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  • Volume 106, Issue 26

    • Volume 106, Issue 26

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    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: Energy demand takes diverse paths in 2008

    July 14, 2008
    While US energy demand this year will be limited by weak economic growth and improved fuel-use efficiency, China, Latin America, and the Middle East will sustain worldwide oil...
    Government

    Court overturns Texaco’s $100 million tax refund

    July 14, 2008
    A federal appeals court reversed a US district court’s decision granting Texaco Inc. a more than $100 million tax refund, the US Department of Justice said on June 17.
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    Production Operations

    PUT RIVER—1BP evaluates, develops North Slope reservoir

    July 14, 2008
    BP is developing a minor sand reservoir in the Prudhoe Bay field after appraising the potential by recompleting existing wells, building 3D stochastic reservoir models, and running...
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    HSE

    Changing feed conditions push Egyptian gas plant to upgrade CO2 membrane system

    July 14, 2008
    Changing feed operating conditions at Khalda Petroleum Co.’s Salam gas processing plant in Egypt’s Western Desert led the company to make changes to its membrane system for removing...
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    Production Operations

    Custom-designed process treats CBM produced water

    July 14, 2008
    A recently completed plant in the Power River basin in Wyoming uses a new method for treating water produced from coalbed methane (CBM) wells.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 26

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    Production Operations

    MODELING GULF OF MEXICO LOST PRODUCTION—2: Model framework can aid decision on redevelopment

    July 14, 2008
    Most of the destroyed infrastructure from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons in the Gulf of Mexico were mature assets low on their production curve.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    July 14, 2008
    API datawww.apidatanow.orgAriel Corporationwww.arielcorp.comBaker Hughes Incorporatedwww.bakerhughes.com/casefileBelco Technologies Corporationwww.belcotech.comBHP Billitonpetroleum...
    Petrochemicals

    Higher fuel costs loom

    July 14, 2008
    While recent increases in US gasoline and diesel fuel prices result mainly from a global surge in the price of crude oil, room must be reserved in any explanation for regulatory...
    Reserves

    Area Drilling

    July 14, 2008
    IraqNiko Resources Ltd., Calgary, began field scouting in the 846 sq km Qara Dagh block in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and sought tenders for a 500 line-km 2D seismic survey.The budget...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 14, 2008
    New hydrogen sulfide analyzerThe new Model 903 hydrogen sulfide tape analyzer is designed to measure as many as four streams of H2S and total sulfur in gaseous streams.It has ...
    Economics & Markets

    Energy politics follows laws like those of physics

    July 14, 2008
    Politics and physics have disparate meanings for the word “energy” yet adhere in their treatment of the subject to natural laws with interesting similarities.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    July 14, 2008
    Key Energy Services Inc.,WilsonClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has named Newton W. “Trey” Wilson III executive vice-president and chief operating officer (COO). Wilson has...
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    LNG

    US NATURAL GAS—Conclusion: Plans to add storage along US gulf threaten possibility of overbuild

    July 14, 2008
    Currently planned storage capacity increases in the Southeast US-Gulf Coast region would add nearly 30% to working-gas storage capacity and have an even greater effect on withdrawal...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Chinese demand pushes oil prices higher

    July 14, 2008
    Increased energy consumption in China and other developing countries is outstripping demand destruction in the US and Europe and is pushing oil prices still higher, analysts said...
    Economics & Markets

    Oil-price decline? Maybe

    July 14, 2008
    High oil prices are certainly putting downward pressure on demand in the US and in other countries where the market is allowed to work, as opposed to countries that have fuel ...
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: Drilling on upswing in US as Canada pulls from slump

    July 14, 2008
    Oil and gas drilling is on the upswing in the US in 2008, and drilling in Canada is coming back after slumping in 2007.
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    Reserves

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 14, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesOil & Gas UK outlines UKCS production challengesOperators on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) spent £4.9 billion on developing new reserves in 2007...
    Economics & Markets

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: EIA’s short-term outlook

    July 14, 2008
    The US Energy Information Administration on July 8 increased its predicted decline in domestic petroleum consumption for 2008 by 100,000 b/d to 400,000 b/d in its latest short...
    Production Operations

    WATCHING THE WORLD: A victory for Colombia

    July 14, 2008
    Colombia’s oil and gas industry doubtlessly got a shot in the arm last week when the Colombian military completed a daring raid to release some 15 hostages held by rebels of the...
    New Plants

    Aramco to hike oil production capacity by 850,000 b/d

    July 14, 2008
    Saudi Aramco, repeating long-announced plans, will increase production by yearend by a combined 850,000 b/d from its Khursaniyah, Nuayyim, and Shaybah fields, according to a senior...
    Production Operations

    Petrobras revising projects for new business plan

    July 14, 2008
    The chief executive officer of Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), revisiting proposed changes in the country’s oil law, said the state firm will present a new business...
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    Discoveries

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: EnCana names executives for newly split companies

    July 14, 2008
    Canadian oil and gas firm EnCana Corp., which in May announced a bifurcation of its oil and gas businesses into separate companies, has designated the executives who will head...
    Reserves

    COMPANY NEWS: Chesapeake, Plains plan Haynesville venture

    July 14, 2008
    Plains Exploration & Production Co. agreed to acquire a 20% interest in Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s Jurassic Haynesville shale play leasehold for $1.65 billion in a new joint venture...
    Production Operations

    Former Saudi oil minister says world reaching third oil crisis

    July 14, 2008
    Speculation is contributing to higher world oil prices, not imbalances between supply and demand, according to Saudi Arabia’s former minister of oil, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, ...