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  • Volume 108, Issue 26

    • Volume 108, Issue 26

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Saudis vs. ESPO

    July 19, 2010
    The oil and gas industry is being treated to a new burst of competition with the development of Russia's East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline with its own blend of crude...
    Exploration & Development

    Congo president cancels Tullow block agreements

    July 19, 2010
    Congo (former Zaire) President Joseph Kabila has canceled an agreement with Tullow Oil PLC for two exploration blocks in the country's remote, environmentally sensitive interior...
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    Beach flows high condensate in Cooper basin

    July 19, 2010
    Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, has tested an unexpectedly high condensate flow in its Canunda-1 wet gas discovery in the PEL 106B permit in the western Cooper basin of South Australia...
    HSE

    Editorial: Can it happen again?

    July 19, 2010
    Imagine this: The US government comes to its senses, allows drilling to resume in deep water of the Outer Continental Shelf, and it happens again.
    Discoveries

    McMoRan shelf deep sidetrack penetrations progress

    July 19, 2010
    McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans, had indications of potential hydrocarbon-bearing zones at the Blueberry Hill deep gas sidetrack location on the Gulf of Mexico shelf, where...

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    Advertisers Index

    July 19, 2010
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    Model for naphtha reforming catalyst tested

    July 19, 2010
    A normalization model for monitoring the catalyst activity for the semiregenerative naphtha reformer has been developed and employed in a Middle East refinery.
    Economics & Markets

    Economic spurt may not give oil use a normal push

    July 19, 2010
    Under normal circumstances, enlarged expectations for a recovering global economy would be good news for oil markets. But what, nowadays, is normal?
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    LEAK DETECTION—1: Alaskan lessons guide system selection, implementation

    July 19, 2010
    A step-by-step process for selection and implementation of a new pipeline leak detection system applied to a 48-in. OD, 800 mile crude oil pipeline and a 14-in. OD, 35 mile crude...
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    Special Report: Major Upstream Projects: Planned upstream project numbers keep increasing

    July 19, 2010
    The number of planned upstream oil and gas projects continues to increase with new discoveries, and expansions or redevelopment of existing fields.
    Economics & Markets

    Crude price waffles in early July

    July 19, 2010
    Oil topped $75/bbl July 8 in the New York market on renewed optimism for economic recovery and a larger-than-expected drop in US crude inventories, down 5 million bbl to 358.2...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    July 19, 2010
    Red Spider Technology Ltd.,Aberdeen, has appointed John O'Hara sales manager for North America, as part of a continuing global growth strategy. O'Hara joins the company with 12...
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    Drilling ban may help oil sands

    July 19, 2010
    The Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and resulting ban on deepwater drilling in US waters may prove a boon for Canadian oil producers, said Marin Katusa, chief energy strategist...
    HSE

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 19, 2010
    New offshore hazardous location LED lightingNew additions to this firm's Magnalight line of offshore LED lighting for hazardous locations include the stainless steel HALSS-48-...
    Economics & Markets

    Cost pressure, demand seen boosting US gas price

    July 19, 2010
    The price of natural gas in the US will increase to $6.50-7/MMbtu by 2015 because of cost pressure and rising demand, a Wood Mackenzie analyst told a conference in Denver.
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    Drilling & Production

    E&P costs: permanently high or cresting a cycle?

    July 19, 2010
    Historically, asset price booms have been accompanied by arguments that a "new paradigm" has been reached, whether the issue is 19th Century railroad stocks, 1920s agricultural...
    Production Operations

    EIA hikes production loss estimate from deepwater ban

    July 19, 2010
    The Obama administration's 6-month deepwater drilling moratorium will reduce US crude oil production by an estimated 31,000 b/d during this year's fourth quarter, the US Energy...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 19, 2010
    General Interest— Quick TakesEIA, IEA sharpen views of lost gulf outputEstimates of oil production declines resulting from the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the US, imposed...
    HSE

    Scientists, BP delay well integrity test for 24 hr

    July 19, 2010
    BP PLC and federal officials delayed an integrity test on the runaway Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico for 24 hr, saying they needed time for analysis before trying to shut ...
    HSE

    Coal displacement could strain US gas supplies

    July 19, 2010
    A push in the US to cut emissions of carbon dioxide by 20% would strain domestic supplies of natural gas and require new supply of energy from nuclear and renewable sources for...
    Refining & Processing

    Keyera expands Alberta gas processing presence

    July 19, 2010
    Keyera Facilities Income Fund is expanding its gas processing capability in west central Alberta.
    Drilling & Production

    Salazar orders second deepwater drilling ban, with changes

    July 19, 2010
    US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar ordered a second deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium based on drilling configurations and technologies instead of water depths.
    IOR/EOR

    DOE-backed test shows 'huff-and-puff' EOR method can work for CCS

    July 19, 2010
    A North Dakota field test by one of the US Department of Energy's regional carbon capture and storage partnerships demonstrated that an enhanced oil recovery method known as "...
    Gas Processing

    IEA sees decline in global oil-demand growth next year

    July 19, 2010
    Global oil demand will not grow by as much next year as it is expected to do this year, while supply from outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will continue...
    Refining

    Venezuelan outages, Canadian oil help US refiners

    July 19, 2010
    Refinery problems in Venezuela and increased deliveries of crude oil from Canada are brightening the outlook for US refiners, says Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
    Tankers

    Oil minister calls Sudan-Kenya line 'uneconomical'

    July 16, 2010
    Sudan's Minister of Oil Lual Deng called a proposed oil pipeline to Kenya from southern Sudan "uneconomical."
    Government

    Watching Government: DOI pressed to release report

    July 1, 2010
    When US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar, soon after taking office, ordered the Bureau of Land Management to cancel 77 leases from a December 2008 lease sale in Utah, he said the tracts...