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Oil & Gas Journal

03/31/2003
Volume 101, Issue 13
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        Nigeria, Venezuela figure into OPEC oil export outages

    • Letters

      • Letters
        Use the public's language

    • Journally Speaking

      • A&D: going, going, click
        War with Iraq, threat of terrorist attacks, and anti-American sentiments coupled with a weak US dollar have prompted US oil and gas management teams to reconsider the costs and risks of world travel for employees.

    • Editorial

      • ANWR and tax cuts
        US Senators would rather tax individuals than oil companies. That's one way to read recent Senate votes on tax cuts and leasing of federal land. It's somewhat distorted, maybe, but no more so than persistently successful arguments against leasing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain in Alaska.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Services/Suppliers
        Robroy Industries Verona, Pa., has promoted David A. Marshall to the position of president and chief operating officer. Marshall succeeds Peter McIlroy II, chairman and CEO, who has served as president for the past 22 years.

    • Editor's Perspective

    • Market Hotline

  • General Interest

    • Far-reaching oil industry repercussions expected from Gulf War II
      The US-led attack on Iraq will have far-reaching repercussions for the global oil and gas industry for years to come, well beyond the near-term ramifications of the conflict.
    • Al Qaeda, tanker insurance rates, mines among key war concerns
      As war rages in the Middle East, military analysts said that Iraq's navy poses a minimal threat to shipping in the Persian Gulf, but attacks by the Al Qaeda terrorist network, led by Osama bin Laden, are a more likely problem.
    • Energy legislation again in House, Senate committees
      Republican congressional leaders redoubled efforts last week to reach consensus on a comprehensive energy bill this year that tracks the White House's energy policy goals.
    • In the wings
      Few analysts dispute Iraq's powerful allure as a long-term investment opportunity. But the actual payout may take several years, if not a decade or longer after US-led military action ends.

  • Exploration & Development

  • Drilling & Production

    • Fiber optics profiles real-time temperature across horizontal lateral
      A fiber-optic distributed temperature system (DTS) across a horizontal wellbore off Trinidad provided valuable information and benefits such as identifying areas of oil and gas production along the reservoir interval, verifying production philosophies, correlating logs taken over the reservoir interval, and logging continuous, real-time temperatures across the entire well length.

  • Special Report

    • Ethylene margins decline, capacity additions slow in 2002
      Global ethylene capacity growth experienced a significant slowdown in 2002. Last year saw only 2.4 million tonnes/year (tpy) of net additions, compared with an increase of 6.2 million tpy in 2001, according to the latest ethylene survey.
    • Ethylene Survey
      International survey of ethylene from steam crakers - 2003.

  • Transportation

  • Print Ad Index

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