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  • Volume 107, Issue 11

    • Volume 107, Issue 11

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    Special Report: Extraction route economical for benzene reduction, even for smaller US refiners

    March 16, 2009
    A recent study quantified the economic incentive for extraction vs. saturation to lower the amount of benzene in a typical US refinery gasoline product.
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    Pattern recognition-based approach finds rotating steering system faults

    March 16, 2009
    A pattern recognition-based anomaly detection system for bottomhole assemblies can determine whether the tools in the BHA are operating in a nominal or degraded mode.
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    Special Report: Change in Russian export duties unlikely to affect margins

    March 16, 2009
    Falling crude prices could upset the symmetry between duties on crude and products in Russia, potentially changing the incentives and actions of refiners there, according to a...
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    COMMENT: Renewables not adaptable to large-scale installations

    March 16, 2009
    Proponents of renewable energies frequently say those energy forms will become economic when accomplished on a very large scale.
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    EIA outlook lowers oil, gas demand forecast

    March 16, 2009
    In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration has lowered its projections for oil and natural gas demand in 2009-10 as the global economic...

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 11

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    OGJ Newsletter

    March 16, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesGPA09: Gas recovery coming sooner, not laterRapidly declining US natural gas rig counts and prices are setting the stage for a recovery in both sooner...
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    Fourth-quarter results slide on weaker oil, gas prices

    March 16, 2009
    Collectively, a sampling of US and Canadian operators posted dismal results for the fourth quarter of 2008.
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    Watching Government: Energy and water

    March 16, 2009
    The US Congress is finally ready to talk about the relationship between energy and water.
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    STAFF COMMENT: Think-tank advocates emergency gasoline stockpile

    March 16, 2009
    A Rice University think-tank said the US government should require the oil industry to maintain “average minimum gasoline inventories” to prevent emergency supply shortages and...
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    Watching The World: Strike oil, get financing

    March 16, 2009
    The global financial crisis is hurting eastern Africa’s efforts to find oil and gas as prospectors cut back on investment and activities, according to one energy official from...
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    Editorial: Fix the misunderstanding

    March 16, 2009
    In a fight over energy policy that is fast becoming fateful, the US oil and gas industry has more than a political problem.
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    Deutsche Bank analyzes oil production costs

    March 16, 2009
    A recent Deutsche Bank analysis finds that in the short term, oil prices likely would have to fall to $20/bbl and below for nonmembers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting...
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    EPA proposes CO2, greenhouse gas reporting rule

    March 16, 2009
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major...
    General Interest

    Oil and aviation safety

    March 16, 2009
    If you’ve never worked with radar, you can’t fully appreciate the contribution oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico are making to the safety of air transportation….
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    Services/Suppliers

    March 16, 2009
    Baker Hughes Inc.,Houston, has appointed Martin S. Craighead senior vice-president and COO effective Apr. 30. Craighead, currently president of Baker Hughes’s drilling and evaluation...
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    Iowa Forest City prospect may be large Paleozoic trap

    March 16, 2009
    A 1930s type oil field prospect exists in the Forest City basin in southwestern Iowa.
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    Strange thinking steers assault on oil, gas, economy

    March 16, 2009
    Just when it seems utterances from Washington, DC, can’t get any loonier, someone in the Obama administration says what he thinks.
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    Cycle sinking ‘deeper, longer’

    March 16, 2009
    This down-cycle for oil and gas will be “deeper and longer than most expect, with oil consumption falling for 3 years—the longest period since the early 1980s,” warned analysts...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 16, 2009
    Newly released RMS2009 is a redesigned version of reservoir modeling solution IRAP RMS.
    Refining

    Advertisers Index

    March 16, 2009
    A Box 4 U ……… www.abox4u.netABB ……… www.abbg4.comAPI ……… www.api.org/meetingsArcadis ……… www.arcadis-us.comAscension Industries, Inc. ……… www.asmfab.comBaker Hughes Incorporated...
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    Company name change requires diligent execution

    March 16, 2009
    Changing a pipeline company’s name following a merger or acquisition requires a comprehensive, unified approach.
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    Petrobras gains floating regas vessel for first LNG terminal

    March 16, 2009
    Petrobras In January took delivery of the world’s first floating storage and regasification vessel, the Golar Spirit, following commissioning tests on the vessel’s regasification...