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    It would be challenging to find another recent energy move by the administration of US President Barack Obama that was more quickly criticized by so many different people than...
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    This two-part series analyzes the economics of producing 50,000 b/d of methanol for gasoline blending from petroleum coke (petcoke) and examines some aspects of using methanol...
    July 4, 2011
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    Safety and process operations received considerable attention during the 2010 National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 10-13; Baltimore)....
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    A well management company together with several operating companies and an integrated service provider optimized a 3-year exploration drilling campaign off Norway.
    July 4, 2011
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    Kuwait Oil Co. launched simultaneously three major pilot projects with a fourth project in the planning phase, to demonstrate the benefits of the integrated digital oil field....
    July 4, 2011
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    The costs of two chemicals used in crude-oil refining went unchanged during 2008-10 and are no longer tracked, while the costs of three others varied significantly.
    July 4, 2011
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    Total energy demand in the US this year will increase marginally from 2010, weighed down by the sluggish economy and high oil prices.
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    The Eagle Ford shale in South Texas is poised for rapid production growth because gathering, transportation, processing, and fractionation services already are in place or are...
    July 4, 2011
    Unconventional oil production from the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Niobrara plays is expected to approach 900,000 b/d in 2015 and exceed 1.3 million b/d by 2020, a consultant forecast...
    July 4, 2011
    Global refinery runs recovered in 2010, but early 2011 margins well below the past decade's sometimes heady levels suggest excess capacity will exist and margins will stay low...
    July 4, 2011
    A subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd. will acquire a 12.5% working interest in the nonoperated Eagle Ford shale position of SM Energy Co., Denver.
    July 4, 2011
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    For the last decade, the Nova Scotia offshore has been mostly ignored as a potential exploration investment.
    July 4, 2011
    Mississippi is the world's most attractive place in the world for oil and gas investment, according to a new survey.
    July 4, 2011
    South Sudan this week becomes an independent state, a matter of more than passing interest to China—the largest buyer of Sudan's oil.
    July 4, 2011
    Abdullah El-Badri, secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, urged the International Energy Agency to reverse its earlier decision to release...
    July 4, 2011
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    New plug-in for seismic usedGB Earth Sciences, Enschede, Netherlands, and ARK CLS, Bedford, UK, have launched a direct data link between dGB's OpendTect software and Houston-based...
    July 4, 2011
    In November 2010 Americans elected a Congress pledged to make major cuts in federal government spending.
    July 4, 2011
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    Offshore Solutions BV, waterstreetIjmuiden, The Netherlands, has appointed Andy Waterstreet engineering and projects manager. Previously, he worked for Croon Elektrotechniek BV...
    July 4, 2011
    The International Energy Agency's decision to release 60 million bbl of crude and petroleum products from the strategic petroleum reserves is "the equivalent of QE2 in the oil...
    July 4, 2011
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    This article develops five regression models to estimate pipeline construction component costs for different types of pipelines in different regions.
    July 4, 2011
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    Global ethylene producers last year added more than 8.6 million tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity, according to the latest Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the industry. That level sets...
    July 4, 2011
    The June 20 US Supreme Court ruling in a case involving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by electric power companies was good for the oil and gas industry but far from everything...
    July 4, 2011