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    New Plants

    TRC updates oil, gas well construction rules

    June 3, 2013
    The Texas Railroad Commission (TRC) has amended well construction requirements to clarify oil and gas well construction rules related to casing, cementing, drilling, well control...
    HSE

    Shrinking middle ground

    June 3, 2013
    Given the option, issue managers at most oil and gas companies probably would prefer to let others fight over global warming. For them, neither side of the question is comfortable...
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    LPG Markets

    Shale gas development altering LPG demand, trade

    June 3, 2013
    The LPG market in the US is experiencing a remarkable transformation due to the rapid increase in supplies being produced from both tight oil and shale gas formations.
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    Petrochemicals

    PROCESS SAFETY—2 (Conclusion): Examples illustrate ISD concepts, common issues

    June 3, 2013
    The first article in this two-part series (OGJ, May 6, 2013, p. 94) presented four process safety examples of possible inadequate overpressure protection design in amine natural...
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    LPG Markets

    US Propane: C3 producers, wholesalers watch persistent surpluses on US Gulf Coast

    June 3, 2013
    The most important concern for US propane producers and wholesalers going into any winter heating season—and the 2012-13 season was no exception—is the uncertain answer to two...

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    LNG

    Russia aims targeted stimulus at tough oil and gas resources

    June 3, 2013
    Facing new competition from oil and gas production elsewhere in the world, Russia is scrambling to unlock the potential of its Arctic offshore, East Siberia, and other challenging...
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    Refining

    First-quarter earnings decline with lower oil prices, liquids realization

    June 3, 2013
    Lower oil prices and lower liquids realization reduced the earnings of some US and Canadian producers in the first 3 months of 2013.
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    Companies

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS – Deloitte: Pace of shale gas development won't be easy to repeat outside US

    June 3, 2013
    The progress of major shale gas developments outside North America is apt to lag the pace of the US shale gas revolution, according to a recent report from Deloitte analysts, ...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 3, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Production Operations

    Flexibility in fracing regulation seen still an open question

    June 3, 2013
    Increased flexibility for operators remains an open question in a revised proposal for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, according to a May 23 legal update by Roger ...
    LNG

    Watching Government: Reading, waiting at Cove Point

    June 3, 2013
    The US Department of Energy continues to review applications to export LNG. As of May 17, DOE reported that 26 terminal operators had applied to export nearly 30 bcfd of LNG to...
    Drilling & Production

    State emissions; private solutions

    June 3, 2013
    While climate-skeptics continue to snipe at those who blame human activity for rising levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and, therefore, for rising global temperatures, governments...
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    General Interest

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    June 3, 2013
    Bolttech Mannings Inc.,Pittsburgh, agreed to acquire Alberta-based Red Flame Industries Inc. (RFI), a specialty plant and pipeline engineering and certification services company...
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    US, Mexico energy trade in flux

    June 3, 2013
    Energy trade between the US and Mexico is in flux with rising crude production in the US, falling production in Mexico, and rising Mexican demand for gasoline, diesel, and other...
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    Pipelines

    SUBSEA PRECOMMISSIONING—2 (Conclusion): Growth in pipeline scale prompts early precommissioning planning

    June 3, 2013
    As subsea hydrocarbon pipelines have grown in scale, plans for their precommissioning have been incorporated early in project development.
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    Exploration & Development

    Useful data lurk in seismic inelasticity, nonlinearity

    June 3, 2013
    Measurements of productive and dry wells, when correlated with actual processed seismic data from many fields, have shown that oil and gas deposits have both increased attenuation...
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    Russia to increase exports to China in strategic shift

    June 3, 2013
    In a change of market strategy with geopolitical implications, Russia is increasing exports of crude oil to China at the expense of other Pacific Basin importers.
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    Gas Processing

    Rapid North American shale gas development pushes up global capacities

    June 3, 2013
    Shale gas development in North America last year pushed up regional and global processing and fractionation capacities more rapidly in 2012 than in 2011, as reflected in Oil &...
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    Reserves

    Ukraine's gas upstream sector: focus on international investment

    June 3, 2013
    Ukraine depends to a large extent on natural gas imports, which are mainly met by one external supply source.
    Gas Processing

    US NGL infrastructure expansions follow shale development

    June 3, 2013
    Rapid development of US shale gas has prompted a spike in domestic NGL production.
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    Discoveries

    Case study: Production benefits from increasing C-values

    June 3, 2013
    A case study performed in a southern Iran oil field indicates that the C-value used in API RP 14E can be safely increased, enabling increased production from fewer wells and decreasing...
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    Shale-Related US Fractionators

    June 3, 2013
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    Shale-related US gas plants

    June 3, 2013
    Stephen Gilbert, MapSearch