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  • Volume 106, Issue 9

    • Volume 106, Issue 9

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    Drilling & Production

    SPECIAL REPORT: Aluminum tubulars make efficient drillstring

    March 3, 2008
    This article examines the difference in axial stresses of aluminum and steel tubulars during drilling and concludes that aluminum tubulars can reduce cost and extend the reach...
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    Government

    Oil industry has new risk factor: terrorism

    March 3, 2008
    Although the oil and gas industry has always encountered elements of risk, traditional risk meant dry holes, foreign investments, unstable nation states, new ventures, and the...
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    Gas Processing

    Aromatics increase rvp blending value

    March 3, 2008
    This article describes a procedure to include the effect of aromatics on rvp blending calculations and presents the pertinent data for these calculations.
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    Home

    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    March 3, 2008
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    Drilling Operations

    SPECIAL REPORT: Dubai contracts first new Maersk jack up

    March 3, 2008
    Maersk Contractors is building four identical independent leg cantilever jack ups with an innovative XY cantilever design at Keppel FELS in Singapore.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 9

    Drilling Operations

    COMPANY NEWS: Total reveals $19 billion capital budget for 2008

    March 3, 2008
    Total SA plans a $19 billion capital expenditure for this year, with refining and marketing accounting for $2.5 billion and petrochemicals $1.3 billion.
    Tankers

    European biofuels policy fraught with problems

    March 3, 2008
    Quantity targets to introduce biofuels into the European Union’s energy mix should be scrapped in favor of a low-carbon policy approach, according to a senior environmentalist...
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    Production Operations

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Imperial appoints successor to retiring chairman, CEO

    March 3, 2008
    Imperial Oil Ltd., Calgary, has named B.H. March, currently president, to succeed current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer T.J. Hearn, who will retire Mar. 31.
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    Refining & Processing

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 3, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesEcuador hails ‘integration’ with VenezuelaEcuadorian President Rafael Correa, while accepting drilling services offered by Venezuela at a discounted...
    Government

    Bush sending mixed signals about SPR, alternate fuels

    March 3, 2008
    The administration of President George W. Bush sends conflicting signals when it wants to expand purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve despite unusually high prices while...
    Reserves

    Poor capital efficiency affects UKCS competitiveness

    March 3, 2008
    Falling capital efficiency for operators on the UK continental shelf (UKCS) is threatening the area’s global competitiveness for upstream investment, offshore trade association...
    Production Operations

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Governors push alternative energy

    March 3, 2008
    Oil and gas were pushed to the sidelines during the National Governors Association’s 2008 winter meeting in Washington, DC.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Chavez wants to dump Citgo

    March 3, 2008
    Is Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez selling off his country’s oil and gas assets to pay off debts? Reports say his government is selling overseas assets owned by Petroleos de...
    HSE

    Oil sands and sustainability

    March 3, 2008
    Canada’s oil sands projects sometimes are portrayed as looming environmental villains.
    Production Operations

    Uninvited observations

    March 3, 2008
    I understand that the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) will not always be invited to speak at CERA Week (Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Russia, Serbia sign natural gas pipeline deal, create new firm

    March 3, 2008
    Russia has signed several agreements for oil and gas with Serbia, largely aimed at underscoring its political support for the Balkan country.
    Refining

    Crude closes above $100/bbl

    March 3, 2008
    For the first time ever, a front-month contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes closed above $100/bbl Feb. 19—at $100.01/bbl, up $4.51 for the day—after setting...
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    Drilling & Production

    Service / Suppliers

    March 3, 2008
    MESA Products Inc.Hall and FourkillerClick here to enlarge imageTulsa, has appointed Charles L. Hall as director, business development. He will be responsible for business development...
    HSE

    CBO: CO2 tax the best move on climate change

    March 3, 2008
    The Congressional Budget Office is right to favor a tax on carbon dioxide over other possible US responses to climate change.
    Production Operations

    The surges in Iraq

    March 3, 2008
    Thanks to success of the surge dominating news from Iraq, the time approaches to reconsider another surge now largely forgotten.
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    Refining

    Chemicals improve compressed-air European crude line cleaning

    March 3, 2008
    Proper chemicals allow safe and economical cleaning and emptying of a large crude line using compressed air, rendering the line hydrocarbon free with a lower explosion level for...
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    Refining & Processing

    Equipment / Software / Literature

    March 3, 2008
    All-metal progressing cavity pump handles hot fluidsHere’s the Vulcain progressing cavity pump, a new product with an all-metal design that is capable of pumping hot (as high ...
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    March 3, 2008
    Addax Petroleumwww.addaxpetroleum.comAmbar Lone Starwww.ambarlonestar.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedCentriliftwww.centrilift.comBasic Energy Serviceswww.basicenergyservices.comCareerBuild...
    Drilling & Production

    Atlas sees 4-6 tcf recovery from Marcellus shale

    March 3, 2008
    Philadelphia operator Atlas Energy Resources LLC said it has determined that it could ultimately recover 4 to 6 tcf of natural gas from the Devonian Marcellus shale on its properties...
    Exploration & Development

    Pinedale, Jonah gas fields see expanding development

    March 3, 2008
    Rapid development progress at giant Pinedale and Jonah gas fields in Southwest Wyoming is evident in the year-end financial and operating figures of Ultra Petroleum Corp., Houston...
    Drilling & Production

    EOG to corner North Dakota Bakken play

    March 3, 2008
    EOG Resources Inc. booked 21 million boe of proved reserves in Parshall field in the North Dakota Bakken shale oil play by yearend 2007 and is still comfortable with its previous...