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  • Volume 107, Issue 5

    • Volume 107, Issue 5

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    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Click here to download a .pdf of the Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes
    Exploration & Development

    Indonesia rejects ExxonMobil’s claim to Natuna D-Alpha

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Indonesia has rejected a plan of development for the Natuna D-Alpha block filed last week by ExxonMobil Corp., saying the firm’s contract expired in 2005.
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    Exploration & Development

    BPZ Energy continues Corvina field drilling

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Houston-based BPZ Energy Inc. is testing the latest of six wells it has drilled in the 80 million bbl Corvina field off northwestern Peru.
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    Petrochemicals

    US OLEFINS—SECOND-HALF 2008: Hurricanes, economic turmoil push olefins production lower

    Feb. 2, 2009
    The combination of two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and a decline in global economic activity caused demand and production of olefins in the US to fall sharply in fourth-quarter...
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    OIL SHALE—3: Analytic approach estimates oil shale development economics

    Feb. 2, 2009
    An analytical approach estimates that the minimum economic price for developing the vast US oil shale resources to be $38-62/bbl of shale oil produced.

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 5

    Companies

    Barrett starts Paradox Gothic shale gas flow

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, started gas sales in December 2008 from Pennsylvanian Gothic shale in the Paradox basin, where the company plans to run one rig in 2009.
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    Production Operations

    Tamar wildcat finds subsalt gas off Israel

    Feb. 2, 2009
    The Tamar rank wildcat well in the eastern Mediterranean off northern Israel has discovered a resource at least equal to the predrill estimate of more than 3 tcf of gas, said ...
    Exploration & Development

    Seneca third largest Marcellus shale player

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Seneca Resources Corp., third largest acreage holder in the Devonian Marcellus shale gas play, plans to emerge as an operator of record this year even as it continues a joint ...
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    Exploration & Development

    France awards permits in Mozambique Channel

    Feb. 2, 2009
    The French government awarded two 5-year exploration permits to midsized oil companies to explore offshore Juan de Nova, a tiny island possession in the Mozambique Channel between...
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    Advertisers Index

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Ariel Corporation.. ……… www.arielcorp.comBaker Hughes IncorporatedHughes Christensen.. ……… www.bakerhughes.com/casefileEmerson Process Mangement.. ……… EasyDeltaV.com/SISEmirates...
    Exploration & Development

    Equipments/Software/Literature

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Partnership offers seismic interpretation Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. (SMT), Houston, has become an independent software vendor (ISV) partner with Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co...
    Refining

    Plunge refutes US view of what steers oil price

    Feb. 2, 2009
    If not for the political damage, uninformed bellyaching about oil prices would be amusing.
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    General Interest

    Testing eliminates crude line PPD use

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Solution gases and reservoir pressure can allow operation of offshore transmission pipelines carrying high pour point, paraffinic crude without pour point depressant (PPD), even...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Global Industries Ltd.,BorjaClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed two executives to lead the company’s commercial growth strategies, marketing, and business development...
    Government

    Oil, gas targeted for more taxes

    Feb. 2, 2009
    There are “ample signs” that the US states and federal government will take a bigger tax bite from both upstream and downstream oil and gas operations to cover pending financial...
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    After the chill

    Feb. 2, 2009
    There is no doubt that while sea surface temperatures are rising and glaciers around the world are receding, as far as the global economy is concerned, we are in for a big chill...
    General Interest

    What now for the oil price?

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Two questions loom heavily over the oil market: Where is the bottom of the price slide? And what level will prices seek once the bounce occurs?
    HSE

    Editorial: The cost of energy anxiety

    Feb. 2, 2009
    The US list of latter-day energy anxieties has a new item: labor. With Americans losing jobs faster than at any time in decades, the Obama administration proposes to make work...
    Companies

    Newly formed NCOC takes over Kashagan field operatorship

    Feb. 2, 2009
    The newly formed North Caspian Operating Co. BV (NCOC), as part of earlier agreement, has replaced the Agip KCO consortium as operator of Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field development...
    Reserves

    Final EIA figures show US 2007 oil reserves grew 2%

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Proved US oil reserves rose by 345 million bbl, or 2%, during 2007 to 21.32 billion bbl from 20.97 billion bbl at the beginning of the year, reported the US Energy Information...
    New Plants

    Semisubmersible Petrorig I on track for Gulf of Mexico

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Petrorig I—the first unit of a series of four Larsen Oil & Gas ultradeepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs on order with Sembcorp Marine Ltd.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching Government: Blue jobs, green jobs

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Several congressional leaders are aggressively promoting “green jobs” as US President Barack H. Obama develops his New Energy for America plan.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Clinton: Energy security a major US foreign policy element

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Energy security must be an important and integrated element of US foreign policy, US Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton said as the Senate considered her nomination.
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 2, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesFERC issues first ROE order incorporating MLPsThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a Kern River Gas Transmission Co. settlement on Jan...
    Government

    California, other states granted right to set their own air quality standards

    Feb. 2, 2009
    US President Barack H. Obama signed memorandums on Jan. 26 granting California and other states the right to raise air quality standards above the national level and ordering ...
    Production Operations

    Pemex reports 9.2% decline in oil production for 2008

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), eyeing continued depletion at its main oil field, said the country’s oil production declined by 9.2% in 2008 to just under 2.8 million b/...
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    Reserves

    Special Report: IOC challenge: providing value beyond production

    Feb. 2, 2009
    In their effort to access hydrocarbons, international oil companies (IOCs) face a major challenge: convincing national oil companies (NOCs) and host governments that they provide...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching The World: Contention in Madagascar

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Madagascar’s oil and gas industry received a blow last week when thousands of demonstrators, demanding a new government, hit the streets and set fire to an oil depot.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    IFP: Politics, money crisis to impact energy industry

    Feb. 2, 2009
    In an unprecedented economic and financial crisis where “all reference marks have disappeared,” the president of the Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP), Olivier Appert, ventured...
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    Libya threatens to nationalize its oil industry

    Feb. 2, 2009
    Libya may nationalize its oil industry to control production as oil prices have plummeted over 70% over the past year, said Muammar Qadhafi, the country’s leader.