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  • Volume 108, Issue 18

    • Volume 108, Issue 18

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    Exploration & Development

    EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT FRONTIERS REPORT: World's frontier basins beckon exploration

    May 17, 2010
    Exploration is under way in remote, nonproducing, and underexplored basins worldwide.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 17, 2010
    A semisubmersible rig sank in the Caribbean off Venezuela's eastern coast, but the crew of nearly 100 was reported safe.
    General Interest

    Knowing the path ahead

    May 17, 2010
    When the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible rig exploded, caught fire, and then sank while on station at BP PLC's Macondo prospect in 4,993 ft of water 40 miles off Venice, La....
    Economics & Markets

    Business outlook bright at OTC

    May 17, 2010
    Despite the overhanging pall of the tragic Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the 2010 Offshore Technology Conference on May 3-6 in Houston was generally upbeat with business...
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    Production Operations

    Oxidative desulfurization offers route to ultralow-sulfur diesel

    May 17, 2010
    Heightened concerns for cleaner air are leading to more stringent regulations on sulfur content in transportation fuels. That in turn is making desulfurization in hydrocarbon ...

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 18

    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    May 17, 2010
    The Woodlands, Tex., has opened a new office and warehouse in Shreveport, expanding its operations to better serve customers in the ArkLaTex region for oil and gas exploration...
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    Drilling & Production

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Independents accelerate US horizontal oil drilling

    May 17, 2010
    A growing number of independents plans to accelerate development of crude oil and liquids-rich plays, driven largely by horizontal drilling results in the Eagle Ford shale of ...
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    Tankers

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 17, 2010
    The new PlusGard scaffolding system is designed to improve offshore safety and reduce associated operating costs.
    HSE

    The regulatory response

    May 17, 2010
    You're seated at a restaurant table when your waiter accidentally stumbles and spills lasagna onto your favorite jacket.
    Government

    OCS leasing loses bargaining clout in politics of climate

    May 17, 2010
    As a bargaining tool in the politics of climate change, expansion of oil and gas leasing off the US always has raised problems.
    Government

    Advertisers Index

    May 17, 2010
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    Government

    Senators grill industry witnesses at oil spill hearings

    May 17, 2010
    Testifying May 11 before two US Senate committees, top executives from BP America Inc., Transocean Ltd., and Halliburton Co. said that full investigations would be required to...
    Government

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Rushing the ethanol ruling

    May 17, 2010
    The leading US oil and gas, automotive, and outdoor power equipment trade associations are concerned that the US Environmental Protection Agency might permit ethanol's allowable...
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    Refining

    EU, OPEC strategic dialog highlights shared interests

    May 17, 2010
    In the second part of the last century oil producing and consuming nations' interests were seen as mutually exclusive.
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    HSE

    BP working on multiple options to stop gulf oil spill

    May 17, 2010
    BP PLC executives planned to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using a small containment structure, which they call a top hat.
    Refining

    ESAI review: $70-90/bbl oil seen as sustainable range for next 2 years

    May 17, 2010
    In its latest Stockwatch Quarterly Review, Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI), Boston, forecasts that over the next 2 years, the fundamentally sustainable price range for crude...
    Government

    Interior proposes split of MMS's safety, leasing duties

    May 17, 2010
    US Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed dividing the US Minerals Management Service and separating its environmental and safety regulations enforcement from...
    Drilling & Production

    Graham: Oil spill hurts climate bill's chances of success

    May 17, 2010
    The Gulf of Mexico rig accident and oil spill has made prospects for US Senate passage of a compromise climate bill with more offshore oil and gas activity bleak, Sen. Lindsey...
    HSE

    Oil firms across industry help with oil spill response

    May 17, 2010
    Many oil companies offered technical expertise and equipment to BP PLC and the oil spill response team in a cooperative effort to stop the flow from a leaking deepwater well and...
    Discoveries

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Falkland Islands tensions rise

    May 17, 2010
    Predictably enough, tensions between Argentina and the UK again are on the rise after Rockhopper Exploration PLC last week said further tests indicate the oil it discovered near...
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    Pipelines

    PPTS guides drop in liquids release frequency, scale

    May 1, 2010
    Both the frequency and scale of releases from hazardous liquids pipelines in the US have declined since the 1999 introduction of the Pipeline Performance Tracking System.