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  • Volume 111, Issue 3

    • Volume 111, Issue 3

    Reserves

    Letter

    March 4, 2013
    Play-by-play reservesContinental Resources has usefully disclosed its booked 2011 and 2012 yearend proved reserves for the Bakken and some other plays—in addition to corporate...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Industry urges DOE to approve LNG exports as comment period ends

    March 4, 2013
    US natural gas producers urged the US Department of Energy to quickly approve LNG export applications as DOE's comment period on allowing US LNG exports closed.
    Government

    Democrat protests exclusion of EPA, DOE from House E15 hearing

    March 4, 2013
    Representatives from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy should have been invited to testify at a hearing examining potential problems from EPA...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: Dalrymple's different problems

    March 4, 2013
    Governors descended on Washington, DC, Feb. 23-25 eager to exchange ideas and share experiences at the National Governors Association's 2013 Winter Meeting.
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    Petrochemicals

    2012 ethylene production bounces back; turnarounds in early 2013 to curb output

    March 4, 2013
    With parts of European still struggling with sovereign debt problems and key members of the European Union reconsidering the benefits and disadvantages of further economic and...

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    Economics & Markets

    Movement in prices and US upstream spending

    March 4, 2013
    In the Short-Term Energy Outlook report released in February, the US Energy Information Administration projected that the average West Texas Intermediate crude oil price will ...
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    Companies

    Capital spending in US, Canada to rise led by pipeline investment boom

    March 4, 2013
    Led by an investment boom in pipeline construction, capital expenditures for oil and gas projects in the US will increase 10% to $348 billion in 2013, following a 7% increase ...
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    Production Operations

    Transferred geothermal energy heats wellbore

    March 4, 2013
    Theoretical calculations and laboratory experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of heat transfer with a sucker rod string. Liaohe field tests of the wells show this technology...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iraq poised for key role in global energy sector

    March 4, 2013
    Over the past few decades, Iraq has rarely been featured in the news for positive developments. However, a revolution is in the works as the country is busy building a bright ...
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    Companies

    Uncertainties threaten natgas development

    March 4, 2013
    The past decade has seen what is now considered to be a revolution in natural gas production, as the industry has discovered how to produce natural gas economically from tight...
    Home

    Oil and gas give context to meeting of Obama and Abe

    March 4, 2013
    Oil and gas provided thick context to a meeting at the White House Feb. 22 between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Roadblocks remain to TAPI pipeline construction

    March 4, 2013
    The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline, discussed for more than 20 years, would be welcomed by all participants, but numerous roadblocks to building...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Algeria applies dynamic performance estimate to pipeline system rehab

    March 4, 2013
    New methods of dynamically estimating complex natural gas systems performance can prove useful not only in design and operations, but also in planning for rehabilitation and expansion...
    Government

    Campaign of polarization

    March 4, 2013
    Sometimes the best defense against hand grenades is interdiction of the armory. The US oil and gas industry should consider such a strategy for the tax grenades headed its way...
    Home

    Working on the railroads

    March 4, 2013
    The rapid increase of North American crude production has resulted in pipeline bottlenecks in some areas, forcing more reliance on rail transportation to access some of the highest...
    LNG

    US LNG conundrum solved

    March 4, 2013
    Listening only to the more vocal, sometimes hysterical opponents of US LNG exports might remind us of periods in US history when isolationists ruled political and economic thinking...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 4, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
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    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: International roundtable discusses pace of world's shale development

    March 4, 2013
    Exploration and development of oil and natural gas from shale plays could spread worldwide beyond the US and Canada faster than many people currently assume, participants at an...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iranian oil industry under siege as international sanctions grow

    March 4, 2013
    International sanctions have ravaged the Iranian oil industry, the production of which once exceeded 6 million b/d, more than twice the current level.
    Production Operations

    Governor wants Ohio to 'modernize' severance tax

    March 4, 2013
    It's time for Ohio to "modernize" its severance tax so the state can more fully benefit from oil and gas discoveries there, Gov. John Kasich (R) said in his 2013 State of the ...
    LNG

    WoodMac: LNG suppliers should focus on Southeast Asia

    March 4, 2013
    Global LNG suppliers looking at Asia should focus more on combined Southeast Asian markets—Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore—as the LNG appetite of these markets increase...
    Companies

    Researchers use PCCTs to advance methane hydrate study in Japan

    March 4, 2013
    A research team in Japan is using new pressure coring characterization tools to keep deep sea floor subsurface methane hydrate-bearing sediment samples from deteriorating, the...
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    March 4, 2013
    Foster Wheeler AG,Zug, Switzerland, announced its global engineering and construction group signed a 5-year global enterprise framework agreement with Shell Global Solutions Internation...
    HSE

    EU reaches preliminary agreement on offshore oil, gas safety directive

    March 4, 2013
    The European Union reached preliminary agreement Feb. 21 on toughened rules for offshore oil and gas operations although the proposed directive has yet to be formally approved...
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