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    Exploration & Development

    GULF COAST ECONOMIC LIMITS—3: Economic limits calculated for fields across Louisiana

    June 21, 2010
    During 1977-2007, 690 oil and gas fields in Louisiana terminated production.
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    Pennsylvania orders EOG to halt Marcellus shale drilling

    June 21, 2010
    Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection ordered EOG Resources Inc. to suspend its natural gas well drilling activities in the state.
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    Drilling Operations

    Macondo: the well before the blowout

    June 21, 2010
    Various agencies have started releasing documents showing the downhole completion and design considerations for the Macondo No. 1 well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf...
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    Watching The World: Drug cartels hit Pemex

    June 21, 2010
    Mexico's oil and gas industry, as if it did not already have enough problems, is suffering from worries about abductions of workers carried out by members of the country's drug...
    General Interest

    Ziff: Can conventional gas stay competitive in Canada?

    June 21, 2010
    Low prices for natural gas and high costs create a difficult question for the conventional gas-producing industry in Canada, says a report by Ziff Energy Group, Calgary: "Can ...

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    ExxonMobil to boost Tapis field production in Malaysia

    June 21, 2010
    ExxonMobil Corp. said its enhanced oil recovery project at Malaysia's Tapis field will start in 2013, with an estimated gross investment of more than $1 billion, according to ...
    General Interest

    House panel cites similarities in majors' spill plans

    June 21, 2010
    Four other major oil companies have Gulf of Mexico oil spill prevention and response plans that are practically identical to BP America Inc.'s, Democrats on the House Energy and...
    HSE

    Groups form oil spill response assessment task forces

    June 21, 2010
    Three major US oil and gas trade associations have formed two new task forces to address offshore oil spill preparedness and response.
    Companies

    Editorial: Selling versus leading

    June 21, 2010
    Maybe US President Barack Obama really believes that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, horrible as it is, correlates with the terrorist murder of 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11...
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    BP sees 60,000-80,000 b/d of oil recovery capacity

    June 21, 2010
    BP PLC has outlined plans to collect 60,000-80,000 b/d of oil by mid-July from the deepwater Macondo blowout well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Government

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 21, 2010
    General Interest— Quick TakesLandrieu lists alternatives to drilling banUS Sen. Mary L. Landrieu said there are eight ways offshore energy production could move safely forward...
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    Obama appoints Bromwich to oversee MMS reforms

    June 21, 2010
    US President Barack Obama announced that he has chosen a former Department of Justice inspector general to lead reforms at the US Minerals Management Service as part of his administrati...
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    IHS Herold: E&P spending to rise 8% this year

    June 21, 2010
    Upstream spending this year among more than 110 of the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas companies is expected to rise by 8% to $353 billion, according to the latest...
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    Helix Energy provides FPU for BP oil spill in gulf

    June 21, 2010
    BP Exploration & Production Co. entered a contract with Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. for the Helix Producer I, a floating production unit, to assist in BP's Gulf of Mexico...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching Government: Third-party certifications

    June 21, 2010
    Offshore oil and gas producers and their contractors and suppliers had questions when the US Minerals Management Service issued new safety requirements in its June 8 notice to...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Subsidies: not the right price

    June 21, 2010
    The International Energy Agency recently announced that its upcoming World Energy Outlook (WEO) will have a special focus on energy subsidies.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    The image thing

    June 21, 2010
    It is not my purpose to discuss the most recent environmental disaster and the tragic loss of life experienced by the energy industry, but rather to comment on the longstanding...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ FOCUS: Study reviews Iran, world well cementing practices

    June 21, 2010
    A study compared the cement casing standards of intermediate and production casing strings with analogous cement casing operations in Iran.
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    Refining

    Sliding Japanese product demand to accelerate

    June 21, 2010
    Since 2008, the speed and degree of Japan's petroleum product demand decline has accelerated in light of the global economic recession.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 21, 2010
    New gas pipeline inspection toolThe new multitechnology tool LineExplorer 3TM promises cost-efficient high resolution ultrasonic testing of gas pipelines without the need of a...
    HSE

    Executives braced for Oval Office speech

    June 21, 2010
    Executives of BP PLC and other firms involved in deepwater drilling in the US Gulf of Mexico were bracing June 15 for President Barack Obama's televised Oval Office speech that...
    Government

    Interpretation might haunt Whitehall's green transparency

    June 21, 2010
    With governments, transparency is transparency and usually something to be commended.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    June 21, 2010
    IDS,Kuala Lumpur, has secured a contract to provide AGR Petroleum Services, Oslo, with drilling reporting services for AGR's operations in the North Falklands Basin off Argentina...
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    New Plants

    AC MITIGATION—1: Study stresses need to combine AC mitigation, CP

    June 21, 2010
    Coordinating AC mitigation with cathodic protection and other aspects of pipeline design, construction, and operation is essential.
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    Field Start Ups

    OGJ Focus: DONG E&P installs Trym manifold, template off Norway

    June 21, 2010
    Dong E&P Norge AS in May installed the subsea manifold and template on the Trym field that lies off Norway, just north of the Norwegian-Danish North Sea border.