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  • Volume 109, Issue 31

    • Volume 109, Issue 31

    Equations
    Tankers

    Water-injection testing improves terminal operations

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Research at Iran's Khark crude terminal shows the water-injection proving test to be the best evaluation method for determining the accuracy of crude and condensate sampling systems...
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    Tankers

    MULTIPRODUCT OPERATIONS—1: Discrete-event simulation guides pipeline logistics

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Vanina CafaroDiego C. CafaroCarlos A. MendezJaime Cerda INTEC (UNL-CONICET) Sante Fe, ArgentinaBased on presentation to IEEE's 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, Baltimore, Dec...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Study opens path to optimized MIC assays

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Mazen Al-SalehPeter SandersTawfiq Al-Ibrahim Saudi Aramco DhahranSusanne JuhlerKetil SorensenThomas Lundgaard Danish Technological Institute Aarhus, DenmarkBased on presentation...
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    Home

    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Aug. 1, 2011
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    Refining

    NPRA Q&A—2: Discussion expands to include coking, corrosion

    Aug. 1, 2011
    This second of three articles that presents selections from the 2010 National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 10-13, Baltimore) continues...

    More content from Volume 109, Issue 31

    T1 Nuclear Plants
    LNG

    LNG figures heavily in Japan's postdisaster energy demand

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The 9.0 magnitude Great East Japan Earthquake followed by tsunamis on Mar. 11, 2011, in Tohoku affected not only Japan's energy industries, including damage to basic infrastructure...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    DRILLING CONSORTIUM—2 (Conclusion): Drilling campaign obtains continuous improvement

    Aug. 1, 2011
    A 3-year exploration drilling campaign run by a well management company for five operating companies saw continuous improvement in operations off Norway.
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    Discoveries

    Iraq's Ahdab oil field development limits contractor profitability

    Aug. 1, 2011
    An economic analysis for the development of Ahdab field in Iraq under a technical service contract shows that the economic return to the contractor is modest in comparison with...
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    Exploration & Development

    Louisiana, Mississippi marine shale oil play grows

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Several operators have amassed large land positions in Louisiana and are preparing to target oil in the Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale (TMS), stratigraphic equivalent of the...
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    Companies

    Canada sees 78 tcf marketable in Horn River basin

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The ultimate potential for marketable unconventional shale gas in the Horn River basin of Northeast British Columbia is 78 tcf, said a report by Canada's National Energy Board...
    Exploration & Development

    BP mulls $15 billion investment in Omani tight gas fields

    Aug. 1, 2011
    BP PLC is considering an investment of $15 billion over a 10-year period for full-field development of two low-permeability gas fields in Oman Block 61 in the Ghaba salt basin...
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    Companies

    Reflectance standard adopted for dispersed vitrinite in sediment

    Aug. 1, 2011
    A new American Society for Testing & Materials standard test method for measurement of the reflectance of vitrinite dispersed in sedimentary rocks has been developed by an international...
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    Gas Processing

    Have the stars aligned for higher oil prices?

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The market for West Texas Intermediate crude has been flirting with $100/bbl since February and the futures market is at $109 for June and July deliveries.
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    Production Operations

    Industry lobby group sees declining government revenue in UK tax hike

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The UK oil and gas industry supports hundreds of thousands of jobs across the UK, invests more than any other sector of British industry, and supplies the majority of the nation...
    Exploration & Development

    BP gains blocks off Trinidad and Tobago

    Aug. 1, 2011
    BP PLC unit BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) reported it was awarded two deepwater exploration and production blocks by the Trinidad and Tobago government.
    New Plants

    Watching The World: Iran's oil minister nominee

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Aug. 3 will be an eventful day for Iran's oil and gas industry, with the country's parliament scheduled to debate on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest nominee for the position...
    Government

    Watching Government: Keeping counties in the loop

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Yellowstone County Commissioner Bill Kennedy may not have been the most alert person at a US Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing on July 20, since he had ...
    IOR/EOR

    State utility regulators call for more CCS-EOR projects

    Aug. 1, 2011
    US state utility regulators called on more states and groups of states to develop financial and other policies encourage the capture of carbon dioxide from electric power plants...
    Government

    US House passes bill to expedite Keystone XL permit decision

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The US House approved a bill setting a Nov. 1 deadline for the Obama administration to decide on TransCanada Corp.'s application for a cross-border permit for its proposed Keystone...
    Companies

    Baker Institute: US shale gas might weaken Russia, Iran

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Rising US natural gas production from shale formations has weakened Russia's hold on its European customers, and this trend will accelerate in coming decades, concluded researchers...
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    Companies

    FOCUS: UNCONVENTIONAL OIL & GAS: Industry upbeat Marcellus shale holds great economic potential

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Oil and natural gas executives along with various economists laud the resource and the economic potential of the Marcellus shale play, and a recent Pennsylvania State University...
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    Production Operations

    Hydraulic fracturing: protecting against legal and regulatory risk

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Newspaper articles and television reports make hydraulic fracturing appear to be a new technology that pollutes drinking water, causes flames to leap from kitchen faucets, and...
    Drilling & Production

    Canada's subsidy smear

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Misrepresentation of tax mechanisms unique to the oil and gas industry occurs not just in the US. Politicians in Canada, too, have deployed the "subsidy" smear—and elicited an...
    General Interest

    Online energy conversation

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Online communication offers a benefit that ranks below the more-obvious delights, such as connectivity and speed, but that is important nevertheless.
    Home

    Surplus capacity doubted

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Six months on, after the turbulent events in the Middle East-North Africa region and the International Energy Agency's futile and self-damaging gesture with the drawdown of strategic...
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    Exploration & Development

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 1, 2011
    International news for oil and gas professionals
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Latin America is growth market for US refiners

    Aug. 1, 2011
    Latin American refinery expansions planned this decade will not be enough to stem the region's growing dependence on imported US fuels, said analysts at Deutsche Bank AG (DB)....
    Production Operations

    US oil production gains change the energy landscape

    Aug. 1, 2011
    The Independent Petroleum Association of America has called attention to a stealthy trend changing the energy landscape: US production of crude oil and gas liquids is increasing...
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    Aug. 1, 2011
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    General Interest

    SERVICES | SUPPLIERS

    Aug. 1, 2011
    GE Oil & Gas,SantiagoFlorence, Italy, has named Dan Heintzelman CEO, succeeding Claudi Santiago, who is retiring. Heintzelman previously served as CEO of GE Energy Services.GE...
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    Drilling Operations

    EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE

    Aug. 1, 2011
    New lube, sealants brochureA new brochure describes how Molykote brand specialty lubricants and Dow Corning brand severe-duty sealants help with oil field operations.The brochure...