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  • Volume 107, Issue 30

    • Volume 107, Issue 30

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    Refining

    Changing US crude imports are driving refinery upgrades

    Aug. 10, 2009
    In the last 15 years, overall crude oil imports to the US have grown at 3%/year.
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    LNG

    Special Report: Project start, completion dates become less definite

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Many oil and gas development projects remain on schedule, but companies also have deferred many projects so that start-up and completion dates have become less certain.
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    Home

    Improved methods broaden in-service tank inspection

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Improved ultrasonic (UT) inspection methods address storage tank integrity monitoring and assessment without removing tanks from service.
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    Home

    Special Report: Major projects

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Click here to view the pdf verison of the Major Projects documents that appears below.
    Companies

    Oil companies slap Nigeria’s petroleum reform legislation

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will substantially increase taxation for operators and discourage investment, companies complained last month at a public forum in Abuja...

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 30

    Government

    Editorial: Politics and fuel choice

    Aug. 10, 2009
    The folly of governmental fuel choice is playing out vividly in the shadowed margins of fiscal politics. Hydrogen, everyone’s favorite vehicle fuel a few years ago, has fallen...
    Refining

    USW withdraws from standards talks with API

    Aug. 10, 2009
    The United Steelworkers (USW) has withdrawn from talks on refinery safety standards with the American Petroleum Institute and the oil industry.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Coming from Russia: more crude, lighter and sweeter

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Russia has historically exported medium sour crude, but over the next decade there will be more than a 2 million b/d increase in light sweet exports.
    Government

    Watching Government: Uinta basin’s air assessed

    Aug. 10, 2009
    A new air quality study of eastern Utah’s Uinta basin was released on July 31, not by a government agency or academic researchers but by the Independent Petroleum Association ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    China, Petroecuador sign agreement on oil supply

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Ecuador’s state-owned Petroecuador, eyeing an advance payment of $1 billion, has signed an agreement to sell 3 million bbl/month of oil to PetroChina International Co. Ltd. over...
    Home

    Watching The World: The extravagant allegation club

    Aug. 10, 2009
    No one in the oil and gas industry is immune to extravagant allegations, as evidenced by one court case after another.
    Government

    Committee chairmen describe derivatives regulation concepts

    Aug. 10, 2009
    The chairmen of two US House committees with commodities regulation oversight have released a concept paper describing how they would like to regulate over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives...
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    Discoveries

    Mexico, Brazil, Norway upstream readiness weighed

    Aug. 10, 2009
    The Mexican Competitiveness Institute, known by its acronym IMCO, released in mid-July its 2009 report on the state of the Mexican economy.
    Discoveries

    Gas hydrate assessment needed, House panel told

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Natural gas hydrates are a potentially significant energy source, but more work needs to be done to determine if they can be economically produced, three experts told a US House...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 10, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesConocoPhillips asks to amend propane agreementConocoPhillips Co. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission for approval to amend its propane supply...
    Companies

    MMS data on OCS safety highlight the risks of lifting

    Aug. 10, 2009
    US Minerals Management Service statistics show a total of 2,724 safety incidents were reported during 2005-08 on the Outer Continental Shelf, of which 506 incidents involved lifting...
    Government

    Appeals court clarifies its decision on Alaskan OCS

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Alaska state officials and environmental organizations each claimed victory following a federal appeals court’s clarification late last month that its earlier order vacating the...
    Government

    API denies claim that it supported a higher US ethanol blending cap

    Aug. 10, 2009
    An ethanol advocacy group’s suggestion that an American Petroleum Institute study supports increasing allowable ethanol levels in gasoline to 12% is misleading, the oil industry...
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Clamp-on meter designed for upstream flow operationsActiveSONAR clamp-on sonar meters are specifically designed to address flow rates and heavy schedule piping in upstream operations...
    Companies

    With profits down, lawmakers find new oil-price menace

    Aug. 10, 2009
    When oil-company profits surged last year, Congress staged a two-ring circus.
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Transocean Ltd.,TomaZug, Switzerland, has named Ihab Toma senior vice-president, marketing and planning. Based in Geneva, Toma will be responsible for marketing and planning for...
    IOR/EOR

    Rocky Mountain EOR

    Aug. 10, 2009
    The northern portion of the Rocky Mountain region of the US may see more enhanced oil recovery projects as carbon dioxide from new sources becomes available because of concerns...
    Economics & Markets

    KBC: Index funds lift oil prices

    Aug. 10, 2009
    A growing market force is floating crude prices above levels justified by the simple fundamentals of supply and demand, said analysts at KBC Market Services, a division of KBC...
    Government

    Advertisers Index

    Aug. 10, 2009
    Baker Hughes Incorporated...... www.bakerhughes.comFluor www.fluor.com/offshoreIndustrial Rubber, Inc. www.iri-oiltool.comLagcoe www.lagcoe.comM-I Swaco www.miswaco.comOffshore...