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  • Volume 107, Issue 26

    • Volume 107, Issue 26

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    Special Report: Cost reductions may rekindle some oil sands investment

    July 13, 2009
    Cost deflation alone will not provide the necessary catalyst for companies to begin to sanction more oil sands projects.
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    New Plants

    Special Report: Oil sands export pipeline capacity exceeds supply through 2015-16

    July 13, 2009
    More than 1 million b/d of extra crude pipeline capacity will run from western Canada by the end of 2010.
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    Production Operations

    LOW CO2 SLIP—1: Canadian experience shows actual operations needed to guide choice of amine simulator

    July 13, 2009
    Experience in 2008 with various marketed process simulators modeling Suncor’s Simonette gas plant showed that predicted results differed widely from actual operating conditions...
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    Services/Suppliers

    July 13, 2009
    Mustang Engineering,JohnstonHouston, has appointed Charles R. (Chuck) Johnston as an advanced process control specialist in its automation and control business unit. He will be...
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    OGJ Newsletters

    July 13, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesImpacts estimated for hydraulic fracturingUS economic strength would be reduced by several billion dollars in the next 5 years if hydraulic fracturing...

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    Unauthorized trades push price peaks

    July 13, 2009
    Front-month crude contracts jumped June 30 to “fake” intraday highs of $73.38/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange—the highest this year—and $73.50/bbl on the International...
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    Advertisers Index

    July 13, 2009
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    In need of money, the US government takes aim at LIFO

    July 13, 2009
    Beware the government asserting principle but needing money.
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    Exploration & Development

    Exploration may resume on blocks off Bahamas

    July 13, 2009
    BPC Ltd., Perth, and Norway’s StatoilHydro ASA formed a joint venture to explore for oil and gas off the Bahamas if the government approves license applications.
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    Special Report: Forecasts moderate Alberta oil sands production growth

    July 12, 2009
    Various forecasters have lowered their expectation for increases in bitumen production from Alberta oil sands, but most still see a sizable rise during the next decade, with bitumen...
    Drilling & Production

    Corridor sees 67 tcf in New Brunswick shale

    July 12, 2009
    Consulting engineers arrived at a best estimate of 67.3 tcf of gas in place in the overpressured Carboniferous Frederick Brook shale in the Sussex and Elgin subbasins in southern...
    Exploration & Development

    AWE to drill several New Zealand play types

    July 12, 2009
    Australian Worldwide Exploration Ltd., Sydney, is looking at drilling three or four exploration play types in its summer exploration in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Gazprom, Kogas sign MOU for Sakhalin-2 pipeline project

    July 12, 2009
    Russia’s OAO Gazprom and South Korea’s Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) have signed a memorandum of understanding to study the possibilities of supplying Russian natural gas to South Korea...
    Companies

    IOCs mostly reject terms of Iraq’s latest bid round

    July 12, 2009
    International oil companies (IOCs) have largely rejected terms offered by Iraq in the country’s first bidding process for more than 30 years, with one bid awarded for an oil field...
    Companies

    Aramco, Showa Shell agree to solar-cell joint venture

    July 12, 2009
    Showa Shell Sekiyu KK’s wholly owned subsidiary Showa Shell Solar KK and Saudi Aramco have agreed to explore “the possibility” of engaging in a small-scale electric power generation...
    Companies

    Nigerian militants threaten proposed Trans-Sahara gas line

    July 12, 2009
    Nigeria’s militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), reiterating its long-standing demands that international oil companies leave the oil-producing Niger...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Peace needed in Xinjiang

    July 12, 2009
    If you believe Chinese oil and gas officials, ethnic clashes in the province of Xinjiang—where 150 people are reported to have been killed—have not affected any operations at ...
    New Plants

    ASSE: OSHA launches Texas construction safety initiative

    July 12, 2009
    US Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis plans a construction safety initiative in Texas to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities, she told a meeting of the American...
    Refining

    ASSE: Valero says VPP helped its contractors

    July 12, 2009
    Valero Energy Corp. said the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) helped its contractors implement comprehensive safety and health management systems.
    Refining

    ASSE: OSHA discusses refining NEP audits

    July 12, 2009
    Some refineries and their contractors are receiving a high number of violations as a result of the National Emphasis Program (NEP), US Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
    Government

    Watching Government: Gas production’s carbon costs

    July 12, 2009
    Natural gas’s position as a cleaner form of energy and possible bridge to renewable and alternative sources isn’t insulating it from closer environmental scrutiny.
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    Reserves

    Alaska natural gas line remains top priority for Palin successor

    July 12, 2009
    Alaska Gov. Sarah H. Palin listed her efforts to begin constructing a massive natural gas pipeline as one of her main accomplishments when she announced her resignation on July...
    LPG Markets

    IEA: World oil demand to reach 89 million b/d by 2014

    July 12, 2009
    The latest forecast by the International Energy Agency states that global oil demand will rise 0.6%/year during 2008-14, pushing demand to average 89 million b/d in 2014 from ...
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    Special Report: COMMENT: N. American strategy should link energy, climate concerns

    July 12, 2009
    Energy and climate change are important topics. And because energy production and use are sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the two are linked.
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    Special Report: Study estimates costs of CO2 emission controls on oil sands

    July 12, 2009
    New controls on emissions of greenhouse gases will raise the costs of petroleum supplied from oil sands by amounts that depend on the extent of regulation and on progress in abatement...
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    Editorial: Low-carbon fuel problems

    July 11, 2009
    Producers in Alberta’s oil sands region rightly worry about one of the worst ideas in the rich stew of energy-policy poison now at high boil in the US.
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    The biology of oil

    July 11, 2009
    It’s always interesting to discover the ways in which various scientific disciplines intertwine with the oil and gas industry.
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    Energy crash land

    July 11, 2009
    As one reads the editorials of June 1—on the mind-numbing subsidies for renewable energy—and June 9—on the costs of “cap and trade” and “energy reform that will asphyxiate itself...