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    LPG Markets

    Study theorizes use of geothermal sources for energy in refineries

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Geothermal sources for direct heating can theoretically serve as an alternative source of high-temperature (>130° C.) heat in processing plants.
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    LPG Markets

    CLASSIC BIT KINEMATICS—2: True kinematics opens way to bit improvement

    Feb. 11, 2008
    In the first part of this series, published last week, we began to show how roller cone bit design analysis can predict cone behavior, with heel teeth having equal pitch.
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    Companies

    Illinois basin ASP flooding planned

    Feb. 11, 2008
    One recent announcement on enhanced oil recovery activity is Rex Energy’s plan for starting two alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flood pilots in an old oil field in the Illinois...
    Pipelines

    OWA: Nigeria needs to support local businesses

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Nigeria should financially support indigenous companies in the oil industry to ensure that Nigerians can participate in its development, a senior academic has suggested at the...
    General Interest

    Operators, contractors agree safety is priority

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Although oil companies call their safety programs by different names, operators agree that safety must come first, and that drilling contractors and operators can help one another...

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 6

    Production Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: Mature UK sector sets pace for N. Sea decommissioning

    Feb. 11, 2008
    While decommissioning of platforms in the mature UK North Sea represents a looming problem for oil and gas producers, high commodity prices and new technology are extending the...
    HSE

    DOI’s $10.7 billion budget has environmental emphasis

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The US Department of the Interior’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 makes environmental protection a priority while increasing access to domestic oil and gas resources, officials...
    Home

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Inquiring after Aleksanyan

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Efforts to bring some humanity into Russia’s treatment of former OAO Yukos officials may be bearing some fruit.
    New Plants

    UK lawmakers call for moratorium on biofuel targets

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The UK should impose a moratorium on its biofuels targets because they are jeopardizing reliable food supply in developing countries and harming the environment, a group of UK...
    Government

    US MMS director defends leasing in Chukchi Sea

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Oil and gas activity in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea can occur without threatening polar bears, US Minerals Management Service Director Randall B. Luthi said just a day after environmental...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: High-stakes appeal

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The US Supreme Court moved one step closer to addressing a $2.5 billion question this term when it placed Exxon Shipping Co. vs. Baker on its docket on Feb. 1 and scheduled arguments...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 11, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesEnbridge to lead industry CCS projectEnbridge Inc. plans to lead a group of 19 oil companies and electric utilities in the Alberta Saline Aquifer...
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    Tankers

    Offshore cathodic protection survey completed off Ecuador

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Corrintec, a division of Cathelco Ltd., reported Jan. 31 the completion of a cathodic protection (CP) survey on the subsea section of the Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados off Ecuador...
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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: Three major North Sea decommissioning projects under way

    Feb. 11, 2008
    There are a number of decommissioning projects currently under way in the North Sea.
    Production Operations

    Iraq to benefit from higher oil revenues, report says

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The Iraqi government could earn an extra $19.2 billion in revenues this year because of higher oil prices and the revival of the country’s oil industry, according to a US government...
    Companies

    Shell Oil’s Hofmeister calls for US cap on CO2 emissions

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Shell has implemented voluntary reductions on emissions from its refineries, said Shell Oil Co. Pres. John Hofmeister, who is calling for governments to set mandatory limits on...
    Production Operations

    OWA: Pressure increases for Niger Delta peace

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The $4 billion Nigeria allocated to the Niger Delta for its development over the last 4-5 years has been swallowed up by increased governmental staff wages, security, and corruption...
    Capacities

    Texas resources: oil, wind

    Feb. 11, 2008
    In Giant, the 1956 film epic about Texas, there’s a scene where James Dean as Jett Rink examines a showing of crude oil swabbed up by the windmill pumping water for his dry West...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Mideast demand up as OPEC holds output

    Feb. 11, 2008
    As expected, ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries made no production changes at their Feb. 1 meeting in Vienna, despite pressure from the US and other...
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    Reserves

    Services / Suppliers

    Feb. 11, 2008
    KPMG LLP,KhushalaniClick here to enlarge imageNew York, has appointed Samir Khushalani to its Business Performance Services practice in Houston, as a principal. With over 15 years...
    Government

    Like energy bill, stimulus package misses the target

    Feb. 11, 2008
    The economic stimulus initiative pushing its way through the US Congress has much in common with last year’s energy bill.
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    New Plants

    Equipment / Software / Literature

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Custom shaft collars for oil field applicationsThese custom shaft collars can be engineered with specific aesthetic and functional design properties to match a range of oil field...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Area Drilling

    Feb. 11, 2008
    BulgariaDirect Petroleum Exploration Inc., private Denver independent, said a subsidiary has drilled Deventci-R1, the deepest well in Bulgaria in the last 30 years, to TD 19,313...
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    Pipelines

    Study examines causes of upheaval buckling in shallow subsea PIP lines

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Temperature, initial slope imperfections, and downward restraints on a pipeline all affect its propensity for upheaval buckling.
    HSE

    Alberta’s economic realism

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Environmental imperative has arrived once more at its inevitable intersection with economic realism.
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    Production Operations

    Tullow, Heritage press exploration in Uganda

    Feb. 11, 2008
    Heritage Oil Corp., Calgary, and Tullow Oil PLC are attempting to tap Uganda’s first oil discoveries in what could become Africa’s next oil production megaproject.