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  • Volume 107, Issue 12

    • Volume 107, Issue 12

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    MMS, BLM must clarify lease policies, acting IG says

    March 23, 2009
    Federal oil and gas leasing programs could do more to encourage leaseholders to move more aggressively toward production, the US Department of the Interior’s acting inspector ...
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    Saudi Arabia, UAE promote energy from sun and wind

    March 23, 2009
    It would seem unlikely that the Persian Gulf region, so commercially dependent on fossil fuel production and exportation, would lead the world’s search for the 21st Century’s ...
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    HYDRAULIC FRACTURING—1: Natural fractures influence shear stimulation direction

    March 23, 2009
    Hydraulic fracturing in the presence of natural fractures causes a complex network of fractures to form because of shear and tensile failure.
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    Looming Mideast olefin production may—or may not—spell oversupply

    March 23, 2009
    With an abundance of cheap feedstock, the Middle East is poised to become one of the world’s largest exporters of petrochemicals, targeting markets in Europe and Asia.
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    Russia declines OPEC membership; offers alternative

    March 23, 2009
    Russia has proposed sending a permanent envoy to the Secretariat of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in an effort to coordinate policies, again declining membership...

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    Advertisers Index

    March 23, 2009
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    Shell completes testing of record-setting tie-in plan

    March 23, 2009
    Shell’s tie-in of the Perdido oil pipeline in the US Gulf of Mexico is the deepest tie-in ever preformed to an already operating system (5,000 ft).
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    IEA, OPEC cut 2009 oil market demand, supply forecasts

    March 23, 2009
    The International Energy Agency and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have revised their forecasts for 2009 oil demand and supply in their latest monthly oil market...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 23, 2009
    New, third generation oil, gas flow multiphase meterThe new, third generation multiphase meter MPFM 2600 is based on the firm’s new Zector technology and comes with new measurement...
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    Land-grab defeat doesn’t herald a friendly Congress

    March 23, 2009
    Defeat by the US House of a major lock-up of federal land provides a welcome ray of hope—but a flickering one.
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    New tool determines reserves of mature oil and gas fields

    March 23, 2009
    There are many reasons—economic, preaudits, strategic planning for enhanced recovery, among others—that call for the size or ultimate reserves of an oil or gas field to be estimated...
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    Services/Suppliers

    March 23, 2009
    ABS,ConnaughtonClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has named Sean T. Connaughton vice-president for government affairs. Previously, he was US Maritime Administrator since 2006...
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    OPEC expects lower oil demand

    March 23, 2009
    A few days before its Mar. 15 meeting in Vienna, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reduced its latest forecast of 2009 world crude demand by 400,000 b/d for a ...
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    Don’t hike ethanol cap

    March 23, 2009
    I am strongly opposed to allowing even more ethanol in automotive gasoline for several sound technical reasons (OGJ Online, Mar.9, 2009):
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    OPEC aims at full compliance with existing quota

    March 23, 2009
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, noting signs of market strengthening, agreed in a Mar. 15 meeting in Vienna to seek full compliance with a quota cut announced...
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    Making a difference

    March 23, 2009
    Malaria kills an African child every 30 sec and more than 1 million people a year, said Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil Corp., as he explained...
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    OPEC oil exports at 5-year low, analyst says

    March 23, 2009
    Seaborne oil exports of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, excluding Angola and Ecuador, will fall to a 5-year low in the four weeks to Mar. 28, according to analyst...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    March 23, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesNGC: Tax proposals would harm gas industryThe Obama administration’s proposed tax law changes would seriously damage a domestic gas industry, which...
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    MMS Lease Sale 208 attracts $703 million in high bids

    March 23, 2009
    Apparent high bids totaling just over $703 million were offered for 348 tracts in the central Gulf of Mexico at Lease Sale 208, reported the US Department of the Interior’s Minerals...
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    Ethanol supporters petition EPA to raise gasoline blend level limits

    March 23, 2009
    Ethanol supporters petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to raise the limit on the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline to 15% from 10%.
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    Editorial: Ethanol’s new rescue cry

    March 23, 2009
    Every time fuel ethanol blows off its economic moorings, as state-sponsored energy always does, Congress obliges with new support.
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    Worldwide oil, natural gas deal value plunges

    March 23, 2009
    The total transaction value for worldwide upstream corporate and asset deals plunged to $104 billion in 2008 compared with an annual average of nearly $160 billion during 2005...
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    Watching The World: Algeria deserves a tax break

    March 23, 2009
    Algeria’s energy minister Chakib Khelil recently urged gas-consuming nations to rethink their tax policies if they are to remove barriers and encourage imports (OGJ, Mar.
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    Watching Government: Independents begin long haul

    March 23, 2009
    The opportunity was too tempting to resist.