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    New Plants

    China's strategic reserves capacity to double by 2011

    Sept. 21, 2009
    China's strategic petroleum reserves capacity will have doubled by 2011-12. This rapid expansion of Chinese petroleum storage capability, coupled with robust growth in oil demand...
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    Refining

    Steam distillation effects improve thin, light-oil reservoir recoveries

    Sept. 21, 2009
    A study has shown that steamflooding distillation effects would improve crude recovery from thin reservoirs with less viscous crude.
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    Special Report: OGJ150 group's profits, oil production slide in 2008

    Sept. 21, 2009
    The OGJ150 group of US oil and gas producers posted a sharp decline in 2008 earnings despite an increase in revenues.
    Government

    Senate Energy panel weighs cap-and-trade alternatives

    Sept. 21, 2009
    US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee members appeared ready to consider cap-and-trade alternatives as they began their 2009 climate-change hearings on Sept. 15.
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    Special Report: OGJ100 firms log increases in 2008 earnings, capex

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the 100 leading oil and gas producers based outside the US shows that most of these firms posted improved financial results from a year earlier.

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    Lawmakers moving toward compromise on House OCS bill

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Responding to US House Natural Resources Committee Republican complaints that the Outer Continental Shelf bill he cosponsored with US Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) didn't go far enough...
    Government

    Watching Government: CFTC's role in cap-and-trade

    Sept. 21, 2009
    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission expects to actively participate in any federal carbon cap-and-trade regulation, CFTC Chairman Gary G. Gensler told a US Senate committee...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Romania's on the map

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Romania's oil and gas industry is beginning to turn some heads these days, with an international energy conference scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 2 and new production commencing ...
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    Administration attempts to justify tax proposals surprise API's Gerard

    Sept. 21, 2009
    American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard expressed surprise at an Obama administration official's apparent attempt on Sept. 10 to justify proposals to repeal oil and ...
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    White House may try to repeal other industries' tax breaks

    Sept. 21, 2009
    US President Barack Obama's administration is studying whether to propose repeals of tax breaks for other industries besides oil and gas, a US Department of the Treasury official...
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    OPEC sees world oil demand to rise in 2010

    Sept. 21, 2009
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, standing by an earlier forecast, predicted that world oil demand will decline slightly in 2009 but will resume growing in 2010...
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    Editorial: Doing-nothing fantasies

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Among the myriad falsehoods that attach themselves to oil and gas in politics, one of the most persistent is also one that should be easy to see through.
    Government

    Rahall introduces major federal mineral policy reform bill

    Sept. 21, 2009
    US House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-W.Va.) introduced a major federal minerals policy reform bill on Sept. 8.
    Government

    GAO says MMS may be forfeiting millions in RIK gas revenue

    Sept. 21, 2009
    The US Minerals Management Service may be forfeiting millions of dollars in natural gas royalties under its royalty-in-kind (RIK) program because it apparently isn't identifying...
    Exploration & Development

    BLM begins scoping period for EOG Uinta gas project

    Sept. 21, 2009
    A 30-day public scoping period for a large natural gas infill project proposed by EOG Resources Inc., Houston, in eastern Utah began on Sept. 9, the US Bureau of Land Management...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 21, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesGorgon LNG partners given final approvalThe giant Gorgon-Jansz-Io LNG and domestic gas project off Western Australia has been given a final investment...
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    Production Operations

    New correlation predicts flue gas sulfuric acid dewpoints

    Sept. 21, 2009
    A new correlation accurately predicts the flue-gas sulfuric-acid dewpoints to mitigate corrosion problems in process equipments and heat-recovery systems.
    Exploration & Development

    ConocoPhillips, Lane to explore Polish shale gas

    Sept. 21, 2009
    3Legs Resources PLC unit Lane Energy Poland has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips for joint evaluation of Lane's six Baltic basin licenses covering 4,000 sq km in Poland...
    Exploration & Development

    Newfield Exploration sees commercial project off China

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, has established more than 30 million bbl of recoverable oil worth a commercial development on 510,000-acre Block 16/05 east-southeast of Hong...
    General Interest

    Exploration eyed in Arizona's Holbrook, Great Basin areas

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Exploration is planned in eastern and northwestern Arizona in the Holbrook basin and in a subbasin of the Basin and Range Province.
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    From oasis to education

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Tucked in the woods of Osage County in northeastern Oklahoma was one man's hidden oasis.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 21, 2009
    Exploration, production software adds improvementsNewly released DataVera Version 8 includes improvements to existing DataVera functionality and introduces a module for exploration...
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    Obama team sheds green-job leader but keeps his ideas

    Sept. 21, 2009
    The imprudence over which Van Jones lost his job should not divert attention from the conviction that had propelled him into the administration of US President Barack Obama.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 21, 2009
    MOGAS Industries Ltd.,Houston, has named LaShunda Hubbard inside sales engineer for its FlexStream line of control valves. She previously worked for Bechtel as a controls and ...
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    Sept. 21, 2009
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    Surprise rally in gas prices

    Sept. 21, 2009
    A four-session natural gas rally from a 7-year low culminated with a 15% jump past $3/MMbtu Sept. 10—the largest 1-day gain in almost 5 years in the New York market.