 2008
    Partners in Usan oil field off Nigeria are moving to develop the 2002 discovery, which lies in 750-850 m of water on Oil Mining License 138, about 100 km off the eastern Niger...