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  • Volume 107, Issue 15

    • Volume 107, Issue 15

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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 20, 2009
    General Interest — Quick TakesIEA slashes worldwide oil demand forecastThe International Energy Agency in its April oil market report revised down by 1 million b/d its outlook...
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    Production Operations

    Downhole cable heats high viscosity, high-paraffin oil

    April 20, 2009
    Several fields in Russia have installed a downhole cable that heats high viscosity and high-paraffin crude, according to Nefteservis-NN LLC.
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    Production Operations

    Petrobras’s 5-year plan targets large production expansion

    April 20, 2009
    Petroleo Brasilerio SA (Petrobras) in its 2010-13 strategic plan, released in January, included the development of presalt discoveries as well as continued development of discovered...
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    Gas Processing

    Special Report: Practical advanced control helps midstream operations

    April 20, 2009
    Although digital control systems—distributed control systems, programmable logic controller, and other automation equipment—are present in practically every process safety management...

    More content from Volume 107, Issue 15

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    Discoveries

    Russia’s Samotlor to produce 90 more years, says TNK-BP

    April 20, 2009
    Western Siberia’s supergiant Samotlor field should continue to produce until the year 2099, said the TNK-BP Russian amalgam, which plans to invest $1 billion/year through 2011...
    Exploration & Development

    Petrobras, Repsol YPF make large oil discovery in Brazil’s Santos basin

    April 20, 2009
    Brazil’s state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA and partner Repsol YPF SA filed a declaration of commercial viability with the country’s Agencia Nacional do Petroleo (ANP) for a light...
    Exploration & Development

    Firm plans work on four blocks in Ecuador

    April 20, 2009
    Ecuador’s state-owned Petroamazonas, a subsidiary of national oil company Petroecuador that operates oil assets previously owned by Occidental Petroleum Corp., expects to develop...
    Companies

    Studies challenge job creation via overhaul of energy

    April 20, 2009
    A centerpiece of the Obama administration’s proposal to overhaul US energy markets—the promise of an employment surge from “green jobs”—has come under attack.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Oil prices climbed in March, April

    April 20, 2009
    After trading at lower levels for 4 months, benchmark oil prices climbed above $50/bbl in late March and early April, exceeding $52/bbl in light trading Apr. 9 ahead of commodity...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    EXTERNAL CORROSION— Conclusion: Cased pipe segments could be less safe than uncased segments

    April 20, 2009
    A comparison of scheduled or immediate responses/mile vs. number of repairs from an Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) study and the US Pipeline and Hazardous...
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    Excluding science

    April 20, 2009
    Your Newsletter section contained an ironic statement by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.):
    Production Operations

    Oil opportunity in Oklahoma

    April 20, 2009
    The chance to recover billions of barrels of oil that remain in Oklahoma fields represents geological, engineering, and statistical challenges to oilmen willing to take risks....
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching The World: Japan wising up to Russia

    April 20, 2009
    The oil and gas industry has read much recently about the difficulties of dealing with Russia.
    Government

    Watching Government: Tax proposals still lurk

    April 20, 2009
    The oil and gas tax increases that were part of the Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget request did not make it into either the US Senate or House’s broad reconciliation...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial: More ethanol distortion

    April 20, 2009
    In the competition of ideas that is so vital to democracy, studies by supposed experts, preferably disinterested, figure prominently.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    CFTC: Cause of 2008’s oil-price surge remains elusive

    April 20, 2009
    Nine months after crude oil prices reached record levels, experts agreed at the US Energy Information Administration’s 2009 annual conference on Apr. 7 that speculators shouldn...
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    General Interest

    OPEC summit reveals strategies for sustaining industry

    April 20, 2009
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will try to keep prices at its current low level this year “to sustain the economy,” said OPEC Sec. Gen. Abdalla Salem El-Badri...
    LNG

    US LNG market may get 2 bcfd surge

    April 20, 2009
    A 60-day surge of an additional 1.5-2 bcfd of LNG is likely to hit the US market this summer, on top of its baseload LNG supply of 0.7-1 bcfd, said analysts at Pritchard Capital...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Russia redesigns fiscal policy to boost oil E&P

    April 20, 2009
    This article is the second of two parts addressing the challenges facing Russia’s oil and gas industry.
    Refining

    China, Venezuela agree to speed up increased oil shipments

    April 20, 2009
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, have agreed to bring forward the starting date of long-planned increased Venezuelan oil exports to the ...
    Companies

    DOE notes water as key issue in deep shale gas primer

    April 20, 2009
    Protecting and conserving water resources will be the key challenge in developing domestic deep shale gas, the US Department of Energy said as it released a primer for regulators...
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    RPSEA advances six small-producer projects

    April 20, 2009
    The nonprofit Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) has selected six proposals for negotiation of advanced-technology assistance to small producers.
    Government

    DOI’s OCS comment process limited, House Republicans charge

    April 20, 2009
    Ranking minority members of two US House committees expressed concern Apr. 7 that the US Department of Interior is limiting public comments as it considers a comprehensive 5-year...
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