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Oil & Gas Journal

06/28/2004
Volume 102, Issue 24
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  • Regular Features

    • Letters

      • Saudi oil supply
        Saudi oil supply With regard to the Saudi ultimate oil supply role, the Saudi Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Mr. Al-Naimi, made the following statement in an interview (OGJ, Apr. 5, 2004, p. 18): "My firm belief is that the last barrel of oil produced is going to be from Saudi Arabia.

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        Energy prices seesawed daily early last week, with the new near-month August contract for US light, sweet crudes falling 68¢ to $37.57/bbl June 23 on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the US spot market price for West Texas Intermediate slipping 45¢ to $37.68/bbl after the US Energy Information Administration reported US crude inventories jumped by 2.5 million bbl to 305.4 million bbl in the week ended June 18—the highest level since the week ended Aug. 2, 2002.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Comfort lost
        Comfort lost It makes for chilling reading: Staff Statement No. 16 for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9-11 Commission" (http://www.9-11commission.gov/).

    • Equip/Software/Lit

      • Equipment/Software/Literature
        New IRIS in-line scrubber technology offers operators of reciprocating and turbocompressors an alternative to traditional methods of separating liquids from gas in pipelines.

    • Services/Suppliers

      • Services/Suppliers
        Houston, has named Cody Scace as vice-president of operations, and Robin Macmillan as vice-president of sales and marketing.

    • Editor's Perspective

    • Market Hotline

      • US gas prices on summer teeter-totter
        The cooling season is upon us with a vengeance. A recent heat wave across the US, in tandem with outages at several nuclear power plants, has helped nudge natural gas spot and futures prices back up.

  • General Interest

  • Exploration & Development

  • Drilling & Production

    • Vp/Vs Crossplots identify reservoir fluids
      Field examples from the Western Desert of Egypt show the effectiveness of compressional-wave velocity (Vp) and shear-wave velocity (Vs) crossplots for identifying the type of fluid contained in a formation.

  • Special Report

    • 2003: Processing outside North America nearly grabs the lead
      With 2003 natural gas production outside the US and Canada growing and North American production (excluding Mexico) falling, it is little wonder that gas processing activity last year made healthy advances almost everywhere but in the US and Canada, where activity continued to shrink.
    • Middle East gas plant to expand
      In one of the many LPG projects throughout the Middle East, Bahrain National Gas Co. (Banagas) last month awarded Foster Wheeler Ltd. a frontend engineering and design contract to revamp Banagas' 280-MMcfd gas plant at the Bahrain oil field, south of Awali.
    • Growth in world's LPG trade threatened by high prices, global uncertainties
      Global demand for LPG has grown rapidly for many years. Much of this growth has occurred in regions east of the Suez Canal, which has shifted international trade patterns.
    • US gas-quality specs may burden LNG imports
      The weak US gas processing economic environment may increase the cost of imported LNG, as LNG importers are forced to process imported LNG volumes in order to meet US pipeline specifications.

  • Transportation

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