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  • Volume 117, Issue 2

    • Volume 117, Issue 2

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    Discoveries

    UAE’s Sharjah opens onshore gas exploration to IOCs

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Sharjah in 2018 became the latest United Arab Emirates monarchy to offer licensing rounds, seeking international partners for exploration and development. The offer follows licensing...
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    Refining

    Hengyuan Refining approves unit for Malaysian refinery

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Hengyuan Refining Co. Bhd. (HRC)—a subsidiary of Shandong Hengyuan Petrochemical Co. Ltd.—has approved a $66.4-million investment to develop and build a hydrogen manufacturing...

    More content from Volume 117, Issue 2

    Production Operations

    TPI: Texas’ oil and gas recovery interrupted at yearend

    Feb. 4, 2019
    The Texas Petro Index (TPI) declined in November and December 2018 on the heels of 23 straight months of growth, in response to dramatic declines in crude oil prices in the last...
    LNG

    PSAC lowers outlook for Canadian drilling

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Deteriorating investor confidence “weighs heavily” on the drilling industry in Canada, according to the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC).
    Production Operations

    EIA: US to become net energy exporter in 2020

    Feb. 4, 2019
    The US will position itself as a net energy exporter in 2020 and will remain so throughout a projection period to 2050 resulting from large increases in production of crude oil...
    Refining

    Rystad: US sanctions on Venezuela will be weaker than expected

    Feb. 4, 2019
    US sanctions against Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) will deal a meaningful blow to President Nicolas Maduro’s administration’s cashflow, but the...
    Washington Pulse

    US imposes sanctions on PDVSA in effort to isolate Maduro regime

    Feb. 4, 2019
    The US government has imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) on Jan. 28 following a determination by US Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Innovation vital to ongoing US energy strength, group leaders say

    Feb. 4, 2019
    The innovative spirit that has created a much-improved US energy outlook in the last 10 years will be just as essential to keep it affordable while improving the environment in...
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    Pipelines

    Regulatory reforms draw cheers; shutdown and tariffs raise concerns

    Feb. 4, 2019
    The Trump administration is following through on its promise to reform federal regulations enacted during Barack Obama’s presidency that went too far, officials from leading US...
    Government

    'Remarkable month'

    Feb. 4, 2019
    In proponents of a quick switch by the US to carbon-free forms of energy, new data on recent and future oil and gas supply might induce squirming. Reality will do that.
    LNG

    Change in risk preferences

    Feb. 4, 2019
    A survey of institutional investors by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) was conducted in July-October 2018.
    Washington Pulse

    A Louisiana victory lap

    Feb. 4, 2019
    As parts of the US federal government reopened on Jan. 28 following a 35-day shutdown by President Donald J. Trump, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) and Bagwell Energy Services...
    HSE

    With terminals open, trouble in Libya shifts to oil field

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Just when an oil-production breakthrough began to seem possible in beleaguered Libya, trouble shifted from terminals to oil fields.
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    Pipelines

    Flat near-term pipeline plans buoyed by US growth

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Planned worldwide pipeline construction to be completed in 2019 was relatively flat from the previous year, with higher expected crude and products project completions balancing...
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    Petrochemicals

    Equinor issues assay for Hebron crude

    Feb. 4, 2019
    Based on a sample taken July 27, 2018, Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA) on Oct. 24, 2018, issued a commercial assay of heavy, medium-sulfur Hebron crude (OGJ Online, Nov. 29...
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    Refining

    Understanding, preventing corrosion in refineries

    Feb. 4, 2019
    My major problem as an operating supervisor when I worked for the former Amoco Oil Co. refinery in Texas City, Tex., was not the people, the process, or the plant’s economics;...
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    NIS Gazprom Neft studies low-salinity waterflooding in Serbia

    Feb. 4, 2019
    NIS Gazprom Neft’s Scientific and Technology Center studied improved oil recovery in Serbia’s K field using low-salinity waterflooding (LSW). It was Serbia’s first LSW project...
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    Refining

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 4, 2019
    International news for oil and gas professionals