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    General Interest — Quick TakesCGES: World needs more OPEC crudeThe world needs more crude oil priced at a level that makes it economic to refine, said analysts at the Centre for...
    July 28, 2008
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    Contrary to previously published reports, Chad’s take (share of profits) from oil development is average by world standard.
    July 28, 2008
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    Ethylene producers added a net 2 million tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity in 2007, according to the latest ethylene survey.
    July 28, 2008
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    BP is using a highly automated workflow to evaluate the PUT River formation, an early Cretaceous sandstone reservoir on Alaska’s North Slope.
    July 28, 2008
    Click here to download a .pdf of the International Survey of ethylene from steam cracker—2008
    July 28, 2008
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    Driven by public outcry over $4/gal gasoline, the US energy policy debate is beginning to shift toward discussions for a return of punitive, self-defeating measures directed at...
    July 28, 2008
    Do any other oil and gas analysts feel that the 1950s are approaching again? I don’t mean gasoline priced at 25 ¢/gal, either.
    July 28, 2008
    Democrats and Republicans traded charges of obstructing debate as the US Senate began on July 22 to discuss Majority Leader Harry M. Reid’s (D-Nev.) bill to reform energy commodity...
    July 28, 2008
    The US Bureau of Land Management on July 22 published proposed regulations to establish a commercial oil shale development program, which it said could add as much as 800 billion...
    July 28, 2008
    Fundamental supply and demand forces provide the best explanation for recent crude oil price increases, concluded a staff report for the Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets...
    July 28, 2008
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    A unique coiled-tubing method can serve as a model for several offshore pipeline repairs the US Mines and Minerals Service has mandated occur by 2010.
    July 28, 2008
    Production of Canadian oil sands bitumen will continue to rise in the coming decades but not without advances in processing technologies and the adoption by producers of varied...
    July 28, 2008
    In a week that began with US President George W. Bush’s rescinding the presidential Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing withdrawal and ended with the US House defeating...
    July 28, 2008
    The US House of Representatives rejected the Democratic leadership’s latest energy bill in a 244-173 vote on July 17 when HR 6515–which came to the floor under a rules suspension...
    July 28, 2008
    The burgeoning development of Alberta’s vast oil sands resources and its effect on the province’s land, water, and air is being closely and carefully monitored by government officials...
    July 28, 2008
    Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina, already a candidate for government scrutiny over corruption in the upstream sector, is facing charges by legislators of “irregularities” ...
    July 28, 2008
    Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, has come out swinging against “elitist” environmentalists, politicians, and the nonprofit foundations that fund them for...
    July 28, 2008
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    SulphCo Inc.,SchattenmannClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed Dr. Florian J. Schattenmann chief technology officer effective Aug. 1. He will have management responsibility...
    July 28, 2008
    For months now, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and many western analysts have blamed the weak US dollar as a primary cause of the escalation of oil...
    July 28, 2008
    Production of bitumen and heavy oil in Alberta faces a constraint unrelated to problems receiving the most attention.
    July 28, 2008