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    • Volume 118, Issue 9

    Sept. 7, 2020 | Due to lower commodity prices, the OGJ150 group of US-based oil and gas producers reported a sharp decline in earnings in 2019 from a year earlier. Their OGJ100 counterparts also generally posted weaker financial results for 2019, while Canadian firms, as a subgroup, reported improved earnings. This month’s Drilling Technology special focuses on time management and risk assessment of international drilling projects. Cover photo from Suncor Energy.

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    A federal judge misapplied environmental law, misread a court precedent, and invented his own impractical legal standards when he ordered more study of the Dakota Access Pipeline...
    Sept. 7, 2020
    Photo from San Mateo Midstream LLC.
    Matador Resources Co. and San Mateo Midstream LLC completed and commissioned an expansion of San Mateo’s Black River cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Eddy County, NM.
    Dallas-based Matador Resources Co. and San Mateo Midstream LLC—the company’s 51%-owned midstream joint venture with Houston private equity firm Five Point Energy LLC (49%)—have...
    Sept. 7, 2020
    With WTI climbing past $40/bbl, many North American exploration and production companies (E&Ps) have been able to continue business operations as the COVID-19 pandemic added severe...
    Sept. 7, 2020
    Photo from Fluor Corp.
    Kuwait National Petroleum Co.’s Mina Abdullah refinery in southern Kuwait.
    Fluor Corp.’s joint venture team FDH JV—which includes partners Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. and Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.—has completed final provisional turnover...
    Sept. 7, 2020
    Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC, a joint venture of JSC Uzbekneftegaz and Gazprom International SA subsidiary Gas Project Development Central Asia AG, has signed on as a major investor...
    Sept. 7, 2020
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    Addressing problems encountered in previous offset wells has helped improve drilling of new Colibasi field development wells onshore in southern Romania’s Dambovita county.
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    A comprehensive study of new phases for Statoil South Pars phase development optimized drilling times.
    Sept. 7, 2020
    In contrast to upstream, midstream, and refining companies, US Gulf Coast ethylene producers rolled along in first-half 2020, with industry wide operating rates of 85-90%.
    Sept. 7, 2020
    Photo from Petrobras.
    Stationed at Petrobras-operated Berbigão field in 2,280 m of water about 230 km off Rio de Janeiro state, the P-68 FPSO processes up to 150,000 b/d of oil and 6 million cu m of gas from 10 production wells and seven injector wells in Berbigão and Sururu fields.
    Total Oil Trading SA published an assay dated Apr. 28, 2020, for Sururu crude oil, produced from Berbigão and Sururu fields in the BM-S-11-A concession of the Iara license in ...
    Sept. 7, 2020
    TC Energy stored Keystone XL pipe at a variety of sites, including this stockpile at Piapot, Sask. (Fig. 1).
    With the exception of reducing some of its flexibility, whitewash-protected fusion-bond epoxy (FBE) coatings exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light in Canada for as long as 10 years...
    Sept. 7, 2020