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  • Volume 112, Issue 7

    • Volume 112, Issue 7

    Government

    Inside BLM's RMP revamp

    July 7, 2014
    The US Bureau of Land Management announced on May 5 that it was beginning to review how it develops its resource management plans (RMPs).
    Companies

    Gore shares stage with opponent of Aussie carbon tax

    July 7, 2014
    When governments meddle in energy markets, strange things happen—such as an appearance by Al Gore with a coal magnate at a press conference announcing opposition to carbon taxation...
    Tankers

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    July 7, 2014
    Cortez SubseaRapidly growing subsea services and technology products company Cortez Subsea has been granted a UK patent for its Modular Pipelay System, making new shallow water...
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    Unconventional Resources

    Correcting rated pump performance improves heavy oil pipeline efficiency

    July 7, 2014
    Correcting rated pump performance to working conditions in the field will increase efficiency, particularly when the pipeline is transporting heavy oil.
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for finished steels register sizable shifts during 2010-13

    July 7, 2014
    Nelson-Farrar indexes for finished steels changed drastically during the period 2010-2013. Generally speaking, the alloy steels changed less than carbon steel products.

    More content from Volume 112, Issue 7

    Petrochemicals

    International survey of ethylene from steam crackers — 2014

    July 7, 2014
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    Petrochemicals

    Rising demand, low-cost feed spur ethylene capacity growth

    July 7, 2014
    Global ethylene production capacity in 2013 rose at faster rates compared with 2012 and 2011 but still more slowly than record-setting capacity expansions achieved during 2010...
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    Drilling Operations

    Saudi tight gas plays benefit from MSF

    July 7, 2014
    In 2007, Saudi Aramco installed the first openhole, multistage fracturing (MSF) completion systems in Saudi Arabia's deep, highly deviated gas wells.
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    Production Operations

    Gulf cleanup continues after five major hurricanes

    July 7, 2014
    From 2004-08, five major hurricanes–Ivan, Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike—destroyed 181 structures and 1,673 wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Exploration & Development

    Shear-wave data enhance reservoir characterization

    July 7, 2014
    A new approach to shear-wave data acquisition should lead to expanded use of shear waves in prospect evaluation and reservoir characterization.
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    Discoveries

    Grosmont carbonate formation increases Alberta's bitumen reserves

    July 7, 2014
    Improved recovery factors for Alberta's bitumen sands are elevating the province's reserves estimate to compete with some of the largest in the world.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    ADB: TAPI gas pipeline making steady progress

    July 7, 2014
    A proposed 1,800-km pipeline that would transport as much as 33 billion cu m/year of natural gas from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India is making steady progress...
    Production Operations

    EIA: US oil production in 2015 expected to be highest since 1972

    July 7, 2014
    Total US crude oil production in 2015 will reach its highest level since 1972, the US Energy Information Administration forecasts in its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) released...
    Petrochemicals

    Dow advances Oyster Creek complex expansion, upgrade

    July 7, 2014
    Dow Chemical Co. will begin construction on the previously announced ethylene production expansion and upgrade project at its Oyster Creek complex in Freeport, Tex., on June 30...
    New Plants

    ExxonMobil begins US Gulf Coast ethylene expansion project

    July 7, 2014
    ExxonMobil Corp. has started construction on a multibillion dollar expansion at its Baytown, Tex., refining and petrochemical complex just east of Houston.
    Companies

    Linn to purchase acreage from Devon for $2.3 billion

    July 7, 2014
    Linn Energy LLC, Houston, has agreed to acquire assets in five US operating areas from Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, for $2.3 billion, effective Apr. 1.
    New Plants

    Canadian government approves Northern Gateway pipeline

    July 7, 2014
    Canada's federal government approved Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway crude oil pipeline project as long as it meets 209 conditions a joint review panel imposed in December...
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    Production Operations

    BP: US tops China in oil consumption growth for first time since 1999

    July 7, 2014
    At 400,000 b/d, the US recorded the largest increment to global oil consumption in 2013, outpacing Chinese growth, 390,000 b/d, for the first time since 1999, according to BP'...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    AFPM's Drevna says more clarity needed on future condensate exports

    July 7, 2014
    The oil and gas industry awaits greater clarification from the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which recently issued private rulings for two...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Global oil market well supplied despite disruptions to producers

    July 7, 2014
    Despite disruptions in important producing countries, the oil market in the second half of 2014 remains well supplied.
    Production Operations

    Localizing regulation

    July 7, 2014
    The New York Supreme Court has upheld the use by municipalities of zoning laws to block hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells.
    Home

    Energy and the World Cup

    July 7, 2014
    Months before the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament began on June 12, the US coach ignited a controversy with overtones for energy policy.
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    New Plants

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 7, 2014
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    HSE

    CO2 is not carbon

    July 7, 2014
    In a speech on July 17, 2008, former US Vice-President Al Gore challenged the nation "to commit to producing 100% of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon...