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  • Volume 108, Issue 8

    • Volume 108, Issue 8

    Companies

    Editorial: Addressing budget blunders

    March 1, 2010
    Under rhetorical assault from a government hunting taxable prey, the oil and gas industry must sharpen its arguments for stability of the US fiscal regime.
    Companies

    IGas to exploit shale gas resource off Wales

    March 1, 2010
    IGas Energy PLC said it has identified a "significant" shale resource as potentially extending beneath more than 1,195 sq km of its acreage in northwest England with an expected...
    Companies

    Marcellus E&P, transportation programs ramp up

    March 1, 2010
    Focus on the Appalachian basin Marcellus shale gas play deepens.
    Exploration & Development

    Shell, HP seek high-res wireless land seismic

    March 1, 2010
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP plan to develop a wireless sensing system to acquire extremely high-resolution seismic data on land.
    Companies

    Chesapeake cements position in six onshore US gas plays

    March 1, 2010
    The Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Granite Wash plays are Chesapeake's highest and second highest rate-of-return plays due to high oil and natural gas liquids content.

    More content from Volume 108, Issue 8

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    LNG

    Barclays: 2010 to bring change to global LNG trade

    March 1, 2010
    With the turn of the year, Barclays Capital analysts reviewed major developments in global LNG trade for 2009 and offered insights for 2010 in a research note published in late...
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    March 1, 2010
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    Production Operations

    KHURAIS COMPLEX—Conclusion: Developing the fields required various optimized technologies

    March 1, 2010
    Development of the Khurais complex required optimization of various technologies such horizontal laterals, downhole pumps, and smart completion equipment.
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    Petrochemicals

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil publishes Norne Blend assay

    March 1, 2010
    Statoil late last year published an assay of its Norne Blend crude oil.
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    Advertisers Index

    March 1, 2010
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    March 1, 2010
    PAS,Houston, has appointed Jim Huff vice-president, technology. Huff, with more than 25 years of industry experience, will lead the company's technology and solution marketing...
    Companies

    BP, ConocoPhillips show opinions vary on climate change

    March 1, 2010
    It should be clear now if it wasn't before that the oil and gas industry does not represent uniform opposition to policies addressing climate change.
    Economics & Markets

    Futures price contango compresses

    March 1, 2010
    There has been a gradual compression this year of the futures price contango for key benchmark crudes, with the narrowing most evident at the front of the North Sea Brent curve...
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    Pipelines

    Back-propagation network simplifies energy-use prediction

    March 1, 2010
    A back-propagation neural network can easily predict the energy consumption of a pipeline system with fewer mathematical statistics than other methods and a simple pretreatment...
    Companies

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 1, 2010
    New mobile evaporator for shale gas operationsNewly launched MoVap is a mobile evaporator system specifically designed for the frac and produced waste water treatment needs of...
    Government

    'Climategate' revisited

    March 1, 2010
    Peabody Energy Co. has petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its endangerment finding on greenhouse gases because of recent evidence of faulty scientific...
    Tankers

    Purchasers lining up for Russia's new ESPO blend

    March 1, 2010
    ExxonMobil Corp. and Mitsui & Co.—each said to be buying 730,000 bbl—are the latest in a growing list of purchasers of crude oil delivered by Russia's Eastern Siberia-Pacific ...
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    Companies

    Special Report: E&P in sharper focus for 2010 capital expenditures

    March 1, 2010
    OGJ's annual capital spending report shows that capital spending for all oil and gas projects in the US will decline 5% this year to $220 billion. Greater efficiency, slightly...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 1, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesNARUC cites need to retain access to OTC marketsFinancial reform legislation should ensure natural gas and electric power utilities have continued...
    Government

    Watching Government: When tax 'reform' turns personal

    March 1, 2010
    It has become a rite of Washington's spring. As the snow and ice begin to melt (with the piles particularly high this year following two major snowstorms within a week in mid-...
    Government

    Obama reaffirms pledge of 'tough decisions' on new OCS areas

    March 1, 2010
    Repeating a point that he made in his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, US President Barack Obama told business executives that his administration is willing to make tough...
    Government

    Va. lawmakers earmark future offshore energy revenue

    March 1, 2010
    Approval by Virginia's senate and house of a bill allocating future offshore energy royalties and revenues to transportation and alternative energy research signals that the state...
    Government

    EPA may raise GHG control threshold, Jackson says

    March 1, 2010
    The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering raising the threshold at which refineries and other large industrial plants would be required to control greenhouse gases...
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    Refining

    Skid-mounted units doubling capacity of Kurdish refinery

    March 1, 2010
    Ventech Engineers Inc. has completed the delivery to northern Iraq of a 20,000 b/d, skid-mounted refinery that it fabricated at its Pasadena, Tex., plant and shipped in modules...
    Companies

    EXCO-BG ramps up Haynesville gas output

    March 1, 2010
    EXCO Resources Inc. has hiked gross production to 340 MMcfd in its Haynesville shale 50-50 joint venture with BG Group PLC and has begun horizontal drilling in the Marcellus shale...
    Exploration & Development

    Congressmen query service firms about frac fluid contents

    March 1, 2010
    US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent letters to eight oil...
    LNG

    Watching The World: Chavez advises the queen

    March 1, 2010
    The oil and gas industry is well aware of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and his antics. Now, the Latin American dictator has become an advisor of sorts to Britain's Queen ...
    Home

    Integrated firms' budgets targeting upstream projects

    March 1, 2010
    US-based integrated firms are shifting more of their capital spending dollars toward upstream projects and away from their downstream operations that manufacture, transport, and...