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Improving Concrete For Enhanced Pipeline Protection

Different concrete mixes are used in various applications in the oil and gas industry, from oil well cementing to providing stability to offshore platforms. Concrete is also used in protecting oil and gas pipelines, most of them made of carbon steel, or providing them negative buoyancy in offshore applications and other wet environments.

Natural Gas Price Forecast Confusing; Close to $6/MMBtu Industry Consensus

Forecasting the prices of commodities such as natural gas and crude oil is far from a scientific endeavor. Sure, statistics, computer modeling, mathematics and more scientific means play a role in the eventual outlook, but it is pure art. A ouija board would be an ideal instrument in the forecasting business.

Corrosion Control In Oil And Gas Pipelines

In the United States, the annual cost associated with corrosion damage of structural components is greater than the combined annual cost of natural disasters, including hurricanes, storms, floods, fires and earthquakes(1). Similar findings have been made by studies conducted in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.

Claudi Santiago – GE’s Envoy To the World’s Oil & Gas Industry

To have been a fly on the wall when GE Chairman and CEO Jack Welch picked up the phone in 1997 and called one of his rising young stars, a fellow named Claudi Santiago, about heading a new business segment that would later be called GE Oil & Gas.

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March Newsreel: Boomerang Tube Funds Texas Plant; Oil & Gas Execs Predict More 2010 Employment and more
Digital Visual Sidewall Scanning: Streamlining Collection And Analysis Of Inspection Data
Green Software Solution Can Save Pipeline Companies On Power Use
How Predictive Analytics Helps Improve Critical Equipment Reliability
DATUM Centrifugal Compressor Line Sees Continuing Improvement
Faster And Safer As-Built Drawings Available
The 2009 Sino-Russian Gas Deals: Cementing a Strategic Partnership?
Clean Over Green: Oil And Gas in a Low-Carbon Future
Toyota’s Problems and Lessons for Engineers
Buried District Regulator Stations Using Dresser FloSystems Prefabricated Sets
Cockrell Ranch Waterflood: What Wireless Network?
Announced/Ongoing Projects
Fayetteville Express Begins Construction

The Fayetteville Express Pipeline (FEP), a 50/50 joint venture between Energy Transfer Partners and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, began construction on March 8.

GL Noble Denton Plans To Hire 700 Technical Experts

Over the next two years GL Noble Denton plans to hire more than 700 new technical personnel, engineers and marine operations specialists.

Entrepose Contracting Acquires HDI

Entrepose Contracting announced the acquisition of Horizontal Drilling International (HDI) by Spiecapag, its 100% subsidiary.

Gazprom, MFB Create South Stream Hungary Joint Venture

Recently in Budapest, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov and Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai signed documents incorporating the South Stream Hungary Zrt joint engineering company.

Bulgaria Ratifies Agreement On Nabucco Pipeline Project

The Bulgarian parliament has ratified the inter-governmental agreement on the Nabucco gas transport project, implicitly confirming its preference for Nabucco over Gazprom’s South Stream.

ConocoPhillips Facing Delay In Middle East Project

ConocoPhillips and Abu Dhabi face delays on a $12 billion sour gas project in the sheikdom amid ongoing uncertainty over how to safely transport toxic material, Dow Jones Newswire reported.

Customers Ask Capacity Expansions In Dutch, German Gas Transport Networks

To meet increased demand for gas transport capacity, Gasunie's transportation grid in the Netherlands and Germany needs to be expanded urgently, the Dutch-based company reported.

Pipeline Inspection Minimizes Project Risk In Angola Oilfield

UK-based specialist measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd. has completed a pipe inspection study for BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd. in fields that lie in a water depth of 2,000 m northwest of Luanda, Angola.

First Subsea Performs Successful Installation On STL Buoys Off Massachusetts

First Subsea has completed installation of four diverless bend stiffeners for risers and umbilicals off the coast of Gloucester, MA.

Bredero Shaw Contract Award

Bredero Shaw, a division of ShawCor Ltd., received contracts valued at US$170 million from Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for Esso Highlands Ltd.’s PNG LNG Project in Papua New Guinea.

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Idea Integration to Add OpenSpirit Data Integration to Constellation 2.0 GIS Solution, Consulting and Project Services Offerings
STAFFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on their proven track record of providing quality GIS and SharePoint integration solutions to the E&P community, Idea Integration, creator of ConstellationTM, has licensed
Western Refining Announces Pricing of Senior Secured Notes Offering
EL PASO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Refining, Inc. today announced that it priced its previously announced private offering of senior secured notes in two tranches. The first tranche consists of $325 million in
ATP Deepwater Hub Expanded
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ:ATPG) today announced that its apparent high bid for deepwater Green Canyon Block 344 at the Central Gulf of Mexico Offshore Lease Sale 208 held in March
Jicarilla Apache Nation and Enterprise Announce Long-Term Right-of-Way Agreement
DULCE, N.M. & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Jicarilla Apache Nation (Nation) and an affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) announced today they have signed a 20-year right-of-way agreement that will
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