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Oil & Gas Journal

12/01/2003
Volume 101, Issue 46
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  • Regular Features

    • Letters

      • Drilling technology
        I read with interest your article "R&D programs yield advances in drilling technologies" (OGJ, Nov. 10, 2003, p, 55), in particular the sections on TTRD and coiled tubing.

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        Futures prices for oil and petroleum products plummeted Nov. 24 as Geneva-based Petrologistics estimated that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeded their new oil production quotas by a total of 1 million b/d in November.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Taking the lead
        Building oil and gas pipelines hits terrain and surrounding habitat as no other industry activity.

    • Editorial

      • Energy and tort reform
        The same week Congress rejected energy legislation stuffed with as much to regret as to cheer, it also served up a Medicare-reform bill brimming with heartburn.

    • Area Drilling

      • New Zealand
        The Energy Ministry plans to announce successful bids in January 2004 from among 23 bids received for 17 blocks offered in the offshore/onshore Taranaki basin bid round.

    • Editor's Perspective

      • Prohibiting routes for arctic gas subverts energy policy
        The House-Senate conference committee that disgorged the omnibus energy bill the Senate rejected on Nov. 21 made half of a good decision on a pipeline that would carry natural gas southward from the North American Arctic.

    • Market Hotline

      • OPEC in disarray ahead of next meeting?
        The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision at their last ministerial meeting to cut production quotas by 900,000 b/d, effective Nov. 1, took the market by surprise.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Services/Suppliers
        Lafayette, La., has appointed James Moore as vice-president of engineering, and Yancy Williams as manager of projects, both located in Comm's Houston office.

  • General Interest

    • Point of View - Vintage Petroleum CEO seeking geographic balance
      Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, has transformed itself from a US Midcontinent and Gulf Coast niche player in the early 1990s into an international company with operations in Argentina, Canada, Bolivia, Yemen, and Italy.
    • Rising oil, gas investment put at $5.3 trillion to 2030
      Oil companies will have to invest a whopping $5.3 trillion over the next 30 years to supply the world's increasing demand for oil and natural gas, Paris-based International Energy Agency said Nov. 20.
    • OPEC price band 'too wide but also too high,' analyst says
      It's only a matter of time before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will be forced "to revisit the dilemma of high price vs. market share," said Luis E. Giusti, senior advisor with the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies.
    • ExxonMobil executive calls CO2 emissions a 'huge' issue
      Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions growth is a "huge" issue for the energy industry as it works to fulfill a global energy demand that is expected to rise 40% by 2020, an ExxonMobil Corp. executive said.
    • DOT: Deepwater focus turns to smaller fields
      DOT: Deepwater focus turns to smaller fields The focus of deepwater oil and natural gas production technology (in 2,000-3,000 m of water) now is on less costly and less risky methods for bringing on stream smaller satellite fields, about 100-300 million boe.
    • DOT: Forecasters expect strong deepwater activity trend
      Although their forecast numbers differ, John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood Ltd., Canterbury, UK, and Paul Hillegeist, president of Quest Offshore Resources Inc., Houston, both expect deepwater development activity to increase greatly during the next decade.
    • US Senate bill would restrict Saudi travel, exports
      Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and six colleagues Nov. 18 introduced a bill that restricts Saudi diplomats' travel in the US and discourages US companies from exporting certain defense-related goods to the kingdom.
    • Watching Government: Nigeria transparency
      Nigeria last month said it would publicly disclose all government oil and gas revenue.
    • Senate GOP leaders affirm energy bill dead for the year
      US Senate Republican leaders late Nov. 24 decided to drop a pending energy bill nearly 3 years in the making because they could not secure enough votes to cut off debate on the measure.
    • MMS ups Gulf of Mexico deep gas reserves estimate
      The US Minerals Management Service increased its estimate of "technically recoverable" deep natural gas reserves on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico to 15-55 tcf from previous estimates of 5-20 tcf, based on new data from wells drilled below 15,000 ft in the last 2-3 years and reinterpretation of previous data.
    • Company News - Pakistan begins privatization of OGDCL; issues IPO
      Pakistan soon plans to invite expressions of interest for the sale of 51% of its state-owned exploration and production company, Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDCL), to a strategic buyer or buyers.

  • Exploration & Development

    • Reevaluation defines attractive areas in Peru's Ucayali-Ene basin
      This project presents a regional geophysical and geological evaluation to identify new play types in the Ucayali-Ene basin of Peru through the interpretation of digital seismic and well data, defining the stratigraphic and structural framework of the basin, combined with an analysis of the exploratory drilling since 1990.

  • Special Report

    • Underbalanced, near-balanced drilling are possible offshore
      Drilling underbalanced, or near balancedwith lightweight drilling fluids, has practical applications offshore.
    • A primer on underbalanced drilling
      1. Drilling mud weighted with bentonite or other heavy material is used to create a hydrostatic head pressure that keeps the well under control by overbalancing the formation pore pressure. This is called "conventional drilling" today.
    • North American drilling to increase in 2004
      Banc of America Securities analysts last month pointed out a disturbing trend�natural gas production added per year, per rig in the continental US has been declining since 2000. This conclusion was among data presented in the 2004 Natural Gas Price Outlook and E&P Sector Update conference call, held Oct. 22, 2003.

  • Drilling & Production

  • Processing

  • Transportation

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