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  • Volume 106, Issue 36

    • Volume 106, Issue 36

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    SPECIAL REPORT: Nearly depleted Philippine gas well to provide small vehicle fuel

    Sept. 22, 2008
    A company plans to extract the remaining gas from the nearly depleted San Antonio well in the Philippines for use in fueling small vehicles.
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    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: Mideast operators using more artificial lift surveillance, optimization technology

    Sept. 22, 2008
    As the number of electrical submersible pump installations has increased in the Middle East, operating companies have started deploying more surveillance and optimization technology...
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    Production Operations

    Non-frac stimulation technologies mark progress too

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Although the oil and gas industry’s buzz over the hot gas shale plays in North America has pushed fracturing technology advances to the forefront, other production stimulation...
    HSE

    Frac advances key to unconventional gas supply growth

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Advances in production stimulation technologies have been critical to the meteoric growth in unconventional gas supply.
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    Production Operations

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Saxi-Batuque crude assayed

    Sept. 22, 2008
    StatoilHydro has conducted an assay of the Saxi-Batuque blended crude, which is part of the Kizomba C development project on Block 15 off Angola.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 36

    Production Operations

    Shell completes Bonga deepwater 4D survey

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Nigerian subsidiary completed 4D seismic acquisition over deepwater Bonga oil and gas field off Nigeria in an effort to maximize ultimate recovery from...
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    Companies

    Reoriented Talisman evaluating unproven Utica, Lorraine shales

    Sept. 22, 2008
    A self-redirected Talisman Energy Inc. expressed encouragement earlier this month at results from its first well in Ordovician Utica shale in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.
    Companies

    US, Canada to map unexplored Arctic seafloor

    Sept. 22, 2008
    The US and Canada will jointly map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the two countries may have sovereign rights over oil, gas, and other resources, the US Geological Survey...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Baker Hughes Incorporatedwww.bakerhughes.com/speBHP Billitonpetroleum.bhpbilliton.comCameronwww.c-a-m.com/flowcontrolCapstone Turbine Corporationwww.c-a-m.com/flowcontrolCeradyne...
    Economics & Markets

    Two oil-dependent economies

    Sept. 22, 2008
    As financial crises rock two globally important, oil-dependent economies, a question looms for anyone with capital to expose to risk: Which is likelier to emerge from this turmoil...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Sept. 22, 2008
    AustraliaBeach Petroleum Ltd., Perth, commissioned the 47 km, 5,000 b/d Callawonga-Tantanna oil pipeline to serve its western Cooper basin fields in Australia.The pipeline connects...
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    Government

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Respirator offers custom fit, user comfortPeakFit, a US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-approved N95 air-purifying respirator, is specifically engineered...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    CP changes address hydrogen diffusion

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Adjustments to a pipeline’s cathodic-protection program can help address possible hydrogen diffusion brought about by nonconformance with welding procedure specifications (WPS...
    General Interest

    Warming political menu gets new item: eggplant, well done

    Sept. 22, 2008
    The sacrifices people have been called to make in response to global warming have become tangible in a new way.
    Drilling Operations

    OPEC promises ‘strict’ compliance

    Sept. 22, 2008
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Sept. 10 to strictly comply with their September 2007 production quota of 28.8 million b/d, implying a possible compromise...
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Sulphco Inc.,ZeidmanClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed Fred S. Zeidman to its board. Zeidman has held leadership positions in a number of energy-related companies...
    Economics & Markets

    Reversing roles

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Ipsos Mori, the global research company, loves asking questions, and with the economic downturn, job insecurity, rising inflation, and record-high energy prices, anyone who is...
    Drilling Operations

    AFR: E. Java mud flow damage understated

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Santos Ltd. has rejected speculation suggested by a Sept. 15 report in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that said: “Santos is facing a blowout in the clean-up bill from the...
    Home

    Biofuels gain within fuels mix could be slow, study says

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Biofuels could make up 10-15% of the global fuels mix in 20 years, although getting to the level will be more difficult than some might expect, consultant Accenture said in a ...
    Drilling & Production

    Storm recovery begins; limited refinery damage seen

    Sept. 22, 2008
    The US oil and gas industry reported early progress as it began to recover from damage caused by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall over Galveston, Tex., in the early hours of...
    Government

    US House approves Democratic leadership’s energy bill

    Sept. 22, 2008
    US House members passed an energy bill by 236 to 189 votes on Sept. 16 which Democrats called a true compromise and Republicans labeled a travesty.
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    Refining & Processing

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 22, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesChavez shakes up PDVSA executive suiteIn a move that could have implications for Venezuelan oil production, President Hugo Chavez, continues to tweak...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Energy compromises

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Within a few short weeks, the potential for congressional energy compromises, which looked so bright at the beginning of August, began to look increasingly tarnished.
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    LPG Markets

    FACTS: Iran to complete many delayed petchem projects

    Sept. 22, 2008
    By yearend 2009, Iran plans to complete many delayed petrochemical projects currently under construction, according to FACTS Global Energy in a report entitled, “An Update on ...
    LNG

    WATCHING THE WORLD: The Russians are coming

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Did anyone really think Moscow would just sit still as Washington, DC, and its allies attempted to extract oil and gas from Russia’s backyard in the Caspian and Central Asia?
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    Refining & Processing

    Congress members pledge action after oil speculation study

    Sept. 22, 2008
    An independent report showing that record amounts of speculative investment drove oil prices to record peaks in 2008 confirms that stronger market regulation is needed, federal...
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    HSE

    Emulsion fuel options still viable for heavy oil

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Venezuela was until recently the only source of a unique fuel option that bypassed the traditional yet capital intensive two-step conversion of bitumen-extra heavy crudes(B-EHC...
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    Exploration & Development

    SPECIAL REPORT: Platform with a two-section jacket installed off Turkmenistan

    Sept. 22, 2008
    Petronas Caragali (Turkmenistan) Sdn. Bhd. recently had a platform installed for producing the oil and gas discovery it made in 2002 off Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea.