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Oil & Gas Journal

04/14/2003
Volume 101, Issue 15
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        Energy futures prices rebounded early last week with reports of significant declines in US oil inventories and a call for a meeting of ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to address the previous drop in crude prices.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Changing forms of energy
        A few weeks ago a reader called to ask how much oil and natural gas is left in the world, what might be the depletion rate, and when the world might "run out" of oil.

    • Editorial

      • Iraq must succeed
        Can newly free Iraq become a successful oil state? History suggests not.

    • Market Hotline

    • Editor's Perspective

    • Letters

      • Making hydrogen
        Jim Barry's letter "H2 should compete on its own" (OGJ, Mar. 3, 2003, p. 10) mentions that using hydrogen as a fuel requires "expenditure of considerable energy."

    • Equip/Software/Lit

  • General Interest

    • Dispute over postwar Iraq oil control getting nastier
      The dispute over control of Iraq's postwar reconstruction—and by extension its oil wealth—has gotten nastier even as US-led coalition forces last week sought to wrap up the job of toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime.
    • US Congress pushes through sweeping energy bill
      The US Congress earlier this month moved on several fronts to bring together a sweeping energy bill that Republican leaders say President George W. Bush may sign before the summer driving season ends.
    • Analyst sees no meat in MMS proposal to expand offshore royalty relief
      The US Minerals Management Service proposal to expand offshore royalty relief in an effort to increase deep natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is "all sizzle, no steak," said a financial analyst with Raymond James & Associates Inc. (RJA), St. Petersburg, Fla.
    • Fuelish waivering
      Some US states, especially in the Northeast and on the West Coast, are growing increasingly worried that current reformulated gasoline (RFG) rules will help drive retail prices to record highs before June.
    • OPEC to address falling oil prices at special meeting
      The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will discuss the recent drop in oil prices at an extraordinary meeting, tentatively slated for Apr. 24 in Vienna, OPEC Pres. Abdulla Bin Hamad al-Attiyah said last week.
    • MMS to fund study of currents in GOM off Mexico
      The US Minerals Management Service late last month deployed a current meter mooring in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico as part of a study by the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Enseñada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico.
    • Company News: Frontier Oil, Holly Corp. to merge in $450 million deal
      Frontier Oil Corp., Houston, and Holly Corp., Dallas, have agreed to merge in a cash and stock deal valued at about $450 million.
    • Personnel and Promotions
      BP PLC and Russian partners Alfa Group and Access-Renova (AAR) tentatively named an advisory board and senior executives to lead newly formed holding company TNK-BP following the company's anticipated formal establishment later this year.

  • Exploration & Development

  • Drilling & Production

    • Multilateral, intelligent well completion benefits explored
      In general, a study found that multilateral wells perform better than single horizontal wells. but the best technology to use depends on specific reservoir characteristics, drilling conditions, and economic considerations.
    • New DOE oil projects focus on long-term research
      In an effort to keep US oil and gas fields producing successfully in the future, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 projects to share in an $8.7-million exploration, drilling, and production research and development program.

  • Processing

    • Benchmarking study compares LNG plant costs
      A benchmarking study of several recent LNG projects at greenfield locations compared specific costs and show that low specific cost and low emissions are not mutually exclusive.

  • Transportation

    • Vapor-recovery unit passes South Texas field test
      Performance testiccng of a vapor-recovery unit developed by Comm Engineering USA, Lafayette, La., has shown the technology capable of collecting 64 MMscf/year of vent gases with a value of about $350,000.

  • Special Report

    • War uncertainties delay construction projects
      Oil and natural gas engineering and construction contractors say that some downstream industry projects could be delayed due to economic and safety concerns arising from the US/Iraq armed conflict.

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