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  • Volume 111, Issue 8

    • Volume 111, Issue 8

    Montanari
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Acteon Group Ltd.,MontanariNorwich, Norfolk, UK, completed the acquisition of J2 Engineering Services Ltd., an Aberdeen-based firm involved in rental, maintenance, and repair ...
    Government

    Watching Government: Fracing's burden of proof

    Aug. 5, 2013
    The observation was one of the few cautionary notes during the Bipartisan Policy Center's otherwise upbeat conference on the US shale gas boom's implications for the economy, ...
    Reserves

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Loan guarantee program expands to support advanced fossil energy research

    Aug. 5, 2013
    In July, the US Department of Energy announced a draft loan guarantee solicitation offering $8 billion for innovative and advanced fossil energy projects and facilities that substantial...
    Drilling & Production

    Deloitte sees healthy year for UKCS exploration

    Aug. 5, 2013
    The level of exploratory drilling on the UK continental shelf remains healthy even though the number of new wells fell slightly in the 2013 second quarter compared with the same...
    Tholen
    Production Operations

    UK supply chain flourishes on record investment

    Aug. 5, 2013
    The oil and gas industry is the UK's largest industrial investor, providing hundreds of thousands of skilled jobs, exports, and tax revenues for Britain.

    More content from Volume 111, Issue 8

    General Interest

    John Spears: salesman deluxe

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Some of us are born to fill a certain place in our company. Early last month, John M. Spears, the greatest advertising salesman in the 100+ years of Oil & Gas Journal, died. John...
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    Gas Processing

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 5, 2013
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Exploration & Development

    Tethys Petroleum to acquire Kura basin block interests

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Tethys Petroleum Ltd. will acquire interests in and become operator of several production sharing contract areas in the Kura basin near Tbilisi in eastern and central Georgia....
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    Companies

    Barnett at DFW provides lessons on shale gas projects at US airports

    Aug. 5, 2013
    US airfield owners are lured by attractive signing bonuses to lease their shale acreage. But shale operators cannot always fulfill their promises to drill, and the Dallas-Fort...
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    Companies

    Vast resource estimated in UK's Bowland-Hodder shale

    Aug. 5, 2013
    The following is the summary from the recent assessment by the British Geological Survey and UK Department of Energy and Climate Change of gas in place in the Bowland-Hodder shale...
    Home

    Energy regulation costs growing like those of education

    Aug. 5, 2013
    What applies to university education applies just as well to frantic energy regulation.
    Government

    A cellulosic landmark

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Production has begun at rates deemed commercial by two US makers of cellulosic biofuel. Mute the trumpets, though.
    Rail Pipeline Transportation
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    Rail emerging as long-term North American crude option

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Julie M. Carey Navigant Consulting Inc. Washington, DCInitially thought of as a stopgap for transporting North American crude oil production until new pipelines could be built...
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    Home

    Lowest possible flow temp. offers savings vs. pour point

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Leaving produced gas entrained in heavy oil pipelines reduces energy costs by allowing the oil to flow at a lower temperature. This article analyzes boundary heavy oil flow conditions...
    Home

    Energy consumption to escalate

    Aug. 5, 2013
    World energy consumption will jump 56% in the next 30 years, driven by growing demand in developing countries, the US Energy Information Administration recently reported in its...
    Production Operations

    Oil sands ramp-up boosts Cenovus second quarter

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, said it has achieved first heavy oil production last week from Phase E at its Christina Lake thermal project in Alberta and that the company's overall...
    Exploration & Development

    Wyden suggests Washington, states could divide fracing regulation

    Aug. 5, 2013
    US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ronald L. Wyden (D-Ore.) said he plans to ask the committee's members to consider dividing hydraulic fracturing regulatory...
    Government

    McCarthy sees climate change as both economic, environmental issue

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Addressing global climate change is as much an economic as environmental challenge, and future strategies and policies will need to recognize this, US Environmental Protection...
    Government

    Obama doubles down on low Keystone XL jobs creation estimate

    Aug. 5, 2013
    US President Barack Obama called energy an important US jobs creation area, but excluded the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, in a July 30 Chattanooga, Tenn., address....
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    Discoveries

    NPD sees optimism on Norwegian Continental Shelf

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Undiscovered recoverable resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf are an estimated 935 million to 5,420 million standard cu m of oil equivalent (scmoe), the Norwegian Petroleum...
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    BARNETT SHALE MODEL-1: Study develops decline analysis, geologic parameters for reserves, production forecast

    Aug. 5, 2013
    A comprehensive study of the reserve and production potential of the Barnett shale integrates engineering, geology, and economics into a numerical model that allows for scenario...
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    Gas Processing

    Texas gas plant retrofits to improve ethane recovery

    Aug. 5, 2013
    Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Dallas, in 2012 employed basic process design provided by Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Houston, to increase ethane recovery at...
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    Gas Processing

    Alkylation provides option to monetize butane surplus

    Aug. 5, 2013
    The rapid growth of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in shale and tight rock formations has not only created a surge in North American natural gas and light oil production...