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  • Volume 108, Issue 37

    • Volume 108, Issue 37

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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Equipment costs during 2008-09 show mixed results

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Costs for the five equipment items which make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed during 2008-09.
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    LNG

    Global LNG production growth continues to lag expectations

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Growth of global LNG production in 2010 is again poised to underperform expectations, as a cascade of maintenance outages at some of the world's largest liquefaction trains and...
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    Production Operations

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Five deepwater Angola fields comprise Plutonio blend

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Plutonio is a low-sulfur, medium-gravity crude oil from Angola's deepwater Block 18. Greater Plutonio consists of five oil fields from water depths of around 1,300 m: Plutonio...
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    Refining

    Repsol uses HDS simulation to meet new EU sulfur specs

    Oct. 4, 2010
    The new European Union 10-ppm sulfur fuel regulations present various challenges for operating and controlling refinery desulfurization units. Repsol-YPF, Madrid, has been using...
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    Refining

    US producing, exporting more slurry oil

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Slurry oil is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply. Generally, it is mixed into heavy fuel...

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    Exploration & Development

    Firms eye gas, oil in multiple zones in eastern Canada's Maritimes basin

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Exploration is picking up in New Brunswick, which held its largest license offering earlier in 2010, and in Quebec in eastern Canada.
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    Exploration & Development

    TransAtlantic pursues Thrace unconventionals

    Oct. 4, 2010
    TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., Dallas, is in the midst of a push to examine shallow and deep gas potential in conventional and unconventional formations in northwestern Turkey'...
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    Amadeus basin drilling has unconventional, conventional targets

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Perth-based explorer Central Petroleum Ltd. has temporarily put aside teasing that resulted from its recent Ooraminna-2 gas appraisal well in the eastern Amadeus basin southeast...
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    Tankers

    GDF Suez' Gjoa shows facility of remote Norwegian hubs

    Oct. 4, 2010
    New hub developments in Norway are expected to stimulate exploration and development of existing smaller North Sea discoveries.
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    The scramble for East Mediterranean gas is on

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to strengthen political ties with Europe, recently suggested to Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou that his country ...
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    Unsupervised neural networks—disruptive technology for seismic interpretation

    Oct. 4, 2010
    The energy industry is faced with an exploding growth of information from a variety of sources: seismic surveys, well logs, and field production.
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    China works to double SPR capacity by 2013

    Oct. 4, 2010
    China is moving quickly on construction of its Phase II strategic petroleum reserve and FACTS Global Energy believes most SPR Phase II sites will come on stream by 2012-13, doubling...
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    Study improves lightning protection of remote monitoring devices

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Characterization studies including destructive testing have improved protection of remote corrosion-monitoring devices in use on hydrocarbon pipelines against high-energy surges...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Subsidy inaction, trade suspicions vex US biodiesel

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Creatures of government lead strange lives. Biodiesel, for example.
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    Cost of regulation

    Oct. 4, 2010
    A federal agency busy bringing industrial America to heel will get mathematics wrong from time to time—especially, it seems, when the calculations relate to costs of its manipulations...
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    Advertisers Index

    Oct. 4, 2010
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    Economics & Markets

    QE2 'myth' may hurt oil market

    Oct. 4, 2010
    A "general Wall Street myth" that a second round of "quantitative easing" of the economy (QE2) should prove bullish for oil through the lower dollar index may prove bearish instead...
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    General Interest

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Petris Technology Inc.,MarinHouston, has named Jerry Martin vice-president, Western Hemisphere, and appointed two new product managers, Greg Palmer and Stephan Dumothier, and ...
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    Production Operations

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Oct. 4, 2010
    New hydraulic fracturing technique boosts well outputRecently released HiWAY flow-channel hydraulic fracturing technique helps maximize production and hydrocarbon recovery through...
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    IOR/EOR

    Economics act against CCS retrofits

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Economics will likely prevent retrofitting carbon capture and sequestration technologies to existing power plants with a capture efficiency
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Storage in Ivory Coast

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Petroleum storage company Gestion des Stocks Pétroliers de la Côte d'Ivoire (Gestoci) will invest $400 million to double its current capacity.
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    Living history up close

    Oct. 4, 2010
    If you're aware that you're part of something that will be remembered as important, a watershed moment, there's a tendency at times to stop and try to appreciate the significance...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 4, 2010
    International News for oil and gas professionals
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    HSE

    ConocoPhillips's Mulva: Natural gas a 'job-creation machine'

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Growing natural gas consumption can help drive US economic recovery and job creation, ConocoPhillips Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Mulva said Sept. 27 at Rice University...
    Government

    US agencies treated spill as catastrophe from outset, panel told

    Oct. 4, 2010
    US departments and agencies responding to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico treated it as a catastrophe from the beginning, officials told the independent commission established...
    Government

    More dispersants research needed despite success in gulf, panel told

    Oct. 4, 2010
    More research into the long-term effects of chemical dispersants is needed despite their apparently successful use in fighting the massive oil spill from BP PLC's Macondo well...
    Reserves

    Reforms driving Nigeria's oil, gas output growth, minister says

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Nigeria's Parliament is expected soon to pass into law the Petroleum Industry Bill, Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke told participants at the Rice...
    HSE

    Government, industry examine oil spill preparedness

    Oct. 4, 2010
    The oil and gas industry developed containment technology to deal with an oil spill in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, and new collaboration between industry and the US government...
    HSE

    Watching Government: Next steps on spills

    Oct. 4, 2010
    As US President Barack Obama's commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began its Sept. 27 hearing, it became apparent that its work was entering a new, and potentially...
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    IHS CERA: Oil sands GHG emissions lower than perceived

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Fuels made from Canadian oil sands have lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than many commonly cited estimates, said IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA) in a ...
    HSE

    Halliburton officials defend Macondo well's cement job

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Cementing of BP PLC's ill-fated Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico took place after extensive tests, followed the operator's specifications, and showed no signs of problems in...
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    Exploration & Development

    SPECIAL REPORT: POINT OF VIEW: New SEG chief describes seismic methods lifting Forties field oil flow

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Modern seismic methods support a "drilling machine" raising oil production in a UK North Sea field that, measured by discovery date, is just a decade shy of qualifying as an antique...
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    Production Operations

    ESP—1: Run-time analysis assesses pump performance

    Oct. 4, 2010
    Run-time analysis is one of the ways to determine how various factors affect electrical submersible pump operating life.
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    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    Oct. 4, 2010
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    Discoveries

    Optimized stimulation strategies enhance Aramco gas production

    Oct. 4, 2010
    A systematic approach for understanding and evaluating reservoir conditions and use of high-end technology has provided Saudi Aramco the means for developing and managing deep...