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    According to annual reports from 42 international oil and natural gas companies that have reported data on upstream expenditures since 2000, total upstream spending by these companies...
    May 5, 2014
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    Oil & Gas Journal's semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows an increase in refining construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update.
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    More oil and gas wells are drilled onshore than offshore, requiring more man hours and creating more exposure to risk. As a result, onshore drilling consistently has higher lost...
    May 5, 2014
    Australia T1
    Australia will be a key player in the global trade in natural gas for several decades, at least. This influence is based on projects already operating or under construction and...
    May 5, 2014
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    This final installment of our four-part series examining end-of-life production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) applies three forecast models to infer expected short, medium...
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    Operating natural gas processing plants under fluctuating commodity pricing, inlet conditions, and equipment performance capabilities is difficult. Under such conditions, processors...
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    Development of large natural sources of CO2 in Colorado (McElmo Dome/Doe Canyon) and New Mexico (Bravo Dome) plus construction of high-volume CO2 pipelines enabled CO2 enhanced...
    May 5, 2014
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    In February 2014, ExxonMobil Corp. issued an updated assay for diluted bitumen from the Kearl oil sands project in Canada's northern Athabasca region, about 47 miles northeast...
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    Well productivity is reduced by formation damage caused by drilling fluids, especially in horizontal wells.
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    With the price of crude oil elevated in the first half of the 2000s by failure of world oil supply to keep pace with growing world oil demand—as was argued in the first article...
    May 5, 2014
    Economic wounds self-inflicted in service to energy fashion have helped push Canada toward uncharacteristic instability.
    May 5, 2014
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    International news for oil and gas professionals
    May 5, 2014
    The US natural gas industry received a preview of a new regulatory push on Apr. 15 when the Environmental Protection Agency published white papers on emissions of methane and ...
    May 5, 2014
    US petroleum product exports in 2013 averaged 3.5 million b/d, up 10% from levels in 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration. In December 2013, US exports ...
    May 5, 2014
    Marathon Petroleum Corp. is taking the next step toward construction of a proposed $2.2-2.5 billion upgrade to its 522,000-b/d Garyville, La., refinery.
    May 5, 2014
    Rising production of natural gas in the Marcellus shale play in the Appalachian basin continues to outpace the growth in the region's pipeline takeaway capacity, which has led...
    May 5, 2014
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC hopes to operate the world's first successful commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project by the end of the decade.
    May 5, 2014
    By its nature, work on thwarting cyber-attacks against oil and gas companies and their assets is an incremental process.
    May 5, 2014
    Dire warming reportsNew dire warming reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tell of collapsing Arctic ice, new storms and heat waves, rapid sea level rise,...
    May 5, 2014
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    Antelope Oil ToolAntelope Oil Tool & Manufacturing Co., LLC has acquired CTE Industries LTD. Headquartered in Edmonton, AB, CTE was founded in 2006, and is an independent manufacturer...
    May 5, 2014
    Mexicos Subsurface T1
    Sweeping changes to Mexico's hydrocarbon laws will open the country for private operators to invest in oil and gas exploration and production and to book reserves secured by a...
    May 5, 2014