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  • Volume 108, Issue 1

    • Volume 108, Issue 1

    Government

    House members ask DOI for care in polar bear action

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Thirteen US House members asked Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to consider economic and energy security consequences of adopting a US Fish and Wildlife Service recommendation...
    Government

    NPRA suggests alternatives to EPA's proposed GHG regulations

    Jan. 11, 2010
    The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association recommended three alternatives on Dec. 23 as it submitted comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency opposing EPA's proposed...
    Companies

    Watching The World: Investors target Sudan

    Jan. 11, 2010
    If India and China thought their oil and gas industries would have favored status around the world, they were mistaken.
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    Production Operations

    Umiat: a North Slope giant primed for oil development

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Alaska's giant Umiat oil field, discovered in the late 1940s by the US Navy in search of new sources of oil after World War II, remains undeveloped to this day.
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    Health care and energy

    Jan. 11, 2010
    The political shenanigans contorting reform of US health care show, yet again, the towering virtue of governmental self-restraint.

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 1

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    Refining

    Yearly refinery construction indexes listed for 80+ years

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Here are yearly values for the Nelson-Farrar refinery inflation cost index since 1926 (see tabulation below).They are based on 1946 as 100, since that was the date of index inception...
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    Nelson-farrar cost Indexes

    Jan. 11, 2010
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    Companies

    Pipeline operators underusing potential pipeline rehabilitation

    Jan. 11, 2010
    By selling recovered line pipe into the structural market instead of rehabilitating it for its own use, the pipeline industry is underusing a potentially valuable asset.
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    Advertisers Index

    Jan. 11, 2010
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    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 11, 2010
    M-I Swaco,Houston, has acquired Cyclotech, a Basingstoke, UK-based water treatment and produced sand management company. The deal, terms of which aren't disclosed, is intended...
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    Europol: Emission trading fraud costs Europe €5 billion

    Jan. 11, 2010
    By the time it ended, the Copenhagen climate summit had become farcical enough to obscure an instructive disclosure that emerged in the confab's early days.
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    Drilling Operations

    OGJ FOCUS: Rig-site equipment determines drilling fluid weight material sag

    Jan. 11, 2010
    A series of experiments determined the equipment needed for finding the degree of sedimentation or sag in various drilling fluids at a rig site.
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    A 'virtual' oil price gain

    Jan. 11, 2010
    The front-month contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes traded as high as $80/bbl before closing at $79.36/bbl Dec. 31 in what many described as a 78% price jump during ...
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    Refining

    Separations technology improves amine system's overall reliability

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Expansion and modifications at Marsulex Montreal Inc.'s sulfur-handling plant in Montreal have increased the plant's overall reliability through improved amine quality, improved...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 11, 2010
    New pump jack uses magnet electric rotary motorThe new Mitey Titan pump jack uses a permanent magnet electric rotary motor that features large torque, low rotation speed, low ...
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    'Peak oil' a myth

    Jan. 11, 2010
    In "Oil, gas supply trends point to tight spots, higher prices," Rafael Sandrea observed, "Global crude oil production has…remained flat at 71 million b/d since 2004" and went...
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    Watching Government: 2009's reasons to chuckle

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Before the season to be jolly completely slips away, let's look back at some of 2009's amusing moments in government and issue this column's annual "Watchy" awards.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Mexico's natural gas imports to soar by 133%

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Mexico's demand for natural gas will continue to outstrip production, with imports to cover the country's requirements set to rise by 133% during 2009-24, according to government...
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    Is this the year?

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Energy prognostications at this time of the year are as common as weather forecasts but often less accurate.
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    Keep OCS sale on schedule, Va. governor-elect tells Salazar

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Robert F. McDonnell, who will become Virginia's governor this month, has asked US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar "to do everything in your power" to ensure that a planned...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 11, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesChina, Venezuela sign round of energy agreementsChina and Venezuela signed five agreements, one concerning refining and two touching on exploration...
    New Plants

    IOGA of New York urges governor to remain committed to Marcellus shale

    Jan. 11, 2010
    The Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York has urged Gov. David Paterson to remain committed to his draft State Energy Plan, which supports the expansion of natural gas...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    EIA 2010 forecast sees falling US oil imports

    Jan. 11, 2010
    A significant increase in US biofuels production could make the nation less dependent on imported oil, the US Energy Information Administration said in an early release of its...
    Government

    House move promised against EPA's GHG finding

    Jan. 11, 2010
    A US House Republican energy leader said he plans to introduce a resolution expressing disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas emission (GHG) endangerment...
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    Third-quarter 2009 earnings fall sharply from 2008 peaks

    Jan. 11, 2010
    Lower oil and natural gas prices and depressed refining margins resulted in a sharp reduction in the third-quarter 2009 earnings of oil and gas producers and refiners.
    Exploration & Development

    Alaska officials file objections to polar bear habitat proposal

    Jan. 11, 2010
    The State of Alaska filed strong objections to the US Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal to designate 200,541 sq miles in the state and adjacent ocean as critical habitat for...