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  • Volume 106, Issue 32

    • Volume 106, Issue 32

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    Refining & Processing

    SPECIAL REPORT: Refined product demand justifies Middle East refinery investments

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Steadily rising refined product demand in the Middle East is inducing significant refinery investments in the region.
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    Production Operations

    VOC EMISSIONS—1: Study evaluates storage-tank VOC emissions reduction

    Aug. 25, 2008
    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...
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    Petrochemicals

    SPECIAL REPORT: CMAI: Wave of new Mideast olefins capacity coming on line

    Aug. 25, 2008
    An “unprecedented” wave of new olefins capacity is starting up in the Middle East, according to Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMAI), Houston.
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    Refining & Processing

    Supplier-user teamwork key to stable oil prices

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Since the early 2000s oil prices have more than tripled (Fig. 1).
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    Exploration & Development

    MMS Lease Sale 207 attracts $487 million in apparent high bids

    Aug. 25, 2008
    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...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 32

    Pipelines & Transportation

    WATCHING THE WORLD: A failure of oil diplomacy

    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 ...
    Pipelines

    BP suspends Azeri oil shipments via rail to Georgia

    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...
    Production Operations

    API: Senate’s ‘Gang of 10’ proposal adds taxes, not tracts

    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...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: A possible path to a compromise

    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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    Capacities

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 25, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesEnterprise, partners outline Texas port systemEnterprise Products Partners LP, Teppco Partners LP, and Oiltanking Holding Americas Inc. have formed...
    Tankers

    SCP line open; BTC, WREP lines remain shut down

    Aug. 25, 2008
    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, ...
    Production Operations

    Record-breaking Colorado lease sale still falls short

    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...
    Companies

    Dallas Fed analysts see reprieve from record-high oil prices

    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...
    LNG

    Freeport LNG applies to export gas imports

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Freeport LNG Development LP is the first US firm to request permission to export LNG imported into its Freeport, Tex., terminal.
    Home

    A UVG counterforce

    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...
    Home

    EITI reporting

    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...
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 25, 2008
    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...
    Capacities

    OPEC cuts demand growth estimate

    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...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Energy backfires again as tool of foreign policy

    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

    LNG emerges as Pakistani natgas supply alternative

    Aug. 25, 2008
    LNG will likely play a large role in supplying Pakistan’s emerging gas market despite current pipeline plans.
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    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...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 25, 2008
    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 ...
    Production Operations

    Room to fall

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Although the oil market has lost nearly 1 million b/d of strategic transportation capacity, the price of crude oil is falling.
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    Aug. 25, 2008
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    Reserves

    Tupi area presalt oil discoveries likely contiguous

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Oil discoveries in the presalt layer off Brazil, triggered by last year’s Tupi find, are likely to be contiguous, according to a Brazilian oil company expert.
    Gas Processing

    Erskine developing Vicksburg gas in Brooks

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Erskine Energy Production Co., private Houston independent, has hiked its gas-condensate production in the Ann Mag area 10 miles east and southeast of Falfurrias in Brooks County...
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    Exploration & Development

    Maverick fracs unlock gas in Pearsall shale

    Aug. 25, 2008
    Several operators stand to benefit if early gas flow rates from a horizontal Cretaceous Pearsall shale well in the Southwest Texas Maverick basin hold up.