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05/05/2004 -- BP Trinidad & Tobago awards contract for offshore platform
BP Trinidad & Tobago LLC awarded Fluor Corp. additional contract work worth about $20 million toward the engineering and construction of BP's new offshore gas processing platform and other facilities in Trinidad and Tobago.
05/05/2004 -- Dominion's Devils Tower field brought on stream
Devils Tower field on Mississippi Canyon Block 773 was brought on stream Wednesday, said operator Dominion Exploration & Production Inc., New Orleans.
05/04/2004 -- ConocoPhillips awards Halliburton a North Sea drilling contract
ConocoPhillips awarded Halliburton Co. unit Sperry-Sun Drilling Services a 3-year contract to provide North Sea integrated drilling services with two additional options for up to 3 years each.
05/03/2004 -- OTC: Aramco anticipates expanding intelligent well technology
A senior Saudi Aramco official Monday predicted that within 10 years the oil giant could be relying on "intelligent" well technology for 30% of its wells.
04/27/2004 -- Statoil to extend Lufeng field production in South China Sea
Crediting new technology, Statoil ASA reported it will extend production from Lufeng field in the South China Sea until 2008, rather than shutting down last February as planned.
04/26/2004 -- Iran's Kaboud oil field goes on stream
Masjed Soleiman Oil and Gas Production Co. announced that Kaboud oil field in Iran has gone on stream, OPECNA reported. Initial production rates were not disclosed.
04/23/2004 -- Apache contracts to sell 2.1 tcf from Qasr field
Apache Corp., Houston, signed a 25-year sales agreement with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. (EGPC) for 2.1 tcf of natural gas from the Qasr field on Apache's Khalda Concession in Egypt's Western Desert.
04/23/2004 -- Total group announces production on Venezuelan gas blocks
A consortium headed by Total SA has begun producing nonassociated gas on the Yucal Placer Norte and Yucal Placer Sur blocks, which cover 900 sq km in the Guarico sub-basin of western Venezuela, said partner Repsol YPF SA.
04/21/2004 -- Permit surplus should preclude new drilling, Wilderness Society says
The Wilderness Society (TWS) this week said public and private data bolster their view that the oil industry has no commercial need to drill on environmentally sensitive lands because it is not using the permits it already has available to them.
04/21/2004 -- ExxonMobil, Helis Oil & Gas contract for Atwood Oceanics rigs
Upon completion by mid-May of a well ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia Inc. is drilling on a platform off Malaysia, the company temporarily will suspend its contract for the Vicksburg jack up—leased from Houston-based drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics Inc. The Vicksburg will be moved to Thailand for a 5 month drilling program for Chevron Offshore (Thailand) Ltd., then redelivered to Malaysia in November to continue another 12 months of its drilling program for ExxonMobil.
04/20/2004 -- BAS: High steel prices to weigh heavier on producers than service firms
Higher steel prices are likely to weigh more heavily on oil and natural gas producers rather than services and supply companies, according to James K. Wicklund, analyst with Banc of America Securities LLC.
04/20/2004 -- BHP Billiton finds oil with Neptune-7 well in Gulf of Mexico
BHP Billiton reported that its Neptune-7 appraisal well, drilled on Atwater Valley Block 618 in the central Gulf of Mexico, found a hydrocarbon column with about 114 ft of net oil pay.
04/19/2004 -- Ziff: producers try to wring more gas from Canada, GOM
North American producers are not yet complying with earlier expectations that new natural gas supplies from Canada, the Gulf of Mexico and nonconventional US land sources will meet a US natural gas market of more than 30 tcf by 2015, said a panel of industry experts Monday.
04/19/2004 -- Kerr-McGee makes deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil discovery
Kerr-McGee Corp. reported Monday the discovery of more than 250 ft of net high-quality hydrocarbon pay, primarily oil, with its Ticonderoga discovery well and initial sidetrack drilled on Green Canyon Block 768 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
04/16/2004 -- US rig count hits highest peak since September 2001
US drilling activity increased by 12 units to 1,150 rotary rigs working, the highest weekly total since the week ended Sept. 28, 2001, when the count was at 1,168 and falling, officials said Friday at Baker Hughes Inc.
04/16/2004 -- Factor identifies hydrocarbon recoverability, type
A new approach calculates a hydrocarbon movability factor from shallow and deep resistivity log data.
04/12/2004 -- US drilling activity slips from 31-month high
US drilling activity slipped from a 31-month high, down by 22 rotary rigs to 1,138 working last week, compared with 979 during the same period a year ago.
04/12/2004 -- African reforms
The US should be working harder to promote transparency and accountability in African oil-producing countries, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC.
04/08/2004 -- North Sea drilling fleets poised for action
Drilling continues in the North Sea with an overall rig utilization rate of 71.4%.
04/08/2004 -- EOR SURVEY: EOR continues to unlock oil resources
OGJ's exclusive biennial EOR survey shows that enhanced oil recovery methods continue to recover remaining oil from mature fields.

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