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  • Volume 107, Issue 36

    • Volume 107, Issue 36

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    Efficiency improvements cut GHG emissions, help profits

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Policy makers and business leaders are sharpening their focus on ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the belief these reductions could improve the economy, weather...
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    Extended OCS comment period produces 350,000 comments

    Sept. 28, 2009
    The US government received more than 350,000 public comments on possible Outer Continental Shelf resource development strategies during the 6-month comment period that expired...
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    Special Report: Understanding process key to shale gas development

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Making hydrocarbon production from shales a profitable venture requires a process for driving down overall costs.
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    Special Report: GAS SHALE—1: Seven plays dominate North America activity

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Seven shale plays dominate today's North America natural gas potential reserves additions and production increases.
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    CYBER SECURITY—1: Effective defense requires thorough risk assessment

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Protecting a pipeline system from cyber attack requires placing independent barriers and protections (technical countermeasures) around its supervisory control and data acquisition...

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    Sept. 28, 2009
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    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Global Tubing,Dayton, Tex., has appointed Pete Sinner manager, North American sales. Sinner has 30 years of experience introducing new technology and product developments to the...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Deloitte: Trade problems loom

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Position limits being considered by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to eliminate "excessive" market speculation could create problems for companies trading energy ...
    Government

    RIK management, not concept, led to program's demise

    Sept. 28, 2009
    If the US government can't manage oil and gas royalties taken in kind, how can anyone expect it to handle a shady market for greenhouse-gas emission credits?
    Refining

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 28, 2009
    New cable lockout system for oil field valvesThis new safety cable lockout system eliminates the requirement of chains and incorporates the features of the hasp right into the...
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    Algae's growing popularity

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Established investors, including one notable oil major, are putting money into early-stage companies developing algae-based biofuel.
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    Liberia to gather ultradeepwater seismic

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Liberia plans to announce an ultradeepwater licensing round after it acquires 15,000 km of 2D seismic, gravity, and magnetic data.
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    Discovery off Sierra Leone may set up 700-mile play

    Sept. 28, 2009
    The 45 ft of net hydrocarbon pay cut by an Anadarko Petroleum Corp.-operated deepwater exploratory well off remote Sierra Leone was only part of a "tremendous amount" of reservoir...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 28, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesIHS Herold: Hofmeister wants independent agencyJohn Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil Co., wants the US to come up with a comprehensive approach...
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    Watching Government: Delivering 'human impact statements'

    Sept. 28, 2009
    US House Natural Resources Committee members found plenty on which to disagree as they began 2 days of hearings on Chairman Nick J. Rahall's (D-W.Va.) federal minerals management...
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    La. refinery converts control system without shutdown

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Marathon Oil Corp. has installed new process-control equipment and systems at its Garyville, La., refinery.
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    Gazprom launches new stretch of Kaliningrad gas line

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom, meeting the demand of the Russian government, has completed the construction of the second stretch of the 139-km Minsk-Vilnius...
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    Indonesia awards exploration rights for blocks

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Indonesia has awarded five oil and natural gas blocks to several companies, aiming to increase oil and gas reserves and to lift dwindling production.
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    Editorial: Dissent is just dissent

    Sept. 28, 2009
    According to liberal assertions, to resist the radical stampede under way in the US is to be rude, violent, or racist.
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    Tighter OTC derivative oversight needed, House panel told

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Regulation of over-the-counter derivatives is essential as the US government tries to prevent market manipulation, the chiefs of two key financial regulatory commissions told ...
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    Repsol YPF confirms large gas find off Venezuela

    Sept. 28, 2009
    Repsol YPF SA confirmed earlier reports that it has made a giant natural gas discovery off Venezuela.
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    Salazar to end federal oil and gas RIK program

    Sept. 28, 2009
    US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar beat a US House committee to the punch and announced plans to eliminate the US Minerals Management Service's royalty-in-kind (RIK) program on Sept...
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    House panel told leasing bill would hurt development

    Sept. 28, 2009
    A bill that aims to make federal oil and gas leasing more effective and efficient would have the opposite effect instead, two oil and gas industry officials told the US House ...