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    Production Operations

    GULF COAST ECONOMIC LIMITS—4: Gulf Outer Continental Shelf economic limits calculated

    June 28, 2010
    In the final part of this four-part series, economic limits for offshore structures in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Gulf of Mexico (GOM) are computed.
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 28, 2010
    Exploration & Development — Quick TakesEPA takes on more air permits in TexasThe US Environmental Protection Agency said it was taking over the issuances of operating permits ...
    Production Operations

    Hurricane outlook for 2010

    June 28, 2010
    At any time, one can turn on the television or read on the internet to find numerous stories focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the devastation caused by BP's Macondo well blowout...
    Drilling & Production

    Compounding the damage

    June 28, 2010
    There's an eerie similarity between the cancellation of 51 American nuclear reactor builds after the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown and President Obama's cancellation of 30 ongoing...
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 28, 2010
    New wellsite computer upload systemThe newly released web based "reconnect uploader" is designed to help improve data flow to the operating company and its partner companies from...

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 23

    Refining

    Setting the yuan free

    June 28, 2010
    The front-month crude futures contract continued climbing above $78/bbl, and natural gas rose in early trading June 21 after China said it will end the yuan's 2-year peg to the...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    June 28, 2010
    A Box For U,Wichita, has added Sharon Dauterive and Sandra Baucom to the company's sales team. Both will focus efforts on US Gulf Coast sales. Dauterive has a strong sales background...
    Government

    Defeat of Sanders energy blooper a signal to Obama

    June 28, 2010
    An important, mid-June test of the post-Macondo political mood favored the oil and gas industry.
    Economics & Markets

    IEA releases medium-term oil, natural gas outlooks

    June 28, 2010
    The outlook for crude oil and natural gas markets is uncertain, said Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency at the June 23 launch of the agency's ...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Gas output, light-oil needs reshaping condensate trade

    June 28, 2010
    Rising production of natural gas and the growing need for light products are reshaping the market for condensate, especially in the East of Suez region encompassing the Middle...
    Production Operations

    Watching The World: Any port in a storm

    June 28, 2010
    Japanese containership operators are taking advantage of their seamanship to enter the offshore oil and gas industry, setting sail in particular for Brazil's presalt layer.
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    Advertisers Index

    June 28, 2010
    Atlantic Council of the United States ...... www.acus.orgExxon Mobile Corp. ...... www.acus.orgIndustrial Rubber, Inc. ...... www.iri-oiltool.comMarcus Evans ...... www.marcusevans...
    Companies

    BP to establish $20 billion oil spill compensation fund

    June 28, 2010
    BP PLC agreed to establish a $20 billion escrow fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from its well, US President Barack Obama and BP announced separately...
    HSE

    BP says accident, spill will change deepwater drilling

    June 28, 2010
    The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident and resulting oil spill must change the way industry works, according to Steve Westwell, BP PLC's chief of staff.
    HSE

    Editorial: A different operator?

    June 28, 2010
    A bedrock question for deepwater drilling off the US is whether the Macondo well would have blown out if a different company had been operator.
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    New Plants

    Connacher starts up Algar SAGD plant

    June 28, 2010
    Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd. reported the start up of its 10,000 b/d Algar steam-assisted gravity drainage plant at its Great Divide oil sands complex in northeastern Alberta.
    LNG

    LNG terminals to relieve Indonesia gas shortage

    June 28, 2010
    The Indonesian government believes that construction of three new LNG receiving terminals in West Java, East Java, and North Sumatra is the best way of reducing the country's ...
    HSE

    Anadarko says BP reckless' in Macondo well

    June 28, 2010
    Controversy over the fatal Macondo well blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took an abrasive turn June 18 when a partner in the well accused the operator of recklessness...
    Reserves

    Study notes growth of Chinese NOCs

    June 28, 2010
    Aggressive asset purchases and mergers will push net overseas oil and gas production by China's three large national oil companies (NOCs) to a record 1 million boe/d this year...
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    LPG Markets

    OGJ FOCUS — FOURTH QUARTER 2009, FIRST QUARTER 2010: US, Canadian propane supply, demand reverse YOY declines

    June 28, 2010
    Winter 2009-10 in the US was in stark contrast to the previous winter in terms of both propane supply and consumption.
    Refining

    IHS CERA sees upturn in upstream, downstream costsIHS CERA sees upturn in upstream, downstream costs

    June 28, 2010
    The global costs of building and operating upstream oil and gas facilities showed signs of an upturn in this year's first quarter following last year's slump, according to IHS...
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    HSE

    BP spill: Drilling ahead of schedule for first relief well

    June 28, 2010
    Drilling is ahead of schedule on the first of two relief wells aiming to kill the flow from the runaway Macondo well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico, BP ...
    Refining

    API: US gasoline demand dampened by higher prices

    June 28, 2010
    US gasoline deliveries fell 0.4% year-to-year to an average 9.05 million b/d last month—their lowest May level since 2003, the American Petroleum Institute said in its latest ...
    HSE

    US judge blocks offshore drilling ban; DOI to appeal

    June 28, 2010
    A federal judge in New Orleans on June 22 blocked the US government's 6-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and a White House spokesman said the ...
    HSE

    Watching Government: Calculating a spill's costs

    June 28, 2010
    The emphasis so far in responding to BP's blowout well and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been on containing and disposing of the crude and trying to protect aquatic life...
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    New Plants

    AC MITIGATION—Conclusion: Reducing AC potentials requires coordinated mitigation, CP

    June 28, 2010
    Analyses and computer simulations during the front-end engineering design of a 167-mile long high-pressure interstate natural gas pipeline predicted that, without suitable mitigation...
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    Petrochemicals

    OGJ FOCUS — GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil publishes new Aasgard Blend assay

    June 28, 2010
    Statoil published a new simulated Aasgard Blend assay in March 2010 better to represent the quality of the current Asgard Blend production.
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    Drilling Operations

    Service companies install RFID tags on frac equipment

    June 28, 2010
    Recent advancements in radio-frequency identification tags are allowing new uses of the tags such as for identifying equipment at hydraulic fracturing job sites.