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  • Volume 109, Issue 49

    • Volume 109, Issue 49

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    Production Operations

    Trends emerge on hydraulic fracturing litigation

    Dec. 5, 2011
    A review of lawsuits involving fracturing and general themes and theories of current cases can reveal trends that are emerging from this body of litigation, and one can make some...
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Dec. 5, 2011
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    Finding The Root Cause
    Gas Processing

    Gas plant improves C3 recovery with Lean Six Sigma approach

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Saudi Aramco's Khurais central processing plant has improved propane recovery from its gas train following performance analysis that relied on Lean Six Sigma tools.
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    Exploration & Development

    Seismic stimulation improves production from West Texas carbonate

    Dec. 5, 2011
    A project on a West Texas lease shows the effectiveness of seismic stimulation to arrest oil production rate decline of a nonwater-drive carbonate reservoir.

    More content from Volume 109, Issue 49

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    Companies

    LOUISIANA HAYNESVILLE SHALE—1: Characteristics, production potential of Haynesville shale wells described

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The contribution of the Haynesville shale to Louisiana's gas production has been phenomenal: After 3 years, almost 60% of the state's gas output is now sourced from the Haynesville...
    Discoveries

    Methane in Pennsylvania water wells unrelated to Marcellus shale fracturing

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Results from more than 1,700 water wells sampled and tested prior to proposed gas drilling in Susquehanna County, Pa., show methane to be ubiquitous in shallow groundwater, with...
    Exploration & Development

    Thick shale gas play emerging in Spain's Cantabrian basin

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Analysis of drilling and test data from 14 wells drilled since the 1950s has indicated the presence of a world class shale gas play in the Basque Country of northern Spain.
    Home

    Oil and gas firms so far elude flak over super failure

    Dec. 5, 2011
    So far, oil and gas companies have been strangely absent from Democratic Party explanations for why the congressional super committee failed.
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    New Plants

    Research nears deepwater intercontinental gas pipeline

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Research into the collapse and buckling of deepsea pipelines and the UOE method of line pipe production are moving the industry closer to being able to build and operate intercontinenta...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Independent recycle valves improve gas compressor turndown ratios

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Installing a recycle valve in parallel with the antisurge valve of a turbine-driven multistage (low pressure/high pressure) centrifugal compressor, in combination with control...
    Government

    Questioning EPA's facts

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The US Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges to facts it has offered to support a crackdown on air pollution from oil and gas wells.
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    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Foster Wheeler AG,Zug, Switzerland, named Michelle Davies as general counsel for the firm, effective as of Nov. 1. She had served as acting general counsel for the last 22 months...
    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 5, 2011
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Home

    Could 'Arab Spring' become nuclear winter?

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The "Arab Spring" that ousted four authoritarian leaders—including Ali Abdullah Saleh who in late November gave up the presidency of Yemen after 33 years in power—might evolve...
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    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Dec. 5, 2011
    New vacuum debris removal toolThe new Well Scavenger vacuum debris removal tool is designed to capture and remove debris from the wellbore during intervention activities.The tool...
    Government

    Poor timing?

    Dec. 5, 2011
    For editors at Oil & Gas Journal deadlines are many and frequent simply due to OGJ's weekly publishing schedule in addition to its daily online news coverage.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching the World: Biofuels' fuel hunger

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Biofuels, touted as one of the great competitors to the oil and gas industry, are coming under international criticism for adversely affecting world food supplies.
    HSE

    BSEE extends most gulf deepwater leases disrupted by moratorium

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) completed its review of 1,413 deepwater oil and gas lease extension requests in the Gulf of Mexico and extended 1,...
    New Plants

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Bakken oil producers turn to railroads, pipelines

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects are being built or are planned in North Dakota's Bakken formation to transport oil and associated gas to market.
    Drilling & Production

    PSAC forecasts stepped up drilling in Canada for 2012

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The Petroleum Services Association of Canada forecasts a total of 15,100 wells to be drilled across Canada in 2012, an increase of 10% over the expected final tally of 13,700 ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching Government: EIA cites Iran potential, obstacles

    Dec. 5, 2011
    International sanctions and an unfavorable investment climate continue to limit Iran's development of its considerable oil and gas resources, the US Energy Information Administration...
    Exploration & Development

    UK government probes report that fracing caused earthquakes

    Dec. 5, 2011
    The UK government said it will consider "carefully" a report commissioned by explorer Cuadrilla Resources that acknowledges recent earthquakes in the country were caused by hydraulic...
    Worldwide Look P1
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    Worldwide look at reserves and production

    Dec. 5, 2011
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    Companies

    Restore GWPC, Stronger's federal funding, shale gas panel urges

    Dec. 5, 2011
    US Congress should promptly restore federal funding for the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and the State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (Stronger...
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    Refining

    Global capacity growth reverses; Asian, Mideast refineries progress

    Dec. 5, 2011
    World crude oil distillation capacity has contracted slightly in 2011 after growing slowly in 2010 (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 50), according to the latest OGJ Refinery Survey.
    T1 Decade Of Reserves
    Reserves

    Worldwide oil production steady in 2011; reported reserves grow

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Oil and Gas Journal's annual look at reported worldwide oil reserves shows an increase to 1.52 trillion bbl from 1.47 trillion in last year's survey (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 46)...
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    Companies

    India starts testing shale-gas plays

    Dec. 5, 2011
    Although the first test of a shale-gas reservoir in India failed, plans for other tests continue.