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  • Volume 112, Issue 12

    • Volume 112, Issue 12

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    LNG

    Real-time monitoring improves LNG inventory measurement

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Kogas has improved the calculation method for determining stocks at its LNG terminals, changing from a sampling method to a real-time monitoring system using a level, temperature...
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    Pipelines

    Study improves subsea pipeline preheating

    Dec. 1, 2014
    A higher flow rate at lower temperatures can more effectively preheat subsea crude oil pipelines than currently used techniques. This article found that a 350-cu m/hr flow rate...
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    Production Operations

    CLARIFYING GOM DECOM COSTS-1: Settled-liability data provide insight for cost estimates

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Cost data in the oil and gas industry are proprietary and obtaining them is difficult. Unless collected across a large and diverse sample, summary statistics are unlikely to be...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Prospects for US crude exports to Asia are looking up

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Within the next 3 to 4 years, the US can become an oil and condensate exporter capable of making available to the world market more than 1.5 million b/d of domestic crude and ...
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    Gas Processing

    Optimization yields gains for Saudi crude processing giant

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Since 2000, Saudi Aramco has implemented an energy-conservation program to enhance efficiency throughout its operations. These efforts have paid off in energy savings valued in...

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 12

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    Reserves

    Global reserves, oil production show increases for 2014

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Oil & Gas Journal's annual look at worldwide proved reserves shows increases compared with a year ago. Reserves estimates for crude oil and lease condensate now total 1.656 trillion...
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    Exploration & Development

    Elastic nonlinearity, lower wave velocities add to frequency spectrum

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Current seismic imaging practices have generally ignored the effects of dynamic elastic nonlinearity and treat sedimentary rocks as elastically linear, using a relatively simpler...
    Government

    EPA will set RFS requirements for this year next year

    Dec. 1, 2014
    How bad does regulation of the Renewable Fuel Standard have to become before the US Congress ends a program broken beyond repair?
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    Refining

    Asia-Pacific refining primed for capacity growth

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Global crude oil refining capacity in 2014 edged lower from 2013 (OGJ, Dec. 2, 2013, p. 34), according to the latest OGJ Refinery Survey.
    Government

    Power to stonewall

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Presidential stonewalling of the Keystone XL pipeline is hurting the US. Congress should exercise its constitutional power and end the damage.
    Reserves

    US-African energy moves

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Getting electricity to more Africans is a top priority at the US Department of State's Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR), an official told a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee...
    New Plants

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Dec. 1, 2014
    KBC Advanced TechnologiesKBC Advanced Technologies plc, a leading consultancy and software provider to the upstream and downstream hydrocarbon industries, announced the appointment...
    Economics & Markets

    IHS: 'Tight-oil test' under way in US amid lower oil prices

    Dec. 1, 2014
    The vast majority of potential US tight-oil production growth remains economical in the current crude oil price environment, according to a recent report by IHS.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    A new Gulf Coast paradigm

    Dec. 1, 2014
    Following the reversal of Seaway Crude Pipeline System in 2012, a series of projects both in oil pipelines and storage has unlocked the crude oil bottleneck at Cushing, Okla.,...
    Refining

    Legislative vote delays St. Croix refinery sale

    Dec. 1, 2014
    The Senate of the 30th Legislature of the US Virgin Islands has voted unanimously to send back a proposed agreement that would provide for the restart of Hovensa LLC's idled 500...
    Government

    EPA won't finalize RFS's 2014 biofuel quotas before yearend

    Dec. 1, 2014
    The US Environmental Protection Agency announced it will not finalize 2014 biofuel quotas under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) before yearend.
    Companies

    DOI, Colorado announce Roan Plateau development dispute settlement

    Dec. 1, 2014
    A dispute over development of federal natural gas leases on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado that were issued in 2008 has been settled, the US Department of the Interior and...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 1, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Tankers

    US crude exports debate prompts a fresh look at the Jones Act

    Dec. 1, 2014
    The Jones Act, which requires that maritime transportation of goods between domestic ports take place on US-flagged vessels, is becoming more prominent in the debate over whether...
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    Exploration & Development

    Geomicrobial survey results follow drilling success

    Nov. 30, 2014
    The Oriente basin of Ecuador is one of the most productive of the South American Sub-Andean basins. Cumulative production of oil at the end of 2011 was close to 3 billion bbl,...
    Drilling & Production

    NOIA, API studies list benefits of more federal OCS leasing

    Nov. 30, 2014
    Offshore oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and on the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts could create more than 838,000 American jobs and raise more than $200 billion...