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  • Volume 121, Issue 10

    • Volume 121, Issue 10

    Oct. 2, 2023 | Ace Energy Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. earlier this year used horizontal directional drilling to install a 3,600-m, 24-in. OD pipeline segment across the Subansiri River in Assam, India. Read about the drivers behind the current cost of land-pipeline installation in the US as part of OGJ’s annual Pipeline Economics special report, starting on p. 31 of this issue. Photo from Ace Energy Infrastructure.
    General Interest

    Newsletter

    Oct. 2, 2023
    A roundup of General Interest, Exploration & Development, Drilling & Production, Processing, and Transportation news from around the industry.
    General Interest

    Journally Speaking: The Energy University

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The University of Houston has begun positioning itself as The Energy University. As the leading public university in the oil and gas capital of the world, doing so makes good ...
    General Interest

    Editorial: Stepping on the local

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The Biden administration on Sept. 6, 2023, announced steps to block drilling on more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) and protect the ...
    General Interest

    Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale delayed

    Oct. 2, 2023
    A federal appeals court has delayed the deadline for a pending Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale to Nov. 8. Lease Sale 261 was scheduled for Sept. 27, but the Biden administration...
    General Interest

    IEA: Saudi-Russian alliance proving formidable challenge for oil markets

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The Saudi-Russian alliance is proving a formidable challenge for oil markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its September issue Oil Market Report (OMR).

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    General Interest

    Corps of Engineers lists options for fate of Dakota Access Pipeline

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The US Army Corps of Engineers, under a federal court order to reconsider its approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline’s Missouri River crossing, has issued a list of options including...
    General Interest

    ExxonMobil completes chemical expansion at Baytown complex

    Oct. 2, 2023
    ExxonMobil has commissioned two new chemical production units at its 584,000-b/d integrated refining and petrochemical complex along the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Tex.,...
    General Interest

    Santos, Kumul enter restructured deal for PNG LNG interest

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Santos Ltd. has agreed to sell to Kumul Petroleum Holdings Ltd. a 2.6% participating interest in PNG LNG for $576 million, plus $160 million share of project debt.
    General Interest

    Vital Energy adds Permian asin scale with deal trio worth $1.165 billion

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Vital Energy Inc., Tulsa, Okla., agreed to three deals with private companies worth about $1.1653 billion to scale up its Permian basin portfolio.
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    Refining & Processing

    Refining capacity, catalyst market begin gradual recoveries in 2023

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Anticipated growth in post-pandemic global crude distillation capacity through 2027 is poised to strengthen demand for high-performance catalysts to accommodate capacity growth...
    General Interest

    Interior cancels ANWR leases, shrinks acreage on Alaska North Slope for leasing

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The Biden administration announced Sept. 6 it is canceling oil and gas leases on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and is proposing a rule to sharply reduce...
    Pipeline Economics Report
    Pipelines

    Land pipeline construction costs hit record $10.7 million/mile

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Sharply higher miscellaneous costs overwhelmed lower material costs to increase the price of building land pipelines by more than $2 million/mile. Both labor and right-of-way ...
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    Drilling & Production

    Permian SWD’s seismic effects remain only partially understood

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Seismic events in the Permian basin have prompted the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) to restrict deep salt-water disposal (SWD) and instead direct injection towards shallow...
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    Drilling & Production

    Machine-learning models predict produced water properties

    Oct. 2, 2023
    Produced water composition reveals subsurface structures and provides a basis for scaling tendency prediction.