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  • Volume 106, Issue 37

    • Volume 106, Issue 37

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Magnus runs drilling program in South Texas

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Magnus Oil & Gas Corp. is halfway through a 50-well drilling program that is delineating the new Powder River Consolidated field in Goliad County, Tex.
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly: Equipment costs rise moderately

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Costs for the five equipment items that make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed during the 2006-07 period.
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    HSE

    Operators increase stakes in Marcellus

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Operators have rushed to add acreage, expand leaseholds, and submit applications to drill the Marcellus shale.
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    Petrochemicals

    Special Report: Saudi Aramco outlines FCC catalyst evaluation method

    Oct. 6, 2008
    This article presents how Saudi Aramco evaluates the performance of selected fluid catalytic cracking catalysts and compares this performance with vendor projections in terms ...
    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Click here to download a .pdf of the Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 37

    Refining

    Advertiser’s Index

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Oil Toolswww.wellboreisolation.comBASF Catalystswww.catalysts.fasf.com/refiningBJ Services Companywww.bjservices...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 6, 2008
    New cable withstands downhole temperature to 300° C.This new high performance SureSight fiber optic distributed temperature cable withstands extreme heat and operates in high ...
    Government

    The energy factor

    Oct. 6, 2008
    A credit implosion threatening US prosperity magnifies the costs of errors in energy policy, of which the federal government has committed far too many in recent years.
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    Reserves

    Giant oil prospects lie in distal portion of offshore East Mediterranean basin

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The onshore and offshore portions of the Eastern Mediterranean basin (Fig. 1) have proven to be a prolific hydrocarbon producing area. As of December 2006, oil reserves are 15...
    Companies

    Federal rules don’t align with private sector’s courtesies

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The inspector general’s report that’s knocking over desks at the US Minerals Management Service recalls for this writer an encounter years ago with a petroleum engineer employed...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Defect Assessment—1: Modified equation aids integrity management

    Oct. 6, 2008
    A modified Ln-Sec equation should replace the original Ln-Sec equation for all grades of pipe through X80 with full-size Charpy energies of 15 ft-lb and higher.
    Economics & Markets

    Record spike in crude price

    Oct. 6, 2008
    On its last day of trade Sept. 22, the October contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes shot up $16.37 to $120.92/bbl in the largest 1-day price jump ever on the New York...
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    HSE

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 6, 2008
    T.D. Williamson Inc.,BinkleyClick here to enlarge imageTulsa, has promoted Bruce Binkley to president and CEO. Binkley replaces Dick Williamson, who has led the company for the...
    Home

    Warming blame off base

    Oct. 6, 2008
    I get so tired of reading such one-sided, biased letters as Jeff Temple’s on the question of global warming and his conclusion that it is the oil industry that is primarily responsible...
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    A hard kick in the face

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Hurricane Ike, 600 miles in diameter, devastated Haiti and Cuba then came roaring into the Texas Gulf Coast in the wee hours of Saturday, Sept. 13, and gave the Galveston-Houston...
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    Reserves

    ROV operators to earn $9 billion over next 5 years

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Oil and gas industry expenditure on work-class remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) operations is likely to total $1.6 billion in 2008, and the market is set to reach $2...
    LNG

    FERC approves Oregon Columbia River LNG project

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 18 approved the first new LNG terminal and related send-out pipeline in the Pacific Northwest after a 31⁄2-year review.
    Production Operations

    Petrobras, IOCs share subsalt, presalt exploration views

    Oct. 6, 2008
    All eyes were on Brazil’s “presalt” play at the Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference Sept. 15-19 in Barra de Tijuca, an eastern suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
    Companies

    Senators plan bill with MMS employee ethics reforms

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Two US Senate Democrats plan to introduce legislation detailing appropriate conduct for government employees dealing with oil and gas producers in response to misconduct in the...
    Exploration & Development

    SPE: Industry cites unconventional resources potential

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The estimated vast unconventional resources hold much promise for substantially adding to the world’s energy needs, but developing these resources entails overcoming many restraints...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 6, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesSenate rejects oil shale moratoriumThe US Senate on Sept. 26 defeated by 52 to 42 votes an economic stimulus bill containing a provision to extend...
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    Tankers

    Watching The World: Now Russians enter Somalia

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The oil industry may think it can breathe a sigh of relief now that authorities in Somalia have called for help in getting rid of pirates infesting its waters. But think before...
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    Economics & Markets

    Watching Government: OCS lease bans lapse

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Perhaps it was because of the proposed multibillion-dollar Wall Street bailout that the expiration of US Outer Continental Shelf leasing moratoriums on Sept. 30 went largely unnoticed...
    LPG Markets

    Japanese firms boost Vietnamese oil industry

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Japanese firms are stepping up their involvement in Vietnam’s oil industry, entering both upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing.
    Reserves

    UGI: Unconventional gas wealth seen in world’s basins

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Sedimentary basins in the US appear to contain a volume of technically recoverable unconventional gas that is 10 times the ultimately recoverable volume of conventional gas.
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    General Interest

    Comment: Have oil futures traders driven up the market?

    Oct. 6, 2008
    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in mid-July reclassified a futures trader as “large noncommercial” (speculator-investor) from its former designation as “large...
    Drilling & Production

    Democrats remove OCS leasing bans from continuing resolution

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Faced with the prospect of a presidential veto of a continuing resolution, congressional Democrats deleted language dealing with US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing...
    Drilling & Production

    US House passes bill to stop oil commodities speculation

    Oct. 6, 2008
    By a vote of 273 to 124, the US House of Representatives approved a bill Sept. 18 designed to stop excessive oil commodities speculation.
    Production Operations

    Bodman: Russia using energy as foreign policy ‘tool’

    Oct. 6, 2008
    US Sec. of Energy Samuel Bodman, concerned about Russia’s use of energy as a tool of foreign policy, said he would take up the issue with officials at a meeting next week in Vienna...
    LNG

    NPC: 2007 ‘Hard Truths’ findings, advisements still apply

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Recommendations and findings in a groundbreaking 2007 report still apply more than a year after they were issued, members of the National Petroleum Council said at their 2008 ...
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    HSE

    SWP advances CO2 sequestration, ECBM, EOR demos

    Oct. 6, 2008
    Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) continues its Phase 2 and 3 carbon dioxide projects for validating the feasibility of sequestering CO2...
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    Companies

    Carbon-fiber material bonded on pipe centralizes tubular strings

    Oct. 6, 2008
    A composite carbon-fiber material bonded directly on the pipe surface provides an alternative for obtaining standoff for completion and drilling tools, production riser systems...