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Revising CP criteria requires careful consideration
September 6,2010 --Criteria to demonstrate levels of cathodic protection are important but should not be the only consideration during the ongoing review of NACE SP 0169, the association's document covering external pipeline corrosion.....
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Innovations push bitumen mining, economics; cut environmental effects
September 6,2010 --Over the years various innovations have improved the economics for mining bitumen and reduced the effects of the mining operation on the environment in the Athabasca region of Northern Alberta.....
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Fat weighs on fuel efficiency
September 6,2010 --Advocates who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels through improved mileage for gasoline and diesel vehicles have a new target—human fat.....
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The New Albany shale in Illinois: emerging play or prolific source
September 6,2010 --The New Albany shale (Upper Devonian) in the Illinois basin is the primary hydrocarbon source rock for the basin's nearly 4 billion bbl of oil production to date, and for an undetermined volume of gas, nearly all of which is produced from traditio.......
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Torpor amid stimulus
September 6,2010 --Emergency spending by the US government in response to financial crisis has received hesitant validation from economists, and supporters of the Obama administration can't understand why they've heard no outburst of praise. ....
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Model devised for plant hot-gas bypass systems
September 6,2010 --A method to improve design criteria commonly used to size hot-gas bypass systems has been developed through the investigation of the heat transfer that takes place at the gas-liquid interface into the tower's reflux drum.....
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EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE
September 6,2010
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OGJ150 financial results down in '09; production, reserves up
September 6,2010 --The 2009 financial results for the OGJ150 group of companies were off sharply from a year earlier, although the group's oil and gas production and reserves totals mostly climbed from 2008.....
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SERVICES | SUPPLIERS
September 6,2010
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Multipay oil discovery kick-starts eastern Llanos heavy oil blocks
September 6,2010 --Colombian subsidiaries of two Canadian companies have drilled a heavy oil discovery on the CPE 6 block in Colombia's Llanos basin that appears to have light oil potential. ....
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ADVERTISERS INDEX
September 6,2010
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Operator group plans offshore blowout containment system
September 6,2010 --Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corp., and Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced in July plans to engineer, construct, and deploy equipment designed to improve capabilities for containing a potential future underwater blowout in the Gulf of Me.......
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Unconventional gas resources changing more than markets
September 6,2010 --Development of unconventional gas resources is overhauling more than markets. It's changing companies, too.....
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Nelson-Farrar Monthly Cost Index
September 6,2010
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Softening economy lowers oil prices
September 6,2010 --Amid indications the economic recovery is slowing, the front-month crude contract price fell for five consecutive sessions to an 11-week low of $71.63/bbl Aug. 24 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.....
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OGJ Newsletter
September 6,2010
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Wall Street reform law creates foreign-payment legal hazards
September 6,2010 --On July 21, 2010, US President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.....
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OGJ100 group posts lower 2009 earnings, output
September 6,2010 --Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the 100 leading oil and gas producers based outside the US reveals that for 2009, most of the firms posted much weaker financial results from 2008 as reduced worldwide demand lowered oil and natural gas prices, especi.......
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Higher costs, consolidation expected in Gulf of Mexico
September 6,2010 --Drilling costs and operating expenses in the Gulf of Mexico are apt to escalate in the aftermath of the explosion on Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible and the subsequent oil spill from BP PLC's Macondo well off Louisiana.....
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Southern secession raises questions over Sudan's oil
September 6,2010 --Unidentified gunmen ambushed a truck carrying soldiers and civilians in Sudan's Unity State, an oil-producing region whose fields are operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co., a consortium led by China National Petroleum Corp.....
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