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    Hearing provides preview of US energy commodity reform

    April 13, 2009
    A US Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on Mar. 25 showed the steps one congressional energy commodity reform advocate would like the federal government ...
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    Latin American oil, gas policies remain in flux

    April 13, 2009
    Oil and gas producing countries in Latin America have adopted diverse approaches to energy policy and the extent to which international companies are allowed to invest or operate...
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    Special Report: Technology developments reach operations in 2008-09

    April 13, 2009
    The LNG industry in the past year has passed more technology milestones in its rapidly evolving recent history.
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    Special Report: European LNG demand trends unclear amid continued global economic turmoil

    April 13, 2009
    The last couple of years have proven to be dramatic for the global LNG industry, matching few of the industry’s expectations of only a few years ago.
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    Companies adopt efficient waste-management units

    April 13, 2009
    Until recently, the prevailing perception of the oil and gas industry operating in emerging areas was that waste represented an unwelcome inconvenience.

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    Advertisers Index

    April 13, 2009
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    Prophecy fulfilled: Democracy stalls climate sacrifice

    April 13, 2009
    A prominent prophet of climate doom appears, after all, to be prophetic.
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    Tullow finds more Uganda oil, nears award of Congo blocks

    April 13, 2009
    Tullow Oil PLC announced a new oil discovery in Uganda and also is negotiating with neighboring Congo (former Zaire) to reacquire exploration rights to two blocks there.
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    Services/Suppliers

    April 13, 2009
    Woolslayer Companies Inc.,WingerterClick here to enlarge imageTulsa, has named Thomas L. Wingerter CEO and member of the WCI board of directors. Dewayne Vogt remains WCI president...
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    Volatile second quarter prices

    April 13, 2009
    Oil prices were sharply volatile entering the second quarter of 2009 and are likely to remain “within a rising trend,” said Paul Horsnell, managing director and head of commodities...
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    Letters

    April 13, 2009
    Missed an argumentThe editorial “Oppose cap-and-trade” missed a vital part of the argument to stop cap-and-trade (OGJ, Mar. 9, 2009, p. 16).A tax is a simple matter to stop. Putting...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 13, 2009
    New rupture disks feature 95% operating ratioNew versions of the STAR X and ULTRX rupture disks each feature a 95% operating ratio. The company’s reverse acting family of disks...
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    Economic crisis clouds outlook for Asia-Pacific’s LNG demand

    April 13, 2009
    Asian LNG demand growth has been critical in the growth of global LNG, accounting for an average 50% of global incremental consumption since 2000.
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    Nanotechnology seen boosting recovery factors

    April 13, 2009
    Nanotechnology, the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, might someday boost the average global recovery factor of oil and gas by 10 percentage points, said an...
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    The voles of Hoo Pen

    April 13, 2009
    As industrial facilities go, LNG terminals are generally among the cleanest and quietest to be found.
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    Role seen for integrated companies as NOCs grow more dominant

    April 13, 2009
    National oil companies will become increasingly dominant, but will need to work with investor-owned integrated firms, panelists said Apr. 7 during the US Energy Information Administrati...
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    Minister: Qatar to complete North field study in 2012

    April 13, 2009
    Qatar expects in 2012 to have the results from its study analyzing the effects of its gas projects from the major North gas field, Qatar’s petroleum minister told OGJ.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 13, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesHouse members plan bill to expand NGV useLegislation to greatly expand the use of natural gas as an alternative to conventional transportation fuel...
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    Putin: OAO Transneft to complete ESPO’s first phase ‘within weeks’

    April 13, 2009
    Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Apr. 7 said state-owned pipeline operator OAO Transneft will complete construction of the first phase of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean...
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    DOI offers initial estimates of OCS oil and gas figures

    April 13, 2009
    The US Outer Continental Shelf holds an estimated 66-115 billion bbl of oil and 362-565 tcf of natural gas, the US Department of the Interior said.
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    Watching Government: Two views of line proposal

    April 13, 2009
    A proposal by US Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to amend a section of the Natural Gas Act so interstate gas pipelines would be subject to the same refund procedures as electricity...
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    Japan, Venezuela agree on oil, gas developments

    April 13, 2009
    Japan and Venezuela, following meetings in Tokyo between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, have agreed to investments of $33.5 billion to ...
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    Contractors to accelerate Chicontepec drilling

    April 13, 2009
    Pemex is in the process of awarding a series of contracts to service providers and drilling companies to accelerate production in Chicontepec, which was discovered during the ...
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    Watching The World: Showdown in Uganda?

    April 13, 2009
    I s a showdown looming in Uganda? The oil and gas industry has heard much recently of developments in the country, not least the desire on the part of Ugandan officials to develop...
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    EIA conference: Ample US natural gas supplies pose challenges

    April 13, 2009
    US natural gas supplies are sufficiently ample that prices should continue in the $4-6/Mcf range for the near term, market observers said Apr. 7 during the US Energy Information...
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    Editorial: Recruiting problems ahead

    April 13, 2009
    The oil and gas industry fretted about recruitment of engineers and scientists while it was scrambling to hire them in the boom years that now are history.
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    Low oil prices pinching Venezuela, minister says

    April 13, 2009
    Venezuelan Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque said the drop in world oil prices will cause budget revenues of his country to be reformulated as well as changes in economic ...