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Oil & Gas Journal

02/18/2002
Volume 100, Issue 7
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        IEA's initial estimates of worldwide oil production since output reduction pledges went into effect Jan. 1 show that it dropped 510,000 b/d last month from an average of 76.8 million b/d in December.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Hydrocarbons and democracy
        The democracy that we love today may be traced back to a crazed woman stuffed in a cave and zonked on hydrocarbon gases.

    • Area Drilling

      • Area Drilling
        First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. let a contract to Entreprise Nationale de Geophysique to acquire 230 sq km of 3D seismic data on the 1,091 sq km Block 406a (Rhourde Yacoub) in the central Berkine basin.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

      • Equipment/Software/Literature
        This new MRO Super Kit Plus contains a variety of dielectric safety tools that are commonly used by personnel working in an energized circuit environment.

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Services/Suppliers
        Westport, Conn., has announced the appointment of Thomas R. Bates Jr. as a managing director. Bates, with more than 25 years of energy industry experience, will lead Lime Rock's efforts to build its presence in key US markets, and will head its new Houston office.

  • General Interest

    • Editorial: A dangerous compromise
      Rumors circulated last week that oil industry representatives are ready to compromise with ethanol interests over additives for reformulated gasoline. Here's hoping they're not true.
    • Congress, White House eye energy market oversight in Enron aftermath
      A legislative battle is shaping in the US Congress over whether more regulatory oversight of energy markets is needed in the wake of the Enron Corp. financial debacle, according to US officials and industry lobbyists.
    • FERC official proposes interagency energy market task force
      Government agencies that oversee various aspects of US energy markets should consider forming an interagency task force to monitor new business trends in the oil, gas, and electric power markets, said Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Nora Brownell.
    • Watching Government: Stalled crisis
      Unless the White House decides to bomb Iraq in the near future, it's likely the energy price "crisis" is temporarily over for American consumers.
    • Industry groups ask for updated offshore drilling rules
      A coalition of US industry trade groups representing both major and independent oil and gas companies is unhappy with pending legislation designed to update federal coastal zoning laws. They say the bill may further discourage offshore drilling.
    • CERA: Executives assess energy industry risks
      In the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, "our greatest new risk could be failing to take the old risks essential to earning the rewards of our business and supplying our customers," Peter J. Robertson, vice-chairman of ChevronTexaco Corp., told a conference of energy executives in Houston last week.
    • Watching the World: Every little bit helps
      Having spent some time recently listening to the directors of the major oil companies reveal their annual profits and aspirations for the coming year, one could be forgiven for thinking that the oil industry deals only in dollars and pounds by the billion.

  • Exploration & Development

    • Planning for success: profit vs. reserves
      Nearly 20 years ago in a very entrepreneurial division of a major oil and gas company, a vice president defined the author's mission as being "to increase rate and maintain or increase reserves by working in and around production in producing basins."

  • Drilling & Production

  • Processing

  • Transportation

    • Centralized control improves operating efficiency
      Enbridge Pipelines Inc., subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., Calgary, at yearend 2001 had completed consolidation of its 16 control centers in North America into a single centralized center in Edmonton, Alta.

  • Special Report

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