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    BP PLC has restored exports of natural gas from Azerbaijan into the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), but said the 150,000-b/d Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP) remains shut, ...
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    Steadily rising refined product demand in the Middle East is inducing significant refinery investments in the region.
    Aug. 25, 2008
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    A 6-month on site evaluation of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions controls and control strategies determined advantages and disadvantages of various equipment and methods...
    Aug. 25, 2008
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    An “unprecedented” wave of new olefins capacity is starting up in the Middle East, according to Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMAI), Houston.
    Aug. 25, 2008
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    Since the early 2000s oil prices have more than tripled (Fig. 1).
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    Apparent high bids totaling just over $487 million were offered for 319 tracts in the western Gulf of Mexico at Lease Sale 207, reported the US Department of the Interior’s Minerals...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    US Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presidential hopeful, has underscored concerns in the country about the viability of the Caucasus as a secure transit corridor for ...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    BP PLC has been forced to suspend shipments of 50,000-70,000 b/d of oil from Azerbaijan to Georgia following the destruction of a key railroad bridge, severing the main east-west...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    A compromise energy legislation proposal advanced by a bipartisan group of US senators falls short of what is needed because it is “light on new production and heavy on new taxes...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    The single biggest question this August congressional recess remains whether compromise energy legislation that includes opening more of the US Outer Continental Shelf to leasing...
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    General Interest — Quick TakesEnterprise, partners outline Texas port systemEnterprise Products Partners LP, Teppco Partners LP, and Oiltanking Holding Americas Inc. have formed...
    Aug. 25, 2008
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    A new Vector drive, designed specifically for pumping applications, features an easy-to-use operator control panel that includes a large, high-resolution, full-color graphics ...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    The long-anticipated Roan Plateau lease sale netted $113.9 million, a record for the US Bureau of Land Management in the Lower 48, the US Department of the Interior agency said...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    World oil prices apparently have been given a reprieve from their early summer peak, two analysts in the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ economic research department contended...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    Freeport LNG Development LP is the first US firm to request permission to export LNG imported into its Freeport, Tex., terminal.
    Aug. 25, 2008
    While dynamism of the English language has been observed many times, it is not at all common to hear anyone suggest that verbal expression follows laws like those of the physical...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    The advice of Mara V.J. Senn and Rachel Frankel in “Firms can avoid EITI, FCPA pitfalls” (OGJ, July 21, 2008, p. 20) gives short shrift to the legitimate concerns of the citizens...
    Aug. 25, 2008
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    Compressor Engineering Corp. (CECO),HuttonClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has announced a celebration of 60 years of service to the gas compression industry by James R. Hutton...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    In its August report, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reduced its 2008 estimate of global economic growth to 3.9%, down from 4% from the previous month and one...
    Aug. 25, 2008
    As Arab oil exporters learned after their targeted embargo of 1973-74, energy has its drawbacks as a tool of foreign policy.
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    LNG will likely play a large role in supplying Pakistan’s emerging gas market despite current pipeline plans.
    Aug. 25, 2008
    ColombiaThe Popa-2 exploration well in the Colombia’s Middle Magdalena basin is a gas-condensate discovery in the Upper Cretaceous Monserrate formation, said Gran Tierra Energy...
    Aug. 25, 2008