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    Drilling & Production

    California ponders offshore oil project to ease budget crisis

    July 27, 2009
    California's legislature might vote soon to authorize the first new oil activity off Santa Barbara in 40 years as a way to help resolve the state's budget crisis.
    Gas Processing

    Abu Dhabi awards $9 billion in gas project contracts

    July 27, 2009
    Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (Gasco) has awarded more than $9 billion in lump-sum turnkey contracts for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of its integrated...
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    Companies

    CORROSION— Conclusion: Pitting corrosion models improve integrity management, reliability

    July 27, 2009
    New deterministic and stochastic models for external pitting corrosion in underground pipelines can help improve integrity and reliability analyses.
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    Drilling Operations

    Well off Mexico illustrates various drilling, completion complications

    July 27, 2009
    A well recently drilled off Mexico, Bolontiku 43, provides an example of numerous drilling problems encountered when drilling tectonically active zones that included extensive...
    Government

    Watching Government: E15 opponents want more tests

    July 27, 2009
    We have tried to use our good will to encourage each party, particularly their security forces, to not get into violent situations.

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 28

    LNG

    Gas market seeks sign

    July 27, 2009
    Four consecutive weeks of smaller-than-expected injections of natural gas into US storage triggered a 12% price jump for the front-month contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange...
    Government

    Advertisers Index

    July 27, 2009
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    Production Operations

    Waxman-Markey omissions

    July 27, 2009
    Sixty percent of our annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emitted by transportation petroleum-based fuels and coal-based electric power plants.
    Drilling Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    July 27, 2009
    Geoservices Group,Paris, has acquired Petrospec Technologies Inc., Conroe, Tex., and Kuala Lumpur. Terms were not disclosed. Geoservices has appointed Petrospec Pres. and CEO ...
    Economics & Markets

    Reporting profits in recession sure to stir public ire

    July 27, 2009
    The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience.
    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 27, 2009
    New high pressure, high temperature packer elementA new high pressure, high temperature packer element, featuring newly formulated AFLAS compound, is capable of holding pressures...
    Gas Processing

    Prudhoe’s oil and gas future

    July 27, 2009
    Forty-one years after discovery on Alaska's North Slope, Prudhoe Bay field remains the largest oil-producing field in the US.
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    Tankers

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 27, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesIHS: Global upstream M&A activity rebounded in 2QGlobal upstream mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals nearly doubled in the second quarter, up from...
    Exploration & Development

    ExxonMobil spuds Libya’s first deepwater well

    July 27, 2009
    ExxonMobil Exploration Co.'s Libyan affiliate has spud the first deepwater exploration well off Libya.
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    Petrochemicals

    Special Report: Global ethylene productionrises 7 million tpy in 2008

    July 27, 2009
    Worldwide ethylene producers added more than 7 million tonnes/year of capacity in 2008, according to Oil & Gas Journal's latest ethylene survey.
    Exploration & Development

    Indonesia opens 24 oil, gas blocks for bidding

    July 27, 2009
    The Indonesian government, seeking international investment to boost the country's falling output of oil, has released 24 new oil and gas blocks for exploration and production...
    Exploration & Development

    PDO lets contract for Kauther depletion-compression project

    July 27, 2009
    Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has let a $350 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Petrofac Ltd. for the Kauther gas-condensate field depletion-compression...
    General Interest

    Ghana approves first Jubilee development phase

    July 27, 2009
    Ghana has formally approved the first development phase of giant Jubilee oil field, which will tap 300 million bbl and is to begin producing in the second half of 2010.
    LNG

    Regas units for floating LNG being installed

    July 27, 2009
    Testing of LNG regasification packages for floating installations is taking place this summer in advance of commissioning off Brazil, Boston, and Dubai.
    Exploration & Development

    Court ruling leaves key oil fields to Sudanese government

    July 27, 2009
    The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has readjusted the borders of Sudan's oil-rich Abyei region, effectively awarding control of key oil facilities in the area to ...
    Reserves

    Oil, gas demand drive Asian boundary disputes

    July 27, 2009
    A subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told that growing demand for oil and gas is one of the main drivers of increasing "friction and tension" over maritime...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    EU slaps antidumping, antisubsidy duties on US biodiesel

    July 27, 2009
    The European Biodiesel Board (EBB), representing the major biofuels producing industry in the European Union, praised the European Council for approving what it called "definitive...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial: An upstart contradiction

    July 27, 2009
    Contradictions of energy policy emerge so spontaneously these days in the US that it's rare to have the chance to warn of one before it has fully developed and begun gorging itself...
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    Government

    COMMENT: US exaggerating hope for renewable energy

    July 27, 2009
    Far from learning any lessons from their ill-conceived foray into biofuels through the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Congress and the Obama administration...
    New Plants

    Local approaches may help US in oil-rich areas overseas

    July 27, 2009
    The US government should be ready to engage local and state governments overseas in addition to national officials as it tries to secure foreign oil and gas supplies, a US senate...
    Home

    Watching The World: Khodorkovsky case

    July 27, 2009
    The oil and gas industry now and then suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.