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  • Volume 106, Issue 28

    • Volume 106, Issue 28

    Petrochemicals

    Special Report: International survey of ethylene from steam cracker—2008

    July 28, 2008
    Click here to download a .pdf of the International Survey of ethylene from steam cracker—2008
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    Production Operations

    Comment: US can manage energy cost without ‘punishing’ industry

    July 28, 2008
    Driven by public outcry over $4/gal gasoline, the US energy policy debate is beginning to shift toward discussions for a return of punitive, self-defeating measures directed at...
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    Petrochemicals

    Special Report: Worldwide ethylene capacity increases 2 million tpy in 2007

    July 28, 2008
    Ethylene producers added a net 2 million tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity in 2007, according to the latest ethylene survey.
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    Economic analysis clarifies how Chad benefits from oil

    July 28, 2008
    Contrary to previously published reports, Chad’s take (share of profits) from oil development is average by world standard.
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    Production Operations

    PUT RIVER – Conclusion: BP’s modeling simplifies Prudhoe reservoir analysis

    July 28, 2008
    BP is using a highly automated workflow to evaluate the PUT River formation, an early Cretaceous sandstone reservoir on Alaska’s North Slope.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 28

    Production Operations

    Central Wilmington pipeline ends oil trucking

    July 28, 2008
    Oil production is increasing and trucking oil has been eliminated from the central part of Wilmington field in Long Beach, Calif.
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    July 28, 2008
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    E q u i p m e n t / S o f t w a r e / L i t e r a t u r e

    July 28, 2008
    New gas detection toolHere’s the UltraRAE 3000, a new photoionization detector for compound-specific gas monitoring.Click here to enlarge imageIt makes use of proprietary prefilter...
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    Production Operations

    MODELING GULF OF MEXICO LOST PRODUCTION–4 (Conclusion): Meta evaluation helps model lost Gulf of Mexico output

    July 28, 2008
    Valuing lost production from destroyed structures is an important measure in investment decision making, since if the value of future production is less than the expected redevelopment...
    General Interest

    Prices and energy plans

    July 28, 2008
    As they have throughout history, high oil prices are evoking calls for new patterns of energy supply and use.
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    Pipelines

    Coiled-tubing method deoils damaged US gulf pipeline

    July 28, 2008
    A unique coiled-tubing method can serve as a model for several offshore pipeline repairs the US Mines and Minerals Service has mandated occur by 2010.
    New Plants

    Sulfur crunch could limit bitumen output

    July 28, 2008
    Production of bitumen and heavy oil in Alberta faces a constraint unrelated to problems receiving the most attention.
    Economics & Markets

    Dollar values and oil prices

    July 28, 2008
    For months now, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and many western analysts have blamed the weak US dollar as a primary cause of the escalation of oil...
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    Services/Suppliers

    July 28, 2008
    SulphCo Inc.,SchattenmannClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed Dr. Florian J. Schattenmann chief technology officer effective Aug. 1. He will have management responsibility...
    HSE

    CORE fights ‘energy racism’

    July 28, 2008
    Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, has come out swinging against “elitist” environmentalists, politicians, and the nonprofit foundations that fund them for...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Pertamina import ‘irregularities’ examined

    July 28, 2008
    Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina, already a candidate for government scrutiny over corruption in the upstream sector, is facing charges by legislators of “irregularities” ...
    HSE

    Alberta keeps oil sands’ environmental impacts in check

    July 28, 2008
    The burgeoning development of Alberta’s vast oil sands resources and its effect on the province’s land, water, and air is being closely and carefully monitored by government officials...
    Pipelines

    Another US House energy bill falls short of passage

    July 28, 2008
    The US House of Representatives rejected the Democratic leadership’s latest energy bill in a 244-173 vote on July 17 when HR 6515–which came to the floor under a rules suspension...
    Drilling & Production

    Watching Government: Cavaney raises important points

    July 28, 2008
    In a week that began with US President George W. Bush’s rescinding the presidential Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing withdrawal and ended with the US House defeating...
    HSE

    Markets ready for rise in Canadian oil sands production

    July 28, 2008
    Production of Canadian oil sands bitumen will continue to rise in the coming decades but not without advances in processing technologies and the adoption by producers of varied...
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    Production Operations

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 28, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesCGES: World needs more OPEC crudeThe world needs more crude oil priced at a level that makes it economic to refine, said analysts at the Centre for...
    Economics & Markets

    Supply, demand drove oil prices, says CFTC-led taskforce

    July 28, 2008
    Fundamental supply and demand forces provide the best explanation for recent crude oil price increases, concluded a staff report for the Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets...
    Government

    BLM releases proposed oil shale development regs

    July 28, 2008
    The US Bureau of Land Management on July 22 published proposed regulations to establish a commercial oil shale development program, which it said could add as much as 800 billion...
    Government

    Debate on commodities bill divides US Senate

    July 28, 2008
    Democrats and Republicans traded charges of obstructing debate as the US Senate began on July 22 to discuss Majority Leader Harry M. Reid’s (D-Nev.) bill to reform energy commodity...
    Reserves

    Watching The World: Mixing oil and politics

    July 28, 2008
    Do any other oil and gas analysts feel that the 1950s are approaching again? I don’t mean gasoline priced at 25 ¢/gal, either.