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    New Plants

    Study compares C2-recovery for conventional turboexpander, GSP

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Among the various ethane-recovery processes, the turboexpander process is the most widely used.
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    Production Operations

    Tests prove out self-powered, wireless, pump torquemeter

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Laboratory tests and a field trial in Carmopolis field in northeastern Brazil verified that a self-powered, wireless torquemeter provided a new and better method for determining...
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    Companies

    Special Report: Industry high grading alternative energy assets

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Oil companies are rearranging and fine tuning their alternative energy assets to determine which ones they want to pursue for pilot demonstration projects and eventual commercialization...
    Government

    BLM Utah head defers leases in response to NPS concerns

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Two congressional Republicans are poised to move into important positions for the oil and gas industry as the US Senate and House change committee assignments.
    Production Operations

    CGES: Russia grappling with faulty oil export tax system

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Russian producers and the government have been hit hard by a crude export tax system that has proven incapable of coping with the rapid drop in oil prices that started in early...

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    Exploration & Development

    Watching The World: Cash flows to ice floes

    Dec. 8, 2008
    No one can be sure if Santa Claus exists, but oil and gas companies may soon find out as more of them head toward the North Pole in the search for new reserves.
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 8, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesMMS issues assessment of hurricane damageIn its final assessment of damage to Gulf Coast oil and gas operations by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the...
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    Drilling & Production

    US, Canadian producers post strong 3Q results

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Record oil prices in July and strong refining margins in September resulted in a surge in earnings for a group of US-based oil and gas producers and refiners for the third quarter...
    Government

    Watching Government: Republicans on the rise

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Two congressional Republicans are poised to move into important positions for the oil and gas industry as the US Senate and House change committee assignments.
    Production Operations

    Analyst sees Libya’s oil, gas production rising

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Libya will supply 17.37% of Africa’s regional oil supply by 2012, while accounting for about 7.45% of African oil demand, according to a recent BMI analyst report.
    Construction

    Saudi Aramco delays fourth development project

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Saudi Aramco, continuing to review and delay development projects in the light of the global financial crisis, has cancelled plans for a $1.2 billion project to restart production...
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    General Interest

    Special Report: Oil industry ramps up for hydrogen vehicles

    Dec. 8, 2008
    In the coming decades, demand for energy in the world will increase significantly, while access to “easy oil” will become more difficult, and the threats of global warming will...
    LNG

    WoodMac: Natural gas to trade at $5-6/MMbtu to 2013

    Dec. 8, 2008
    US natural gas is expected to trade at $5-6/MMbtu over the next 5 years, said an executive of Wood Mackenzie Ltd., Edinburgh, at a recent energy forum sponsored by that firm in...
    Discoveries

    Happy accidents

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Thanks to “a guy working on hydraulic pressure in Italian Renaissance water gardens, we have the combustion engine,” said James Burke in his book “Connections.
    Home

    Response to responses

    Dec. 8, 2008
    You have published two responses in recent Journals to my letter on global warming (OGJ, July 7, 2008, p. 12).
    HSE

    Editorial: Obama and climate change

    Dec. 8, 2008
    The problem with being president of the United States is that the holder of the office must balance priorities, make ultimate compromises, and still lead.
    Refining & Processing

    OPEC: Oil demand deteriorates

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Although there were no production adjustments at their Nov. 29 consultation in Cairo, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries did note the rapid deterioration...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Fugro Gravity & Magnetic Services,Houston, the business development arm of Fugro Airborne Surveys and Fugro Ground Geophysics, has named a business development team to lead its...
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    Tankers

    China seeks oil security through fleet expansion

    Dec. 8, 2008
    China’s push for energy security has prompted a program for building 70 additional very large crude carrier (VLCC) tankers.
    New Plants

    Financial crisis hurts outlook for EU energy goals

    Dec. 8, 2008
    The folly of governmental targets for energy use is coming into clear focus in Europe.
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    Discoveries

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Dec. 8, 2008
    The ALTOSONIC III, a three-beam custody transfer ultrasonic flowmeter, is intended to replace turbines and other type meters in the fiscal measurement of light liquid hydrocarbons...
    Production Operations

    Research sought on unconventional gas

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), Sugar Land, Tex., has requested industry proposals for projects on gas shales, coalbed methane water management, and...
    Exploration & Development

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    Dec. 8, 2008
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    Drilling & Production

    Ghana’s latest discovery hints at growing potential

    Dec. 8, 2008
    Tullow Oil PLC (“Tullow”) said its recent shallow-water Ebony discovery in the Gulf of Guinea off Ghana could be an indication of further prospectivity in deeper water.