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  • Volume 108, Issue 17

    • Volume 108, Issue 17

    Exploration & Development

    Watching The World: Thumbs up, Colombia

    May 10, 2010
    International oil and gas companies are drawing a bead on Colombia, seeing a sign of change in the country that says: Open for Business. It's a sign that's long overdue.
    HSE

    Inquiries into gulf well blowout, oil spill take shape

    May 10, 2010
    Congressional responses to the gulf drilling rig accident and subsequent crude oil spill took sharper focus last week as a US Senate committee prepared to consider broader policy...
    Exploration & Development

    Canning basin West Kora field due revival attempt

    May 10, 2010
    Buru Energy Ltd., Perth, plans to restore oil production from the West Kora-1 well in the onshore Canning basin of northwest Western Australia following the grant of a production...
    Exploration & Development

    Shale gas permits awarded in southern France

    May 10, 2010
    French energy authorities have officially awarded shale gas exploration permits after some delay due to the number of companies that competed for licenses in the southeastern ...
    Discoveries

    Uinta area between Altamont, Monument Butte bearing fruit

    May 10, 2010
    Operators are establishing oil and gas production in the large, less-explored area between Utah's giant Altamont-Bluebell and Monument Butte fields.

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    May 10, 2010
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    Government

    Hate derivatives? How can you like cap-and-trade?

    May 10, 2010
    Political gyrations over financial and energy reform camouflage a wicked hypocrisy.
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    May 10, 2010
    Ticonderoga Securities,New York, has expanded into the oil and gas sector with the appointments of three top analysts formerly of IHS Herold: Anthony Montano III, Daniel Pratt...
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    New Plants

    Method addresses effective CP for aboveground storage tanks

    May 10, 2010
    A Ti-MMO anode grid system placed between an aboveground storage tank's bottom surfaces and the secondary liner with properly distributed power-feed connections can protect the...
    Economics & Markets

    Tight pockets, surplus pools

    May 10, 2010
    The US oil market has become "a combination of pockets of tightness and pockets of surplus, with a series of contrasting regional and product quality distortions to boot," said...
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 10, 2010
    New submarine robot designed for offshore fieldsBourbon Subsea Services, Paris, and Schilling Robotics LLC, Davis, Calif., have developed a new generation of remotely operated...
    Pennwell web 600 150
    Drilling Operations

    OGJ FOCUS: Experiments illuminate reasons for casing wear

    May 10, 2010
    A large number of simulation tests helped determine the causes of casing wear problems in Tarim oil field.
    Drilling & Production

    OTC: Saudi Aramco emphasizing exploration, natural gas

    May 10, 2010
    Saudi Aramco is shifting its upstream emphasis to exploration and natural gas development after adding 2 million b/d to oil production capacity during 2004-09, according to Zuhair...
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    Training wellsite geologists

    May 10, 2010
    Attracting younger people to the oil and gas industry has become a primary focus of large and small companies, operators and service companies, and US and international firms....
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 10, 2010
    General Interest — Quick TakesIndustry forms forces to address offshore issuesThe US oil and gas industry formed two task forces to address short-term and long-term issues involving...
    HSE

    Editorial: Image and reality

    May 10, 2010
    In the ecological calamity threatening the US Gulf Coast, image and reality, inevitably, diverge. The reality is unimaginably bad.
    General Interest

    Senators briefed on BP role in gulf spill containment

    May 10, 2010
    BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward met with several US senators on May 4 to discuss the company's efforts to contain crude oil leaking from one of its Gulf of Mexico wells...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: House bulldogs sharpen teeth

    May 10, 2010
    Two of the US House's most tenacious members are leading investigations into the Apr. 20 explosion and fire at the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible rig and subsequent oil spill...
    Drilling & Production

    OTC speakers highlight offshore industry's future

    May 10, 2010
    This report was reported and written by Bob Tippee, editor; Steven Poruban, senior editor; and Paula Dittrick, senior staff writer.
    Companies

    OTC: Shell touts offshore technologies, innovations

    May 10, 2010
    Recovering the remaining more-difficult-to-develop hydrocarbon resources will require new technologies and innovations, Matthias Bichsel, member of the executive committee of ...
    Drilling Operations

    OTC Spotlight on Technology recognizes 13 innovations

    May 10, 2010
    The 2010 Offshore Technology Conference recognized 13 innovative technologies in its Spotlight on New Technology.
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    Government

    BP, Transocean drilling relief well to kill gulf blowout

    May 10, 2010
    BP PLC started drilling a relief well as one of several options the company is pursuing to kill a deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and stop a widening crude oil leak that...