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  • Volume 106, Issue 43

    • Volume 106, Issue 43

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Rise seen in petrochemical, refining construction

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in refining and petrochemical construction activity compared with the previous edition of ...
    Production Operations

    Saudi production dominance to continue, analyst says

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Saudi Arabia will account for 20.93% of Middle Eastern regional oil demand by 2012 while providing a dominant 40.71% of supply, according to a recent analyst report.
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    Refining & Processing

    Downstream industry struggles with fewer resources, study says

    Nov. 17, 2008
    The global engineering contractor industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified manpower, according to a biennial survey of refiners and petrochemical producers.
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    New Plants

    UFRJ, Petrobras study strength behavior of expandable tubulars

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Researchers at COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Petrobras present a method for determining the necessary diameter-to-thickness ratio of tubulars corresponding to...
    Refining & Processing

    Aramco, ConocoPhillips delay Yanbu refinery construction

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips, citing uncertainties in financial and contracting markets, have agreed to halt the bidding process for construction of their planned...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 43

    Companies

    Atlas to pursue New Albany shale in Indiana

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Atlas Energy Resources LLC, Pittsburgh, plans to drill more than 100 horizontal wells to Devonian New Albany shale in southwestern Indiana by the end of 2009.
    Discoveries

    Woodford shale play forms up in Oklahoma Anadarko basin

    Nov. 17, 2008
    A play for gas-condensate and oil in the fractured Upper Devonian Woodford shale formation is emerging on the Oklahoma side of the Anadarko basin.
    Production Operations

    Encore making run at Tuscaloosa marine shale

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, is exploring for oil in the highly overpressured Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale and has accumulated 210,000 net acres along the Louisiana...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    USGS: 2.4 tcf of gas beneath eastern >Oregon, Washington

    Nov. 17, 2008
    An estimated 2.4 tcf of natural gas and 9.8 million bbl of natural gas liquids lie beneath eastern Oregon and Washington, the US Geological Survey reported.
    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 17, 2008
    New diversion service for shale-fracturing operationsThe new StimMORE fluid diversion service diverts fracture treatments along a wellbore in cemented or openhole completions....
    Government

    Waxman challenge might be a climate change power play

    Nov. 17, 2008
    A chairmanship challenge at the House Energy and Commerce Committee may be the first step in a power play over climate change.
    Exploration & Development

    Advertisers’ Index

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Addax Petroleum ……www.addaxpetroleum.comAPI Data ……www.apidatanow.orgBaker Hughes Incorporated Inteq ……www.answerswhiledrilling.com/coringBrand Service Aluma Systems ……www.beis...
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    Pipelines

    CRUDE EXPORT RISER—2: Reliable FSHR use requires advance fatigue assessments

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Analyses assessing the possible use of a free-standing hybrid riser (FSHR) as part of an offshore field development export system should both thoroughly address fatigue damage...
    Economics & Markets

    OPEC’s compliance should tighten markets

    Nov. 17, 2008
    If the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries can achieve just 60% compliance with the 1.5 million b/d production reduction voted at its Oct. 24 meeting, there would be...
    Home

    Tons of confusion

    Nov. 17, 2008
    I read your article “Musings on ‘M,’” and I agree wholeheartedly about the confusing nature of certain abbreviations in our industry (OGJ, Oct. 27, 2008, p. 18).
    HSE

    Political fracturing

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Oil and gas producers in the US can profit by brushing up on the regulatory background of hydraulic fracturing.
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    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Rowan Cos. Inc.,McNeaseClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has announced that its CEO and Chairman Daniel F. McNease will retire at yearend. Rowan’s board of directors is conducting...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial: Obama’s energy program

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Because political promises exist to be broken, no one would feel morally usurped if President-Elect Barack Obama ignored the energy program on which he and his running mate campaigned...
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    Economics & Markets

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 17, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesEurope seeks alternatives to Russian energy suppliesThe European Union should improve access to gas from the Caspian region, coordinate supply problems...
    Production Operations

    IPAA: Unconventional gas changing US supply picture

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Shale gas plays helped US natural gas production increase within the last year, while US oil production continues to decline, said speakers at the Independent Petroleum Association...
    Economics & Markets

    Analysts assess possible Obama administration actions

    Nov. 17, 2008
    Voting machines had barely cooled down earlier this week before energy analysts began to evaluate the apparent election victory of Ill. Sen. Barack Obama.
    Companies

    Watching The World: Corrib Controversy

    Nov. 17, 2008
    How long have we been talking about Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Corrib natural gas field development off the northwest coast of Ireland? Too long, but it looks like we’ll be talking...