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Operators are turning increasingly to sophisticated in situ techniques to tap deeper formations in the oil sands regions of northern Alberta. But surface mining operations still account for the largest share of investment dollars and growing production.

Managing explosive growth at the technical, financial, and human level is the biggest challenge facing companies in developing a 300 billion resource in Canada's northern Alberta oil sands industry.

US companies with languishing interests in Libya said late last month that they are growing increasingly hopeful that international and US sanctions against the North African nation will be lifted as soon as first quarter 2003.

The United Nations' updated Iraq sanctions regime has no provisions to deter oil smuggling and illicit trade or to reintroduce weapons inspectors, according to an analysis by the General Accounting Office.

There is no "intrinsic reason" why Europe can't develop into a natural gas commodity market like the US, instead of remaining tied to long-term contracts and pricing formulas linked to oil, said authorities at the Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), London, in a recent report.

The Federal Trade Commission said it plans to be more sophisticated in the way it monitors gasoline price spikes.

An environmental group and a multinational oil company have teamed up to start a new Washington, DC-based think tank on transportation issues.

Newfield Exploration Co. has signed an agreement to acquire EEX Corp. in a deal valued at $640 million. The transaction-which will include the assumption of debt, net of cash, in addition to other existing obligations-is expected to close in the third quarter, subject to the approval of EEX's common shareholders and other regulatory approvals, Newfield said.

Ian Lundin, president of Swedish oil and gas exploration company Lundin Petroleum AB, also has been named chairman of the company. Lundin succeeds Adolf Lundin, who is relinquishing his top spot after serving in the position for 22 years.

There's a growing sense of anticipation in the heart of Africa as Canadian independent Heritage Oil & Gas Corp. and partner Energy Africa Ltd. prepare to drill their first exploration well in the Albert graben of western Uganda.

Norsk Hydro AS has employed multilateral well completions in the Troll Olje field to increase the total wellbore drainage area from the existing subsea template structures, rather than add additional templates.

Variations in production rate and future tie-ins were two factors that influenced the design of large OD flowlines for carrying gas ashore from subsea-completed deepwater fields in the Mediterranean Sea, about 90 km (56 miles) off Egypt (Fig. 1).

Mild hydrocracking (MHC) provides a profitable minimum-investment route to achieve incremental vacuum gas oil (VGO) conversion while producing high quality, low-sulfur fuels from FCC units.

After formally adopting API Standard 653 for its tank inspection and repair program, Colonial Pipeline Co, Atlanta, Ga., has developed procedures based on risk-management principles to level the load of tanks out of service for inspection at any one time.

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