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  • Volume 107, Issue 1

    • Volume 107, Issue 1

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    Refining

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: How refinery fuel indexes have varied

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Refinery fuels costs have endured an unsteady course since 2005.
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    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Click here to download a .pdf of the Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes
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    Reserves

    China’s low-permeability gas resources await development

    Jan. 5, 2009
    China has large volumes of low-permeability natural gas resources with unique characteristics that could be exploited with appropriate technologies.
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    Refining

    Study examines effect of cetane improvers

    Jan. 5, 2009
    An investigation of the effect of cetane improvers on diesel cetane number showed that diesel fuels have a low sensitivity to the additives.
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    Discoveries

    Modeling optimizes casing points in Persian Gulf wells

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Researchers modeled casing-point setting depths in National Iranian Oil Co.’s RSH field using various tools and scenarios to save as much as 15%.

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 1

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    Discoveries

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 5, 2009
    New service helps upstream operations track stockStockNet, one of a new generation of web-based reporting services for the industry’s upstream operations, is designed to transform...
    Economics & Markets

    Forecasts for oil prices depend on economic outlook

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Guess the question from the answer: It all depends on the global economy.
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    Advertisers’ Index

    Jan. 5, 2009
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    CASPIAN NATURAL GAS—1: Kazakh export plans affect regional producers, buyers

    Jan. 5, 2009
    How Kazakhstan—the second largest oil and gas producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia—chooses to develop its gas resources and export infrastructure will affect both ...
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    Exploration & Development

    Nongas-phase hydrocarbon sampling aids detection of seepage anomalies

    Jan. 5, 2009
    It has been established that subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs leak and that escaping gases cause numerous detectable alteration anomalies.
    LNG

    Demand and prices fall

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Even as a winter storm dumped snow and ice on the US Midwest and East Coast during Christmas week, markets remained unconvinced the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
    Government

    New SEC reserves rules

    Jan. 5, 2009
    The oil and gas industry will have modernized US Security and Exchange Commission’s rules for reporting oil and gas reserves.
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    Westbrook responds

    Jan. 5, 2009
    The letter by Jeff Temple (OGJ, December 8, 2008, p. 14) on my letter (OGJ, Nov. 3, 2008, p. 12) has about a dozen areas deserving comment. I will cite six.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Houston, has appointed a global materials engineering team headed by Michael Wheatcroft.
    Drilling & Production

    Economy, season, other factors reduce rig count

    Jan. 5, 2009
    US drilling fell for the fifth consecutive week, down by 26 rotary rigs to 1,764 still working during the week ended Dec. 19, compared with a rig count of 1,809 in the same period...
    LNG

    View from London: Price swings change industry on many fronts

    Jan. 5, 2009
    What a difference a year makes in the oil industry—or perhaps in this case 5 months.
    Government

    Salazar to lead ‘deeply troubled’ Interior department

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Barack Obama formally nominated US Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) on Dec. 17 to lead what the president-elect termed a “deeply troubled” Department of the Interior.
    Companies

    Lower E&P spending ends 6-year global rally

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Global spending for exploration and production is expected to decline 12% to $400 billion in 2009—“a reversal after 6 years of global growth,” said analysts at Barclays Capital...
    Gas Processing

    US shale gas surge stimulating< construction of processing plants

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Rising production of natural gas will stimulate construction of gas processing plants in the US this year.
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 5, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesNPRA, others ask for more ethanol blend testsFourteen organizations, including the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, on Dec. 18 called...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    BMI: US to see further oil, gas supply shortfalls

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Analyst Business Monitor International (BMI) predicts that the US will account for 89.87% of North American regional oil demand by 2012, while contributing 65.63% to its supply...
    Companies

    Downturn will spur M&A activity as operators cut spending in ’09

    Jan. 5, 2009
    What the oil and gas industry didn’t see much of in 2008 was consolidation.
    Government

    Watching Government: 2008 in review

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Happy New Year! This year promises to be a challenging and exciting year for oil and gas in Washington.
    Economics & Markets

    CERA: ‘Recession shock’ shakes world oil market

    Jan. 5, 2009
    The world oil market is being shaken by “a recession shock” that affects all conventional, alternative, and renewable energy,” said the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates...
    Economics & Markets

    Texas tall tale provides metaphor for oil industry: a bouncing target

    Jan. 5, 2009
    There’s a Texas tall tale about legendary cowboy Pecos Bill who succumbed to his new bride’s pleas to ride his wild mustang, Widowmaker—a one-man steed previously ridden only ...
    Production Operations

    EDITORIAL: Peak oil and politics

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Peak oil theory is important both to consider and to keep in perspective, especially as government activism regains traction in the world’s largest oil-consuming country.
    General Interest

    US gives gas extra attention as output grows from shales

    Jan. 5, 2009
    US natural gas, particularly shale gas, will receive increasing attention in 2009 because crude oil is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to find and produce.
    Government

    Oil and gas opportunities endure amid the many uncertainties of 2009

    Jan. 5, 2009
    While 2009 will be characterized by uncertainty, lower oil and gas prices, a hostile Congress, demand shrinkage, and major investment pullbacks by the global oil and gas industry...
    Government

    Two bidders disrupt BLM lease sale in Utah

    Jan. 5, 2009
    US Bureau of Land Management special agents detained two registered bidders after a Dec. 19 oil and gas lease sale in Utah was delayed briefly.
    Tankers

    Watching The World: Japan and China

    Jan. 5, 2009
    Should anyone be concerned about the continuing rivalry between Japan and China over pursuit of the world’s oil and gas? It may be well to remember some history.