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  • Volume 108, Issue 25

    • Volume 108, Issue 25

    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Noble to buy Frontier Drilling for $2.16 billion

    July 12, 2010
    Drilling contractor Noble Corp. plans to buy privately owned Frontier Drilling for $2.16 billion even though no near-term new drilling is expected for the Gulf of Mexico during...
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    HSE

    Climate litigation threat lurks behind twisty case

    July 12, 2010
    A federal court case on which may depend a serious litigation threat to oil and gas companies and other emitters of greenhouse gases now has nowhere to go except the US Supreme...
    Exploration & Development

    Norse's New York seismic clarifies multiple pays

    July 12, 2010
    Norse Energy Corp., Oslo, reported encouraging initial results from a 3D seismic survey on its acreage in central New York state.
    HSE

    Watching The World: BP fights 'reckless' charge

    July 12, 2010
    Reckless" is a charge the oil and gas industry has heard a lot since BP PLC's Macondo blowout.
    Exploration & Development

    Amerisur eyes seismic in Paraguay's Parana basin

    July 12, 2010
    Amerisur Resources PLC, Cardiff, UK, said it may shoot seismic on the 8,000-sq km San Pedro block in the Parana basin in Paraguay in 2010 subject to service company availability...

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 25

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    Companies

    OGJ FOCUS: In-line pressure isolation tool averts subsea line bleed

    July 12, 2010
    TDW Offshore Services AS in May successfully completed a key pipeline pressure isolation and joint testing operation offshore western Borneo in Malaysia for Sarawak Shell Berhad...
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    Home

    Continued Alberta oil sands production growth seen

    July 12, 2010
    Forecasts are starting to indicate a rebound in activity for developing bitumen production from the oil sands in Alberta.
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 12, 2010
    Oil field tool crib is blast resistantThis custom designed blast resistant tool crib offers workers safety and convenience of having tools, equipment, and substances located nearby...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    A changed market able to absorb jolt will change again

    July 12, 2010
    A supply scare happened in May that not so long ago would have pushed up crude oil prices by $5/bbl or more. Prices instead declined.
    Home

    Advertisers Index

    July 12, 2010
    IBP-Instituto Brasileiro De Petroleo EG ...... www.riooilgas.com.brIndustrial Rubber, Inc. ...... www.iri-oiltool.comPennEnergy ...... www.pennenergy.comPennWell CorporationDeepwater...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    July 12, 2010
    CGGVeritas,Paris, has appointed Jean-Georges Malcor CEO while separating the company's chairman and CEO functions. Current Chairman and CEO Robert Brunck will continue his role...
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    Petrochemicals

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Deepwater Agbami field produces light, low-sulfur crude

    July 12, 2010
    Agbami field off Nigeria—the country's largest deepwater producing field, according to Statoil—began producing oil in July 2008 and was to reach plateau production of 250,000 ...
    Economics & Markets

    Low-key hurricane signals active season

    July 12, 2010
    Alex, the first hurricane of 2010, came ashore on Mexico's Tamaulipas coast in a Category 2 status June 30, flooding Matamoras but scarcely impacting Brownsville or other parts...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    ogj Focus: Model reduces operating costs of long-distance twinned pipeline

    July 12, 2010
    A new methodology maximizes the efficiency of a long-distance twinned natural gas pipeline system, adjusting for seasonal fluctuations in both demand and climate.
    Production Operations

    Fracing film's flim flam

    July 12, 2010
    Hydraulic fracturing, as many OGJ readers know, has been around for decades.
    HSE

    Watching Government: Making policy after tragedy

    July 12, 2010
    WOffshore producers and drilling contractors expected members of Congress to offer ideas in response to the Gulf of Mexico well blowout and oil spill.
    Production Operations

    Editorial: China's one-way quest

    July 12, 2010
    The Chinese government has reinforced an already clear message that its global quest for oil and gas supplies is a one-way proposition.
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    HSE

    BP's bill for oil spill response tops $3 billion

    July 12, 2010
    BP PLC, operator of the runaway Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, has spent $3.12 billion on oil spill response efforts since an Apr. 20 blowout, the company said July 6.
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    Tankers

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 12, 2010
    General Interest— Quick TakesAPI slates ads against bill to end tax breaksThe American Petroleum Institute will begin running new 15-sec and 30-sec television commercials this...
    Government

    Congressional spill responses keep lobbyists busy

    July 12, 2010
    Oil and gas lobbyists worked hard to keep up before the Independence Day recess as several congressional committees and subcommittees reviewed bills responding to the Macondo ...
    Gas Processing

    Enterprise Products to expand Eagle Ford gas pipeline system

    July 12, 2010
    Enterprise Products Partners LP announced June 29 an additional expansion of its natural gas and natural gas liquids pipeline system in South Texas and Mont Belvieu, Tex. serving...
    General Interest

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Qatargas names chief executive officer

    July 12, 2010
    Qatar named Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Thani as chief executive officer of Qatargas. Al-Thani succeeds Faisal Al-Suwaidi.
    Gas Processing

    Sole Cupiagua field operations revert to Colombia's Ecopetrol

    July 12, 2010
    Ecopetrol SA assumed direct operation of Colombia's giant Cupiagua and Cupiagua Sur fields in the Llanos basin as of midnight June 30, following 28 years of joint operation with...