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  • Volume 106, Issue 39

    • Volume 106, Issue 39

    LPG Markets

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: ConocoPhillips makes management changes

    Oct. 20, 2008
    ConocoPhillips made several senior management changes.
    Production Operations

    US House panel’s minority report disputes findings

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The US House Natural Resources Committee’s minority staff released its own report on Oct. 9 challenging one which the majority staff issued 6 months ago that has been the basis...
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    Refining & Processing

    US may become net gasoline exporter by 2010, study says

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Shifts in energy demand and biofuels capacity will disrupt the global refining industry, potentially turning the US into a net exporter of gasoline by 2010.
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    Production Operations

    Successful fast-track project brought Su Tu Den field on stream

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Following the Su Tu Den discovery in Block 15-1 off Vietnam, a fast-track field development program culminated in first oil production only 2 years and 82 days after declaration...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial: The crisis and capitalism

    Oct. 20, 2008
    An extra hazard lurks in the turmoil that has engulfed the global financial system.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 39

    Exploration & Development

    MMS plans central gulf sale for March 2009

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The US Minerals Management Service has scheduled Lease Sale 208 for the Central Planning Area (CPA) in the Gulf of Mexico for Mar. 18, 2009.
    LNG

    Eni signs exploration deal with Papua New Guinea

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Italy’s Eni SPA has signed an agreement with Papua New Guinea for a long-term partnership to pursue sustainable development of the country’s untouched hydrocarbon resources.
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    General Interest

    Atlas Energy’s Marcellus program delivers 60 MMcfd in Pennsylvania

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Atlas Energy Resources LLC, Philadelphia, is the largest producer of gas from Devonian Marcellus shale in the Appalachian basin and has drilled more than 80 wells, almost all ...
    Companies

    Oil service executive sees fast exploration growth

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Exploration services are likely to grow much faster than the overall oil field services market worldwide for years, Schlumberger Ltd. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew...
    Discoveries

    Advertisers Index

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Axiom Design Group …… www.axiomis10.comBaker Hughes Incorporated Inteq …… www.answerswhiledrilling.com/slsChevron …… www.chevron.com/careersHalliburton …… www.halliburton.com/...
    IOR/EOR

    E q u i p m e n t / S o f t w a r e / L i t e r a t u r e

    Oct. 20, 2008
    New software lets energy teams share data securelyPetrisWINDS iShare is a new, improved collaboration software solution suited for energy teams that need to share information ...
    Production Operations

    Oil industry helps ease the new load on US taxpayers

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Congress has allowed the oil and gas business to ease the extra load taxpayers will assume from the vote-winning part of the economic rescue package signed into law Oct. 3.
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    General Interest

    Services Suppliers

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Swagelok Co.,CollinsClick here to enlarge imageSolon, Ohio, has announced that ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals) elected Sunniva R. Collins, a senior...
    Economics & Markets

    Crude prices lowest in a year

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The November contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes hit new lows for the year, trading as low as $77.09/bbl Oct. 10 before closing at $77.70/bbl, down $8.89 for the day...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    FRACTURE PROPAGATION—1: Fracture-arrest prediction requires correction factors

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The Batelle two-curve method of fracture-arrest prediction for X70 and X80 high toughness steels requires correction factors based on the steel’s grade and toughness level.
    HSE

    Special Report: Environmental, leasing policies evolving

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Oil companies researching oil shale development are watching the unfolding of US leasing and environmental regulatory policies that could influence the economics of producing ...
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    Home

    Measuring ‘cheap’ oil

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Oil prices have been on a downward spiral for several weeks, punched by dwindling demand.
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    Companies

    Modec FSO hits 1 billion bbl offloading mark

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Modec Inc.’s floating storage and offloading unit Ta’Kuntah has reached a milestone in the industry—offloading a total of 1 billion bbl of oil to 1,745 export tankers.
    Production Operations

    Kazakh transport plans unfazed by Russia-Georgia strife

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Although Kazakhstan has said it plans to arrange delivery of its oil to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline via Azerbaijan and on to Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi,...
    Refining

    Watching The World: Oiling the road To Ulaanbaatar

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The Japanese government, aiming to reduce the country’s dependence on oil and natural gas, has cast its eyes far and wide for new sources of energy.
    Tankers

    BP to flow Kazakh oil through BTC pipeline

    Oct. 20, 2008
    BP PLC plans to begin shipping oil from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field via the 1,770-km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline beginning later this month.
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    HSE

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 20, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesE&Y: Alternate energy investments could slowThe credit crunch and falling oil prices could dampen investment in alternate energy companies until ...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: A politically audacious idea

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The full-page, A-section advertisement in the Oct. 9 Washington Post stood out from others; it was not for a major commercial bank saying how much it appreciated its depositors...
    Production Operations

    Company News: E.On secures stake in Yuzhno Russkoye gas project

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Russia’s state-owned OAO Gazprom has signed an asset swap agreement granting German utility E.On AG a stake in the Yuzhno-Russkoye natural gas project.
    Pipelines

    Egyptian court to rule in November on gas to Israel

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Egypt’s State Council Administrative Court said it will issue a ruling Nov. 18 regarding a case lodged by a former ambassador and several lawyers against the export of Egyptian...
    Reserves

    Brazil to offer fewer blocks for December auction

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP), apparently bowing to pressure from the government, has reduced the number of exploration and production concession blocks to be auctioned...
    Production Operations

    Brazil launches new platform, loading terminal

    Oct. 20, 2008
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has inaugurated the P-51, the company’s first domestically built semisubmersible platform—a milestone event according to government and company...
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    New Plants

    Special Report: US oil shale resources look promising yet still uncertain

    Oct. 20, 2008
    The quest for commercial viability of oil shale ultimately could prove the most practical option among unconventional hydrocarbon resources to add large quantities of proved US...