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  • Volume 106, Issue 8

    • Volume 106, Issue 8

    Refining

    WATCHING THE WORLD: South Korea’s diplomacy

    Feb. 25, 2008
    South Korea’s new government has become keenly aware of the need to pursue diplomacy in securing its supplies of oil and gas—especially from Iraq.
    Production Operations

    CERA: Action needed now on demand, supply fronts to avoid crisis, Hess says

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Oil companies, oil-producing countries, and consumers need to act now to avoid the oil crisis that is coming within the next 10 years, said John B. Hess, chairman and chief executive...
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    Companies

    CLASSIC BIT KINEMATICS—3: Pure rolling of bit cones doubles performance

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The first two parts of this series showed that roller cone bit design analysis can predict cone behavior when heel teeth have equal pitch and how bit kinematics are modeled differently...
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    LNG

    SPECIAL REPORT: Global LNG trade to 2020 marked by uncertainty

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The current outlook for LNG is probably more uncertain than it has been for many years.
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    Drilling Operations

    North Amethyst, first White Rose satellite to be developed

    Feb. 25, 2008
    North Amethyst is the first of several White Rose field satellite discoveries that Husky Energy Inc. plans to develop off Newfoundland.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 8

    Exploration & Development

    BG lifts Tupi reserves estimate; Petrobras mum

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Brazil’ Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has declined to comment on revised production estimates BG Group has made concerning the supergiant Tupi oil discovery in the Santos...
    Production Operations

    Mexico’s oil decline rate to steepen through 2010

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Mexico will face difficulties in producing crude oil over the coming 2 years, according to a media report, which claims that Cantarell and Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) fields will decline...
    Home

    Print Ad Index

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Baker Hughes IncorporatedCentriliftwww.answerswhiledrilling.comCarbone Lorrainewww.carbonbrush.comwww.elec.carbonelorraine.comChevronConocoPhillips Global GasLNGlicensing.conocophillips...
    Production Operations

    The oil price floor

    Feb. 25, 2008
    As the price of crude oil flirts again with its $100/bbl threshold, the question naturally arises: How high can the price go?
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    HSE

    Equipment / Software / Literature

    Feb. 25, 2008
    New sealing and flange isolation gasketThe new LineSeal sealing and flange isolation gasket is designed for extreme critical sealing applications.The 316 stainless steel cored...
    HSE

    Area Drilling

    Feb. 25, 2008
    AlbaniaBankers Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, agreed to acquire 50% of a private company that holds the exclusive right to evaluate and redevelop Kucova heavy oil field in south-central...
    Home

    Congress offers bad reasons for bad energy bill

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Doing good things for good reasons is best; good things for bad reasons, lucky; bad things for good reasons, wrong; and bad things for bad reasons, stupid.
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    General Interest

    Services / Suppliers

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Superior Offshore International Inc.,Houston, has appointed E. Donald Terry as interim president and CEO following the resignation of James J. Mermis as president, CEO, and director...
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    LNG

    SPECIAL REPORT: Emerging Asia-Pacific LNG markets must sort pricing, supply uncertainties

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Preliminary data for 2007 show that worldwide LNG trade grew by 7.9% to 172 million tonnes.
    Economics & Markets

    Greenspan: Odds favor recession

    Feb. 25, 2008
    At Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ annual energy conference in Houston, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said there is a “50% or better” chance that the US...
    Reserves

    Winter woes

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Extreme weather tests even the richest, most well-managed economies. So, when winter 2007-08 brought cold and suffering to two countries whose hydrocarbon wealth should have softened...
    Reserves

    Peak-oil context

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The letter by Al-Husseini and Al-Husseini about the Cambridge Energy Research Associates decline-rate study, as well as comments by other peak oil theorists on the subject, demonstrates...
    LNG

    CERA: Stage set for more global gas market

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The stage appears set for natural gas to become more of a global energy commodity in 2008 and 2009 than in the past, largely because of an expanding LNG industry, Cambridge Energy...
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    Gas Processing

    IEA sees boost in peak OPEC flow from ’08 projects

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Production projects due on stream this year in members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries represent peak gross capacity additions of 3.1 million b/d of crude...
    Discoveries

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Troubling attitudes

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Shell Oil Co. Pres. John D. Hofmeister discovered some troubling attitudes as he met with local business and government leaders during his most recent visits to 50 US cities.
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    LNG

    SPECIAL REPORT: Lenders likely to tighten LNG project financing

    Feb. 25, 2008
    For several years prior to 2004, the LNG industry was a buyers’ market, and buyers were in the driver’s seat with respect to pricing terms and flexibilities introduced into LNG...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 25, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesWoodMac: Operators still vexed by high costsHigh oil prices have not resulted in high returns on projects because of an increase in exploration costs...
    Production Operations

    Shell tables Nigerian restructuring plans

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Shell Petroleum Development Co. (SPDC) has suspended its plans to restructure its joint venture in Nigeria following a request from Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) to ...
    HSE

    CERA: Industry aims to fuel world, lower GHG emissions

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The global oil and gas industry faces the simultaneous goals of producing more energy while lowering emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), speakers told Cambridge Energy Research...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Alaska progressing on gas line, FERC tells Congress

    Feb. 25, 2008
    Alaska’s selection of a preferred applicant to build a huge natural gas pipeline highlighted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s fifth progress report to Congress on the...
    Companies

    US House Dems reintroduce bill taxing oil majors

    Feb. 25, 2008
    US House Democrats reintroduced a bill Feb. 12 to fund renewable energy tax incentives by increasing major oil companies’ taxes.
    Refining & Processing

    CERA: Refiners face change in liquids supply composition

    Feb. 25, 2008
    The refining industry faces new reconfiguration and investment challenges to avoid shortages of diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel while minimizing the risk of a decline in refining...