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Nigeria’s Petroleum-based Nation-building

January 30, 2008 Category: Gas, International Tags: bitumen, crude oil, Dr. Emmanuel Egbogak, heavy oil, hydrocarbon, liquefied natural gas, LNG, NAPCOM, Niger Delta, Nigeria, oil sands, oilsands, petroleum, West Africa
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By Paul Michael Wihbey

Paul Michael Wihbey, President of Washington-based energy consulting firm GWEST, draws on his in-depth working knowledge of West Africa to report on Nigeria’s energy-driven upswing as well as its heavy oil industry’s promising Alberta connection More →

Heavy Oil Recovery and the Strategic Decisions That Need to be Made

January 30, 2008 Category: Technology Tags: Alberta Research Council, CHOPS, heavy oil, petroleum, recovery plan, reservoir, toe-to-heel air injection
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By Kambiz Safinya

The question is not how much heavy oil is in the ground, but how much of it can be recovered. For Canada’s heavy oil operators – those who could make Canada the world’s fifth-largest producer by 2015 – the answer depends on the efficiency of their recovery plans More →

Offshore drilling moves to the deep end

The proportion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico first began to outpace drilling at shallower depths in the early 1980s, figures from the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service show. The gap grew steadily until the late-1990s, when production from deepwater plays rose dramatically. The sudden increase in deepwater activity lends credence to the argument that oil is increasingly harder and more expensive to access.

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