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  • Volume 108, Issue 14

    • Volume 108, Issue 14

    Companies

    Watching The World: Thumbs up for Shell, PetroChina

    April 19, 2010
    With good reason, Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board recently gave Royal Dutch Shell PLC and PetroChina the thumbs up for their $3.45 billion joint bid for Arrow Energy...
    Companies

    Shell taking closer look at Indonesia's prospects

    April 19, 2010
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which has been absent from Indonesia for many years, is now considering new investments in the country's upstream and downstream sectors, according to Chief...
    Discoveries

    EOG sees Eagle Ford shale as major US oil discovery

    April 19, 2010
    EOG Resources Inc. has accumulated acreage across six counties in the Eagle Ford play of South Texas where the Houston independent has drilled 16 delineation wells over a 120-...
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    Discoveries

    CHINA'S ENDOWMENT—1: China assesses conventional resources in 115 basins

    April 19, 2010
    The China National Petroleum Assessment (2003-07) evaluated conventional oil and gas resources in 115 Chinese basins.
    Companies

    Experts see shale gas affecting overseas supplies

    April 19, 2010
    Potential natural gas production from shale formations has dramatically improved North America's supply outlook, three panelists agreed during a Washington energy conference.

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 14

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    IOR/EOR

    Special Report: EOR/Heavy Oil Survey: 2010 worldwide EOR survey

    April 19, 2010
    Click here to download the PDF of the 2010 worldwide EOR surveyMore Oil & Gas Journal Current Issue ArticlesMore Oil & Gas Journal Archives Issue ArticlesView Oil and Gas Articles...
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    Refining & Processing

    CO2 PIPELINES — Conclusion: Impurity types, concentration influence hydraulic design

    April 19, 2010
    Real CO2 streams—those from CO2-capture plants likely to contain impurities as opposed to pure CO2 streams—will likely contain at least 95 mole % CO2 but will also contain impurities...
    Home

    Advertisers Index

    April 19, 2010
    Cajun Crawfish Boil.....Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc..... www.hornbeckoffshore.comIndustrial Rubber, Inc..... www.iri-oiltool.comMSA..... www.msanet.com/offshore1.htmlORR Safety...
    Exploration & Development

    Promises on new OCS leasing tend to be backwards

    April 19, 2010
    Listening to the Obama administration discuss expanded Outer Continental Shelf leasing is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything seems backwards.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    April 19, 2010
    FMC Technologies Inc.,Houston, has appointed John T. Gremp president and COO. He will succeed Peter D. Kinnear as president. Since joining the company in 1975, Gremp has served...
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 19, 2010
    New interactive pen display for geophysicistsThis firm's first full HD interactive pen display, the DTU-2231, has direct pen-on-screen input.It is designed to optimize efficiency...
    Economics & Markets

    A world of $80-90/bbl oil

    April 19, 2010
    It is "now quite definitely a $80-90/bbl world" for crude prices, "and within that world $90 may well prove to be a relatively elastic upper bound," said Paul Horsnell, managing...
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    Refining

    Saudi Aramco studies long-term storage effects on FCCU gasolines

    April 19, 2010
    Gasoline produced in a fluid catalytic cracking unit has elevated octane rating, but its olefinic structure makes it less chemically stable than other gasoline components.
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    IOR/EOR

    Special Report: EOR/Heavy Oil Survey: CO2 miscible, steam dominate enhanced oil recovery processes

    April 19, 2010
    Carbon dioxide injection and steam injection process as shown in Oil & Gas Journal's exclusive biennial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) survey, p. 41, account for most of the enhanced...
    Home

    Declining production

    April 19, 2010
    In "Oil market uncertainty," what your economics editor and the Centre for Global Energy Studies seem to have forgotten is that the existing OPEC production base is in decline...
    HSE

    April Fool emission rules

    April 19, 2010
    On Apr. 1—April Fools Day—in response to "one of the first major directives" of the administration of President Barack Obama, the US Department of Transportation and the Environmental...
    Exploration & Development

    AAPG: Unconventional thinking parlays advances

    April 19, 2010
    The oil and gas exploration business has advanced because its people exercised unconventional thought, and more strides are possible, a Chevron Corp. official told the American...
    HSE

    API hits GHG rules set with new CAFE standards

    April 19, 2010
    The American Petroleum Institute expressed concerns about greenhouse gas regulations being included in a new rule the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation...
    Government

    Watching Government: EPA retreats on NSR

    April 19, 2010
    Refiners have more pressing regulatory issues with the US Environmental Protection Agency. But they still paid attention to its Mar. 30 proposal to revoke its January 2009 rule...
    Production Operations

    BLM suspends some lease sales to review GHG emissions

    April 19, 2010
    The Bureau of Land Management office in Billings, Mont., said Apr. 8 that it delayed some oil and gas lease sales pending BLM's completion of environmental reviews on possible...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 19, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesBLM, MMS to review federal royalty regimeThe two US Department of the Interior agencies that handle federal oil and gas leasing will jointly review...
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    Home

    Cedigaz: Rise in global UGS capacity to be robust to 2020

    April 19, 2010
    Paris-based gas association Cedigaz, in its 2010 survey of global underground gas storage (UGS) capacity, noted that the number of UGS facilities has jumped to 642 from 610, with...
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    IOR/EOR

    Special Report: EOR/Heavy Oil Survey: POINT OF VIEW: SPE IOR conference chair laments lack of R&D funds

    April 19, 2010
    US funding for basic enhanced and improved oil recovery research and development is as scarce as it's ever been, says Dwight Rychel, general chair of the biennial Society of Petroleum...
    Government

    GAO: MMS Alaska unit's NEPA review practices flawed

    April 19, 2010
    The lack of a comprehensive guidebook, combined with high staff turnover in recent years, potentially handicaps the US Minerals Management Service's Alaska regional office's efforts...
    HSE

    USGS asked to study Arctic oil, natural gas exploration impacts

    April 19, 2010
    The US Geological Survey will review information about the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, including studies by other scientific organizations, to help guide federal oil and gas policies...
    Discoveries

    Editorial: Innovation and surprise

    April 19, 2010
    A tenet of energy thinking in Europe and the US holds that innovation will rescue developed economies from their dependence on fossil energy and should be encouraged to do so....
    Government

    US senator asks Gates for thoughts on OCS plan

    April 19, 2010
    US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) asked US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates for his reaction to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's plan to expand federal oil and gas leasing in...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Conference: Government mulls energy commodity regulations

    April 19, 2010
    While purely financial players have become increasingly prominent in energy commodity markets and new regulations appear likely, stronger evidence is needed that they created ...