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  • Volume 106, Issue 38

    • Volume 106, Issue 38

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    Production Operations

    Study compares methods that measure hydrogen use in diesel hydrotreaters

    Oct. 13, 2008
    A recent study found that the more accurate methods for analyzing hydrogen consumption are the feed-total liquid product (TLP) H-content analysis and chemical analysis methods...
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    Pipelines

    Drilling Market Focus: Australian operators drill for gas to feed LNG trains

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Natural gas is driving drilling in Australia, while oil production continues to decline.
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    Production Operations

    New software moves distributed-temperature sensing data

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Shell has developed open standards software to fill the gap of moving distributed-temperature sensing (DTS) data from the wellsite to the engineer’s office desktop.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Russians: ‘Kazakhs want to use ESPO pipeline’

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil pipeline operator KazTransOil is interested in transporting Kazakh oil through Russia’s East Siberia-Pacific...
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    Economics & Markets

    Special Report: Energy to be main focus for incoming president, Congress

    Oct. 13, 2008
    US economic problems dominated the 2008 presidential campaign as the two major nominees prepared to meet in their second debate last week.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 38

    LNG

    NGSA: No change in wholesale price pressure this winter

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Pressure on domestic wholesale natural gas prices this winter heating season will mirror last year’s because producers have drilled more wells, and technology has helped them ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Africa, EU develop energy cooperation actions

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Last month the African Union Commission and the European Commission jointly established an Africa-European Union energy partnership that could attract more than €1 billion in ...
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    Economics & Markets

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 13, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesDeutsche Bank updates oil, gas price forecastsA research report released Oct. 3 by Deutsche Bank sees room for oil prices to continue to decline....
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    Production Operations

    Point of View: More money for technology needed for the oil industry

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Innovative entrepreneur Gennady “Gene” Moshkovich has established several companies that cater to various aspects of the oil industry, especially desulfurization: He currently...
    Production Operations

    US independents report cuts to drilling budgets

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, along with Petrohawk Energy Corp. and ATP Oil & Gas Corp., both of Houston, are cutting their drilling budgets and focusing on their best...
    Refining & Processing

    Watching Government: Peterson’s energy legacy

    Oct. 13, 2008
    US Rep. John E. Peterson (R-Pa.) could take pride in watching Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing moratoriums expire Sept. 30.
    Government

    Watching The World: Electrifying news for Bodman & Co.

    Oct. 13, 2008
    US Energy Sec. Samuel Bodman seems a little behind the times when it comes to alternative fuels and the interests of carmakers.
    Pipelines

    Egypt struggles to meet demand growth for natural gas

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Egypt has awarded a drilling contract to the recently formed Egyptian Offshore Drilling Co. (EODC), a joint venture of Toyota Tsusho 50%, Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. 35%,...
    Production Operations

    Political uncertainty reduces Indonesian production

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Indonesia’s declining oil production, as well as its recent departure from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is the result of political uncertainty in the country...
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    Home

    Cleanup fund gets attention

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Environmental cleanup funds rarely generate much attention. But the Oil Field Cleanup Fund (OFCU), under authority of the Texas Railroad Commission, (RRC) has been the subject...
    Economics & Markets

    September crude prices fall

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Front-month crude plunged $10.52/bbl Sept. 29 as the House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion plan to resolve the most severe threat to the US economy since the Great ...
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    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 13, 2008
    MOGAS Industries Inc.,KorporaalClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed two new key executives. Ton Korporaal is the company’s new refining and hydrocarbons industry ...
    Home

    US can raise tax revenue by cutting corporate tax rate

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Political discourse in the early 1980s treated “tax rates” and “tax revenue” as synonymous phrases.
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 13, 2008
    New software suite aids sesimic computing efficiencyNewly released CUDA 2.0, the latest version of C language programming environment for graphics processing units, enables software...
    Refining & Processing

    An unprecedented rebuke

    Oct. 13, 2008
    While addressing mortgage debt deemed “toxic” in a desperate effort to rescue the US economy, Congress somehow saw fit to raise toxicity of the political climate for oil and natural...
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    Home

    Defect Assessment—Conclusion: Modified Ln-Secant equation improves failure prediction

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Limitations in the original Ln-Sec equation prompted development of a modified equation better suited thru the original equation for remaining life assessments.
    Home

    Advertisers Index

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Arcadis, Inc. www.arcadis-us.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedBaker Hughes Drilling Fluids www.bakerhughes.com/drillingfluidsBCCK Engineering, Inc. Inside www.bcck.comCameron www.c...
    HSE

    Nido Petroleum finds oil off Philippines

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Nido Petroleum Ltd., Perth, said its Yakal-1 wildcat in SC54 of the Northwest Palawan basin off the Philippines has encountered a 66-m gross oil column.
    Exploration & Development

    Eni tests gas from Argo-2 well off Sicily

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Eni SPA plans to develop on a fast-track basis its offshore discoveries in the Sicilian Strait following test results of 170,000 cu m/day of natural gas from the Argo 2 well.
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    Discoveries

    Reliance, Niko start production at MA oil field off eastern India

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, and Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary, began a new chapter in India’s hydrocarbon production with the startup of MA oil field in the Krishna-Godavari...
    Reserves

    Papua New Guinea gas-condensate find tested

    Oct. 13, 2008
    Rift Oil PLC reported a flow of 29.2 MMcfd of gas during a test in its Puk Puk-1 wildcat on Papua New Guinea permit PPL 235 in the country’s Western Province.