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  • Volume 112, Issue 6

    • Volume 112, Issue 6

    Government

    Sage grouse 'pause button' bills

    June 2, 2014
    Congressional Republicans from four Rocky Mountain states rallied behind legislation introduced May 22 that would delay a court-ordered decision on whether the Greater Sage Grouse...
    Home

    Political-spending hypocrisy masks big policy questions

    June 2, 2014
    In high-level fights over political spending, more is at stake for the oil and gas industry than tiresome hypocrisy.
    Gas Processing

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    June 2, 2014
    FUGROFugro is expanding its survey fleet in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to include a new AUV, Echo Surveyor VII, and a new vessel, R/V Fugro Americas.AUVs are the ultimate choice...
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    Tankers

    Custom offshore pipeline repair systems save money

    June 2, 2014
    Establishing and operating a custom emergency pipeline-flowline repair system (PRS) for offshore deepwater projects can reduce repair times enough to justify the additional expense...
    Nelson Farrar Cost Indexes

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 6

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    Gas Processing

    US MIDSTREAM UPDATE: New series to cover US midstream developments

    June 2, 2014
    This article is the first in a series that will broadly focus on the US midstream industry, and it supplants the series that since 2005 has focused on supply-demand and pricing...
    Gas Processing

    What's at Mont Belvieu?

    June 2, 2014
    With its strategic location along the US Gulf Coast, proximity to major refining complexes, underground storage capacity, and access to onshore and offshore transportation for...
    Gas Processing

    Surging ethane supplies prompt export plans

    June 2, 2014
    Surging ethane extraction capability in US shale plays has given it a price advantage relative to naphtha and made it a viable export commodity.
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    Gas Processing

    New, expanded capacities return US, Canada to global lead

    June 2, 2014
    New US gas processing and fractionation projects that were in the pipe for the 18-24 months before Jan. 1, 2014, began showing results in 2013 as Oil & Gas Journal's plant-by-...
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    Drilling & Production

    EVALUATING OFFSHORE DRILLING RISKS – 2 (Conclusion): Global, regional statistics show continuing improvement

    June 2, 2014
    The first article in this series introduced some of the efforts to identify leading and lagging indicators for process safety in offshore drilling operations.
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    Drilling Operations

    Limited-entry OHMS improves Saudi deep-gas production

    June 2, 2014
    The Permian Khuff carbonate reservoir in the Ghawar structure of Saudi Arabia produces nonassociated gas and condensate.
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    Exploration & Development

    Borehole seismic defines reservoirs at point of extraction

    June 2, 2014
    Seismic characterization can be costly. In standard surface acquisition, data are collected well beyond reservoir boundaries. These results are used to map reservoir geometry ...
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    Discoveries

    Nevada's Chainman shale shows exploration potential

    June 2, 2014
    The fold and thrust belt play that extends through eastern Nevada and western Utah remains largely underexplored.
    LNG

    Atlantic LNG's Darlow not concerned with competition from US in LNG market

    June 2, 2014
    Atlantic LNG (ALNG) says it is not concerned with impending competition from the US because it is the most reliable LNG producer in the world, ALNG Chief Executive Officer Nigel...
    General Interest

    Australian offshore exploration drilling down, costs up

    June 2, 2014
    Australia is drilling two thirds fewer offshore exploration wells than in 2003, but the total costs of drilling those wells has increased fivefold.
    Refining

    FGE: Japan likely to see further cuts to refining capacity

    June 2, 2014
    A 2010 ordinance enacted by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) requiring Japanese refiners to raise their mandatory cracking-to-crude distillation capacity...
    Home

    FERC issues EA for Cove Point LNG export project

    June 2, 2014
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued its environmental assessment (EA) for the Cove Point LNG liquefaction and export project in Lusby, Md..
    Refining

    API: US petroleum demand hits 4-year high in April

    June 2, 2014
    Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, increased 2.3% from April 2013 to average 19 million b/d this April, the highest April deliveries in 4 years, the American ...
    Companies

    Chesapeake to spinoff oil field services unit, divest $4 billion in assets

    June 2, 2014
    Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has decided to proceed with spinning off its oil field services business, currently conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary Chesapeake...
    General Interest

    Girling: TransCanada considering rail as Keystone XL alternative

    June 2, 2014
    TransCanada Corp. is considering rail as an alternative to its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling said for the first time on May 21.
    General Interest

    Lackawanna College responds to region's qualified manpower need

    June 2, 2014
    Lackawanna College, an accredited private nonprofit institution with a main campus in Scranton, Pa., and five other schools and centers across the state, "took a leap," in its...
    Production Operations

    Essential skills for successful project management

    June 2, 2014
    Successful project managers rely on a collection of essential skills.
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    New Plants

    Reference framework, top talent crucial to managing large projects

    June 2, 2014
    Large projects, increasingly complex and technologically demanding, confront oil and gas companies with an expanding barrage of challenges.
    Government

    Reform in Mexico

    June 2, 2014
    While implementing energy reform of historic importance, the Mexican Congress should learn from a Latin American oil producer further along in the process.
    Home

    This engineer walks into a bar…

    June 2, 2014
    The subject line of the message read "Engineering Personality."
    HSE

    The sky's not falling

    June 2, 2014
    The Obama administration has issued the newest "sky-is-falling" climate change report, suggesting that global warming and the "climate disruption" from unusual weather events ...
    Discoveries

    Pipelines or oil trains?

    June 2, 2014
    A group of University of Minnesota students were scheduled to join other students in boarding diesel-burning buses recently for Washington, DC.
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 2, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals