Oil & Gas Journal Articles, Aug 2005

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- Advertising Index
  Advertisers in the print issue.
Regular Features
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
    The energy ministry signed a protocol with Fusion Petroleum Technologies Inc., The Woodlands, Tex.
- Editor's Perspective
  - Gasoline price answers neglect elevated costs
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
    The new version 9.0 Pipephase reporting system allows engineers to analyze data and present results using familiar Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets.
- Journally Speaking
  - Industry connections
    In a horizontal magazine, categorization can be a challenge-but a welcome one.
- Market Journal
  - Questions raised over ‘demand pessimism’
    After the International Energy Agency and Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries lowered their forecasts for annual average oil demand this year, analyst Paul Horsnell of Barclays Capital Inc.
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
    Despite last-minute attempts at a tradeoff, the compromise energy bill that emerged from a House-Senate conference committee last week lacked product-defect liability protection for makers of methyl tertiary butyl ether (see story, p. 25).
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
    Houston, has announced the appointment of Martin S. Craighead as president of Baker Inteq, succeeding Ray Ballantyne, who is retiring after 30 years of service with the company.
- Letters
  - Letters
    As the price of crude oil continues to rise, political leaders and public officials have called for increased reliance on biomass-based fuels, such as ethanol made from corn and biodiesel made from soybeans, as substitutes for petroleum-based fuels.
Drilling & Production
- Extended-reach drilling extends life of CNOOC field
  China National Offshore Oil Corp. Ltd. (CNOOC) successfully used extended-reach drilling (ERD) to produce shallow carbonate reservoirs in the Liuhua oil field, South China Sea.
- Models predict cost savings of Louisiana program
  Several models can predict the range of savings that companies can expect by participating in the Louisiana artificial-reef program.
Exploration & Development
- Operator to join Arkoma Fayetteville shale gas play
  Another operator plans to spud its first well in the Arkoma basin Mississippian Fayetteville shale gas play in September.
- Oxy group to steam heavy oil from Oman’s Mukhaizna field
  A group led by Occidental Petroleum Corp. hopes to recover 1 billion bbl of heavy, viscous oil from Mukhaizna field in south-central Oman.
- PGS shoots 4C 3D survey in deep water off Brazil
  Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS), Oslo, completed a four-component (4C) 3D seismic survey of a 45 sq km area of giant Roncador oil field in as much as 1,860 m of water off Brazil.
- Salawati basin activity building in, off northeastern Indonesia
  A group led by PetroChina International subsidiaries is building oil and gas reserves in the Salawati basin of northeastern Indonesia.
- Saudi Aramco lets contract for Khurais field development
  Saudi Aramco let a front-end engineering and project-management services contract to Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd.
- Shell collects multipass, long offset data on gulf fields
  The US unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC let a contract to Multiwave Geophysical Co.
General Interest
- Editorial: The energy bill
  Congress, at this writing last week, was ready to pass a comprehensive energy bill.
- Agencies act on permit fees, stripper wells, floating platforms
  As a House and Senate energy conference tried to resolve differences and produce a final energy bill, the Interior Department and its two main divisions that regulate oil and gas exploration and production took two actions and proposed a third.
- Energy bill passes conference, heads for Congress
  A House and Senate conference completed its work on the 2005 energy bill after jettisoning a provision that would have provided limited liability protection for producers of methyl tertiary butyl ether.
- Group urges dissolution of disputed South Sudan license
  An international rights watchdog group has called for the dissolution of an oil exploration contract between White Nile Ltd.
- Watching Government: Field hearings look at NEPA
  A House Resources Committee task force reviewing the National Environmental Policy Act was to hold the fourth of six field hearings Aug.
- Watching the World: Explosion hits Ufa refinery
  Bashkortostan’s oil industry could be facing big trouble after an explosion at the 130,000-b/d Novo-Ufimsk refinery.
Processing
- Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
- C3 prices, inventories show modest increases
  Propane prices and inventories increased slightly in second-quarter 2005.
Special Report
- Forces beyond demand growth reshaping trade in oil and gas
  Patterns of trade in oil and natural gas, while never static, are entering a period of fundamental change.
Transportation
- Stray currents influence pipeline corrosion monitoring, mitigation
  European field monitoring programs and subsequent laboratory investigations have shown that excessive cathodic protection (CP), combined with induced AC, enhances the risk of corrosion.

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