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  • Volume 107, Issue 25

    • Volume 107, Issue 25

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    Production Operations

    Produced-water VOC, HAP emissions concern Rocky Mountain regulators

    July 6, 2009
    Increasing volatile organic compound and hazardous air pollutant emissions from a growing number of private and commercial produced-water surface disposal facilities, using evaporation...
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    Process control upgrade boosts system flexibility

    July 6, 2009
    Comprehensive modernization of process control systems at gas storage facilities can increase gas-transfer flexibility and shorten response times, even with existing field equipment...
    HSE

    COMMENT: Industry stands at early dawn of new energy future

    July 6, 2009
    We stand at the early dawn of a new energy future. It will be powered by alternative energy and cleaner fossil fuels.
    Discoveries

    Shale plays push up US gas resource estimate

    July 6, 2009
    Reevaluation of shale plays has pushed the Potential Gas Committee’s assessment of the US natural gas resource to its highest level ever.
    LPG Markets

    FACTS: 2008 Chinese LPG production, imports, demand drop

    July 6, 2009
    Chinese refinery production of LPG fell for the first time in history last year.

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 25

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    How Nelson-Farrar indexes of chemical costs have changed

    July 6, 2009
    The costs of two important chemicals used in crude-oil refining changed very little during 2006-08, while the costs of three others varied significantly.
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    FIRST-HALF 2009: US petchems experience rebound with new year

    July 6, 2009
    While economic activity in North America remained weak during first and second-quarters of 2009, petrochemical industry developments call into question the most bearish views ...
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    Companies

    St. Mary Land tests Eagle Ford in Webb County

    July 6, 2009
    St. Mary Land & Exploration Co., Denver, completed its first operated horizontal Cretaceous Eagle Ford shale well in South Texas, where it is running two rigs in the play.
    Discoveries

    Quebec shales due tests after TBR yields gas

    July 6, 2009
    Talisman Energy Inc. plans to stimulate and test multiple shale intervals in the St. Edouard-1 exploration well in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands after the well tested gas from...
    Discoveries

    Gas find sets water depth mark in Norwegian Sea

    July 6, 2009
    A/S Norske Shell has drilled a potentially large gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea in the deepest water of any find there, said the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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    Advertisers Index

    July 6, 2009
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    Exploration & Development

    Apache reports work in three Argentine basins

    July 6, 2009
    Apache Corp., Houston, reported progress in its operations in Argentina, where it has positions in the Neuquen, Austral, and Cuyo basins.
    HSE

    Part of the story

    July 6, 2009
    Whilst I agree with the thrust of your editorial entitled “‘Pollutant’s’ new meaning threatens hydrogen vehicles”—that is, governments really have no clue what they are talking...
    Companies

    Lack of peace boosts prices

    July 6, 2009
    Crude prices are sure to rise since “world peace isn’t breaking out,” said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc.
    Companies

    East Resources gets funds for Marcellus work

    July 6, 2009
    East Resources Inc., a privately-owned independent in Warrendale, Pa., said Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR), New York, bought a minority equity position in the company ...
    Government

    A new government foray: commerce in highway rest areas

    July 6, 2009
    Government is encroaching into private affairs in ways other than the big-headline issues like automaker takeovers and fuel selection.
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    Canadian gas plant handles NORM in replacing C3 treater’s mol sieve

    July 6, 2009
    The presence of naturally occurring radioactive materials complicated 2007 plans at Shell Canada Ltd.’s Jumping Pound gas plant, near Calgary, to replace the molecular sieve in...
    Companies

    Groningen field turns 50

    July 6, 2009
    Last month, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM), a joint venture of ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its discovery of the ...
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    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 6, 2009
    New system provides oil field rescueHere’s the new Rollgliss R500 rescue and escape device, a system that offers controlled descent, self-rescue, emergency evacuation, and assisted...
    General Interest

    Gazprom seeks to rattle EU with Azerbaijan gas agreement

    July 6, 2009
    Russia’s OAO Gazprom, in an apparent effort to exert greater control over the European Union’s energy supplies, signed an agreement to import natural gas from Azerbaijan and transport...
    Petrochemicals

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 6, 2009
    General Interest — Quick Takes BP reports fastest oil demand fall since 1982Worldwide oil demand has fallen at its fastest rate since 1982, according to BP PLC’s statistical review...
    Government

    Watcing The World: Will UK’s Brown act swiftly?

    July 6, 2009
    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as we have said before, has very rarely been viewed as a friend of the oil and gas industry. But the time has come for that to change.
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: Protesting BLM lease sales

    July 6, 2009
    The US Department of the Interior has made progress in the last 6 months in responsibly developing oil and gas on public land, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on June 24.
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    LNG

    Recent reports reveal shifting LNG trends in 2009

    July 6, 2009
    At mid-2009, prospects for global LNG demand “remain bleak,” according to a research report issued at the end of June by Barclays Capital.
    Government

    Industry groups condemn climate bill passed by House

    July 6, 2009
    Oil and gas associations generally condemned the climate-change bill narrowly passed by the US House of Representatives on June 26.
    LNG

    CLNG: Regulatory, market questions dog US LNG industry

    July 6, 2009
    The US LNG industry faces several questions, according to Center for Liquefied Natural Gas Pres. Bill Cooper. He spoke recently with OGJ about the state of the industry at mid...
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    Production Operations

    Special Report: Hydraulic fracturing, water use issues under congressional, public scrutiny

    July 6, 2009
    The need for communication of accurate information to the public, lawmakers, and regulators is imperative on various drilling-related topics, including hydraulic fracturing, water...
    Production Operations

    Special Report: States regulate hydraulic fracturing well, officials testify

    July 6, 2009
    US states already regulate hydraulic fracturing aggressively and effectively, and a federal law would be redundant, two officials told a US House subcommittee in early June.
    HSE

    Editorial: Climate bill misinformation

    July 6, 2009
    The American rush toward economic peril continues.“Don’t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy ...
    Production Operations

    Researchers develop ways to treat, recycle frac water

    July 6, 2009
    The use of membrane filtration to recycle water from fracturing flowback is among the research projects being funded by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (...