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  • Volume 106, Issue 20

    • Volume 106, Issue 20

    Reserves

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Shell blasted over Iraq oil

    May 26, 2008
    Political activists say Royal Dutch Shell threatens to trigger greater conflict in Iraq with plans to control the development, production, and depletion of the country’s oil.
    Government

    House passes bill to create oil antitrust task force within DOJ

    May 26, 2008
    The US House passed, by a vote of 324 to 84, a bill that would create a new oil antitrust task force within the Department of Justice.
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    Drilling & Production

    Operators, service providers grapple with deepwater well interventions

    May 26, 2008
    Today’s deepwater well interventions usually require big drilling rigs to place and pull heavy risers, but engineers visualize vessel-based, rigless interventions in future.
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    New Plants

    Regional factors define future polymer trading

    May 26, 2008
    A recent Accenture study found that all regions around the world are growing in polymer consumption, although their focuses are different.
    Refining

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: FTC has new book to throw

    May 26, 2008
    When he came before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on May 14, Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 20

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    Discoveries

    Ardmore basin Woodford gas plan takes off

    May 26, 2008
    Operators are pursing gas and liquid hydrocarbons in Mississippian-Devonian Woodford shale in the northwestern Ardmore basin in southern Oklahoma.
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    Companies

    Verenex eyes commerciality in Libya’s Ghadames basin

    May 26, 2008
    Verenex Energy Inc., Calgary, contemplates the southern part of 1.5 million acre Area 47 in Libya’s Ghadames basin as the core for an initial production phase of up to 50,000 ...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    May 26, 2008
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedInteqwww.answerswhiledrilling.com/startrakChesapeake Energy Corporationwww.chk.comChevronwww.chevron.com/careersIndustrial...
    Companies

    Saudi oil and Congress

    May 26, 2008
    Oil consumers have reason to feel relieved that Saudi Arabia hasn’t increased production by more than the 300,000 b/d now widely disparaged as inadequate.
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 26, 2008
    In-rack liquid and gas flow computers enhancedVersion 2.05 upgrade has been released for the inRAx line of single-slot in-chassis flow computers for platforms from Rockwell Automation...
    Production Operations

    Area Drilling

    May 26, 2008
    CubaPetroVietnam Exploration Production Corp. let a contract to SCAN Geophysical ASA, Oslo, to shoot 4,000 line-km of 2D seismic in the Gulf of Mexico off Cuba.The M/V SCAN Stigandi...
    Capacities

    Why suspension of SPR fill can lower oil prices

    May 26, 2008
    “Extrapolation of this fall’s evidence could take prices as high as an unbelievable $120 if adult supervision is not brought to bear on DOE.
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    LNG

    PIPIP technology aids LNG transfer

    May 26, 2008
    The inherent design features of current pine-in-pipe-in-pipe technology allow LNG to be transferred both subsea and buried onshore safely and securely, with minimal risk to the...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Earthquake may shake energy market

    May 26, 2008
    Days after the massive May 12 earthquake hit the Sichuan province of central China, its potential impact on world energy markets remained uncertain, but damage to hydroelectric...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    May 26, 2008
    Baker Hughes Inc.,MeehanClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has acquired two reservoir consulting firms, Gaffney, Cline & Associates (GCA) and GeoMechanics International (GMI)...
    Gas Processing

    Maximizing gasoline volume

    May 26, 2008
    The huge and growing gasoline demand dictates that refiners maximize gasoline volume.
    Government

    Climate cost study wanted

    May 26, 2008
    The Free Enterprise Action Fund (FEAOX) is pushing the ConocoPhillips board of directors to review and report the costs and benefits of company efforts to comply with climate ...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 26, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesDeutsche Bank slashes 2008 oil demand outlookMajor investment bank Deutsche Bank has reduced its global oil demand growth forecast for this year ...
    Drilling & Production

    MMS prepares for 2008 hurricane season

    May 26, 2008
    Officials from the US Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service participated in a media forum May 15 with representatives from the US Coast Guard and the American...
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    LNG

    SPECIAL REPORT: Competition reshaping African deal structures

    May 26, 2008
    With a reform effort under way in its premier oil producer and with production climbing elsewhere in the region, Africa remains a prime target for international oil and gas investment...
    HSE

    Oil shale debate becomes ‘chicken-or-the-egg’ question

    May 26, 2008
    The question of “which comes first?” was dominant as oil shale development proponents told a US Senate committee May 15 that regulations need to be developed, and opponents said...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    SPECIAL REPORT: African producers grapple with issues of transparency

    May 26, 2008
    Despite billions of dollars in revenue from oil exports, many African oil-producing countries continue to suffer poverty and disease, largely due to corruption, conflict, and ...
    HSE

    Studies call for climate change policy from government

    May 26, 2008
    Recent studies indicate that corporate pressure is building globally for lawmakers to address climate change.
    Exploration & Development

    SPECIAL REPORT: Ghana due first oil output in 2010 with Jubilee start-up

    May 26, 2008
    Tullow Oil PLC will make history when it delivers first oil from Jubilee oil field off Ghana in 2010 through a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel.
    Reserves

    Murkowski asks Senate to swiftly ratify Law of the Sea treaty

    May 26, 2008
    The US could forfeit several billion barrels of oil equivalent if the Senate doesn’t ratify the Law of the Sea treaty soon, warned Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) in a May 8 floor...