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Hall-YarBoROUGH Z-factor: TI-89

10/17/2015

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This post contains the TI-89 code for a program that calculates a gas' z-factor using the Hall-Yarborough correlation.

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Shell Pulling out from Alaska

10/4/2015

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Last Monday, the world woke up to the following press release from Shell:
September 28, 2015

Shell today provides an update on the Burger J exploration well, located in the Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles from Barrow, Alaska, in about 150 feet of water. Shell safely drilled the well to a total depth of 6800 feet this summer in a basin that demonstrates many of the key attributes of a major petroleum basin. For an area equivalent to half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, this basin remains substantially under-explored.
The oil patch is in severe financial pain and it seems that prior to the summer 2015 drill season that Shell set the well test results as a pass/fail decision point.

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Book Review: Twilight in the Desert

10/3/2015

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This post is a review and commentary on the book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Matthew R. Simmons. 448 pages, John Wiley & Sons Inc. June 2005, ISBN-13 978-0-471-79018-1.
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Twilight in the Desert is a book describing the history of Saudi Arabia's oil with the underlying thesis that it's epic run of easy light crude production is fact coming to an end despite Saudi Arabia's public claims that they're oil is limitless.

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