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  • Volume 111, Issue 12

    • Volume 111, Issue 12

    Government

    Moniz's urgent message

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Ernest G. Moniz quickly got to the point. "The intertwined energy challenges we face today—energy demand growth, climate change, economic development, energy security, global ...
    Home

    Reform targets tax measures vital to producers, refiners

    Dec. 2, 2013
    The chairman of the US Senate Committee on Finance proposes generally righteous tax reform that would specifically hurt oil and gas producers and refiners.
    Donachie
    General Interest

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Baker HughesBaker Hughes Incorporated announced the introduction of the StimFORCE Gulf of Mexico (GoM) well stimulation vessel, a new addition to the company's fleet of stimulation...
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    New Plants

    Altering CP criteria part of unified anti-SCC approach

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Hamed Mansoori Reza Mirzaee National Iranian Oil Co.Ferydoun Esmaeilzadeh Dariush Mowla Shiraz University Shiraz, IranAltering cathodic protection criteria, repairing coatings...
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    New Plants

    Custom sleeve design stops tight-quarters crude header leak

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Custom sleeve design provides a cost-effective means for stopping leaks on pipeline supply headers delivering to refineries. A sealing clamp initially used to stop a leak on an...

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Rising production, exports to boost margins for US refiners

    Dec. 2, 2013
    US refiners have been blessed with growing domestic and Canadian crude supplies and low operating costs over 2012-13. Replumbing of the distribution system to get these supplies...
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    IOR/EOR

    Study addresses SCP causes in CO2 injection, production wells

    Dec. 2, 2013
    High sustained casing pressure (SCP) threatens worker safety and wellbore integrity. It can be exacerbated in a CO2 environment, such as in CO2-drive injection and production ...
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    Home

    Haynesville Update—1: North Louisiana gas shale's drilling decline precipitous

    Dec. 2, 2013
    The Haynesville shale in Louisiana has been actively developed since its discovery in 2007, but over the last 2 years there has been rapid retrenchment and a precipitous decline...
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    Companies

    Shale gas and oil: fundamentally changing global energy markets

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Shale production on a significant scale arose quite recently and is so far limited to the US with gas having a few years' lead on oil.
    Drilling & Production

    BP adds two more rigs to Gulf of Mexico program

    Dec. 2, 2013
    BP PLC has added two more drilling rigs to its deepwater Gulf of Mexico fleet. The company said it now accounts for a record nine rigs in the region.
    Companies

    EU shale gas production could add 1 million jobs, study says

    Dec. 2, 2013
    The development of shale gas in Europe could add as many as 1 million jobs to the economy, make industry more competitive, and decrease the region's dependence on energy imports...
    Production Operations

    NEB projects strong growth in Canadian oil and gas output

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Canadian production of crude oil will increase by 60% and production of natural gas by 32% during 2013-35 if markets take the supply and transportation capacity develops as needed...
    General Interest

    Statoil advancing subsea technology efforts

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Statoil's efforts toward deploying a 'subsea factory' by 2020 are advancing, and the anticipated seabed processing systems are expected to yield greater production efficiency,...
    Government

    Baucus circulates proposal to change federal oil, gas taxes

    Dec. 2, 2013
    US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released a federal tax reform discussion draft that would make intangible drilling costs, tertiary injectant expenses...
    Companies

    Devon Energy to buy Eagle Ford assets for $6 billion

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Devon Energy Corp. has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Eagle Ford assets from Woodlands, Tex.-based independent GeoSouthern Energy for $6 billion in cash.
    Government

    House votes to restrict federal regulation of fracing

    Dec. 2, 2013
    The US House of Representatives approved legislation largely along party lines to keep the US Bureau of Land Management from imposing its own hydraulic fracturing regulations ...
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    Refining

    Western Europe leads global refining contraction

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Global crude oil refining capacity in 2013 fell from the high it had attained in 2012 (OGJ, Dec. 3, 2012, p. 32) so that capacity growth since 2010 appears to be flattening, according...
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    Reserves

    Worldwide reserves, oil production post modest rise

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Worldwide oil and gas reserves estimates have increased slightly from a year ago, according to OGJ's latest survey of proved reserves.
    Production Operations

    Votes against fracing

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Votes last month in at least three Colorado communities against hydraulic fracturing should remind the oil and gas industry that sound reasons exist to oppose activity involving...
    Government

    Redefining 'reserves'

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Booming development of unconventional oil and gas resources has complicated the US Securities and Exchange Commission's regulation of the unaudited reserves estimates publicly...
    Government

    The RFS greenwash

    Dec. 2, 2013
    Other than admitting a wince, I'll refrain from commenting on your view of the Affordable Care Act while heartily seconding your call to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard in ...
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    LNG

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 2, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals