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  • Volume 108, Issue 2

    • Volume 108, Issue 2

    Exploration & Development

    Watching The World: Reprise in Madagascar

    Jan. 18, 2010
    A year ago, we were watching Madagascar's oil and gas industry, and the signs were not promising as demonstrators rampaged in the streets and set fire to an oil depot (OGJ, Feb...
    Refining

    EIA: World economic recovery to restore oil demand growth

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Global oil demand declined a second consecutive year in 2009 for the first time since 1983, the US Energy Information Administration said.
    Exploration & Development

    PDVSA, Eni to form JVs to develop, refine Orinoco oil

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and Italy's Eni SPA agreed to establish two joint ventures to produce and refine oil from the Junin 5 block in the Orinoco belt.
    Exploration & Development

    Lodgepole Scallion zone yields oil in North Dakota

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., said an initial test of a horizontally drilled section of Scallion limestone in west-central North Dakota produced at an uneconomic 7-...
    Government

    Salazar draws industry heat with oil, gas leasing reform

    Jan. 18, 2010
    US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced onshore federal oil and gas leasing reform which he said would provide producers greater certainty but which oil and gas groups argued...

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 2

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    Gas Processing

    Refrigeration provides economic process for recovering NGL from CO2-EOR recycle gas

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Removing and selling NGL from the produced gas stream is one on the ways CO2 enhanced oil recovery projects can improve their economics.
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    Petrochemicals

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil publishes Aasgard Blend assay

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Statoil late last year published an assay of its Aasgard Blend, a commingling of production from Smorbukk, Smorbukk South, Midgard, Mikkel, Kristin, Yttergryta, and Tyrihans fields...
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    Pipelines

    In-line EMAT expands IM capabilities

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Electromagnetic transducer technology in-line inspections are sufficiently sensitive to detect crack-like features as part of pipeline integrity management.
    Home

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    Jan. 18, 2010
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 18, 2010
    PAS Technologies Inc.,North Kansas City, Mo., has named Thomas Tan vice-president of its global oil field business. Tan, based in Singapore, will support oil field strategic sales...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Authors say crisis forces remain at work on oil price

    Jan. 18, 2010
    If you think stability has returned to the oil market, two Rice University researchers have a message that should slosh your coffee: The crisis isn't over.
    Refining

    Cold weather saps distillates surplus

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Colder weather across much of the northern hemisphere in late December and early January accelerated the burn-off of a global distillate fuel surplus.
    Discoveries

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Drillbit offers stabilization, new cutter designThe new Hughes Christensen Quantec Force line of polycrystalline diamond compact drillbits features newly engineered stabilization...
    HSE

    Climate and plague

    Jan. 18, 2010
    St. Augustine said it best: "Faith is to believe what we cannot see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe," in this particular case, the deleterious effects ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Writing significantly

    Jan. 18, 2010
    As writers, journalists become products of accumulated correction.
    Government

    EPA proposes strictest federal smog standards yet

    Jan. 18, 2010
    The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed the strictest federal standards yet for ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog.
    Government

    Watching Government: Fuel ethanol limits

    Jan. 18, 2010
    At first glance, the Jan. 6 letter to three key federal energy and environment policymakers from 14 trade associations about possible early approval of a higher ethanol content...
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Total, Chesapeake announce Barnett shale joint venture

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced a $2.25 billion joint venture agreement with Total E&P USA Inc. in which Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake's upstream Barnett shale...
    Companies

    Editorial: Another leasing setback

    Jan. 18, 2010
    The second-worst part of land management under US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar is duplicity. The worst part is a systematic slowdown in development of oil and gas resources.
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 18, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesUS senators support Iraq as EITI candidateUS Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) expressed their strong support for Iraq...
    Gas Processing

    Total inaugurates CCS pilot in southwest France

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Total Exploration & Production France on Jan. 11 inaugurated a carbon capture, transportation, and storage pilot project at the Lacq natural gas processing plant and industrial...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Indonesia unveils long-term oil, gas plan

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Indonesia unveiled a long-term oil and gas management plan to attract $32 billion in investments for oil and gas facilities in 2010-14.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US biofuels policies flawed, Baker Institute study finds

    Jan. 18, 2010
    US policymakers need to consider the unintended consequences of federal subsidies and tariffs that go to domestic ethanol producers, concluded a study from Rice University's Baker...
    Government

    Interior Sec. Salazar blasted for 'kings of the world' statement

    Jan. 18, 2010
    An oil state US House Democrat strongly criticized Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his characterizations of the oil and gas industry during a teleconference last week with ...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Special Report: US energy demand set for slim expansion in 2010

    Jan. 18, 2010
    Moderate economic growth will spur a small recovery in US energy demand this year.
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    Drilling & Production

    Special Report: Marginally higher drilling in view in US, Canada

    Jan. 1, 2010
    The roller coaster drilling year of 2009 gives way to somewhat brighter prospects in the US and Canada in 2010.