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  • Volume 113, Issue 10

    • Volume 113, Issue 10

    General Interest

    The option to wait

    Oct. 5, 2015
    While the oil and gas industry can trust currently cruel conditions of the oil market not to last forever, it must adapt to a fundamental change certain to reshape decision-making...
    Government

    States weigh in on ozone rule

    Oct. 5, 2015
    State air quality agencies apparently would appreciate better implementation direction from the US Environmental Protection Agency if it reduces allowable ground-level ozone limits...
    HSE

    Label obsession degrades coverage of climate change

    Oct. 5, 2015
    If the politics of climate change must begin and end with name-calling, a squabble about labels can seem serious.
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    LNG

    Steady regulations, buyer relationships key successful LNG export projects

    Oct. 5, 2015
    A clear regulatory foundation and close relationships with buyers are among the key aspects to successful development of an LNG liquefaction plant.
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    General Interest

    West Coast CBR-project legal risks require management

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Siting crude-by-rail (CBR) terminals in areas that already have high volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions is among the steps companies can take to reduce the risk of legal...

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 10

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    Exploration & Development

    Resistivity, magnetic data delineate volcanic tuff in Travis County, Tex.

    Oct. 5, 2015
    A combination of resistivity and magnetic data provided valuable information for delineating volcanic vents and dikes, further defining geological contacts of volcanic tuff and...
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    Exploration & Development

    Study shows evidence for untested large traps, San Joaquin basin, Calif.

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Recent exploration and renewed interest in the San Joaquin basin, and other California oil basins, has focused on unconventional shale plays, especially in the Monterey formation...
    Exploration & Development

    Near-surface focus of new SEG president has Arctic application

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Having moved from seismic exploration into other areas of geophysical research, the new president of the Society of Exploration Geophysics still helps to find oil.
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes strengthen for nonmetallic building materials

    Oct. 5, 2015
    The accompanying table shows changes in the Nelson-Farrar indexes over the 2012-14 period for selected, basically nonmetallic building materials.
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    Refining

    AFPM Q&A - 3 Discussion turns to fluid catalytic cracking

    Oct. 5, 2015
    This is the final of three articles that present selections from the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum.
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    Refining

    Low-cost modifications boost capacity, crude processing flexibility

    Oct. 5, 2015
    A project design that maximizes use of existing equipment in expanding a refinery's crude oil processing capacity, and limits equipment additions to only those necessary, improves...
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    Gas Processing

    Modeling ensures stability of Chinese CBM horizontal wells

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Successfully drilling horizontal coalbed methane wells depends on wellbore stability, which in turn depends on coal-seam thickness, seam depth, coal cohesion, overburden stress...
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    IOR/EOR

    New method predicts bottom-water breakthrough time

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Anhydrous production time increases with growing reservoir porosity. The relationship between porosity and the anhydrous time is linear.
    General Interest

    SPE ATCE: Panel draws industry roadmap to 2040

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Panelists at the opening general session of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technology Conference & Expo (ATCE) were asked to discuss how the oil and gas industry will...
    Government

    US House passes bill to streamline transportation project reviews

    Oct. 5, 2015
    The US House has passed, by a 233 to 170 vote, HR 348, which aims to streamline federal reviews of proposed oil and gas, highway, and other transportation projects.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Walker calls Alaska legislature into special session on gas issues

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) called the state legislature into special session starting Oct. 24 to discuss natural gas pipeline issues.
    Reserves

    Producing states receive guidance on managing induced earthquakes

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Officials from oil and natural gas producing states worked with scientists and industry advisors to compile a primer intended as a policy-guiding document to help states develop...
    General Interest

    SPE ATCE: Decision quality key to improving multicompany projects

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Highlights of a draft technical report on the importance of decision quality in multicompany upstream projects was presented to the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technology...
    Government

    EPA institutes fenceline monitoring in update of refining regulations

    Oct. 5, 2015
    The US Environmental Protection Agency required fenceline monitoring for the first time as it issued a final rule updating refinery emissions control requirements.
    Exploration & Development

    Near-surface focus of new SEG president has Arctic application

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Having moved from seismic exploration into other areas of geophysical research, the new president of the Society of Exploration Geophysics still helps to find oil.
    General Interest

    Forum: N. America should develop further as global energy leader

    Oct. 5, 2015
    North America has become a "global energy powerhouse" in the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented, and the continent now has a "tremendous...
    Companies

    Shell exits Arctic after 'disappointing exploration outcome'

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC encountered oil and gas shows in its Burger J exploration well in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, but the results weren't "sufficient to warrant further exploration...
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 5, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Home

    Educational drones

    Oct. 5, 2015
    Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) partnered with BP PLC and Trumbull Unmanned this past summer on a 3-day drone camp to help Houston-area middle-school and high-school...
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    Exploration & Development

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Oct. 5, 2015
    WeatherfordWeatherford International plc announced the addition of the sand-tolerant pump (STP) to the company's artificial-lift solutions offering. Aimed to optimize the life...
    Pipelines

    A North Dakota update

    Sept. 7, 2015
    When it comes to reporting what's going on in US oil and gas producing states, even the dimmest Washington, DC, reporter periodically remembers to start by speaking with people...
    Government

    Obama touts green energy as the UK slashes subsidies

    Sept. 7, 2015
    US President Barack Obama received more news coverage in the US for his speech promoting renewable fuels than the UK government did for a new step away from green-energy ambition...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Oil pipelines lead way in strong 2014

    Sept. 7, 2015
    US oil pipeline operators' net incomes increased more than 37% in 2014, reaching a new record of more than $9.5 billion on revenues of roughly $19.3 billion. Investment in oil...
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    Refining

    Nontraditional approach to refinery revamp cuts time, adds flexibility

    Sept. 7, 2015
    Delek Refining Inc., a subsidiary of Delek US Holdings Inc., Brentwood, Tenn., used a nontraditional project development and execution approach to expand crude oil processing ...
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    Petrochemicals

    Infrastructure issues slow first-half 2015 ethylene production

    Sept. 7, 2015
    In this era of tumult and constant change in the US petroleum sector, the mundane matters of infrastructure served as a reminder that a focus on gritty day-to-day details remains...
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    Refining

    AFPM Q&A-2 Discussion expands to include hydroprocessing

    Sept. 7, 2015
    This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum continues a discussion of safety and also...
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    Production Operations

    Biocides in fracing fluid mitigate formation damage

    Sept. 7, 2015
    Fresh water used in hydraulic fracturing contains microbes that can proliferate in storage tanks under the right conditions. These microbes degrade guar-based fracing fluids, ...
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    Drilling & Production

    UBD creates wellbore instability in horizontal wells

    Sept. 7, 2015
    Combining circumferential stresses with additional stresses produced by fluid seepage creates a new model which can be combined with the conventional model to fully describe in...
    Production Operations

    EIA lowers US oil output estimates amid prolonged oil-price slump

    Sept. 7, 2015
    US crude oil production in June totaled 9.3 million b/d, a decline of 100,000 b/d from the revised May figure, according to the US Energy Information Administration's Petroleum...