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  • Volume 106, Issue 13

    • Volume 106, Issue 13

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    Drilling & Production

    CHANGBEI WELLS—1: Shell drills gas project in China

    April 7, 2008
    To supply gas for the Olympics, Shell is drilling the longest horizontal wells ever attempted in mainland China.
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    Refining & Processing

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Changes in indexes for selected equipment items

    April 7, 2008
    Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly to 2,144.4 in December 2007 from 1,961.6 in January 2006.
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    Pipelines

    Capacities and new regulations top pipeline protection concerns

    April 7, 2008
    Service and supply companies dedicated to pipeline protection are coping well with an array of concerns facing their industry.
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    Pipelines

    Pipeline protection technology challenges center on corrosion, inspection

    April 7, 2008
    Technology challenges in the area of pipeline protection are centered on the areas of corrosion detection and inhibition, remote monitoring and risk assessment, and inspecting...
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    Production Operations

    DEEPWATER ESP—Conclusion: Jubarte downhole ESP required extensive qualification, testing

    April 7, 2008
    Extensive qualification and testing proved out the electric submersible pump (ESP) installed downhole in the JUB-6 well in Jubarte field off Brazil.

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    Drilling & Production

    Longer legs, multilaterals under study in Arkoma Woodford shale gas play

    April 7, 2008
    The most experienced operator in the Arkoma basin Woodford shale gas play is demonstrating that longer horizontal lateral drilling will lead to higher estimated ultimate recoveries...
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    Print Ad Index

    April 7, 2008
    ANP - National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and BiofuelsAtlas Copcowww.atlascopco.usBaker Hughes IncorporatedHughes ChristensenBronto Skyliftwww.bronto.fiButler Manufacturing...
    Drilling & Production

    Area Drilling

    April 7, 2008
    New ZealandSolid Energy New Zealand Ltd., Christchurch, NZ, is flaring gas to test the commercial viability of flow rates from four appraisal wells at its Huntly coal seam gas...
    Government

    Spurning unconventional oil

    April 7, 2008
    An energy-craving country obsessed by fear of oil from the Middle East should welcome prospects for a new 7-8 million b/d from North America.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 7, 2008
    Free online engineering calculator toolA new free online engineering calculator tool is designed for use by engineers and students worldwide. The developer says the tool calculates...
    Drilling & Production

    Climate bill seen raising gas use, lowering supply

    April 7, 2008
    Climate-change legislation in the US Senate would boost demand for natural gas while limiting supply, according to analyses by two industry groups.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    April 7, 2008
    Enventure Global Technology LLC,Waiter and KnightClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has named Joseph Waiter vice-president, general counsel, and secretary, and Kevin Knight vice...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Raster-based GIS data guide economic pipeline construction

    April 7, 2008
    Raster-based GIS routing models prevent pipelines from becoming an economic burden on the companies and countries involved in their construction and operation by minimizing not...
    Economics & Markets

    Dollar value, crude prices fluctuate

    April 7, 2008
    The May benchmark US crude contract jumped above $107/bbl Mar. 27 in the New York market following the bombing of a primary export oil pipeline in southern Iraq.
    Companies

    Problems with hydrogen

    April 7, 2008
    This letter responds to the article “Shell Oil executive outlines 12-point energy plan”.
    New Plants

    Windmills in paradise

    April 7, 2008
    To drive regularly between Abilene and Lubbock, Tex., is to witness the industrialization of the Llano Estacado.
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 7, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesMMS issues production, royalty reporting rulesThe US Minerals Management Service published on Mar. 26 amended final regulations for reporting production...
    HSE

    Shell officials outline routes to world’s energy future

    April 7, 2008
    The world’s energy producers, consumers, and governments could either cooperate or “scramble” as they try to solve major energy and environment problems, two Royal Dutch Shell...
    Government

    Colorado state agency releases draft oil, gas rules

    April 7, 2008
    The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC) released a set of proposed rules Mar. 31 that are open to public comment, and a final OGCC decision on the rules is expected...
    Companies

    Lawmaker urges majors to spend more on alternatives

    April 7, 2008
    Saying that the poorest US families now spend 10% of their annual incomes on gasoline because of high oil prices, a US House committee chairman said that major oil companies should...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: US law targets Canada’s oil sands

    April 7, 2008
    A provision that was inserted into the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) to keep the US Air Force from developing coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuels could limit...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    SPECIAL REPORT: Rise seen in sulfur, refining construction projects

    April 7, 2008
    Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in refining and sulfur projects in the engineering stage as well as gas processing construction...
    Production Operations

    RMI: Challenges affecting many US energy elements

    April 7, 2008
    National oil companies (NOCs), which now have “superior access to resources and booming domestic markets,” made two thirds of the largest oil and gas discoveries in 2007, said...
    Refining & Processing

    Europia: EU must issue policies that help refiners compete

    April 7, 2008
    The European Union should provide its refining companies with “a globally competitive level playing field” to help them face the “important” challenges of the next years and make...
    Government

    EPA signs more-stringent air quality standard

    April 7, 2008
    The US Environmental Protection Agency on Mar. 12 signed its most stringent standard for ground-level ozone, revising the standards for the first time in more than a decade.
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    IOR/EOR

    IEA: Non-OPEC output decline rates lower than believed

    April 7, 2008
    The combined production decline rate for countries outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is steadier and less steep than is generally believed, according to...
    Production Operations

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Colombia’s 2020 oil vision

    April 7, 2008
    Colombia hopes to raise its oil production to 1 million b/d by 2020—if its neighbors Ecuador, Venezuela, and Nicaragua will allow it.
    Refining

    API: Oil costs remain key gasoline price influence

    April 7, 2008
    Oil costs, and not refinery turnarounds, are primarily responsible for higher gasoline prices, American Petroleum Institute officials said.
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    Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes

    April 7, 2008
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    Capacities

    Russian refining tax structure fails to promote investment

    April 7, 2008
    The Russian petroleum tax structure encourages the country’s operators to export refined products rather than crude oil; therefore Russian crude throughput averaged 4.6 million...