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  • Volume 112, Issue 3

    • Volume 112, Issue 3

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Prospect of sanctions' end highlights woes of Iranian oil and gas industry

    March 3, 2014
    Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, after being endorsed by the Iranian parliament as the new oil minister, said, "The revival of Iran's lost share in the oil market is my top priority."
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    Companies

    E&P capital spending to rebound in North America

    March 3, 2014
    Oil and gas industry capital spending in the US will increase 5.2% in 2014 to $338 billion, according to Oil & Gas Journal's annual spending report. Capital expenditures also ...
    HSE

    Energy by fiat—4: The importance of cost

    March 3, 2014
    What something costs is important. It's important in personal decisions about what to buy and what not to buy. It's important in governmental decisions about what policies to ...
    Home

    The next Eagle Ford

    March 3, 2014
    The Eagle Ford shale is one of the largest oil fields in the US and quite possibly the largest single economic development in the history of Texas.
    Exploration & Development

    Climate and clouds

    March 3, 2014
    A new United Nations report suggests an imminent danger from global warming. It states that without drastic action we may have "to develop the ability to suck greenhouse gases...

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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 3, 2014
    International News for oil and gas professionals
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    Challenges in East Africa

    March 3, 2014
    Africa's oil and gas map is changing. Can countries there with potentially lucrative supplies avoid the so-called "resource curse?"
    Home

    Kerry flubs facts in Jakarta diatribe on climate change

    March 3, 2014
    When a top official of the US government disparages opponents in an aggressive talk about an important subject, he ought to have his facts straight. In a Feb. 16 diatribe on climate...
    Wood
    New Plants

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    March 3, 2014
    JDR Cable Systems LimitedHas won a contract for the manufacture of subsea production umbilicals from ConocoPhillips. The umbilicals will be deployed in Phase 3 of the Bayu-Udan...
    Combined Methods T1
    Government

    Combined methods sharply drop storage evaporation

    March 3, 2014
    Straight-forward preventative measures can reduce evaporative losses from tanks by 95%, with attendant economic and environmental benefits. Reducing evaporation also helps preserve...
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    Lagging pipelines create US gulf light sweet crude glut

    March 3, 2014
    North American pipeline capacity did not adapt quickly enough to rapidly growing crude oil production, resulting in supply bottlenecks. Now that a build-out is under way, a glut...
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    LNG

    Two-phase expanders manage feed-gas changes

    March 3, 2014
    Modification in 2003-04 of Polish Oil & Gas Co.'s (PGNiG) nitrogen rejection unit (NRU) at its natural gas and helium plant in Odolanow addressed a feed-gas composition that differed...
    2013 Ethylene T1
    Petrochemicals

    2013 ethylene output rises; growth to continue in early 2014

    March 3, 2014
    US ethylene producers will complete four incremental expansions and continue to increase ethane-based production capacity in 2014. These projects will increase capacity by 2.8...
    Deepwater Gulf T1
    Production Operations

    DEEPWATER GULF DECOMMISSIONING—2: Structure inventory runs gamut of deepwater technologies

    March 3, 2014
    The deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is the largest source of domestic oil production in the US and a laboratory for deployment of advanced drilling and development technologies...
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    New Plants

    Compressor rerating keys North Sea platform enhancement

    March 3, 2014
    A compression train on Hess Denmark's South Arne platform in the Danish North Sea required rerating to meet a planned production profile. The train consisted of motor driven, ...
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    HAYNESVILLE UPDATE—4: Haynesville outlook hinges on gas price

    March 3, 2014
    The future of Haynesville production is unforeseeable, yet trends can be postulated for a range of drilling scenarios.
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    Discoveries

    Central Illinois shows Siluro-Devonian oil potential

    March 3, 2014
    The Siluro-Devonian is one of the hottest oil and gas plays in the Illinois basin.
    Gas Processing

    Colorado AQCC approves emissions rules for oil, gas operations

    March 3, 2014
    Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission approved comprehensive changes to rules governing oil and gas activities in the state, including the nation's first-ever regulations ...
    Government

    BLM issues draft environmental review for first proposed NPR-A well

    March 3, 2014
    The US Bureau of Land Management released a draft environmental review for the first proposed petroleum development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
    Pipelines

    API continuing to address rail safety concerns, Gerard says

    March 3, 2014
    The US oil and gas industry continues to work with the federal government and railway industry to improve transportation of crude oil by rail, American Petroleum Institute Pres...
    Government

    Nebraska court rules Keystone XL statute unconstitutional

    March 3, 2014
    Legislation authorizing Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) to approve a route for the proposed Keystone XL crude pipeline is unconstitutional under state law, a district court in...
    Discoveries

    Senators ask Kerry to study Keystone XL health impacts

    March 3, 2014
    US Senate Energy and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and committee member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) jointly asked US Sec. of State John F. Kerry to fully...
    Production Operations

    Final UKCS production review details strategies, clarifies roles

    March 3, 2014
    The final report from the Wood Review of oil and gas operations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) provides more details of the strategy for "maximizing economic recovery" (MER...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Gas to play key role in curbing China's pollution, official says

    March 3, 2014
    China plans to develop more domestic natural gas supplies, including some from unconventional sources, and increase its gas imports to reduce its reliance on coal and address ...