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Oil & Gas Journal

08/25/2003
Volume 101, Issue 33
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  • Regular Features

    • Letters

      • Hydrogen a transportation fuel
        Tom Standing's letter "Making Hydrogen" (OGJ, Apr. 14, 2003, p. 10) raised the issue that energy expenditure for hydrogen production needs to be taken into account in promoting hydrogen as a new transportation fuel.

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        The massive electrical power failure on Aug. 14 that blacked out the US Northeast and southeastern Canada triggered a jump in gasoline futures prices, but oil futures prices continued to decline early last week despite an increase in the number and severity of terrorist attacks in the Middle East.

    • Journally Speaking

    • Editorial

      • Power crisis, energy blob
        Big moves in energy policy tend not to happen until longstanding predictions of crises come true.

    • Area Drilling

      • Italy
        Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, hopes to drill the first of two wildcats in the Po Valley in early 2004.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

      • New portable flue gas analyzer
        The new GreenLine 8000 portable flue gas analyzer monitors combustion efficiency, safety, and environmental emissions in all combustion process applications.

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Wood Group
        Aberdeen and Houston, has announced the appointment of John Blythe to the newly created position of global downstream business leader in its Engineering & Production Facilities Division.

    • Market Hotline

    • Editor's Perspective

  • Special Report

  • General Interest

    • PIRINC: Additions to SPR not driving up oil prices
      A bipartisan political decision to fill the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) through the US Minerals Management Service's royalty-in-kind (RIK) program to take oil, rather than cash, in payment for royalties on offshore leases is not the cause of the run-up of world oil prices this year, said officials of the New York-based Petroleum Industry Research Foundation Inc. (PIRINC).
    • Oil firms, NGOs jointly develop biodiversity guidelines
      Four major international oil companies joined with five conservation-oriented nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to form the Energy & Biodiversity Initiative (EBI), a collaborative group that has developed industry guidelines for integrating biodiversity conservation into all upstream oil and gas operations from initial site selection through final decommissioning.
    • Jamaica seeks legal counsel over LNG price dispute
      Jamaica has sought a legal opinion from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat on whether Trinidad and Tobago is legally bound under terms of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) to provide Jamaica with concessionary prices for LNG, as Jamaica insists.
    • Iraqi oil exports hampered by pipeline saboteurs
      US efforts to restore Iraq's oil exports suffered a serious setback Aug. 17 when saboteurs blew up a section of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline for the second time in as many days.
    • Energy bill, blackout inquiry to top DC September agenda
      Responding to the US's biggest power failure ever, lawmakers and the White House said the country must update its energy policy sooner rather than later.
    • Watching Government: Beyond blackouts
      A blame game based around the Aug. 14 blackout that crippled the US Northeast and parts of eastern Canada could delay—but probably not derail—the passing of an energy bill by this fall.

  • Exploration & Development

  • Drilling & Production

  • Processing

  • Print Ad Index

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