L-shaped table in an office in Lagos, discussing a story on that morning's front page about an oil-pipe explosion.
Turkmenistan's interest in Afghanistan is predominantly commercial: peace would allow it to pipe its oil southwards to the Indian Ocean and the world market.
Lone Star Technologies, a Dallas producer of steel pipe used in oil wells, fits the bill.
When Palin was Governor of Alaska, the state received money for the oil going in to the pipe line.
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Luxembourg-based Tenaris sells seamless steel pipe products to oil and gas companies.
He pioneered the oil trade with Russia, bartering drill pipe, petrochemicals and engineering services to the Soviet Union in exchange for crude.
It turns out that the shear rams on the BOP did activate and close on the pipe, but that the oil is escaping out from around the sides of the BOP.
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Unfortunately, the massive amount of oil continuing to spew out of the pipe obscured it from view, making it impossible to tell whether the company's latest attempt is having any success.
Its report said that in the oil industry, firms reported a shortage of pipe fitters, riggers and technicians.
Over the weekend BP successfully mounted a pipe to siphon some of the oil and gas from the leaking wild well.
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Video shot by the robotic submarines (a.k.a. remote operated vehicles or ROVs) seems to indicate that oil is leaking from three spots in a pipe that is laying on the seafloor.
Since then, at least 5, 000 barrels of oil per day have erupted from the broken well pipe which is 5, 000 feet under water, 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.
According to this report, a worker on the rig was cutting a pipe that he may not have realized had oil in it, when the oil ignited.
Imagine one of these on every exhaust pipe, with a filter that you get changed every time you change your oil.
The dome will resemble an inverted funnel, with a pipe leading up to ships waiting at the surface that would take away the oil.
They had been looking for oil and lacked the technology back then to extract gas from waters more than 3000 feet deep, or pipe it ashore for conversion to LNG.
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Yet troubles loom: The housing downturn has cut demand for chemical-rich building products like polyvinyl chloride pipe, private equity firms are no longer buying chemical companies at rich multiples, and Mideast oil-exporting nations are investing billions in their own new chemical plants.
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