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  • Volume 106, Issue 33

    • Volume 106, Issue 33

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    General Interest

    New method yields MEG injection rate

    Sept. 1, 2008
    This article reports on development of a shortcut method that minimizes the calculation steps for obtaining the inhibitor concentration and injection rate required to depress ...
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    Drilling & Production

    Drilling programs support large land rig construction

    Sept. 1, 2008
    The recovery of the land drilling market is accelerating in North America due to solid natural gas prices and a growing focus on deep shale gas, leading to drilling fleet expansions...
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    Home

    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Sept. 1, 2008
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    Companies

    Let’s not forget Khodorkovsky

    Sept. 1, 2008
    The fate of Russian oilman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been written about before in this space and he has not been forgotten, especially in the heat of recent reports of Russia’s...
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    Production Operations

    Oil, gas prices boost producers’ 2Q earnings

    Sept. 1, 2008
    US-based oil and gas producers and refiners reported higher second-quarter 2008 earnings as a group, but individual company results were highly varied.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 33

    LPG Markets

    Senate energy plan’s bipartisan support grows

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Six more US senators have expressed support for a bipartisan energy proposal that includes opening more of the Outer Continental Shelf for leasing.
    Government

    Dealing with CSB’s ‘investigative gap’

    Sept. 1, 2008
    The Government Accountability Office has concluded that the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) could investigate more accidents if it would use its statutory...
    Production Operations

    Voters gear up for serious energy talk, official says

    Sept. 1, 2008
    The American public is ready for energy solutions that look beyond traditional positions currently dominating political debate, a US Chamber of Commerce executive suggested at...
    LPG Markets

    China’s LPG production edges up, imports slide further

    Sept. 1, 2008
    China’s 2007 LPG output maintained its steady increase since 2002, while LPG imports continued their 5-year slide, according to a recently released study by FACTS Global Energy...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    BP reopens BTC oil pipeline; rail line blasted

    Sept. 1, 2008
    BP PLC has reopened the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline through conflict-stricken Georgia, and normal operations are under way.
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    Government

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 1, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesIndustry wins $1 billion in California OCS leases suitThe US Court of Appeals upheld the 2006 ruling by the Court of Federal Claims awarding over...
    LPG Markets

    NPRA asks House to resist contradictory energy policy

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Opening limited areas of the Outer Continental Shelf while enacting so-called “Use it or lose it” legislation and other counterproductive measures would be a mistake, said National...
    Companies

    Democrats’ platform touts ‘comprehensive’ energy plan

    Sept. 1, 2008
    While at their 2008 national convention in Denver, Democrats presented a campaign platform that included an immediate rebate for consumers confronting high gasoline prices and...
    Government

    US House Speaker Pelosi lists conditions for OCS vote

    Sept. 1, 2008
    US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed natural gas as a transition to alternative fuels but continued to place conditions on a possible vote to open more of the Outer...
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    Exploration & Development

    A peek at deepwater life

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Exploration and development of petroleum resources in deep water requires extreme engineering.
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    HSE

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Acorn Energy Inc.,Montchanin, Del., has acquired Coreworx Inc. (formerly Software Innovation Inc.), Kitchener, Ont. The acquisition is a strategic move by Acorn Energy to participate...
    Economics & Markets

    ‘Cold War’ heats oil market

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Crude futures soared above $120/bbl Aug. 21 on the New York market for the first time in 2 weeks as both the US dollar and US-Russian relations deteriorated.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Natural gas pipeline profits surge; oil flat

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Natural gas pipeline operators saw their net profits surge nearly 19% in 2007 to $4.8 billion. US oil pipeline operators’ profits, meanwhile, were nearly unchanged, despite a ...
    HSE

    Europe’s diesel preference gets lift from France

    Sept. 1, 2008
    A French effort to reduce vehicular emissions of carbon dioxide might ease market-based problems of the European program known as dieselization.
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Updated cost management program availableClick here to enlarge imageAn updated cost management solution—version 2.1 of Kildrummy CostManager—is on the market. The software is ...
    Drilling & Production

    The Democrats’ wish list

    Sept. 1, 2008
    From faulty premises flow illogical conclusions. The energy plank of the Democratic Party’s presidential campaign platform starts wrong and ends wrong (see story, p.28).
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Arcadis, Inc. www.arcadis-us.comBaker Hughes Incorporated Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids www.bakerhughesdirect.comChampion Technologies Inside www.champ-tech.comChevron www.chevron...
    Pipelines

    Construction, other cost increases hit home

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Expanded drilling of various natural gas supply basins, particularly new large shale plays, and construction of new LNG import facilities has helped create a historic pipeline...
    Drilling & Production

    Eni, Roc Oil pursue onshore E&D in Angola

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Eni SPA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Angola’s Sonangol to jointly examine onshore exploration and production opportunities.
    Reserves

    Conroe field CO2 flood set as Tinsley responds

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Denbury Resources Inc., Dallas, plans to pay $600 million or more to acquire giant Conroe field north of Houston where it intends to begin injecting carbon dioxide within 5 years...
    Discoveries

    Appalachian Marcellus, deeper zones eyed

    Sept. 1, 2008
    Zone Oil & Gas LLC, Buffalo, NY, signed an exploration and geophysical joint venture deal with Penn Virginia Corp., Radnor, Pa., to explore the Devonian Marcellus shale and Oriskany...
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    Discoveries

    Western Siberia’s arctic area given 3.66 billion bbl, 651 tcf undiscovered

    Sept. 1, 2008
    There are an estimated 3.66 billion bbl of undiscovered oil and 651 tcf of natural gas north of the Arctic Circle in Russia’s West Siberian Basin Province, the US Geological Survey...