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  • Volume 107, Issue 29

    • Volume 107, Issue 29

    Drilling & Production

    A new semisubmersible unit

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The American Bureau of Shipping recently did a hazard identification study as the first step in preliminary planning and advice for WindFloat, a proposed semisubmersible platform...
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    Drilling Operations

    Visual road map helps control drilling process

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Drilling supervisors at GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GMBH have used a visual road map to control drilling operations since March 2008.
    Reserves

    Watching Government: USGS monitoring ecological impacts

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The US Geological Survey has assessed domestic energy resources for more than 125 years.
    Drilling Operations

    California drops offshore oil plan from emergency budget

    Aug. 3, 2009
    California’s state assembly on July 24 passed an emergency budget package but deleted a bill that would have potentially authorized the first new oil and gas activity off the ...
    Pennwell web 600 370
    LNG

    Natural gas oversupply creating buyers' market

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Natural gas buyers everywhere stand to from the current global gas oversupply.

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 29

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    Aug. 3, 2009
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    Drilling & Production

    A $60-70/bbl price band

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Strong rallies in both equity and commodity markets in late July pushed front-month crude contracts above $68/bbl in New York and $70/bbl in London just 2 weeks after the price...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Aker Solutions ASA,KjelstadOslo, has appointed Karl Erik Kjelstad executive vice-president and member of the executive management team in Aker Solutions, effective Oct. 1. He ...
    Drilling & Production

    Needy California takes a new look at big oil project

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Fiscal distress is nudging California toward a measured embrace of—gasp!—oil and gas development.
    New Plants

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Biofuels analytical solutions portfolio expandedThe EcoAnalytix biofuels analytical solutions portfolio has been expanded to include nine analyzers and systems, crossing six technologie...
    Pennwell web 450 1830
    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 3, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesCourt lets MMS sales outside Alaska proceedA federal appeals court clarified its order vacating the current federal offshore oil and gas leasing ...
    Pennwell web 600 715
    General Interest

    Speakers see changed, maybe relocated, US industry

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The US oil and gas industry will emerge from its doldrums structurally changed and perhaps relocated, according to a scenario that took shape at the RMI Oilfield Breakfast Forum...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Special Report: Gazprom grapples with dents to revenues, investments

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The dramatic fall in gas prices over the past year has dented revenues and investment plans of OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest gas producer.
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    Companies

    Shell Gas & Power to push ahead with floating LNG

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Shell Gas & Power Developments BV, The Hague, signed an agreement July 28 in Paris with a consortium of Technip and Samsung for design, construction, and installation of several...
    Refining

    Japan’s refiners facing hard choices, must seek alliances to ease closings

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Japanese refiners face a surplus of capacity at a time of massive global refining surpluses.
    Companies

    Special Report: China using loan packages to secure oil supplies

    Aug. 3, 2009
    China is using its financial reserves to secure oil supplies from a variety of producing countries, according to a recent report by Wood Mackenzie.
    Pennwell web 600 560
    LNG

    Poten: Abu Dhabi gas demand could limit sour gas for LNG

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co. is considering plans to increase LNG production at its complex on Das Island beyond 2019, when its 4.7-million tonne/year LNG sales contract with...
    Pennwell web 600 380
    Discoveries

    Oil potential seen in Silurian reef-related reservoirs in Illinois Sangamon arch

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The Silurian carbonate succession of the Sangamon arch in west-central Illinois includes hydrocarbon reservoirs that have produced chiefly from dolomitized nonreef facies.
    New Plants

    Special Report: Sonatrach maintains investments despite low crude oil prices

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Despite declines in oil and gas prices, Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company, is maintaining its investment program.
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    Watching The World: Better red than unemployed

    Aug. 3, 2009
    The Venezuelan government is fast politicizing the country’s oil and gas industry, now requiring workers to support the socialist revolution of President Hugo Chavez if they plan...
    Refining

    Coker design achieves cycle times, throughput needs at Kansas refinery

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Over the last few years, Frontier Refining’s plant in El Dorado, Kan., has undergone a major refinery reconfiguration to facilitate processing a greater proportion of very heavy...
    Reserves

    Special Report: Pemex, PDVSA, Petrobras: how strategies, results differ

    Aug. 3, 2009
    National oil companies control the vast majority of the world’s oil reserves, produce most of the planet’s crude, and own much of the oil and gas infrastructure, which makes them...
    Economics & Markets

    Congress members urge CFTC to set energy position limits

    Aug. 3, 2009
    Two members of Congress urged the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to establish and enforce position limits for all energy commodities as opening witnesses at the first...
    Production Operations

    Senators introduce OCS revenue-sharing bill

    Aug. 3, 2009
    US Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced legislation on July 27 that would guarantee coastal states a 37.5% share of federal revenue from new ...
    Companies

    Special Report: Innovation urged in NOC, IOC relations with suppliers

    Aug. 3, 2009
    National oil companies (NOCs) and international oil companies (IOCs) are under greater pressure than in previous down-cycles due to the last year’s sharp falls in petroleum prices...
    HSE

    Editorial: Enriching a muted discussion

    July 3, 2009
    Three recent developments—one scientific and two polemic—should enrich discussion about human activity and climate change.