Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
02/14/2005
Volume 103, Issue 6
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Regular Features
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Letters
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Letters
It has taken almost 30 years (since the giant Anschutz Ranch field discovery in 1975) to revisit Great basin Hingeline geology—leading to another giant oil and gas discovery in 2004.
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Letters
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
Lukens Energy Group, Houston, forecasts that natural gas prices at Henry Hub will average $5.25-6/MMbtu for 2005 based upon the consultant's expectations for fuel oil prices.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
New unit detects, measures VOCs Here's the MicroFID flame ionization detector.
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Editor's Perspective
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Iraqis deserve expectation that they'll succeed
Iraqis deserve expectation that they'll succeed Iraq's election Jan. 30 did more than testify to the manifest courage of a long-oppressed and still-beleaguered people.
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Iraqis deserve expectation that they'll succeed
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Market Journal
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Market balance changed between OPEC meetings
Market balance changed between OPEC meetings In less than 2 months after the December meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the global balance between crude supply and demand tightened to the point where it was unnecessary for the group to adjust production at its Jan. 30 meeting, as some earlier predicted.
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Market balance changed between OPEC meetings
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Journally Speaking
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A learning process
More so than people, businesses must heed the oracle at Delphi, Greece: Know thyself.
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A learning process
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
Aberdeen, UK, has established a new division in Stavanger, Norway, Altra Energy Norge AS. Managing director of the new division is Graeme Dick.
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Services/Suppliers
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General Interest
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Editorial: UN distress grows
What kind of world do people want? A world of opportunity for everyone or a world in which the well situated get rich and the poor lose hope?
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Surging Asian demand dominates world energy outlook
China and India took center stage as four forecasters described possible implications of their surging energy demand at a recent hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Oil market shock still possible, IFP president says
The oil market remains vulnerable to shocks like those of the 1970s, warned Olivier Appert, president of Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP), in his annual assessment delivered at the Panorama symposium Feb. 3 in Paris.
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Indonesia riles LNG buyers with supply disruption
Indonesia riles LNG buyers with supply disruption Indonesia's reputation as a reliable supplier of liquefied natural gas has come into question once again due to a new disruption of supply, even as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to ramp up production.
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Watching the World: The Turkmen gas squeeze
Turkmenistan's natural gas industry is acting up these days—and with good reason.
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Iraqi oil production will depend on political developments, oil minister says
The production capacity of Iraqi oil in 2005 will primarily depend on political developments in the country after the Jan. 30 elections and the possibility of forming a harmonious government, according to Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir al-Ghadban.
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Iraqi oil output seen below capacity again in 2005
Sabotage and technical problems will keep Iraqi oil production below capacity levels again this year, said a report from World Markets Research Centre, part of Global Insight Inc. (GI) of London.
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Editorial: UN distress grows
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Special Report
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Deepwater Africa reaches turning point
Production from West Africa is at a turning point. The traditional West Africa shallow-water play is declining, and several deepwater developments discovered in the mid to late 1990s are now coming on stream.
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Deepwater Africa reaches turning point
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Exploration & Development
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Newfoundland's Grand Banks presents untested oil and gas potential in eastern North America
With production levels at approximately 350,000 b/d of oil from two producing fields and a third field approaching first oil, the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador is emerging as a significant player on the international oil and gas stage.
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Newfoundland's Grand Banks presents untested oil and gas potential in eastern North America
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Drilling & Production
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Operator draws on new drilling optimization systems in Western Canada
Operator draws on new drilling optimization systems in Western Canada Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. used two new drilling optimization techniques developed by Baker Hughes—an expert system for drill bit selection and software to predict the achievable rate of penetration—to improve risk management in Western Canada.
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Blake Ridge provides data for assessing deepwater gas hydrates
Three scenarios using data from the Blake Ridge area off the US southeastern coast explain possible ways for exploiting gas-hydrate deposits found in deep water.
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Operator draws on new drilling optimization systems in Western Canada
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Processing
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Assessment, planning define capabilities, design for gasoline blending project
A capability assessment of a North American refinery's gasoline blending system helped the company determine if it was a good candidate for upgrading to an advanced control system.
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Assessment, planning define capabilities, design for gasoline blending project
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Transportation
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Where we are going: SWOT analysis aids risk assessment
The evolution and developments described in Part 1 of this series (OGJ, Jan. 24, 2005, p. 54) have fundamentally changed the nature of the international LNG industry particularly in the past 5 to 10 years. It is with these new international LNG market dynamics in mind that this concluding article presents a generic Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis (Fig. 1).
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Where we are going: SWOT analysis aids risk assessment
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