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  • Volume 106, Issue 27

    • Volume 106, Issue 27

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    Capacities

    Refinery profits diverging from crude price trends

    July 21, 2008
    A recent examination of cash margins showed how refinery profits have changed since 2002.
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    New Plants

    SPECIAL REPORT: University researchers track metal oil field products with RFID tags

    July 21, 2008
    Piping Technology & Products Inc. manufactures various metal piping products, such as pipe shoes, pipe hangers, expansion joints, slide plates, etc. for the oil and gas industry...
    LPG Markets

    SPECIAL REPORT: Mixing RFID and oil creates competitive advantage

    July 21, 2008
    The RFID Oil & Gas Solution Group, a consortium of industry and universities based in Texas, offers research, study, and pilot deployment services to help improve automation, ...
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    Drilling Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: RFID applications spread in upstream operations

    July 21, 2008
    Many different industries use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, but it is a late arrival in the oil field.
    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: Industry needs to develop RFID interoperability standards

    July 21, 2008
    To date, RFID in the oil and gas industry has not been used as ubiquitously as in other fields.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 27

    Exploration & Development

    Bush ends presidential OCS lease ban, presses Congress

    July 21, 2008
    Responding to congressional Republicans’ calls that he make the first move, US President George W. Bush has lifted a presidential withholding of oil and gas acreage leasing on...
    Refining & Processing

    FACTS: Mideast trade transformation under way

    July 21, 2008
    The Middle East will play an increasingly important role in the world oil market as it emerges as a new export force, according to a new report from a prominent energy consulting...
    HSE

    EPA proposes rules covering carbon dioxide storage

    July 21, 2008
    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposals July 15 for a category of injection wells for long-term underground carbon dioxide storage as Congress contemplates...
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    Companies

    Firms can avoid EITI, FCPA pitfalls

    July 21, 2008
    In May, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) published the “EITI Business Guide” to encourage oil and gas companies, as well as companies in other extractive...
    Production Operations

    Oil and gas groups applaud Bush’s latest OCS order

    July 21, 2008
    Oil and gas trade associations and other business groups applauded US President George W. Bush’s July 14 cancellation of an executive order banning oil and gas leasing on 85% ...
    Construction

    OPEC releases World Oil Outlook to 2030

    July 21, 2008
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has released its oil outlook to 2030, citing various challenges to the oil market, including uncertainty of demand, rising costs...
    General Interest

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Shedding light on a dark market

    July 21, 2008
    It should come as no surprise that airlines based in oil-producing nations were the main drivers of new aircraft orders last week at the biannual Farnborough International Air...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Oil state House Dems speak up

    July 21, 2008
    Oil state Democrats in the US House seem caught in a dilemma. On one hand, their party leaders advocate energy solutions that do not include oil and gas.
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 21, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesEnergy price hikes are two thirds of CPI’s 1% June riseThe Consumer Price Index rose 1% in June as its energy component increased sharply for a second...
    Companies

    IEA rolls out 2009 supply and demand forecast

    July 21, 2008
    The International Energy Agency has released its outlook for 2009 oil supply and demand.
    Home

    API: US exploratory drilling up over 50% in 2Q

    July 21, 2008
    Oil and gas producers drilled over 50% more US exploratory wells in second-quarter 2008 than a year earlier, reported the American Petroleum Institute in its latest quarterly ...
    Production Operations

    Message for Congress

    July 21, 2008
    While our elected leaders on Capitol Hill failed to acknowledge the need for immediate and extensive exploration efforts on both coasts and federal lands, thoughts have come to...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Keeping workers safe

    July 21, 2008
    Pipeline safety typically refers to the potential threat, or lack thereof, posed by an existing or proposed oil or natural gas pipeline to the surrounding population and environment...
    Economics & Markets

    Crude fluctuates in $12/bbl range

    July 21, 2008
    Crude prices fluctuated in a $12/bbl range July 7-11 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, falling sharply in the first two sessions as the US dollar strengthened then rebounding...
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    July 21, 2008
    Enventure International LLC,Craig and NewberryClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has added Richard Craig and Mervyn Newberry as senior technical sales advisors to its European...
    Drilling & Production

    House leaders press national drilling program

    July 21, 2008
    House Democrats are pressing a national drilling program for the US.
    LPG Markets

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 21, 2008
    Lightweight modular mat system suited for oil fieldNew composite matting systems are suited for oil field use.The company says its lightweight mats are strong, rigid, and rugged...
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    Production Operations

    MODELING GULF OF MEXICO LOST PRODUCTION—3: Value of production losses tallied for 2004-05 storms

    July 21, 2008
    In extreme weather, damage to offshore facilities is unavoidable and can take many forms.
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    July 21, 2008
    MadagascarNiko Resources Ltd., Calgary, will take a farmout from private EnerMad Corp. and become operator of the Grand Prix production sharing contract area in the Morondava ...
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    Production Operations

    Balloon network allows remote CP monitoring

    July 21, 2008
    Automated near-space monitoring of pipeline rectifiers offers a means of maintaining cathodic protection of pipeline networks without travelling to remote locations.
    Reserves

    Learning to cooperate

    July 21, 2008
    An important development in the geopolitics of oil has largely escaped notice where it should be big news: in the US.
    Home

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    July 21, 2008
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    Companies

    Model limitations and constraints

    July 21, 2008
    Production data are extracted from public domain sources, and so it is not possible to fully identify those factors which make each property unique.