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    Let others condemn a certain beleaguered multinational oil company's chief executive for letting his guard down for a few moments and saying something he quickly regretted late...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Suncor Energy Inc. said they will form a strategic oil sands alliance encompassing the Suncor-operated Fort Hills mining project, the Total-operated ...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    International News for Oil and Gas professionals
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Chevron Corp. said admissions during court-ordered depositions of the plaintiffs' own consultants confirm there is no scientific basis for the $113-billion claim for damages in...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Trinidad and Tobago has announced the award of four shallow-water blocks in its 2010 shallow-water bid round.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani was promoted to the country's deputy prime minister for energy, with current deputy oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi being designated...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Texas' Permian basin topped North Dakota's Bakken play as contributors to a 9% increase in US crude oil and condensate reserves in 2009 as shale plays drove gas reserves to the...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board can't meaningfully examine the Macondo well's blowout preventer as long as the BOP's owner, Transocean Ltd., and manufacturer...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    The US Fish and Wildlife Service clarified for a federal court its 2008 designation of the polar bear as a threatened but not endangered species after Alaska said it is considering...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Iraq's new Oil Minister Abdulkarim al-Luaybi wasted precious little time in making his presence felt.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Drilling should maintain its recent upward trajectory in 2011 in the US and Canada.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    The Macondo well accident clearly was the biggest event shaping US energy politics in 2010.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Recordings made during operations in tight gas wells indicate that fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing is a sensitive, robust, and cost-effective technology for real-time...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    The US economy and energy demand will strengthen in 2011, but persistently high unemployment will limit the growth of each.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Manual pressure management in a closed-loop mud circulating system enhances safety and efficiency of drilling and completion operations.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Refinery construction (1946 basis)(Explained in OGJ, Dec. 30, 1985, p. 145, and at www.pennenergy.com/index/research-and_data/oil-and_gas/Statistic-Definitions.html; click "Nelson...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) improved ethylene crackers operations, increased desirable olefin product yields, and reduced fuel consumption by implementing DCS-resident...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    The US Geological Survey recently released a new assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Caspian Region that reconfirms existing estimates of the area's strategic...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Rising oil prices, unconventional gas drilling in the US and Canada, along with offshore projects worldwide appear likely to drive recovery for oil and gas service providers during...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    North American refiners, while benefiting from slow recovery of the global economy, remain vulnerable to pressures from global overcapacity, relatively expensive crude oil, and...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    New oil field marking systemHere's the XF530m permanent marking system designed for use on oil field tubing and pipeline, lifting equipment (pallet trucks, forklift trucks), work...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    British ColumbiaBritish Columbia's Oil and Gas Commission approved implementation of a waterflood in the Triassic Halfway oil pool at Woodrush in Northeast BC.Without giving figures...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    The US Environmental Protection Agency issued its initial greenhouse gas regulation implementation plans, giving it authority to issue permits in seven states until state and ...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    With worldwide capital spending budgets of exploration and production companies expected to rise 11% in 2011 to $490 billion from $442 billion-according to the 402 oil and gas...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    Defining the term "extremely unlikely internal corrosion threat" to be 20% wall loss within 50 years allowed development of a probabilistic model for predicting whether an IC ...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Jim O'Neill, chairman of asset management at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., predicted the Standard & Poor's 500 index will continue its vigorous growth, climbing as much as 20% in ...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    GE,Fairfield, Conn., has announced plans to acquire Wellstream Holdings PLC, Newcastle, UK, for $1.3 billion. The deal is expected to close in first quarter 2011, subject to shareholder...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    US President Barack Obama feinted toward the political center as 2010 ended, but no one in the oil and gas industry should be fooled.
    Jan. 3, 2011
    Ariel Corporation ......... www.arielcorp.comAmerican Business Conferences ......... www.american-business-conferences.comBaker Hughes ......... www.bakerhughes.comEmerson Process...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    Part 2 will show a specific case study from Grand Bay and Main Pass 47 fields, including reprocessing of Saratoga's proprietary 3D survey, cased-hole logging, and examples of ...
    Jan. 3, 2011
    This article describes development of a methodology and equations by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for conceptual capital cost estimating of onshore pipelines using Oil...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    A combination of simple ideas and application of standards from outside the oil and gas industry allowed fabrication and installation of structures robust enough to defend natural...
    Jan. 3, 2011
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    Greenland's government has awarded seven oil and gas exploration licenses in Baffin Bay to seven international companies.
    Jan. 3, 2011