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  • Volume 106, Issue 12

    • Volume 106, Issue 12

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    Production Operations

    DEEPWATER ESP—1: Subsea, downhole 1,200-hp ESP produces Jubarte well off Brazil

    March 24, 2008
    To produce the heavy oil from the JUB-6 well in the Jubarte field off Brazil, Petrobras decided to install the highest horsepower electric submersible pump (ESP) yet installed...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Colorado using the moratorium

    March 24, 2008
    Several coastal states have used the congressionally imposed federal leasing moratorium for about 30 years to keep oil and gas activity away from their shores.
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    HSE

    SPECIAL REPORT: GTL, CTL finding roles in global energy supply

    March 24, 2008
    Interest in Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) chemistry and associated technologies such as gas-to-liquids (GTL) and coal-to-liquids (CTL) continues to grow worldwide.
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    Drilling & Production

    Tools aid discovery of fatigue cracks

    March 24, 2008
    A suite of examination techniques is used to discover fatigue cracks in drilling components.
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    Production Operations

    StatoilHydro Angola assays Mondo crude

    March 24, 2008
    StatoilHydro Angola conducted an assay of the Mondo crude, which is part of the Kizomba C development that started production in January 2008, off Angola.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 12

    Pipelines & Transportation

    New York to get Utica shale exploration

    March 24, 2008
    Gastem Inc., Montreal, took a farmout from Utica Energy LLC, private New York operator, to drill one horizontal and five vertical wells in New York state by Jan. 16, 2009.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    BC’s Muskwa shale shaping up as Barnett gas equivalent

    March 24, 2008
    An Upper Devonian shale gas play, emerging the past 2-3 years in remote northern Northeast British Columbia, has the potential to become one of North America’s larger gas fields...
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    March 24, 2008
    Baker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Hughes Drilling Fluidswww.bakerhughes.com/drillingfluidsButler Manufacturing Companywww.centrilift.comChevronwww.chevron.com/careersGeneral Electric...
    Government

    Attention to cost

    March 24, 2008
    Economic gloom fast engulfing the US economy contains at least one reason for hope.
    Companies

    EPA, Congress share blame for high fuel prices

    March 24, 2008
    Congressional oil-price inquisitions target the wrong people. Government officials, not oil-company executives, should have to answer for zooming prices.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 24, 2008
    New offshore crew supply vesselA new offshore crew supply vessel designed for international operations combines the Cheetah CrewZer high speed Class DP2 catamaran and the nine...
    Production Operations

    Area Drilling

    March 24, 2008
    CubaSherritt International Corp., Toronto, plans to drill one exploratory well and 11 development wells as part of its companywide $150 million budget for 2008.Sherritt expects...
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    Refining & Processing

    Study addresses black powder’s effects on metering equipment

    March 24, 2008
    Preventing black powder contamination from damaging a gas pipeline’s metering system requires regular dismantling and cleaning of its metering instruments, manifolds, impulse ...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    March 24, 2008
    Honeywell International Inc.,GilsdorfClick here to enlarge imageMorris Township, NJ, has appointed Norman Gilsdorf to vice-president and general manager for Honeywell Process ...
    Refining & Processing

    Measuring ‘extreme’ oil prices

    March 24, 2008
    For seven sessions Mar. 5-13, the front-month crude contract consecutively set record high prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange as the US dollar fell to record lows vs. ...
    Reserves

    Enterprise drives exploration

    March 24, 2008
    The letter “Peak-oil context” by Michael Lynch correctly points out that large additional reserves continue to be added to the world’s capacity, despite statements that the “elephants...
    Economics & Markets

    Gas price logic

    March 24, 2008
    It’s March. Gasoline demand is weak, and inventories of the fuel are comfortable with higher imports, but the price is close to $1/gal higher than it was this time last year.
    General Interest

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Switzerland irks US with gas deal

    March 24, 2008
    Switzerland is not a household word for most people in the oil and gas industry.
    Reserves

    Worldwide oil, gas transactions, total value dips

    March 24, 2008
    The total transaction value for worldwide upstream corporate and asset deals slipped to $154 billion in 2007 compared with $166 billion in 2006, consultants said in an annual ...
    Government

    US Senate votes to extend OCS, oil shale moratoria

    March 24, 2008
    The US Senate voted Mar. 13 to extend moratoria on federal oil and gas leasing on most of the Outer Continental Shelf as well as on developing oil shale resources.
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    Companies

    Gulf lease sales attract $3.7 billion in high bids

    March 24, 2008
    Two federal sales of offshore oil and natural gas leases in the eastern and central planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico have attracted a total of more than $3.7 billion in apparent...
    Companies

    NPRA: Valero looking to sell three refineries

    March 24, 2008
    Valero Energy Corp. is conducting a “strategic alternative review” of three of its refineries in an effort to possibly sell them, according to Chief Executive Officer Bill Klesse...
    HSE

    Inquiry launched into DOJ plea agreement with BP

    March 24, 2008
    Two leading Democrats on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee announced an investigation into the US Department of Justice’s Oct. 22 plea agreement with BP concerning the...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 24, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesEU member states’ gas use falls 1.5% in 2007Natural gas consumption in the 27 member states of the European Union fell 1.5% in 2007 compared with...
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    Economics & Markets

    Producers’ profits higher in fourth quarter, flat in 2007

    March 24, 2008
    The combined fourth-quarter 2007 (4Q07) earnings of a sample of US-based oil and gas producers and refiners increased from a year earlier.