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Oil & Gas Journal

12/16/2002
Volume 100, Issue 51
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        In a move to improve their market credibility, ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries apparently agreed last week to raise hike their collective production quotas by 6%, or 1.3 million b/d, while practicing stricter compliance with production limits.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Ventures in communication
        Walking down the halls of the building that houses OGJ and its sister publications, we might overhear an advertising sales representative for Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamerica taking an order from a Brazilian client in Portuguese or an editor carrying on a phone conversation in French.

    • Editorial

      • OGJ Editorial: Are the media biased?
        Allegations of bias by prominent Democrats have raised healthy issues about news media in the US. The question most in need of an airing, however, has so far escaped the uproar.

    • Area Drilling

      • Area Drilling
        Pertamina discovered gas and oil at new wells in Gunung Kemala village in the Muara Enim district of South Sumatra.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

      • Equipment/Software/Literature
        The new LDARManager portable data acquisition system offers wireless interface between a lightweight hand-held computer and an array of gas analyzers.

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Services/Suppliers
        Midland, Tex., has announced the appointment of Gary Wallace as vice-president of national sales. Wallace is a graduate of Eastern New Mexico University, and was director of the global business development group at Baker Petrolite prior to joining Key.

    • Editor's Perspective

    • Market Hotline

      • Repeat of 2000-01 opportunistic gas drilling unlikely
        The arctic express that blitzkrieged much of the eastern and southern US the first week of December serves as a reminder of how energy commodity prices are beholden to such short-term phenomena as weather and geopolitics.

  • General Interest

    • Oil industry fears over Brazil's new president seen as overblown
      The Oct. 27 landslide victory of Brazilian leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT) over Sen. José Serra, the ruling party's candidate, at the outset was cause for concern for the oil and gas industry in Brazil.
    • Shell eyes mid-2003 start-up for Brazilian development
      Royal Dutch/Shell Group's Brazilian unit is targeting a mid-2003 start-up of the first commercial oil development by a foreign company in Brazil since demonopolization of the country's petroleum industry began in 1997.
    • Fitch: Energy investors' confidence in Latin America shaky
      Latin America's energy industry will require more than $225 billion in investments in the coming decade, but the region's political and economic environment suggests that external financing will be difficult to find and expensive to obtain.
    • Caribbean nations back Trinidad-based subsea gas pipeline
      Efforts are under way to promote development of a subsea natural gas pipeline system from Trinidad and Tobago northward through the Caribbean Sea and possibly ending on the North American mainland at Miami.
    • Trinidad & Tobago threatens to ban Atlantic LNG expansion
      Atlantic LNG Ltd.'s planned Train 4 expansion could be in trouble after Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning threatened to ban the LNG expansion unless participants in that joint venture improve their offer to the government.
    • Watching Government: El Paso judgment
      Judgment day is coming. But to beleaguered energy marketing companies struggling to repair investor confidence, the regulatory process is dragging on for an eternity.
    • Point of View: UT center advancing real asset risk management science
      Finance theoreticians 50 years ago defined portfolio optimization, the first methodology of real asset risk management technology, and the emerging science gained recognition in the last 30 years. But it's only now becoming practical with high-speed computing.

  • Exploration & Development

  • Drilling & Production

  • Processing

  • Special Report

  • Print Ad Index

    • Advertising Index
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