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  • Volume 106, Issue 4

    • Volume 106, Issue 4

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    Reserves

    Egypt and Tomorrow’s Energy Markets: Comprehensive strategy equips Egypt for a competitive energy world

    Jan. 28, 2008
    If there is a single word that defines every facet of tomorrow’s energy markets, it is competition—for resources, for opportunities, for customers, for qualified employees...
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    LNG

    Egypt’s Petroleum Future: Adding value to natural gas, developing deepwater prospects are key goals

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Egypt began the ascent to its position as a leading global energy player by leveraging its strategic location.
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    Pipelines

    Egypt’s Natural Gas Operations and Plans: EGAS guides strategy, Gasco’s expanding grid supplies gas, gas liquids

    Jan. 28, 2008
    As the potential of Egypt’s gas resources became well defined and the benefits of clean burning fuel more important, the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co.
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    LNG

    An Exclusive One-on-one Interview with

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Q: How has re-structuring of the oil sector streamlined operations and enhanced the industry’s future potential?
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Egypt’s Deepwater Oil and Gas Development: Work continues in existing fields, new discoveries await plans

    Jan. 28, 2008
    With the bulk of its natural gas resource in the Mediterranean—some studies estimate ultimate recovery from deepwater gas reserves at up to 70 tcf—and a strategic focus...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 4

    Drilling & Production

    Congressman seeks delay for Alaska Chukchi Sea lease sale

    Jan. 28, 2008
    US Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has urged Secretary of the Interior Dirk A. Kempthorne to postpone the Minerals Management Service’s sale of leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska...
    Economics & Markets

    Bodman: Global energy security will need massive investment

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Billions of dollars in investments will be required annually to achieve global energy security by diversifying supplies, suppliers, and supply routes, US Secretary of Energy Samuel...
    Drilling Operations

    Injecting nanosensors

    Jan. 28, 2008
    A newly formed consortium aims to develop nanotechnologies that can characterize oil and gas reservoirs more comprehensively than the current means that rely largely on collecting...
    Refining & Processing

    GAO: US should improve oil product supply system

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The US petroleum product distribution system is constrained in key areas and will likely become more so without timely investments, the US Government Accountability Office warned...
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    Pipelines

    Egypt’s Natural Gas Operations and Plans: PICO moves beyond Egypt and ‘leftover’ fields; new lines expand the grid

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Natural gas discoveries like those in the Obaiyed and Khalda concessions will be important to the growth of Egypt’s energy sector and the country’s economy.
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    General Interest

    Services / Suppliers

    Jan. 28, 2008
    International Association of Drilling Contractors,Houston, has announced its officers for 2008. John Lindsay, executive vice-president, US and international operations, Helmerich...
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    Production Operations

    COMMENT: Did Caspian summit share the sea or Iran’s oil riches?

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The Iranian oil and gas industry—although about a century old—has never been so derelict, poorly managed, and near bankruptcy as it is today.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 28, 2008
    RomaniaThe Doina Sister well on the Midia Block in the Black Sea off Romania tested at stabilized rates up to 19.2 MMscfd in 4 hr from perforations at 1,139-68 m in the main Mio...
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    HSE

    SPECIAL REPORT: Technology advances continue to unlock additional resources

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Technology advances are allowing companies to extract more oil and gas from resources that in previous years were uneconomic to develop.
    Exploration & Development

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Bearing up in the Arctic

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The US Minerals Management Service has begun an evaluation of the environmental issues associated with future federal Outer Continental Shelf lease sales for oil and gas exploration...
    LNG

    EIA gas projections to 2030 identify market changes

    Jan. 28, 2008
    This energy outlook for natural gas to 2030 was developed by the US Energy Information Administration and focuses on a short-term reference case, Annual Energy Outlook 2008 (AEO2008...
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    Production Operations

    Egypt’s Deepwater Oil and Gas Development: Technology will aid recovery from complex structures, find new fields

    Jan. 28, 2008
    At its most fundamental, deepwater exploration and development is about cost and risk.
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    LNG

    Industry ignoring potential of bidirectional LNG flows

    Jan. 28, 2008
    With record levels of LNG traveling in opposite directions through the Suez Canal, the economic rationale for swapping cargoes is growing stronger.
    LNG

    COMPANY NEWS: ConocoPhillips approves $14.3 billion capital budget

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Oil and gas companies continue to report their capital spending plans for 2008.
    Production Operations

    Request for more oil highlights US contradictions

    Jan. 28, 2008
    These thoughts might have occurred to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah when US President George W. Bush, during a visit to the desert kingdom, requested an increase in oil production...
    General Interest

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: US trade groups expand reach

    Jan. 28, 2008
    US oil and gas trade associations may seem to have their hands full with domestic issues.
    Home

    Winners and losers

    Jan. 28, 2008
    If you simply look at the hard numbers (prices, profitability, margins, capacity utilization), you would draw the opposite conclusion and recognize that the oil industry’s best...
    Refining & Processing

    API: Rising oil prices, falling stocks constrain demand

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Rising oil prices combined with falling inventories to keep US petroleum product demand essentially flat during 2007, the American Petroleum Institute said on Jan. 17.
    Government

    Energy and economic woes

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Political responses to economic problems can do more harm than good. The US government is now rushing together a political fix for an economy unraveling at surprising speed.
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    Companies

    SPECIAL REPORT: Operators develop, implement new downhole technologies

    Jan. 28, 2008
    BP PLC and Shell are developing and integrating new downhole technologies in their worldwide exploration and development projects.
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    Refining & Processing

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Oxy names Chazen president, chief financial officer

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Occidental Petroleum Corp. has elected Stephen I. Chazen president and chief financial officer.
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    General Interest

    Asset-performance management helps US refiners comply with Baker Report

    Jan. 28, 2008
    To be successful, refiners must be profitable while maintaining safety performance that is more than just acceptable.
    Economics & Markets

    Crude futures price closes at 5-week low

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The February crude contract fell 71¢ to $90.13/bbl Jan. 17 on the New York Mercantile Exchange—its lowest closing in 5 weeks—after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
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    HSE

    Egypt’s Natural Gas Operations and Plans: New discoveries, more liquids recovery both serve natural gas strategy

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The world’s energy future—at least a big part of it—belongs to natural gas.
    Reserves

    CERA-IHS: Global oil field decline rate at 4.5%/year

    Jan. 28, 2008
    The aggregate global decline rate for producing oil fields is 4.5%/year rather than the 8%/year sometimes cited in other studies, said Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Baker Hughes IncorporatedHughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.comBCCK Engineeringwww.bcck.comBennett Coleman & Co Ltd.Carbone Lorrainewww.carbonbrush.comwww.elec.carbonelorraine....
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    LNG

    Egypt’s Downstream Operations and Opportunities: Sidpec growth strategy built on product quality, export experience

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Turning crude oil and natural gas components into basic and intermediate petrochemicals adds significant value to petroleum reserves.
    Exploration & Development

    Equipment / Software / Literature

    Jan. 28, 2008
    New web site lists Russian producers, service providersNew web site www.oil-gas.biz (http://www.oil-gas.biz/) is supported by the Russian Association of Oil & Gas Equipment Producers...
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    General Interest

    Trend surface residual anomaly mapping and well data may be underutilized combo

    Jan. 28, 2008
    Trend surface residual anomaly (TSRA) mapping techniques have been applied to three regions to demonstrate their use in the identification of blind structures and trends in areas...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 28, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesWEF forecasts energy supplies as key riskStable global energy supplies will be a major risk area for countries in 2008, according to a report published...