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    Refining

    Refiners should consider Monte Carlo analysis to assess expansion projects

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Due to robust growth in the global demand for refined products, refiners often face the tough decision of whether to spend significantly to accelerate expansion projects or stick...
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    Production Operations

    Study analyzes nine US, Canada shale gas plays

    Nov. 10, 2008
    A recent study has estimated that nine US and Canada shale-gas plays may produce as much as 24 bcfd by 2018.
    Reserves

    Special Report: Analysts see no trend of insider stock sales

    Nov. 10, 2008
    In early October, top executives of two large independent production companies, Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Oklahoma City and XTO Energy Inc. in Fort Worth, separately sold large...
    Production Operations

    Watching the World: Credit crunch impacts E&P

    Nov. 10, 2008
    How the oil and gas industry will be affected by the election of Barack Obama as president of the US remains to be seen.
    Drilling & Production

    Brazil’s oil development bonanza shapes up

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Brazil’s Petroleo Brasilerio SA (Petrobras), even as it eyes greater output for the future, exported a record 574,000 b/d of oil in October, breaking the previous monthly high...

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    LNG

    Uncertainty afflicts International Gas Summit participants

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Uncertainty was the hallmark of the 13th International Gas Summit in Paris Oct. 22-23, reflecting the current world financial turmoil and looming economic slowdown.
    HSE

    Watching Government: BLM’s Utah plans

    Nov. 10, 2008
    New resource management plans (RMPs) for five of the US Bureau of Land Management’s six Utah field offices received final approval Oct. 31.
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    Production Operations

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 10, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesAPI: Industry will work with new presidentThe US oil and gas industry is looking forward to working with President-elect Barack Obama and a new Congress...
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    HSE

    Special Report: Producers, regulators address Marcellus shale gas challenges

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The Marcellus shale, which extends 575 miles across parts of three eastern US states, is thought to hold as much as 500 tcf of natural gas, about 50 tcf of which is considered...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    GAO: More verification of MMS RIK production needed

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The US Minerals Management Service could improve oversight of its oil and gas royalty-in-kind (RIK) program by verifying more production data through third parties and improving...
    Discoveries

    Capital spending cuts will delay oil sands projects

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada are trimming their capital expenditure budgets and delaying some of the plans for their oil sands production projects next year.
    Government

    Editorial: Dollars and politics

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The US oil and gas industry, politically unpopular and publicly misunderstood, spent its political money on a losing cause in this year’s general election.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Producing energy from smoke

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama for his unsurprising victory after an unusually long and unusually bitter campaign.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Deepwater Specialists Inc.,LambertClick here to enlarge imageHouston has appointed Trey Lambert president. He will be responsible for overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations...
    Reserves

    Unwarranted hostility

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The editorial “An unprecedented rebuke” (O&GJ, 10/13/08) might better have been titled “Unwarranted hostility” (OGJ, Oct. 13, 2008, p. 20).
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    Pipelines

    Crude Export Riser — 1: Hybrid riser application provides deepwater crude export solution

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The freestanding hybrid riser concept allows decoupling the schedules of riser and floating production unit design, manufacture, and installation, providing flexibility should...
    IOR/EOR

    Oil futures post biggest monthly loss

    Nov. 10, 2008
    In a surprise rally in the last few moments of trading Oct. 31 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the front-month December contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes surged...
    Companies

    Advertisers’ Index

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Addax Petroleum ……… www.addaxpetroleum.comAPI Data ……… www.apidatanow.orgBaker Hughes Incorporated Baker Oil Tools ……… www.wellboreisolation.com Hughes Christensen ……… www.bakerhughes...
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    Drilling & Production

    Ultradeep shelf well logs four indicated pays in Miocene

    Nov. 10, 2008
    The ultradeep Gulf of Mexico shelf well known as Blackbeard has logged four “potential hydrocarbon-bearing zones below 30,067 ft,” said operator McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans...
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    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

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Inhibex 301 kinetic-gas hydrate inhibitor (KHI), which promises performance under a variety of gas types and conditions, now shows—after testing—it to work as a corrosion inhibitor...
    LNG

    EIA: New US gas saved $4 billion in first 7 months

    Nov. 10, 2008
    Anyone concerned about imported energy should find useful the simple proposition that raising production lowers imports unless consumption rises by the same amount.