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  • Volume 106, Issue 18

    • Volume 106, Issue 18

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    Drilling Operations

    Managing, optimizing drilling fluids a challenge with deeper drilling

    May 12, 2008
    Managing drilling fluids economically and optimizing their effectiveness while still keeping those operations environmentally benign can be among the trickiest balancing acts ...
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    Economics & Markets

    ‘Design-build’ method useful for refinery project execution

    May 12, 2008
    Refiners can execute many projects at a lower cost and in less time using a “design-build” approach that bypasses the front-end engineering and design (FEED) package.
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    Production Operations

    Produced water management: controversy vs. opportunity

    May 12, 2008
    One of the most controversial areas of oil and gas production operations today is the handling, treatment, and disposal of produced water.
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    Reserves

    Subsea gas compression hydrate formation analyzed

    May 12, 2008
    A study focused on potential hydrate formation in the pipe that connects the separator to the planned Ormen Lange subsea compressor.
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    Production Operations

    StatoilHydro completes, flows 10-km horizontal Gulltopp well

    May 12, 2008
    StatoilHydro drilled and completed a long horizontal well off the Gullfaks-A platform, increasing the possibility of platform drilling to remote prospects.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 18

    Refining & Processing

    House diesel price hearing targets market speculators

    May 12, 2008
    A US House subcommittee’s hearing to examine the adverse impacts of rising diesel fuel prices on truckers became the latest forum for Democrats to demand crackdowns on oil market...
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: OTC speakers highlight offshore industry’s future

    May 12, 2008
    The oil and gas industry continues to develop new technologies and adapt others to keep pace with the rising need worldwide for energy.
    Production Operations

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Windfall profits tax re-emerges

    May 12, 2008
    How serious are the prospects of Congress’ reviving the windfall profits tax?
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    Drilling Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: OTC Spotlight on Technology recognizes 14 technologies

    May 12, 2008
    The Offshore Technology Conference of 2008 recognized 14 diverse technologies in its Spotlight on New Technology Awards.
    Production Operations

    API: Lieberman-Warner bill could reduce domestic gas supply

    May 12, 2008
    A climate change bill headed for the US Senate floor in early June could greatly reduce domestic natural gas production and send refining production and jobs overseas, according...
    Government

    FTC starts process to consider rule on oil market manipulation

    May 12, 2008
    Using authority it received in energy legislation late last year, the US Federal Trade Commission on May 1 took the first step to determine whether it should develop a formal ...
    Production Operations

    Bingaman lashes at Bush for oil, gas supply inaction

    May 12, 2008
    President George W. Bush and his administration share part of the blame for the US not having increased its domestic oil and natural gas supplies, the chairman of the US Senate...
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    Capacities

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 12, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesOTC: Roundtable notes NOCs, IOCs lack trustBusiness with national oil companies (NOCs) is certain to grow over the next 5 years with 64% of delegates...
    Tankers

    WATCHING THE WORLD: A new flag of convenience

    May 12, 2008
    The US and French governments, deeply concerned about attacks on oil tankers, have introduced a draft United Nations resolution that would allow countries to pursue pirates from...
    Government

    Republican senators offer bill to increase US supplies

    May 12, 2008
    US Senate Republicans responded May 1 to near record-high oil prices with a bill to authorize leasing within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and increase access to the Outer...
    Exploration & Development

    Poll wants government action

    May 12, 2008
    World Public Opinion.org, an international collaborative internet project to “give voice to public opinion” on international issues, released the results of a recent poll that...
    Production Operations

    Decline rates?

    May 12, 2008
    There has been an abundance of studies and letters to the editor on oil decline rates in recent weeks.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    US NATURAL GAS—Conclusion: Gulf, Southeast to see many new transport facilities by mid-2009

    May 12, 2008
    Between January 2008 and the end of second-quarter 2009, 29 pipeline and LNG terminal projects are scheduled to be completed in and around the Southeast US-Gulf Coast.
    Production Operations

    OPEC’s position strengthens

    May 12, 2008
    Growing demand for crude combined with the slowdown in production of new supplies in other countries is placing the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in a powerful...
    Government

    Farm interests strain facts to defend ethanol

    May 12, 2008
    Farm interests will say anything to protect the magic money machine that the US government has built for them with fuel ethanol.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Area Drilling

    May 12, 2008
    AustraliaSentry Petroleum Ltd., Denver, acquired from Medina Group of China the rights to explore ATP 865, a 1.68 million acre permit in Queensland’s Adavale basin 1,000 km west...
    Exploration & Development

    Those oil subsidies

    May 12, 2008
    To hear some US politicians tell the story, “Big Oil” soaks up much of the national wealth through “subsidies.”
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    May 12, 2008
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    Production Operations

    Second discovery indicated in Central Utah thrust belt

    May 12, 2008
    Covenant oil field in the Central Utah thrust belt may have a companion soon.
    Exploration & Development

    Federal judge orders polar bear decision soon

    May 12, 2008
    Offshore oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea could face delays or even be halted after a US federal judge ordered the Department of Interior to decide within 2 weeks...