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  • Volume 107, Issue 6

    • Volume 107, Issue 6

    Th Global Perspectives 05
    Reserves

    Global perspectives required for risk, opportunity analyses

    Feb. 9, 2009
    The world has always held risks for upstream oil and gas companies, and it certainly shows no signs of becoming less risky in the near future.
    Government

    Editorial: Deepwater investment

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Oil and gas producers should expect a political fight after a US appeals court ruled in their favor about royalties from deepwater leases.
    Th Technology May 01
    Home

    Oil Shale—Conclusion: Technology may control adverse environmental effects

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Technology may help control the potential adverse environmental effects of oil shale development in accordance with current and future US environmental policy.
    Th Gasoline Distillate 01
    Refining

    Gasoline-distillate price gap calls for refining investments

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Robust worldwide demand growth for middle distillates has resulted in a disproportionate price increase compared to gasoline.
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    Drilling & Production

    Kosmos, Tullow drill deepwater Cretaceous sands off Ghana

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Smaller independent oil companies are successfully drilling deep prospects off western Ghana, finding light sweet crude and natural gas in Cretaceous sandstones that may extend...

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 6

    Th Equation Aids T1
    Discoveries

    Equation aids early estimation of gas field production potential

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Natural gas is the world’s fastest growing fossil energy source, contributing 287 bcfd or roughly 50 million b/d of oil equivalent oil.
    Home

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    Feb. 9, 2009
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    Home

    E q u i p m e n t / S o f t w a r e / L i t e r a t u r e

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Wellhead outlet reengineered for high-heat wellsThe reengineered wellhead outlet shown on the left promises to operate safely in higher temperatures typically generated by the...
    Economics & Markets

    Relief from tax law complexity would help US economy

    Feb. 9, 2009
    The new Treasury secretary’s tax embarrassment highlights a lever that he and Congress profitably might pull to repair a broken economy.
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Aker Solutions, Oslo, has appointed Gary Mandel executive vice-president of its process and construction business area. Mandel replaces Jarle Tautra, who moves to a similar position...
    Drilling & Production

    Crude prices may be bottoming

    Feb. 9, 2009
    As February opened, crude prices appeared to be “in the early stages of a bottoming process” amid growing speculation that production cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting...
    Home

    The case for hydrogen

    Feb. 9, 2009
    This is a response to the letter from Thomas Wyman entitled “Hydrogen and thermodynamics.”
    Government

    API: Windfall profits tax could harm US economic growth

    Feb. 9, 2009
    New taxes on the oil and gas industry could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, slow down economic growth, and make the US more dependent on foreign energy sources, according ...
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    New Plants

    Special Report: Current pipeline expansion slows; future plans contract

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Planned pipeline construction to be completed in 2009 rose more slowly than in 2008, increasing by more than 13% from the previous year, driven by large natural gas transportation...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    National, local, and back

    Feb. 9, 2009
    US President Barack H. Obama’s affect on the country’s oil and gas pipeline industry is still in the earliest stages of being defined.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: A job for Global Hawk

    Feb. 9, 2009
    The oil and gas industry is concerned about maritime affairs, especially piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
    Production Operations

    Brazilian president endorses Petrobras’s investment

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, endorsing statements by officials of state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), said his country will fully implement projects...
    Companies

    NAPE: Geoscience gains hiking oil, gas recovery

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Stiff gas-on-gas competition and a shakeout are approaching in the North American unconventional gas business, attendees were told Feb. 4 at an introductory session to the North...
    Discoveries

    Murkowski: Interim Point Thomson ruling good for Alaska gas line

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Thomas E. Irwin’s interim conditional decision to let leaseholders drill on two expired tracts this winter is good news for the Alaska natural...
    Tankers

    Watching Government: Arctic offshore gets busier

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Equipment for responding to arctic maritime accidents could prove inadequate as polar sea ice declines, energy demand grows, and vessel traffic increases, according to a report...
    Th Ogj Newsletter 01
    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 9, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesIndonesia places domestic gas sales over exportsIndonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla, on a state visit to Japan, has reaffirmed the need for his...
    Th Salazar Launches 01
    Companies

    Salazar launches MMS ethics reform program

    Feb. 9, 2009
    US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched an ethics reform program Jan. 29 to examine conduct of a group of US Minerals Management Service employees, look at restructuring the...
    New Plants

    Algeria eyes Peruvian natural gas development

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach, eyeing the pending development of Peru’s natural gas reserves and transport system, said it will join state-owned oil company Petroperu in hydrocarbon...
    Tankers

    Pirates seize another tanker off Yemen

    Feb. 9, 2009
    Pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden, shrugging off recent military and political developments aimed at curbing their activities, hijacked the MV Longchamp, a German tanker bound...