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  • Volume 108, Issue 12

    • Volume 108, Issue 12

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    Fitch: More cuts loom for N. American refining

    April 5, 2010
    With more capacity cuts looming and financial metrics still under strain, the North American refining industry remains a credit risk, reports Fitch Ratings.
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    Watching Government: Letter exchange in Washington

    April 5, 2010
    USSenate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Minority Member Lisa Murkowski and EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson exchanged letters about EPA's effort to implement ...
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    Special Report: Worldwide Construction Update: Survey shows cost increase, delay in completion dates

    April 5, 2010
    Oil & Gas Journal's semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a decline in construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update.
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    Watching The World: PetroChina's forward thinking

    April 5, 2010
    China's oil and gas industry seeks a great leap forward, judging from statements of PetroChina's Chairman Jiang Jiemin, who sees the acquisition of new technology as the basis...
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    Obama, Salazar try to strike balance with OCS strategy

    April 5, 2010
    The Obama administration announced a US Outer Continental Shelf strategy that it said would open new areas for responsible oil and gas development while protecting fisheries, ...

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    BP marks 5-year anniversary of Texas City accident

    April 5, 2010
    BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward and federal workplace safety officials separately marked the 5th anniversary of the fire and explosions that killed 15 people and injured 180...
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    Russia plans to start extending ESPO crude oil pipeline in 2011

    April 5, 2010
    Russia's oil pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft plans to start lengthening the East Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline in 2011, with completion set for 2013.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 5, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesAPI, NPRA legally challenge new EPA RFS2The American Petroleum Institute and the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association filed separate legal...
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    BP chief stresses energy diversity, competition

    April 5, 2010
    Diversity, competition, and efficiency will be the key factors if the world is to balance energy security, employment, and economic development with combating global climate change...
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    Editorial: The joust is ideological

    April 5, 2010
    The oil and gas industry can strengthen its political footing in the US by hitching its arguments to ideals beyond the usual pragmatics of energy security, jobs, wealth creation...
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    OPEC takes no action on current output

    April 5, 2010
    The biggest official news coming out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' Mar. 17 meeting was that it was the first in the group's new secretariat offices in ...
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    Shale gas seen reshaping research and relationships

    April 5, 2010
    As they reshape markets for natural gas in North America, shale plays also are changing research priorities and business relationships.
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    Reserves disclosures

    April 5, 2010
    The new US Securities and Exchange Commission oil and gas disclosure reserves rules that came into effect for filings after Jan. 1 were intended to modernize definitions and give...
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    Iraq's output growth seen as new pressure on OPEC

    April 5, 2010
    Production growth under new contracts in Iraq will raise pressure on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries to limit supply and to return Iraq to the group's quota ...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 5, 2010
    New top drive offers less downtimeHere's the new 500t Model TD-500-HT top drive that promises less downtime combined with higher drilling performance and improved safety.The unit...
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    KBC: 'Armageddon' mood at NPRA

    April 5, 2010
    No big surprises were reported at the recent National Petrochemical & Refiners Association meeting in Phoenix, although analysts at KBC Market Services, a division of KBC Process...
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    New EU countries plan pipeline expansions

    April 5, 2010
    A growing amount of transmission pipeline construction has taken place over the past 5 years in countries that have become members of the European Union in two integration waves...
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    New Plants

    Services/Suppliers

    April 5, 2010
    Artificial Lift Company Ltd. (ALC),Egham, Surrey, UK, has promoted Peter Moulsdale to director and vice-president, operations. He joined ALC in 2007 and has played a key role ...
    Government

    Price uncertainty

    April 5, 2010
    In the Mar. 15 Journally Speaking column, "Oil market uncertainty," the issue of frustration over the lack of precision in price forecasts was raised yet again.
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    China refinery tests asphaltenes extraction process

    April 5, 2010
    As global reserves of conventional crude oil continue to decline, increased reliance on heavy and ultraheavy feedstocks will result in higher upgrading costs and more importantly...
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    Advertisers Index

    April 5, 2010
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    Health-care tactics raise new worry in oil and gas issues

    April 5, 2010
    An industry loathed by the political left should cringe at audacious manipulations deployed in service to unpopular legislation for reform of US health care.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    April 5, 2010
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    New fracture closure-stress calculation leads to improved proppant selection

    April 5, 2010
    A proposed calculation of in situ closure stress allows engineers to select more appropriate proppant.
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for selected equipment follow tack that began in 1983

    April 5, 2010
    Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly from 2,159.2 in January 2008, to 2,329.3 in August that year.
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    Indonesia to auction shale gas fields

    April 5, 2010
    Indonesia plans to launch tenders for the development of shale gas fields later this year, aiming to tap an estimated 1,000 tcf.
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    Pakistan posts 22 oil, gas finds in 2 years

    April 5, 2010
    Pakistan Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar said 59 onshore and offshore exploration wells were drilled in Pakistan since January 2008, resulting in...
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    Venezuela claims 23% increase in oil reserves

    April 5, 2010
    Venezuela said its proved oil reserves rose by 23% to 211.17 billion bbl due to the addition of 39.24 billion bbl mainly from the Orinoco heavy oil belt.
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    Tupi extended well tests confirm high productivity

    April 5, 2010
    A consortium comprised of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), BG Group PLC, and Portugal's Galp Energia SGPS SA completed a drillstem test on the Tupi Northeast well (3-BRSA-755A...
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    Michigan basin Utica shale gas play may ignite

    April 5, 2010
    A play for natural gas in Upper Ordovician Utica shale may be nearly ready to sprout wings in the northern Michigan basin.