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  • Volume 113, Issue 4

    • Volume 113, Issue 4

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    DNV, others researching concrete-coating improvements for subsea pipelines

    April 6, 2015
    With submarine pipelines increasing in diameter and extending into deeper waters and more difficult environments, design requirements for concrete weight coating often don't meet...
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    General Interest

    Texas pipelines to have $374-billion economic impact through 2024

    April 6, 2015
    Between the current year and 2024 the Texas pipeline industry will generate cumulative economic impacts (in today's dollars) of around $374 billion in economic output, $212 billion...
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    Refining

    Low-cost retrofit cuts feedstock costs, emissions at Chinese complex

    April 6, 2015
    In August 2010, Liaoning Huajin Tongda Chemicals Co. Ltd. (Huajin), a subsidiary of China North Industries Group Corp. (Norinco), completed a process retrofit at its Panjin integrated...
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    Production Operations

    Hydrocyclone study enables GOSP debottlenecking

    April 6, 2015
    This article describes Saudi Aramco's efforts in confirming the adaptability of hydrocyclone technologies in debottlenecking a gas-oil separation plant (GOSP).
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    General Interest

    GOM Revenue Sharing-2: GOMESA Phase II revenues impacted by several factors

    April 6, 2015
    The first phase of the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) regulated revenue sharing in the gulf's 181 Area and 181 South Area.

    More content from Volume 113, Issue 4

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    Production Operations

    Novel completions increase horizontal well production

    April 6, 2015
    Two novel completion techniques that solve the problems of acid fracturing in complex carbonate horizontal wells have been successfully implemented in China. Using them has enhanced...
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    Exploration & Development

    New assessment for Central Nigeria's Bida basin highlights geological prospects

    April 6, 2015
    The Bida basin is the least studied of all Nigeria's inland frontier basins. To date, no exploratory wells have penetrated its sequences, and subsurface data are limited.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    East Mediterranean Development-1: Levant basin presents narrowing resource opportunities

    April 6, 2015
    Discovery of the Levant basin province in the easternmost Mediterranean has provided an opportunity to modifify traditional political structures in the region.
    General Interest

    Rice study: Ending crude exports ban would help US security

    April 6, 2015
    Lifting the 40-year-old US crude oil export ban would benefit pricing, energy security, and petroleum investment, according to a new study issued by the Center for Energy Studies...
    General Interest

    WoodMac: US record crude stocks set to decline

    April 6, 2015
    US crude oil stocks have grown more than 30 million bbl each month so far this year, leading to a series of record highs and most recently reaching an estimated 471 million bbl...
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    General Interest

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 6, 2015
    International news for oil and gas professionals
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    New Plants

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for selected equipment items

    April 6, 2015
    Costs for six selected equipment items used in refining construction operations have been surveyed for the 2012-14 period. The accompanying table shows Nelson-Farrar equipment...
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    General Interest

    One more outlook to the pile

    April 6, 2015
    Reporting news to the oil and gas industry about the oil and gas industry is a serious business. It has to be. Seriousness is a tone that readers of Oil & Gas Journal have come...
    General Interest

    Analysts: Oil industry dealing with downturn better than years' past

    April 6, 2015
    Investment bankers and analysts entrenched in the oil and gas industry say companies have so far staved off the major negative impacts of the current industry downturn better ...
    HSE

    SPE/ICoTA: Oil field services market to contract, rebound quickly

    April 6, 2015
    In a keynote speech to attendees of the 2015 Coiled Tubing & Well Intervention Conference & Exhibition, Richard B. Spears, an oil field services market researcher, says the worst...
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    Companies

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    April 6, 2015
    Wood GroupWood Group has appointed Michele McNichol to the position of chief executive officer (CEO) for Wood Group Mustang (WG Mustang), effective immediately. Michele succeeds...
    Government

    Climate delete key

    April 6, 2015
    Congress deserves support from the oil and gas industry for resisting President Barack Obama's commitment to the United Nations on emissions of greenhouse-gases (GHGs).
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    General Interest

    Companies slash capital budgets as oil price drop cuts cash flows

    April 6, 2015
    Oil and gas companies, whose basic commodity has lost more than half its value in half a year, have slashed budgets in an effort to pull spending back within sharply diminished...
    General Interest

    E&P companies tapping equity markets

    April 6, 2015
    North American exploration and production companies tapped equity markets deeply in this year's first quarter to address financial problems created by the plunge in crude oil ...
    General Interest

    Analyst: Cost key variable in crude-price scenarios

    April 6, 2015
    With Saudi Arabia reluctant to cut production, crude oil prices over the next decade depend greatly on producers' costs, says a veteran observer of oil markets and the Middle ...