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MARKET WATCH: Crude price climbs above $90/bbl

Oct 8, 2008 Talk of production cuts among OPEC ministers boosted oil prices back above $90/bbl on the New York market, ending a 13% price fall over the previous four sessions.

Dana, Crescent kick off Kurdish natural gas production

Oct 6, 2008 Dana Gas and equal partner Crescent Petroleum have started natural gas production in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region after commissioning the first stage of a $650 million project.

Equipment/Software/Literature

Oct 6, 2008

Japanese firms boost Vietnamese oil industry

Oct 6, 2008 Japanese firms are stepping up their involvement in Vietnam’s oil industry, entering both upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing.

Services/Suppliers

Oct 6, 2008

OGJ Newsletter

Oct 6, 2008

Special Report: Saudi Aramco outlines FCC catalyst evaluation method

Oct 6, 2008 This article presents how Saudi Aramco evaluates the performance of selected fluid catalytic cracking catalysts and compares this performance with vendor projections in terms of gasoline yield, research octane number, and gasoline sulfur content.

ExxonMobil expands capacity at Singapore facility

Oct 2, 2008 ExxonMobil Chemical has completed a 130,000 tonne/year (tpy) capacity expansion at its Exxsol hydrocarbon fluids plant in Jurong Island, Singapore, increasing capacity at the site to more than 500,000 tpy.

MARKET WATCH: Prices rebound on hopes for economic rescue

Oct 1, 2008 Buoyed by hopes the US Senate might revive the economy rescue plan torpedoed by the House of Representatives, energy prices rebounded Sept. 30, with crude again climbing above $100/bbl to recover some of the previous session's near record 1-day fall.

UOP to upgrade Abu Dhabi refinery

Sep 30, 2008 Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer) selected UOP LLC, a Honeywell International company based in Des Plaines, Ill., to supply technology and engineering services for upgrading its 120,000 b/d Ruwais refinery 240 km west of Abu Dhabi City in the UAE.

Synthesis licenses ExxonMobil's technology

Sep 30, 2008 Synthesis Energy Systems (SES), Houston, signed a technology licensing agreement with ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. (EMRE) that provides SES the option to execute up to 15 methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) licenses.

Japanese firms boost Vietnamese oil industry

Sep 29, 2008 Japanese firms are stepping up their involvement in Vietnam's oil industry, entering both upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing.

MARKET WATCH: Energy prices retreat as dollar strengthens, demand weakens

Sep 24, 2008 As the US dollar strengthened and gasoline futures weakened, energy prices retreated Sept. 23, giving back some of the gains from the previous trading session.

Dung Quat refinery on track for 2009

Sep 23, 2008 Petrovietnam next month plans to import 52,500 tonnes of diesel to test-run the 140,000 b/d Dung Quat refinery, the country's first, due to come on stream in February 2009.

GeoPark tests two Fell Block wells in Chile

Sep 22, 2008 GeoPark Holdings said it has successfully tested and placed on production the Estancia Zunilda 1 well and the Santiago Norte 5 well on the Fell Block in Chile.
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