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Rowan to move two Gulf of Mexico rigs to Middle East

Rowan Cos. said two of its jack up rigs are expected to leave the Gulf of Mexico late this year for work in the Middle East under contract with Aramco.

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General Interest

Denbury-Encore Elk basin field deal stalls (Sep 3, 2010)

BP removes Deepwater Horizon BOP from Macondo (Sep 3, 2010)

MARKET WATCH: Oil prices push past $75/bbl mark (Sep 3, 2010)

BP starts removing Deepwater Horizon BOP (Sep 3, 2010)

Judge rules Salazar exceeded authority in canceling Utah leases (Sep 2, 2010)

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Exploration & Development

Petronas makes oil, gas discovery off Vietnam (Sep 2, 2010)

Devonian shows more gas in Brazil Parnaiba well (Sep 2, 2010)

Bulgaria (Sep 2, 2010)

Tullow to operate more East African blocks (Sep 2, 2010)

Colombia (Sep 2, 2010)

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Drilling & Production

Rowan to move two Gulf of Mexico rigs to Middle East (Sep 3, 2010)

BOE begins inquiry into Mariner offshore platform explosion (Sep 3, 2010)

BHP brings Ravensworth oil field on stream off W. Australia (Sep 3, 2010)

US drilling dips after 12 weeks of increases (Sep 3, 2010)

Fire extinguished on Mariner Energy platform in gulf (Sep 3, 2010)

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Processing

Russia, China resolve Tianjin refinery oil supply issue (Sep 2, 2010)

Petronas to buy BP's Malaysian ethylene, PE assets (Sep 1, 2010)

Joint venture to fund Bangladeshi refinery expansion (Aug 31, 2010)

Frontier Oil restarts Cheyenne crude unit (Aug 30, 2010)

Shell, Cosan eye Brazilian ethanol venture (Aug 26, 2010)

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Transportation

Contract let for Abu Dhabi pipelines (Sep 2, 2010)

Enterprise to build 350,000 b/d Eagle Ford oil pipeline (Sep 1, 2010)

Fos Cavaou LNG terminal operating at full capacity (Sep 1, 2010)

PNG LNG project venture signs design contract (Aug 31, 2010)

Iroquois launches opens season for bidirectional flow (Aug 31, 2010)

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OGJ Oil Diplomacy Blog

by Eric Watkins

Problems on problems in Uganda

Uganda’s nascent oil and gas industry is very much in the news these days as a tax dispute between the government and Heritage Oil Co. escalates to include Tullow Oil, as well as Total SA and CNOOC.At bottom, the dispute is over the amount of capital...

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Health, Safety & Environmental Blog

by Paula Dittrick

Crews to protect Macondo casing hanger during BOP swap

The casing hanger and annulus seal have taken center stage in BP PLC’s plan to replace the Transocean Ltd. Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible's blowout preventer with another blowout preventer.Engineers and scientists calculated 80,000 pounds of force can...

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Maintenance and Reliability in Oil and Gas

by Ricky Smith CMRP

Maintenance Supervisors? Are they key to success?

My belief is Maintenance Supervisors are the key to effective maintenance work execution and thus hold the key to optimizing equipment reliability.If you agree, how do we make this happen? How do you engage maintenance supervisors to motivate their...

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OGJ Washington Pulse Blog

by Nick Snow

Another explosion, and “lessons learned”

Can life get any more ironic than Mariner Energy Inc.’s Gulf of Mexico production platform exploding the same day BP PLC issued a report about lessons learned from the Apr. 20 Macondo well blowout, rig explosion, and crude oil spill? I don’t think so.The...

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