Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
07/12/2004
Volume 102, Issue 26
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
Energy prices fluctuate with market reactions Energy futures prices fluctuated daily as markets reacted to changing supply indicators through the long US Independence Day holiday weekend.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Hubbert redux
What a year it's been.
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Hubbert redux
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
A full line of sealless diaphragm metering pumps can be integrated into a range of transfer, process, and recirculation systems for handling volatile fluids such as supercritical CO2 at high pressures.
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
Superior Energy Services Harvey, La., has announced several managerial promotions recently.
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Services/Suppliers
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Editor's Perspective
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Supply needs more attention in energy policy-making
Has the world's largest energy-consuming country learned anything from its recent bump against the limits of supply?
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Supply needs more attention in energy policy-making
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Market Hotline
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US refiners catching up on supply as margins slip
US refiners are catching up on supply of both feedstock and product. The result is already showing up in the form of reduced crude and gasoline prices.
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US refiners catching up on supply as margins slip
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General Interest
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Editorial - A push for tort reform
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has nudged the oil and gas industry, along with the rest of American business, toward a showdown over a problem that hurts commerce, burdens individuals, and undermines politics.
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US EPA reopens comment for NSR changes
Responding to pending legal challenges, the US Environmental Protection Agency said June 30 it will reconsider recent changes it wanted to make to a clean-air permit program for refineries, power plants, and other industrial operators.
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US House bill leaves oil, gas research funding intact
The US House of Representatives June 17 passed, by a 334-86 vote, a spending bill that largely keeps federal oil and natural gas research funding intact for the upcoming fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
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Watching Government - Taxing summer
A pending corporate tax bill may be as good as it gets this year for industry lobbyists still looking for energy legislation to come from a sharply divided Congress.
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Iran to modify oil laws, encourage foreign investment
Iran's Majlis (parliament) is changing its laws in order to entice foreign firms to participate more in its oil and gas development projects.
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Company News - Atmos Energy to acquire TXU Gas for $1.9 billion
Atmos Energy Corp. agreed to acquire its Dallas counterpart TXU Gas Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of TXU Corp., for $1.925 billion to create a natural gas distribution company having 3.1 million customers in 12 states.
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PIRA: Energy firms expected to post strong 2Q earnings
Oil and gas companies are expected to post much stronger net income in the second quarter compared with overall industry consensus, according to PIRA Energy Equity Research (PEER), a division of New York-based consulting firm PIRA Energy Group.
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WoodMac: OPEC's efforts carry 'unintended consequence'
Efforts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to satisfy world demand for crude this summer had the "unintended consequence" of reducing its spare production capacity, analysts said June 30.
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Imbalances among oil demand, reserves, alternatives define energy dilemma today
A sizzling world economy is expected to grow 2.7% in 2004, the second-highest rate since 1990.
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Editorial - A push for tort reform
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Special Report
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US Natural Gas STAR program success points to global opportunities to cut methane emissions cost-effectively
The production, processing, transmission, and distribution of natural gas worldwide releases as much as 88 billion cu m (bcm) of methane to the atmosphere annually.1
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Driller spearheads effort to baseline greenhouse gases
Driller spearheads effort to baseline greenhouse gases Drilling contractors can play an important role in eliminating redundant measurement and reporting carbon emissions from drilling operations.
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New solutions fix old problems with back and hand injuries
As injury rates continue to decline in the oil and gas industry, solutions to long-standing problems need to become more creative.
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US Natural Gas STAR program success points to global opportunities to cut methane emissions cost-effectively
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Exploration & Development
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Exploration effort forming in South Falklands basin
An exploration effort is beginning to take shape in a large basin south and southeast of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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EnCana reinforces emphasis on N. America resource plays
EnCana Corp., Calgary, is placing strong emphasis on so-called basin-centered or nonconventional resource plays in North America.
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Gas discovered in Bengal basin off eastern India
Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, gauged three discoveries with a combined 1 tcf of recoverable gas on the Bengal basin shelf in northeastern India.
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Gas development starting at La Vela, Venezuela
The Vinccler Oil & Gas CA unit of PetroFalcon Corp., Carpinteria, Calif., activated a completion rig to work over gas wells on the 400,000-acre East Falcon Block near the Caribbean in northern Venezuela.
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Apache sees Egypt's Qasr field as world class
Qasr field in Egypt's western desert is one of the larger onshore hydrocarbon discoveries in the world in the last couple of years, said Apache Corp., Houston.
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Exploration effort forming in South Falklands basin
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Processing
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Duke Energy installs first Morphysorb unit at Kwoen gas plant
The Morphysorb process, in its first commercial application at the Duke Energy Gas Transmission Corp.'s (DEGT) Kwoen plant, proved to have better performance than competing solvent processes.
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Duke Energy installs first Morphysorb unit at Kwoen gas plant
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Transportation
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Design guide developed for buried pipelines crossing active faults
An analysis of the response of buried continuous pipelines to active faults has led to development of a design guideline for both onshore and offshore pipelines at fault crossings.
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Design guide developed for buried pipelines crossing active faults
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