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  • Volume 107, Issue 24

    • Volume 107, Issue 24

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    Life-cycle energy efficiency model influences upstream project design

    June 22, 2009
    Through analysis of life-cycle costs, upstream facilities engineers can evaluate design alternatives such as turbine vs. motor driver selection and establish best practices for...
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    Pipelines

    Subsea pipeline developments advance operations, integrity

    June 22, 2009
    The proliferation of offshore pipelines has increased the premium on being able to effectively monitor their operations and intervene when necessary.
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    Aussie energy minister proposes retention lease system reforms

    June 22, 2009
    Australian Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson released a discussion paper on his proposals to reform the country's retention lease system.
    Reserves

    Brazil considering changes to country's oil law

    June 22, 2009
    Brazil's government is considering changes to the country's oil law, despite repeated statements by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and other officials that the new legislation...
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    Editorial: Beyond fundamentals

    June 22, 2009
    More remarkable than hints of oil market recovery this month is growing acceptance that supply and demand don't always paint the whole picture.

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    New Plants

    IHS CERA tracks downturn in upstream, downstream costs

    June 22, 2009
    A long surge in the costs of building and operating oil and gas production facilities has reversed course, according to two proprietary indexes.
    Government

    Watching Government: Gasoline price unrest

    June 22, 2009
    US retail gasoline prices reached an average $2.67/gal on June 15, nearly 60¢ above their average on May 4, the US Energy Information Administration reported.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Central Asian, Caucasus energy rivalries intensify

    June 22, 2009
    Among China, Europe, and Russia, the competition over oil and gas from Central Asia and the Caucasus is intense and growing.
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    Exploration & Development

    Kansas CBM well flow rates correlate to coal gas content

    June 22, 2009
    From 2001 to 2005, Quest Resource Corp. developed a set of procedures to collect, desorb, and calculate the gas contents for coal and carbonaceous shales using air rotary drill...
    Refining

    Watching The World: Belize's energy independence

    June 22, 2009
    One of the more remarkable things about the oil and gas industry is its ability to penetrate every nook and cranny of the known world. Even the tiniest of countries count. Consider...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Exporter updates: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan

    June 22, 2009
    The Central Asia-Caucasus region is one of the oldest hydrocarbon producing areas in the world. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the region has attracted special...
    Government

    Associations urge Congress to renew chemical facility security law

    June 22, 2009
    Thirty-four trade associations, including the American Petroleum Institute and six others from the oil and gas industry, asked Congress on June 11 to reauthorize the chemical ...
    General Interest

    Groningen field to produce gas for another 50 years

    June 22, 2009
    Supergiant Groningen natural gas field in the northern reaches of the Netherlands will continue to produce gas for at least another 50 years, according to Roelf Venhuizen, managing...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    TransCanada, ExxonMobil join forces on Alaska natural gas pipeline

    June 22, 2009
    TransCanada Corp. and ExxonMobil Corp. reached agreement June 11 to work together on TransCanada's Alaska Pipeline Project natural gas pipeline.
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    LPG Markets

    Special Report: Global turmoil reaches international LPG markets

    June 22, 2009
    Less than a year ago global LPG prices approached all-time highs. Since then, the global economy has moved into a recession, the world's largest LPG producer (the US) has undergone...
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    Gas Processing

    Special Report: Global processing capacity trails advances in production

    June 22, 2009
    Global gas processing activity in 2008 remained flat, despite gains in global natural gas production.
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    ERCB lowers Alberta's oil sands production forecast

    June 22, 2009
    In its June report on Alberta's 2008 reserves and supply-demand outlook for 2009-18, Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) lowered its forecast of bitumen production...
    General Interest

    API, labor unions join to lobby for better oil, gas jobs

    June 22, 2009
    The American Petroleum Institute and 15 labor unions have formed a committee that will lobby for better, higher-paying jobs in the oil and gas industry, the groups announced on...
    Exploration & Development

    AAPG: Unconventional thinking led to great finds

    June 22, 2009
    Unconventional geologic thinking and risk-taking led to many of the world's recent major oil and gas discoveries, speakers from the companies that made them told a closing session...
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 22, 2009
    General Interest —Quick TakesTransCanada to take ownership of Keystone lineTransCanada Corp. reached agreement with ConocoPhillips to buy its remaining interest in the Keystone...
    Economics & Markets

    Market Journal: Crude tests $73/bbl

    June 22, 2009
    The July contract for benchmark US light sweet crude hit an intraday high of $73.23/bbl June 11 on the New York Mercantile Exchange before closing at $72.68/bbl, up $1.35 for ...
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 22, 2009
    Deepwater pipeline coatings can be mixed on siteThe new ETNAFLOW portable mixing plant blends glass syntactic polyurethane (GSPU) coating and insulation systems for deepwater ...
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    Services/Suppliers

    June 22, 2009
    Fugro Gravity & Magnetic Services,CrabbHouston, has named Terry Crabb business development manager for the Australia/Asia region. He will be based in Perth and will be responsible...
    Companies

    The Editor's Perspective: Ethanol's green goodness clouded by water strains

    June 22, 2009
    For a supposedly clean-burning gasoline additive, ethanol always has carried a full load of environmental compromises.The problem of volatility is a longstanding example. It's...
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    Advertisers Index

    June 22, 2009
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    Journally Speaking: The human face of oil and gas

    June 22, 2009
    In early June, the American Petroleum Institute flew 30 working women from the industry to Washington, DC, to tell senators, representatives, and senior staff members what's good...