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  • Volume 106, Issue 35

    • Volume 106, Issue 35

    Companies

    Producers forecast decline in oil, natural gas production from Indonesia operations

    Sept. 15, 2008
    PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI), already under government scrutiny for alleged violations of its cost recovery claims, has forecast that production from its concessions will...
    LPG Markets

    US Congress presses for energy votes by October

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Acknowledging that they have less than 3 weeks before the next recess, congressional leaders on both sides of the Capitol said they will bring energy bills up for votes soon.
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    Operations

    Corrosion problems solved in CT nitrogen operations off Brazil

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Laboratory and field research with various completion fluids helps refine procedures to reduce corrosion in coiled tubing during use of nitrogen contaminated with oxygen.
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    Gas Processing

    Contaminants key to refinery offgas treatment unit design

    Sept. 15, 2008
    This article details methods for removing individual contaminants in refinery offgas (ROG).
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    IOR/EOR

    Considerable potential remains after Daqing polymer flood

    Sept. 15, 2008
    At present, one potential for additional oil recovery from Daqing oil field in northern China is the remaining oil contained in reservoirs that have undergone polymer flooding...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 35

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    Discoveries

    Canadian firm gets Mediterranean acreage block off Libya, Tunisia

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Joint Oil of Libya and Tunisia has awarded the 7th of November block in the southern Mediterranean to Canadian Superior Energy Inc., Calgary.
    Drilling Operations

    Chevron’s 3 tcf Piceance basin project gears up

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Chevron Corp. has started gas production in a $7.3 billion project to develop an estimated 3 tcf of gas over several decades in the Piceance basin in northwestern Colorado.
    Companies

    Delaware basin shales strain for economics

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The Mississippian Barnett shale has the potential to be a prolific gas producer in the Delaware basin, but it will take time, write geoscientists in the AAPG Bulletin.
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    Sept. 15, 2008
    API Datawww.apidatanow.orgBaker Hughes IncorporatedINTEQwww.bakerhughes.comBrand ServiceAluma Systemswww.beis.comCareerBuilder.comwww.careerbuilder.comDeltaValve USAwww.deltavalve...
    Production Operations

    Area Drilling

    Sept. 15, 2008
    ColombiaEmerald Energy PLC plans to drill another development well in Vigia field on the Campo Rico Association Contract in Colombia.Vigia-4ST will use 1,500 ft of the cased well...
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 15, 2008
    New fluid cleaning system for drilling rigsThe new Enviro-Pur fluid cleaning system helps increase equipment uptime and lower overall maintenance costs by maintaining the quality...
    Refining & Processing

    OPEC and hurricanes

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The oil market fell subject to more tugs and pushes than usual last week as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries acted to support the price of crude and the second...
    Tankers

    Oil prices change faster than market perceptions turn

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Market perceptions, whatever they are and whatever their influence over oil prices, take a long time to change.
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    LNG

    TERMINAL SITING—Conclusion: Project viability hinges on waterway, land assessments

    Sept. 15, 2008
    LNG terminal development requires careful assessment of both the waterway leading to the potential terminal site and the geographic conditions of the site itself.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Storms, OPEC guide oil prices

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Front-month crude prices fluctuated at $111-122/bbl through most of August on the New York Mercantile Exchange but fell sharply Aug. 28-Sept. 5 primarily as Hurricane Gustav proved...
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Aker Solutions,Oslo, has been awarded a $35 million contract for delivery of a deepwater drilling riser system to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The contract...
    Government

    Spotlight on new technology

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Oil & Gas Journal is a technology-based magazine emphasizing upstream and downstream issues and news for executives, engineers, and other participants in the oil and gas industry...
    Companies

    Democratic oil finders?

    Sept. 15, 2008
    In response to congressional Democrats obstructing new offshore leasing until all existing leases are fully developed, I request that the Democratic National Committee put its...
    Refining & Processing

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Does OPEC cut by the numbers?

    Sept. 15, 2008
    If anything can be counted on in the oil and gas industry these days, it is that the governments of Venezuela and the US are not going to see eye-to-eye on very much at all.
    LNG

    Alaska gas projects advance; consolidation urged

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in its latest report to Congress Aug. 29, said that of the two major projects competing to deliver natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope...
    HSE

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: API on polar bears

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The American Petroleum Institute said on Sept. 5 that it wasn’t questioning the US Department of the Interior’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species when it...
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    Reserves

    Global E&P investments for 2007 remain flat, study finds

    Sept. 15, 2008
    Oil and gas companies’ 2007 global investment for exploration and development projects totaled $402 billion—unchanged from 2006, said the latest annual upstream performance review...
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    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: OGJ100 group posts improved 2007 results

    Sept. 15, 2008
    National oil companies continue to head the lists of the world’s oil production and reserves leaders, according to Oil & Gas Journal’s survey of the top 100 oil and gas producers...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 15, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesIEA cuts 2008, 2009 world oil demand forecastsThe International Energy Agency has reduced its outlook for 2008 and 2009 world oil demand, citing ...
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    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: OGJ200 earnings mixed as US production, reserves climb

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The OGJ200 group of companies recorded a decline in earnings last year as greater expenses ate into returns.
    Economics & Markets

    Reactions mixed as BLM issues EIS for oil shale

    Sept. 15, 2008
    The US Bureau of Land Management issued a final programmatic environmental impact statement Sept. 4 to guide the use of public land containing oil shale and tar sands in three...