Oil & Gas Journal Articles, Nov 2003

Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
    Energy futures prices escalated in New York and London on Nov. 5 as traders were surprised by reports of lower-than-expected US inventories of oil and petroleum products.
- Journally Speaking
  - Fixing industry's image
    An early September internet survey asked readers for their opinions of what they thought was responsible for the recent spike in US gasoline prices.
- Editorial
  - The Kremlin's crackdown
    What now for Russia?
- Letters
  - Letters
    In your OGJ, Oct. 6, 2003, p. 19 issue, Cal Hodge pays special attention to ethanol's supposed negative net energy balance ("Ethanol's energy contribution: real or imagined?).
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Completion system expanded with new choke
    The capability of the InForce Intelligent Completion system has been expended via the new downhole HCM-A hydraulically adjustable choke.
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
    Al Bass-Trigon provides integrity management, risk assessment, pipeline compliance, corrosion data management software and engineering service, and field computer solutions for the worldwide petroleum and natural gas pipeline industry.
- Editor's Perspective
  - Price-gouging a hollow complaint in still-risky Iraq
    As attacks escalated in Baghdad this week, so did accusations in Washington, DC, about fuel-price gouging by US contractors.
- Market Hotline
  - Kremlin squeeze of Yukos bullish for oil prices
    Kremlin squeeze of Yukos bullish for oil prices There's a possible new wild card in play that's supportive of higher prices in the near to middle term.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
    Consol Energy Inc., Pittsburgh, hiked its gas production in the quarter ended Sept. 30, and it expects another increase in the fourth quarter.
General Interest
- What happened to US gasoline prices this time?
  In August, US gasoline customers witnessed a sharp escalation in pump prices, which only recently began to abate.
- Iraq transparency
  Within 6 months, a new international auditing panel will issue the first of what will likely be several reports detailing how the US will spend Iraq's petrodollars.
- US delays new Iraq oil infrastructure contracts
  The US Army Corps of Engineers Oct. 29 said it expects as long as a 2-month delay in awarding two new Iraq oil infrastructure contracts because it plans to expand the value of the original tender.
- US downplays, denies Iranian offer of oil swaps with Iraq
  The US has downplayed an Iranian offer of oil swaps with Iraq, saying no such arrangements are in place or even envisaged as a means of assisting in the reconstruction of the war torn country.
- Jordan again buys crude oil from Iraq
  Jordan signed an agreement with Iraq Oct. 31 to purchase 2.6 million bbl of crude for $70 million to ensure supplies for the remainder of the current year, officials announced.
- Iraqi oil exports face delays after pipeline sabotage
  Even as Iraq announced the signing of a contract with a South African security firm for the protection of its oil infrastructure, petroleum officials reported a further delay in exports from the Turkish port of Ceyhan due to sabotage along the northern pipeline system.
- US Senate junks mandatory climate change emissions plan
  The US Senate on a 55-43 vote Oct. 30 rejected a bipartisan mandatory carbon dioxide reduction plan unpopular with most US oil companies and power generators.
- US refiners on target to meet low-sulfur highway diesel rules
  Refiners are on target to supply federally mandated low-sulfur highway diesel fuel in the next 4-6 years, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Oct. 30.
- IEA: $16 trillion in energy investment needed by 2030
  The world will have to invest $16 trillion—1% of global gross domestic product—over the next 3 decades just to maintain its present level of energy supplies, said Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
- World entering into new natural gas era, executive says
  The world is entering a new era in which natural gas is becoming an energy driver, as crude oil has been for more that a century—but there are issues and obstacles to reaching that potential.
- Quick US energy bill passage needed for Alaska gas pipeline development
  Getting quick passage of the energy legislation now before the US Senate is critical to the planned timeline for an Alaska-Alberta natural gas pipeline.
- Putin seizes Yukos shares; Yukos names new CEO
  When Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to seize the OAO Yukos shares held by Yukos executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky—who was arrested Oct. 25 at gunpoint—he raised the stakes in the Kremlin's battle with the country's wealthiest oil magnate (OGJ, Nov. 3, 2003, p. 38).
- White House to sign Iraq reconstruction bill into law
  At presstime last week, US President George W. Bush was expected to sign an $87.5 billion Iraq and Afghanistan spending bill that earmarks $18.6 billion in grants for Iraq reconstruction.
Exploration & Development
- New approach offered to smooth fiscal system analysis and design
  The manner in which the economic and system measures of a fiscal regime interact with exogenous and user-defined parameters is complex and complicated, and usually difficult to decipher and understand.
Special Report
- WITSML emerging as international industry standard
  Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language (WITSML) is an emerging international data exchange standard.
- R&D programs yield advances in drilling technologies
  Applied technology projects sponsored by government, academia, and industry offer improved tools and techniques for drilling.
Processing
- Tesoro refinery improves operation efficiency in amine treating unit
  The Tesoro refinery, Kapolei, Ha., improved operation of its hydrogen plant amine unit by switching to a specialty amine.
Transportation
- FERC Hackberry decision will spur more US LNG terminal development
  A significant shift in US regulatory policy has occurred as a result of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision late last year to allow US LNG import terminals to operate without complying with open-access requirements and to charge market-based rates.
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