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    General Interest - Quick TakesVenezuela officials take issue with OPEC figuresVenezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez as well as other country officials have taken issue with the...
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    Economic growth, fuel prices, and policy choices will determine the rate of growth of US gasoline and diesel markets during the next decade.
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    A new ultrasonic leak-detection logging tool conveyed on wireline, and recently on slick line in memory mode, can detect leaks as small as 0.0024 gpm.
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    In July, BP America Inc. began installing two subsea pump stations to boost production from three wells in King field, Gulf of Mexico.
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who Sept. 20 met with US Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice, has encouraged international investment in his country’s oil and gas...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Governments subsidizing biofuels could support a fuel that is more expensive and more environmentally harmful than its corresponding petroleum product, a group in the Organization...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    High storage levels, steady drilling rates, and expected warmer-than-normal winter temperatures suggest there will be minimal upward pressure on natural gas prices during the ...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to visit Moscow next month to meet with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zukhov and sign an intergovernmental agreement for the construction...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Proposals for increased taxation of oil and gas production in Alberta have come under specific criticism from the producing industry.
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Russia’s Surgutneftegaz, entering discussions over the feasibility of the planned East Siberia Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, said it can ensure production of 3 million tonnes...
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    Optical flowmeter provides accurate dataHere’s the Focus probe, an optical flowmeter that provides accurate data independently of gas composition or contamination of the sensing...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed revisions to financial forms, statements, and reports it requires interstate natural gas pipelines to submit.
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    With biofuels likely to become a global industry by 2012, companies that emerge as leaders will have to be nimble and develop flexible strategies to negotiate inherent market ...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    A US Department of Interior internal investigation found that four auditors in the Minerals Management Service’s Minerals Revenue Management division did not follow departmental...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Government interference in any business is rarely a good thing, especially when it is the oil and gas business.
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Need a surefire way to liven up boring party banter? Just introduce the phrase “Big Oil” into a dying conversation with practically anybody, and spirited discussion will closely...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, and Russia will cut crude exports to the US by 2012, and the resulting gap between supplies and demand will intensify investments...
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Security of demand, the rising concern of oil producers, links inevitably with security of supply, a worry of consumers.
    Oct. 8, 2007
    Timing makes the latest congressionally inspired investigation of the US oil industry look-to put it politely-seriously uninformed.
    Oct. 8, 2007
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    Our strategy is to automate BP’s business processes so that the organization can achieve its goals faster, smarter, and more efficiently than the competition.
    Oct. 8, 2007