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  • Volume 111, Issue 10

    • Volume 111, Issue 10

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    Exploration & Development

    New SEG president is group's first near-surface specialist

    Oct. 8, 2013
    Election of the first specialist in near-surface geophysics to lead the Society of Exploration Geophysicists raises a communications problem: The definition of "near surface,"...
    Reserves

    LETTERS

    Oct. 8, 2013
    Dislikes 'cynical review'I recently subscribed to you publication to further my role as a responsible investment analyst working in the energy industry. After seeing an excellent...
    Government

    Transboundary treaty glitch

    Oct. 7, 2013
    The federal government's partial shutdown didn't keep the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from discussing the pending US-Mexico transboundary hydrocarbons agreement...
    Home

    Icy US relations with Iran still far from thawing

    Oct. 7, 2013
    With the US and Iran, warmth does not mean thaw.
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    General Interest

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Wood Group MustangWood Group Mustang announces Mark Brett director of business development for its Process Plants & Industrial Business Unit for its Martinez, Calif. location....

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Testing backfill's thermal conductivity improves operations

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Increases in backfill soil's thermal conductivity can cause sharply higher heating station fuel costs on heavy oil crude pipelines because the higher conductivity requires a higher...
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    Pipelines

    Nord Stream dry air purge improves nitrogen-slug use

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Purging of precommissioning dry air from the Nord Stream offshore natural gas pipeline demonstrated the reliability of a simple nitrogen-slug shortening calculation model in estimating...
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Nonmetallic building materials lead index changes

    Oct. 7, 2013
    The accompanying table shows how Nelson-Farrar indexes have changed over 2010-12, for selected basically nonmetallic building materials.
    Government

    Commitment and obstinacy

    Oct. 7, 2013
    The US oil and gas industry has extra reason to regret the politically motivated shutdown of the federal government. It soon might face a financial avalanche.
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    Exploration & Development

    A modern approach to build 3D sequence stratigraphic framework

    Oct. 7, 2013
    The conventional approach of performing sequence stratigraphy on 3D seismic data is comprised of a limited set of seismic horizons. This practice can be changed with the help ...
    Government

    Enhancing offshore safety

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Over the past 20 years, the oil and gas industry—both onshore and offshore—has improved tenfold in occupational safety performance.
    Government

    Regulatory enforcement continues as US government shuts down

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Federal agencies regulating oil and gas activities generally planned to continue their enforcement activities as the US government partially shut down after Congress failed to...
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 7, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
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    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Ohio's Utica shale development has room to grow

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Ohio—once the largest oil producer in the US at the turn of the 20th century—may soon advance its rank closer to this status through 2015.
    Exploration & Development

    Trilogy updates Alberta Montney, Duvernay activity

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Trilogy Energy Corp., Calgary, has recently finished completing the Trilogy horizontal Kaybob 9-10-64-19w5 stepout well on the western side of the Kaybob Montney oil pool and ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    WoodMac: Unconventional production changing energy trade patterns

    Oct. 7, 2013
    North America will become energy independent by 2020 and will become a net energy exporter, Wood Mackenzie Ltd. researchers said, adding that they expect the US and Canada will...
    New Plants

    Spectra Energy to add as much as 7.3 bcfd pipeline capacity by 2017

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Spectra Energy has more than 3.3 bcfd of US natural gas pipeline expansions under way, with another 4 bcfd of capacity in development.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Undecided policies key to gas exports from Israel, Cyprus

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Several options remain open for export of natural gas from large deepwater discoveries offshore Israel and Cyprus as operators await important clarifications of policy.
    Home

    WEC grades countries on energy-sustainability balance

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden top a three-dimensional ranking of energy sustainability in a new World Energy Council assessment.
    Government

    GAO: BLM needs better permit processing, inspections data

    Oct. 7, 2013
    The US Bureau of Land Management needs to improve data it uses to process oil and gas permit applications and to establish inspection priorities, the Government Accountability...
    Exploration & Development

    Calgary firms to recapitalize Brazil Reconcavo explorer

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. will acquire Petrominerales Corp. in a transaction valued at $1.6 billion (Can.) and will capitalize it in Calgary as ExploreCo with $100 million...
    HSE

    BP's Dudley defends company's Macondo spill-response tactics

    Oct. 7, 2013
    BP PLC's Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley has denied that his company deliberately delayed capping of the Macondo well—which suffered a blowout in April 2010, resulting in a...
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    Cyclic steam, gas enhance Bohai heavy oil production

    Oct. 7, 2013
    This article presents preliminary results of stimulation principles and offshore oilfield testing of cyclic steam and gas stimulation.
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    Gas Processing

    Market conditions encourage refiners to recover by-product gases

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Segregating fuel-gas blending streams and extracting hydrogen, NGLs, ethylene, and propylene provide a moderate capital cost route for a refinery to improve profitability.
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    Exploration & Development

    Value of MSRI measurement of Selma exploration drill cuttings

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements of oil exploration drill cuttings from above oil reservoirs show an increase in magnetic minerals at semishallow depths worldwide.
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    Refining

    Method provides alternative for predicting RFCC yields

    Oct. 7, 2013
    Earlier research found that residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) product yields correlated with the content of saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes (SARA) fractions...