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    Exploration & Development

    HEAVY OIL REFINING—2 (Conclusion): Analysis, appropriate steps can mitigate effects of coking fines

    Feb. 4, 2013
    This second, concluding article discusses the impact of fines in delayed-coker feedstocks and the steps that can improve reliability and profitability of the coking operation....
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    New Plants

    Worldwide Pipeline Construction: Crude, products plans push 2013 construction sharply higher

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Planned pipeline construction to be completed in 2013 jumped 73% from the previous year, with sharply higher levels of planned crude and products pipelines more than countering...
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    Petrochemicals

    GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Morvin field production prompts update to Aasgard Blend assay

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Statoil late last year published an update to its 2010 assay of Aasgard Blend (OGJ, Apr. 4, 2011, p. 94). To the existing blend from Smorbukk, Smorbukk South, Midgard, Mikkel,...
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    Government

    Chinese political transition makes change possible in energy approach

    Feb. 4, 2013
    The composition of China's new Politburo and its members' views about large, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have profound implications for the country's socioeconomic trajectory...

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    CGES: Oil field costs haven't made crude oil prices rise

    Feb. 4, 2013
    About one third of the worldwide supply of crude oil costs less than $10/bbl to produce, and nearly 90% costs less than $20/bbl, according to a study arguing that production costs...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Industry optimistic on Cline shale liquids potential

    Feb. 4, 2013
    US independents, particularly Devon Energy Corp. and Apache Corp., are examining the potential of the Cline shale oil play in the Midland basin.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 4, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
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    Ernst & Young: Oil, gas deal values climbed in 2012

    Feb. 4, 2013
    The oil and gas mergers and acquisitions market is expected to remain resilient during 2013 even though many geopolitical and economic uncertainties from 2012 continue, said an...
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    Watching Government: Solving gas-electric mismatches

    Feb. 4, 2013
    It's widely recognized that more natural gas will be used to generate electricity in the US. Accomplishing this won't necessarily be easy, however. The devil, as always, is in...
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    Ukraine eying shale gas

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Could Ukraine actually reduce its dependence on Russian gas by exploiting its considerable shale gas resources?
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Atlas Copco Rental,Houston, the US and Canadian arm of the specialty division of the Atlas Copco Group, Stockholm, named Dan Dorran vice-president of its new seismic rental business...
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    War, weather issues affect energy

    Feb. 4, 2013
    The fatal 4-day siege at the In Amenas gas production plant in eastern Algeria near the Libyan border that left 81 people dead "heightens concerns over protecting infrastructure...
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    Government

    Washington strategies increasingly reach beyond Capital Beltway

    Feb. 4, 2013
    More US oil and gas associations are expanding their federal advocacy efforts beyond Congress and the Obama administration. Washington staff members still plan to brief new House...
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    Rules and reality

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Executive Branch activism took a punch to the gut in a Jan. 25 court ruling calling on the US Environmental Protection Agency to accommodate rules to reality. What's needed now...
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    Challenging liberals

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Your Jan. 7 issue contained two valuable items on global warming and the Keystone XL pipeline (OGJ, Jan. 7, p. 22; p. 24). They touch on some important truths, but it would be...
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    Oil demand outlook depends more than usual on politics

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Forecasts of global demand for oil, always sensitive to economic fate, weather, and geopolitical surprise, are especially fragile this year. Economic growth depends extraordinarily...
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    Reserves

    China sees 2011 resource gains, more growth by 2030

    Feb. 4, 2013
    China has begun the annual national oil and gas resources assessment after China's National Petroleum Assessment 2007.
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    Exploration & Development

    Redrill set at Upper Magdalena apparent oil discovery

    Feb. 4, 2013
    A group led by Petrodorado Energy Ltd., Toronto, plans to drill a new wellbore to evaluate "a younger and exceptionally thick sand-prone sequence" that has never previously been...
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    Companies

    Empirical formula given for collapse resistance of worn casing under nonuniform loading

    Feb. 4, 2013
    Casing wear is an increasingly typical problem that leads to a decrease in collapse resistance in deep wells, ultradeep wells, horizontal wells, and extended reach wells.