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  • Volume 108, Issue 33

    • Volume 108, Issue 33

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    LNG

    LNG supply, demand weathered 2008-09, will recover in 2010-11

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Despite the effects of the economic crisis on world economies and overall energy demand, global LNG trade in 2009 did not fare too badly.
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    Companies

    Innovations push bitumen mining, economics; cut environmental effects

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Over the years various innovations have improved the economics for mining bitumen and reduced the effects of the mining operation on the environment in the Athabasca region of...
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    Exploration & Development

    Southern secession raises questions over Sudan's oil

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Unidentified gunmen ambushed a truck carrying soldiers and civilians in Sudan's Unity State, an oil-producing region whose fields are operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating...
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    Home

    The New Albany shale in Illinois: emerging play or prolific source

    Sept. 6, 2010
    The New Albany shale (Upper Devonian) in the Illinois basin is the primary hydrocarbon source rock for the basin's nearly 4 billion bbl of oil production to date, and for an undetermine...
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    Exploration & Development

    Multipay oil discovery kick-starts eastern Llanos heavy oil blocks

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Colombian subsidiaries of two Canadian companies have drilled a heavy oil discovery on the CPE 6 block in Colombia's Llanos basin that appears to have light oil potential.

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 33

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    Companies

    Revising CP criteria requires careful consideration

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Criteria to demonstrate levels of cathodic protection are important but should not be the only consideration during the ongoing review of NACE SP 0169, the association's document...
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    Pipelines

    New loading technique reduces compressor interruptions

    Sept. 6, 2010
    A new nonlinear predictive approach allows natural gas pipeline reciprocating compressors to respond rapidly to changing processes by omitting undesired or dangerous operating...
    Government

    ADVERTISERS INDEX

    Sept. 6, 2010
    A Box 4 U ...... www.abox4u.netAmeriacan Business Conferences ...... american-business-conferences.comAriel Corporation ...... www.arielcorp.comBASF SE ...... www.basf.comBloomberg...
    Government

    Torpor amid stimulus

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Emergency spending by the US government in response to financial crisis has received hesitant validation from economists, and supporters of the Obama administration can't understand...
    Home

    Unconventional gas resources changing more than markets

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Development of unconventional gas resources is overhauling more than markets. It's changing companies, too.
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    HSE

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Sept. 6, 2010
    NEW SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO HELP INDEPENDENT PRODUCERSDigital oil field express (DOX) is a new service delivered on line and designed to bring exploration and production business...
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    Companies

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Expro International Group Ltd.,Reading, UK, has appointed Charles Woodburn CEO, replacing Graeme Coutts, who reverts to the position of chairman, a role he had held until February...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Fiber optic sensing can help reduce third-party threats

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Properly specifying and selecting a distributed fiber optic sensing system during a pipeline's design stage and developing a rapid-response team to react to any third-party threats...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Softening economy lowers oil prices

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Amid indications the economic recovery is slowing, the front-month crude contract price fell for five consecutive sessions to an 11-week low of $71.63/bbl Aug. 24 on the New York...
    HSE

    Fat weighs on fuel efficiency

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Advocates who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels through improved mileage for gasoline and diesel vehicles have a new target—human fat.
    Government

    Watching Government: OCS reform obstacles

    Sept. 6, 2010
    The evolving sentiment as the president's oil spill commission heard testimony on Aug. 25 in Washington was that offshore oil and gas activities require more frequent and effective...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 6, 2010
    GENERAL INTEREST — Quick TakesCFTC fines ConAgra for false oil-price maneuverThe US Commodity Future Trading Commission fined ConAgra Trade Group $12 million for allegedly causing...
    HSE

    Offshore safety must be continuous, ex-DOI official says

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Offshore oil and gas safety programs must be continuous as well as robust, a former US Department of the Interior official told President Barack Obama's independent commission...
    Government

    Offshore oil planning requires more science, spill commission told

    Sept. 6, 2010
    More robust science is clearly needed in federal offshore oil and gas planning, several witnesses told US President Barack Obama's independent commission on the Gulf of Mexico...
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    HSE

    Higher costs, consolidation expected in Gulf of Mexico

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Drilling costs and operating expenses in the Gulf of Mexico are apt to escalate in the aftermath of the explosion on Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible and the...
    HSE

    BP to cut Macondo drill pipe; swap BOP

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Choppy seas delayed BP PLC's plans to retrieve the Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer (BOP) with two pieces of pipe inside it and to install...
    LNG

    DOE lab breakthrough could enhance gas, hydrate use

    Sept. 6, 2010
    A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Russia's oil weapon

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Russian leaders continue to play political games with their country's oil and gas, now using a new pipeline to China as a means of rattling the oil weapon.
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    Companies

    OGJ100 group posts lower 2009 earnings, output

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the 100 leading oil and gas producers based outside the US reveals that for 2009, most of the firms posted much weaker financial results from 2008...
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    Government

    Wall Street reform law creates foreign-payment legal hazards

    Sept. 6, 2010
    On July 21, 2010, US President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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    Companies

    OGJ150 financial results down in '09; production, reserves up

    Sept. 6, 2010
    The 2009 financial results for the OGJ150 group of companies were off sharply from a year earlier, although the group's oil and gas production and reserves totals mostly climbed...
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Monthly Cost Index

    Sept. 6, 2010
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    Petrochemicals

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil issues new Ormen Lange condensate assay

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Statoil, operator of Ormen Lange field, has updated the assay of Ormen Lange condensate.
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    Tankers

    Model devised for plant hot-gas bypass systems

    Sept. 6, 2010
    A method to improve design criteria commonly used to size hot-gas bypass systems has been developed through the investigation of the heat transfer that takes place at the gas-...
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    Home

    Technologies lower in situ bitumen recovery costs

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Costs for recovering bitumen with in situ methods continue to decline, and new technologies are bound to reduce costs further, according to Harbir Chhina, executive vice-president...
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    Tankers

    Operator group plans offshore blowout containment system

    Sept. 6, 2010
    Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corp., and Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced in July plans to engineer, construct, and deploy equipment designed to improve capabilities...
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    Reserves

    China wants to hasten coalbed methane development

    Sept. 6, 2010
    China began exploring for and using coalbed methane in the 1990s, but the proven portion of the resource was still very low at the end of 2009, a study by FACTS Global Energy,...