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  • Volume 106, Issue 30

    • Volume 106, Issue 30

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    Pipelines

    SPECIAL REPORT: Monitoring, best practices maintain APC applications

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Model predictive control (MPC) has become the de facto standard for implementing advanced control strategies.
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    Drilling Operations

    Norwegian groups study drillers’ work

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority surveyed drillers to better understand human factors affecting safety in drilling and well operations.
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    IOR/EOR

    Nexen updates Long Lake SAGD project progress

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Phase 1 of the Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and upgrading project in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta continues its ramp-up, as explained in a recent...
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    IOR/EOR

    Shell’s experience with a Norwegian semisubmersible

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Norske Shell AS used the Ocean Vanguard semisubmersible, operated by Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. (DODI), to work in Draugen oil field, on Haltenbanken, in the Norwegian North...
    Drilling & Production

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: A gas study’s unintended impact

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Aubrey K. McClendon apparently expected a new natural gas supply study to change the US energy game plan when he came to Washington, DC, on July 28.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 30

    Government

    Apex Oil to pay for Illinois pollution cleanup

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Apex Oil Co. Inc. has been ordered to clean up contamination from its former refining operations in Hartford, Ill., the US Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency...
    Exploration & Development

    Kempthorne starts preparation of next OCS 5-year plan

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Citing dramatically higher prices, US Department of the Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne started the Minerals Management Service’s next 5-year Outer Continental Shelf lease...
    Government

    Nelson criticizes Kempthorne’s OCS leasing plan

    Aug. 11, 2008
    US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne has taken “a questionable step” in beginning to prepare a new 5-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas...
    Reserves

    Obama energy plan calls for increased US oil, natural gas production

    Aug. 11, 2008
    More domestic oil and gas exploration will be needed as the US makes a transition to a new energy economy, US Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in a presidential campaign address...
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    HSE

    Nuclear heat advances oil shale refining in situ

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Technological advances in producing and refining liquid fuels in situ using high-temperature heat from nuclear reactors can resolve two major problems—dependence on oil from unstable...
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    Production Operations

    US Senate, House groups try to break energy logjam

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Bipartisan groups of US Senate and House members offered new energy proposals as Democratic and Republican leaders continued to trade potshots while a 5-week congressional recess...
    Government

    Pressure to switch votes stops US commodities bill

    Aug. 11, 2008
    US House Democrats charged Republican leaders with pressuring many GOP members to change their votes and defeat an energy commodities reform bill on July 30.
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    Production Operations

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 11, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesCoup threatens Mauritania’s oil, gas industryMauritania’s nascent oil and gas industry, already under threat from the al-Qaeda terrorist organization...
    Economics & Markets

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Japan calculates the odds

    Aug. 11, 2008
    The price of oil continues to pinch in Japan. To be sure, the world’s benchmark super crude oil tanker rates from the Gulf to Japan fell to 7-month lows last week due to ample...
    HSE

    UK government changes approach on biofuels

    Aug. 11, 2008
    The UK will cautiously proceed with increasing the use of biofuels, following the conclusions of a review by a leading scientist.
    HSE

    Changing for climate change?

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Last month the UK’s broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, cleared Channel 4 of “materially misleading the audience so as to cause harm or offense” on its television documentary challenging...
    Tankers

    Iran threatens to close Straits of Hormuz with missile launch

    Aug. 11, 2008
    The Iranian government, in a stand-off with the United Nations Security Council over its “inalienable right” to develop nuclear power, has threatened to use a newly tested short...
    HSE

    Warming or cooling?

    Aug. 11, 2008
    The first thing to be aware of is that the warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongly logarithmic.
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    LNG

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Paradigm BV,WardClick here to enlarge imageAmsterdam, has appointed Richard H. Ward regional vice-president, China. As regional vice-president, Ward manages and develops business...
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    HSE

    BLACK POWDER—1: Study examines sources, makeup in dry gas systems

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Internal corrosion generates black powder inside pipelines, while the composition of transported gas determines the powder’s composition.
    Refining

    July was bad for oil

    Aug. 11, 2008
    US crude dropped $15.92/bbl in July for the biggest dollar loss in a single month since it began trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
    Economics & Markets

    Doha’s collapse will cut energy use the hard way

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Adherents of the minimalist approach to energy consumption have much to cheer in the collapse July 29 of the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
    Production Operations

    Acting—again—on energy

    Aug. 11, 2008
    For a baffling array of bad reasons, the US Congress produced, before starting its 5-week recess, one beneficial proposition on energy along with a baffling array of wrong proposals...
    Drilling Operations

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 11, 2008
    AustraliaRodinia Oil Corp., Calgary, let a contract to Ryder Scott Co. LP to estimate hydrocarbon resource potential on its acreage in the remote, nonproducing Officer basin in...
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 11, 2008
    New real time digital well flow profiling sysytemImages from the new system show sample of digital flow profile (top), high temperature distributed temperature sensing well monitoring...
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 11, 2008
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    Area Drilling

    Caspian gets another large oil find on Lagansky block

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, said its Morskaya-1 exploration well, which was drilled on Lagansky block in the northern Caspian Sea off Russia, has encountered a major oil accumulatio...
    General Interest

    Apache boosts Egypt western desert production

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Apache Corp. said it has proved a Jurassic Safa formation oil play that could cover as much as 830 sq miles in Egypt’s western desert, most of it on company-operated acreage.
    Companies

    Southwestern Energy’s Fayetteville output nears 500 MMcfd

    Aug. 11, 2008
    Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, said its gross operated production from the Fayetteville shale play area in north-central Arkansas was 500 MMcfd of natural gas, including 12...