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  • Volume 108, Issue 36

    • Volume 108, Issue 36

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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 27, 2010
    GENERAL INTEREST — Quick TakesBP to join marine well containment groupBP PLC announced plans Sept. 20 to join the proposed Marine Well Containment Co. (MWCC) and to make its underwater...
    Government

    Proposed ozone standard would devastate US economy, API warns

    Sept. 27, 2010
    A US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reduce the national primary ozone standard to 60 ppb from 75 ppb would devastate the US economy by forcing most of the country...
    Government

    Older vehicles can safely use E15, RFA-backed study finds

    Sept. 27, 2010
    Raising the allowable ethanol limit in gasoline to 15% from 10% will cause little, if any, change in the engine performance of cars and light trucks manufactured from 1994 to ...
    Home

    France sees second attack on energy workers in West Africa

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The French government was faced with a second attack by hostage-takers on its West African energy interests in less than a week, after pirates seized three French seamen off Nigeria...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: New lamps for old

    Sept. 27, 2010
    It's not exactly oil lamps that we are talking about, but you will get the drift on hearing that Japan's government wants to ship wastewater to oil-producing countries in the ...

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    Sept. 27, 2010
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    Companies

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Sept. 27, 2010
    New scanning electron microscope is compact unitThe new 8500 field emission scanning electron microscope is a compact system that offers researchers high-performance imaging in...
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    Global warming issue gets new focus: the label

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The phrase "global warming" soon may go the way of "gasohol"—and for similar reasons.
    Drilling & Production

    The real job threat

    Sept. 27, 2010
    Little comfort emanates from reports that the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will cut fewer jobs than originally was feared. The moratorium isn't the only...
    Refining

    'Armada' of Asian gas oil

    Sept. 27, 2010
    An "armada" of gas oil will soon sail from Asia to Europe in response to "genuine demand" created by sustained low runs due to poor margin performance by European refineries at...
    Companies

    Shale gas technology

    Sept. 27, 2010
    Development of shale gas has changed the dynamics of gas markets in the US, and shales may also become a major source of gas in other parts of the world.
    HSE

    BP confirms completion of Macondo well kill operations

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The deepwater Macondo well, source of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, was killed, operator BP PLC said Sept. 19 in a long-awaited announcement.
    HSE

    Salazar, Chu declare Macondo well 'effectively dead'

    Sept. 27, 2010
    US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar and Energy Sec. Steven Chu declared BP PLC's Macondo well "effectively dead" on Sept. 19, but pledged in a joint statement to continue working to ...
    Government

    Watching Government: Freudenthal's warning

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The US Environmental Protection Agency apparently plans to ask states to implement regulations it is developing to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal...
    Economics & Markets

    CERA: Tax hikes would hit already hamstrung US oil industry

    Sept. 27, 2010
    White House proposals to increase oil and taxes would harm a US industry that is already having trouble competing globally, officials from the US Chamber of Commerce and IHS Cambridge...
    Drilling & Production

    Deepwater drilling moratorium may temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs, Senate panel told

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The Obama administration's deepwater drilling moratorium could cut net oil and gas spending on the Gulf Coast by $1.8 billion and temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs, an administration...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Federal legislation proposed after California gas line blast

    Sept. 27, 2010
    US Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood sent legislation to Congress on Sept. 15 to increase federal natural gas pipeline oversight and increase the maximum fine for serious violations...
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    Refining

    Producers, refiners post improved second-quarter 2010 earnings

    Sept. 27, 2010
    Stronger crude oil and product prices in the second quarter of 2010 lifted the combined earnings of a group of US and Canadian oil and gas producing companies and refiners from...
    LNG

    WoodMac: Indonesia's coalbed methane potential looms

    Sept. 27, 2010
    The fledgling coalbed methane industry in Indonesia eventually could deliver as much as 15% of Indonesia's gas supply needs, a recent report from Wood Mackenzie Ltd. says.
    HSE

    Technology critical to future energy supply, executive says

    Sept. 27, 2010
    Industry must continue to find and produce oil and natural gas from increasingly complex geological settings in remote regions and deeper waters, said Schlumberger Ltd. Chairman...