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  • Volume 107, Issue 34

    • Volume 107, Issue 34

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    Production Operations

    OFFSHORE BONDS— Conclusion: Risk-adjusted methods update supplemental bonding calculations

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Risk-adjusted methods provide alternative approaches for calculating supplemental bonding requirements for operators in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Drilling & Production

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Contractors' earnings fall amid brighter deepwater forecasts

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Offshore drilling contractors reported declines in second-quarter 2009 net earnings and continued stacking rigs, while oil companies coped with less cash flow to finance drilling...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Special Report: Pipeline profits, capacity expansion plans grow despite increased costs

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Natural gas pipeline operators saw their profits reach new highs in 2008, rising by more than 7% compared with 2007, despite a 9% drop in revenues year over year. Net profits ...
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    Refining

    Lower demand, prices crush 2Q, first-half earnings

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Average commodity prices and rig counts in this year's second quarter plummeted compared with second-quarter 2008, sending the financial results of producers, refiners, and service...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    FERC expects Alaska gas line applications in 2010

    Sept. 14, 2009
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission expects to receive open season applications in 2010 from both groups proposing construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's...

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 34

    IOR/EOR

    INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM AGREEMENTS—2: Embargo of '73 launched era of mutual adjustment

    Sept. 14, 2009
    In the low-price environment of the 1980s and 1990s, many host countries adopted policies to promote E&P investments in their territories by offering more-attractive terms and...
    Companies

    PWC: Oil, gas industry major contributor to US economy

    Sept. 14, 2009
    The oil and natural gas industry supports more than 9 million US jobs while contributing to the national economy as both an employer and purchaser of US goods and services, according...
    Refining

    Editorial: Interests and credibility

    Sept. 14, 2009
    By some ways of thinking, affiliation with the oil and gas industry discredits whatever a person might say on the subject of energy.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: China urged to quit Myanmar

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Activists have called on China to halt construction of controversial oil and gas pipelines through Myanmar, warning of instability and civil unrest if the country's ruling junta...
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    Production Operations

    OFFSHORE BONDS— Conclusion: Risk-adjusted methods update supplemental bonding calculations

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Risk-adjusted methods provide alternative approaches for calculating supplemental bonding requirements for operators in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Companies

    Bain & Co.: Tough decisions loom on costs, investments

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Tentative economic recovery and volatile oil prices will force managers of the oil and gas industry to make tough decisions soon, warns Bain & Co., Boston.
    Companies

    Watching Government: Surface owner notification

    Sept. 14, 2009
    The US Bureau of Land Management quietly moved toward better relations with surface landholders in July as some of its state offices issued notices that those landholders' names...
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    Drilling & Production

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Contractors' earnings fall amid brighter deepwater forecasts

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Offshore drilling contractors reported declines in second-quarter 2009 net earnings and continued stacking rigs, while oil companies coped with less cash flow to finance drilling...
    Production Operations

    Minister sees 4% decline in Mexico's oil output in 2010

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Oil production by Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will average 2.5 million b/d in 2010, down 4% from levels in this year's first half and down 5.7% from previous...
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    Exploration & Development

    Low-btu gas in the US Midcontinent: A challenge for geologists and engineers

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Considerable unexploited resources of natural gas in the US have been largely bypassed due to unacceptable levels of associated nitrogen (N2), which lowers heat content.
    Exploration & Development

    Brazil unveils proposed offshore presalt legislation

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has proposed new legislation aimed at governing the development of his country's potentially enormous reserves of oil in the offshore...
    Refining & Processing

    Mexico to issue tender for ethanol production

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will invite tenders next month for a contract to produce 176 million l./year of ethanol, according to a senior government official...
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    IHS CERA: World oil demand set to rise next year

    Sept. 14, 2009
    World oil demand is set to grow next year for the first time since 2007 and is expected to reach pre-recession levels by 2012, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates said in...
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    Petrochemicals

    Here's a quick means to determine MeOH injection to inhibit hydrates

    Sept. 14, 2009
    This article proposes a set of reference charts developed by the authors for determining required methanol concentrations in the aqueous phase (rich solution) and total lean inhibitor...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Exploration & Development — Quick TakesEPA dissatisfied with Texas clean-air permitting Key aspects of the Texas clean-air permitting program do not meet US Clean Air Act requirements...
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    CO2 transport guidelines

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Debate continues in scientific, political, financial, and environmental circles regarding the viability and cost of capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide as part of future...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 14, 2009
    New reference pressure recorderHere's nVision, a new type of field pressure calibrator that can be configured to measure and record 200,000 pressure, temperature, current, and...
    Companies

    Employment woes puncture hope for green energy jobs

    Sept. 14, 2009
    The latest failure of liberal employment remedies should encourage the oil and gas industry.
    Government

    Advertisers Index

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Baker Hughes Incorporated...... www.bakerhughes.comDECCFluor....... www.fluor.com/offshoreGulf Interstate Engineering.... www.gie.comIndustrial Rubber, Inc...... www.iri-oiltool...
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Knight Oil Tools,DavisHouston, has selected Gary Davis to broaden its business development efforts globally. With more than 25 years of experience in the rental tool industry,...
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    Green jobs

    Sept. 14, 2009
    The Obama administration asserts that its big investments in "green energy" will create a large number of jobs.
    Economics & Markets

    Deutsche Bank closing exchange traded note

    Sept. 14, 2009
    Citing new limitations on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Deutsche Bank AG said in early September it would close and redeem its popular $425 million PowerShares DB Crude Oil...