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Oil & Gas Journal

02/23/2004
Volume 102, Issue 8
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  • Regular Features

    • Letters

      • Letters
        Catching up on some reading, I just came across your proposal (OGJ, Jan, 5, 2004, p. 15) to base traffic penalties on vehicle weight.

    • OGJ Newsletter

      • OGJ Newsletter
        World oil supplies remained relatively level at 82.1 million b/d during January, with production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries falling by 145,000 b/d and non-OPEC production up by 130,000 b/d, said officials at the International Energy Agency, Paris, in their latest monthly report.

    • Journally Speaking

      • Producing the third phase
        Water, the third phase in petroleum production, represents a massive liquid volume that operators have to handle and dispose of cost-effectively and in an environmentally sound manner.

    • Area Drilling

      • Area Drilling
        Santos Ltd. was drilling an exploratory well on the Sampang production sharing contract in the East Java basin 40 km southeast of Surabaya.

    • Equip/Software/Lit

      • Equipment/Software/Literature
        The new 561N pipelayer features an electronically controlled engine with more power and reduced emissions, new fingertip controls and better viewing area for the operator, and improved serviceability.

    • Editor's Perspective

    • Market Hotline

  • General Interest

    • Editorial - The motives in Iraq
      Controversy over weapons of mass destruction obscures other motives, real and imagined, for the military strike in Iraq last March.
    • Lifting the veil of Norwegian natural gas: One year of 'conventional' gas sales
      The rapid implementation of a radically new natural gas transportation regime in Norway reflects a broader revolution getting under way in Europe's gas markets.
    • Senate leaders pledge to consider leaner energy bill
      US Senate leaders Feb. 12 pledged to take a leaner energy bill to the Senate floor when Congress returns from a 1 week break Feb. 23.
    • White House urges Congress to keep ILSA flexible
      The White House told the US Congress that an existing law designed to discourage non-US companies from investing in either Iran or Libya should continue to give President George W. Bush wide discretion as to when or if sanctions are appropriate.
    • Watching Government - Safe and secure
      The US Congress faces an important challenge this year as it considers ways to keep nearly half a million miles of oil, natural gas and product pipelines safe and secure.
    • API: US petroleum demand rises 'only modestly' in 2003
      US demand for petroleum rose "only modestly" in 2003, part of a long-term trend in which US oil consumption has increased by only a fraction of the rate of the overall economy, officials of the American Petroleum Institute reported last month in Washington, DC.
    • UK offers new 'Frontier' license area west of Shetlands
      A new "Frontier" license that allows offshore operators to apply for relatively large acreage on the UK's Atlantic margin or continental shelf west of the Shetland and Orkney islands at significantly reduced costs will be offered in the next UK offshore licensing round.
    • Company News - Plains Exploration to acquire Nuevo Energy
      Plains Exploration & Production Co. has agreed to acquire Houston rival Nuevo Energy Co. in a stock transaction valued at $945 million. Upon closing, Nuevo stockholders will own 47%, and Plains Exploration stockholders will own 53% of the combined company.
    • El Paso slashes its reserves estimates by 41%
      El Paso Corp. has reduced its proven oil and natural gas reserves estimate by 1.8 tcfe, or 41%, leaving the company with 2.64 tcfe as of Dec. 31, 2003. Of that total, 66% is proved developed reserves.
    • Personnel Moves & Promotions
      Several principals from Matador Petroleum Corp. have founded Matador Resources Co., Dallas (see Company News, p. 31).

  • Exploration & Development

  • Special Report

  • Processing

  • Transportation

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