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  • Volume 107, Issue 42

    • Volume 107, Issue 42

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    Reserves

    Comment: Brazil aims to avoid long-term oil 'curse'

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Blessed with the world's largest oil discovery in 30 years, Brazil has recently proposed a new development model designed to turn this unexpected windfall towards the public good...
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    Drilling & Production

    Special Report: Improved oil, gas demand, price forecasts raise drilling rig trend

    Nov. 9, 2009
    The US working drilling rig count has started to reverse its steep drop as expectations for crude and gas prices and demand have become more bullish.
    Refining

    OSHA fines BP $87.4 million in Texas City aftermath

    Nov. 9, 2009
    The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a proposed fine of $87.4 million against BP Products North America Inc., saying the company...
    General Interest

    SEG: Energy R&D demands wider funds, collaboration

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Energy research and development challenges are becoming more complex, demand integrated and individual approaches, and are in need of wider funding sources, concluded a forum ...
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    Government

    API, AOPL working to standardize GPS system

    Nov. 9, 2009
    A joint American Petroleum Institute-Association of Oil Pipe Lines team is working to develop standard global positioning system coordinate submittal guidelines in an effort to...

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    Nov. 9, 2009
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    Companies

    Carbon-eating trees

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Your editorial entitled "Mitigating climate change" was right on target (OGJ, Oct. 19, 2009, p. 18). The idea of spending $10.5 trillion on projects with essentially no potential...
    Economics & Markets

    Aramco switches from WTI benchmark

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Starting with its January sales program, Saudi Aramco, national oil company of Saudi Arabia, will switch from West Texas Intermediate to an index of Gulf Coast sour crudes as ...
    Exploration & Development

    Companies move toward disclosure in frac-fluid issue

    Nov. 9, 2009
    In a simmering US political challenge to the main method for completing gas wells in shale, a secondary issue over proprietary information is starting to dissipate.
    Exploration & Development

    Oil shale adds to energy mix

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Oil shale has potential for supplying fuels for many decades, although numerous attempts during the last 100 years have led to only a few commercial projects.
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 9, 2009
    General Interest— Quick TakesCERI updates oil sands production, cost outlookThe realistic scenario in the latest Canadian Energy Research Institute outlook expects Alberta oil...
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    Exploration & Development

    WILLISTON WAULSORTIAN MOUNDS—1: Dickinson area seen as tip of giant Lodgepole expanse

    Nov. 9, 2009
    The cluster of Mississippian Lodgepole reef oil fields around Dickinson, ND, could be an indication of a supergiant Williston basin oil field which, although accidentally tapped...
    HSE

    Editorial: Carbon price volatility

    Nov. 9, 2009
    While Republican senators deserve applause for demanding to know what climate-change legislation would cost before voting on it, the illumination they seek has large shadows.
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    Refining

    Revamp of HF alkylation unit employs solid-acid catalyst

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Alkylate is in short supply in the US. The renewable fuels standard (RFS) mandates the use of ethanol in gasoline.
    Companies

    Gas supply potential linked to corporate strategies

    Nov. 9, 2009
    The potential of natural gas to reshape energy markets should exert parallel influence on corporate strategies, speakers said at the RMI Oilfield Breakfast Forum in Houston.
    Refining

    Slower desulfurization growth seen in US, Canada

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Refinery desulfurization capacities for gas oil and naphtha in US and Canada will continue to grow through 2013 but more slowly than they did in 2000-08, says a study by GlobalData...
    Discoveries

    Study takes midstream look at long-term gas supply

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Projected growth in North American natural gas supplies and markets will require billions of dollars of additional investments in pipelines, storage, and other midstream infrastructure...
    Government

    CFTC chair calls for regulation of emissions markets

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Comprehensive regulation of financial derivatives will also need to be a critical component of a well-functioning domestic emissions trading market, US Commodity Futures Trading...
    Government

    Senate panel's climate-change markup under protest

    Nov. 9, 2009
    As other Republicans boycotted the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's markup of global climate-change legislation on Nov. 3, George V. Voinovich (Ohio) showed ...
    Reserves

    Watching Government: Chesapeake's NYC decision

    Nov. 9, 2009
    So exactly what did Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s decision not to drill any Marcellus shale natural gas wells in New York City's watershed mean? It depends on who you ask.
    Companies

    Denbury-Encore merger to test CO2-oil synergies

    Nov. 9, 2009
    The production-sequestration synergies of crude oil and carbon dioxide will receive a new test under a $4.5 billion acquisition by Denbury Resources Inc. of Encore Acquisition...
    Home

    Watching The World: Khodorkovsky fights back

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Russia's oil and gas industry has had its share of drama over former OAO Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was convicted and sentenced to 8 years in jail in 2005 for major ...
    Companies

    CSIS: unconventional resources altering global gas outlook

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Production potential from tight shales and other unconventional resources has significantly altered the world's natural gas outlook, experts said Oct. 28 at a seminar on the evolution...
    Reserves

    SEC rules might have meant US oil reserves hike

    Nov. 9, 2009
    Proved US crude oil reserves fell by more than 10% in 2008, but there would likely have been a smaller drop or perhaps even an increase under new Securities and Exchange Commission...