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    Sept. 22, 2008
    A company plans to extract the remaining gas from the nearly depleted San Antonio well in the Philippines for use in fueling small vehicles.
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    As the number of electrical submersible pump installations has increased in the Middle East, operating companies have started deploying more surveillance and optimization technology...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Although the oil and gas industry’s buzz over the hot gas shale plays in North America has pushed fracturing technology advances to the forefront, other production stimulation...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    StatoilHydro has conducted an assay of the Saxi-Batuque blended crude, which is part of the Kizomba C development project on Block 15 off Angola.

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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Ipsos Mori, the global research company, loves asking questions, and with the economic downturn, job insecurity, rising inflation, and record-high energy prices, anyone who is...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Petronas Caragali (Turkmenistan) Sdn. Bhd. recently had a platform installed for producing the oil and gas discovery it made in 2002 off Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea.
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Venezuela was until recently the only source of a unique fuel option that bypassed the traditional yet capital intensive two-step conversion of bitumen-extra heavy crudes(B-EHC...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    An independent report showing that record amounts of speculative investment drove oil prices to record peaks in 2008 confirms that stronger market regulation is needed, federal...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    Did anyone really think Moscow would just sit still as Washington, DC, and its allies attempted to extract oil and gas from Russia’s backyard in the Caspian and Central Asia?
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    By yearend 2009, Iran plans to complete many delayed petrochemical projects currently under construction, according to FACTS Global Energy in a report entitled, “An Update on ...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    Within a few short weeks, the potential for congressional energy compromises, which looked so bright at the beginning of August, began to look increasingly tarnished.
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    General Interest — Quick TakesChavez shakes up PDVSA executive suiteIn a move that could have implications for Venezuelan oil production, President Hugo Chavez, continues to tweak...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    US House members passed an energy bill by 236 to 189 votes on Sept. 16 which Democrats called a true compromise and Republicans labeled a travesty.
    Sept. 22, 2008
    The US oil and gas industry reported early progress as it began to recover from damage caused by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall over Galveston, Tex., in the early hours of...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    Biofuels could make up 10-15% of the global fuels mix in 20 years, although getting to the level will be more difficult than some might expect, consultant Accenture said in a ...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    Santos Ltd. has rejected speculation suggested by a Sept. 15 report in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that said: “Santos is facing a blowout in the clean-up bill from the...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Nigerian subsidiary completed 4D seismic acquisition over deepwater Bonga oil and gas field off Nigeria in an effort to maximize ultimate recovery from...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Sulphco Inc.,ZeidmanClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed Fred S. Zeidman to its board. Zeidman has held leadership positions in a number of energy-related companies...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Sept. 10 to strictly comply with their September 2007 production quota of 28.8 million b/d, implying a possible compromise...
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    The sacrifices people have been called to make in response to global warming have become tangible in a new way.
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Adjustments to a pipeline’s cathodic-protection program can help address possible hydrogen diffusion brought about by nonconformance with welding procedure specifications (WPS...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    Respirator offers custom fit, user comfortPeakFit, a US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-approved N95 air-purifying respirator, is specifically engineered...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    AustraliaBeach Petroleum Ltd., Perth, commissioned the 47 km, 5,000 b/d Callawonga-Tantanna oil pipeline to serve its western Cooper basin fields in Australia.The pipeline connects...
    Sept. 22, 2008
    As financial crises rock two globally important, oil-dependent economies, a question looms for anyone with capital to expose to risk: Which is likelier to emerge from this turmoil...
    Sept. 22, 2008
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    The US and Canada will jointly map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the two countries may have sovereign rights over oil, gas, and other resources, the US Geological Survey...
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    Sept. 22, 2008
    A self-redirected Talisman Energy Inc. expressed encouragement earlier this month at results from its first well in Ordovician Utica shale in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.