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Schlumberger Introduces HD Dual-Imaging Service For Oil-Based Mud

September 4, 2019
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Schlumberger introduced the TerraSphere high-definition (HD) dual-imaging-while-drilling service at SPE Offshore Europe Conference and Exhibition on Sept. 3. The new service provides the industry’s first application of LWD dual-physics imager for oil-based mud for drilling oil and gas wells. It incorporates electromagnetic (EM) and ultrasonic measurements that enable multiple high-resolution borehole images in nonconductive mud.

4 September

Divestment Movement To Oil And Gas Industry: Drop Dead

September 4, 2019
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Several factors are contributing to the toxicity of fossil fuel stocks but one factor in particular—a political movement demanding that institutional investors divest their holdings—is a significant long-term driver. Is such an approach realistic, given the growing global demand for energy and the enormous challenges that would need to be overcome for solar and wind

4 September

Patterson-UTI Says No Plans To Invest In E-Frac, Points To Oversupplied Market

September 4, 2019
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Oilfield services provider Patterson-UTI on Sept. 3 said it had no plans to invest in electric hydraulic fracturing fleets, pointing to the high cost of building equipment and the oversupplied pressure pumping market. The company provides drilling and hydraulic fracturing services for oil and gas producers. It has explored divesting its fracking business as customers

4 September

A Tree of Ignorance Grows in Brooklyn, Watered by Political Deceit

September 4, 2019
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Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance. Subsequent to my post yesterday about New York politicians running on empty through bad neighborhoods, a friend sent me a Brooklyn story revealing

4 September

Electric Power Generation from Natural Gas Due to Jump in PA

September 4, 2019
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Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Electric power generation from natural gas in Pennsylvania is about to increase from 30% to 45% of the mix in three years, according to a new PUC report. Believe it or not, dry and sterile reports from government agencies, like the “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania” issued by the

4 September

Angola launches offshore bidding round

September 4, 2019
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Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (Anpg) on Tuesday launched its 2019 licensing round at a presentation in the capital city of Luanda, Kallanish Energy learns. The country is offering 10 offshore blocks in the Namibe and Benguela basins, which have been underexplored and are expected to hold significant reserves. They cover an

4 September

Four dead in India’s ONGC fire

September 4, 2019
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Four people died in a fire that occurred Tuesday at a facility operated by Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), Kallanish Energy learns. Three individuals were fire personnel of the police arm of the Central Industrial Security Force, while the fourth person was a resident production superintendent at the Uran Plant in Mumbai.

4 September

Cheniere’s Train 2 at Corpus Christi substantially complete

September 4, 2019
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Cheniere Energy has announced that Train 2 at Corpus Christi, Texas, has reached substantial completion, Kallanish Energy reports. That was reached last week at the liquefaction/export facility, the company said on Tuesday. Commissioning is complete and Cheniere’s Epc partner Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals Inc. has turned Train 2 over to Cheniere. Texas-based Cheniere has

4 September

Constitution Pipeline back on track following FERC decision

September 4, 2019
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently determined New York waived its water quality authority for Williams’ Constitution Pipeline, according to S&P Global Platts. The decision gives new life to the project, which stalled in April 2016 when state regulators denied a permit. The FERC reversed its earlier finding — that the New York review could

4 September

China to wean itself off shale gas imports amid US trade row

September 3, 2019
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China plans to put more focus on boosting domestic projects to cut its growing dependence on gas imports as the security of its energy supply comes under the spotlight amid an ongoing trade war with the United States, according to Reuters. A new government research report, released on Saturday, shows the row with the U.S.

3 September

Investments in New Mexico Oil & Gas Industry Could Increase Production by 323%

September 3, 2019
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New Mexico’s growing oil and natural gas industry is set to generate “unprecedented opportunities” from a newly forecasted $174 billion in private infrastructure investments by 2030, the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association announced today. The forecast was included in a study by consulting firm ICF that said the new investment coupled with sound public

3 September

Berlin Packaging continues European expansion with acquisition of Vincap & Adolfse Packaging

September 3, 2019
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Berlin Packaging LLC is making an acquisition that will help distribution operations in Northern Europe, the company said. Berlin announced Sept. 3 that it purchased Vincap BV and Adolfse Packaging BV, based in Utrecht, Netherlands. Berlin described the acquired company as a significant supplier of plastic, cork and metal closures and plastic packaging for Belgium,

3 September

Westech Building Products closing Indiana profile extrusion plant

September 3, 2019
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Westech Building Products LLC is closing its Mount Vernon, Ind., vinyl fence, deck and railing factory, the company told Indiana state regulators in an Aug. 23 letter. The company said in a letter required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that 81 employees at the non-union plant will lose their jobs, and that

3 September

European premiere for Sekisui concept car at IAA

September 3, 2019
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Japanese automotive supplier Sekisui Chemical will display its concept car for the first time in Europe during this year’s IAA Frankfurt motor show to be held Sept. 12-22. The futuristic vehicle incorporates all the core technologies in high performance plastics developed by Sekisui, including the company’s new HUD interlayer film technology for windshields. The film,

3 September

Material Insights: Ineos continues to build its brand through sports

September 3, 2019
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Prices for PE, PVC and PET bottle resin finish the summer with a slump, Formosa plans a Louisiana expansion and Ineos buys a French soccer team as it builds its exposure beyond materials. This post appeared first on Plastics News.

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