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- Cook Inlet gas market in transition for Enstar
- FileVault swimming in organized pool of data.
- Waiting for no one
- Truckwell of Alaska transforms trucks into work stations for the…

Cook Inlet gas market in transition for Enstar
Petroleum News – Apr 29, 2007
Well now probably end up with multiple contracts, where well have some suppliers provide base load, some provide peaking and some provide needle peaking, and each one of those components will be at a different price. That type of contractual arrangement would also dovetail into the increasing use of gas storage in the Cook Inlet both Marathon and Chevron now operate gas storage facilities to hold excess gas from the summer to meet peak winter demand. The costs associated with moving gas into storage and pulling it out thats a cost component that 10 years ago didnt exist, Thayer said. Enstar is also considering operating its own gas storage to meet peak demand. Well probably end up doing a study and looking at developing our own storage or maybe purchasing storage capacity from a producer, East said. If we start having multiple rates for base load, peaking and needle peaking we could take a look at what the differential is between the base load and the needle peaking, and with that differential we could possibly develop our own storage and provide the needle peaks ourselves. Need long-term suppliesA move towards shorter-term gas supply contracts could provide gas producers with new opportunities to enter the Southcentral gas market…
html’>Regulatory Commission of Alaska contract approval. Rejected Marathon contractEnstar is disappointed that RCA rejected the companys proposed new Cook Inlet gas supply contract with Marathon, a traditional full-service contract that Enstar has said would have ensured adequate gas supplies for Southcentral gas consumers through to 2016. RCA rejected the contract on the basis that its pricing formula, indexed to prices in the Lower 48 Henry Hub gas market, was too high. The Marathon contract took about two years to negotiate and 12 months to go through the regulatory process, Thayer said. We (now) have 20 months until we have unmet contract requirements in 2009. We need to do something in record speed.

FileVault swimming in organized pool of data.
Free with registration – Charlotte Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 29, 2007
And then tell you how to better organize it. Peck is chief executive of FileVault, which he started in the summer of 2001. Peck’s Charlotte company is trying to capitalize on the vast volume of data we generate and often have to keep. He has a 100,000-square-foot warehouse northwest of uptown, which stores.

Waiting for no one
NEWS.com.au – Apr 28, 2007
Success begets success so the more success we have the more money’s going to be invested in Australia. " Born in Essex, Beckett read engineering at Cambridge before joining BP. He spent more than a decade working on projects in the North Sea, and later in the Middle East, before he and his wife made the move to Perth in 1988. It was not a huge leap for the two Brits, both of whom had links to the land down under already. B ECKETT’S mother, Milly Miller, grew up in West Wyalong in New South Wales and became a war bride after meeting his father, RAF airman Norman Beckett, in Sydney. "They were actually married on Victory Day 1945 in Sydney. They had a full congregation…
Two discoveries last year — Clio and Chandon — are undergoing further evaluation, and while the joint venture partners have approval to build two five million tonne processing trains on Barrow Island, Beckett admits the vision is larger. While Chevron has had to run the environmental gauntlet to get permission to use the island as a processing hub, Beckett says there is space to expand and he believes the approvals process will be less onerous when the time comes to grow. The company recently picked up new acreage in the Gorgon area and has mapped out an exploration program from 2008-2010. "We’re just going to keep piling on more gas," he says. Share this article.

Truckwell of Alaska transforms trucks into work stations for the…
Alaskajournal.com – Apr 29, 2007
“If it's goods going to market, oil and gas, or transportation industries, we've modified trucks and built portable work stations for all of them,” said Arnie Swanson, president of Truckwell of Alaska. Whether its Spenard Builders flatbed trucks, Schlumberger down-hole rigs, Carrs delivery vans, Peak Oilfield Services lubrication trucks or an X-ray truck, Truckwell of Alaska can build a portable workspace on pretty much any vehicle. Working from a new 18,000-square-foot location off C Street in Anchorage, the company has a warehouse of parts, a yard for storage, a 60-foot paint booth, numerous bay doors to three shops and three bridge cranes in its building, supported by 15 employees. The company has built support equipment for all the major operators in Alaska's oil fields and most of their vendors, according to Swanson. “We take an incomplete vehicle that is purchased by our client and modify it to their specific design,” Swanson said. Most are R25 rated, an insulation standard that prevents heat from escaping to temperatures in excess of 60 below. Truckwell builds communications workspaces, lubricating and mechanics trucks and dining trailers that can be trucked to a remote location.