Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
05/15/2000
Volume 98, Issue 20
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Special Report
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Drive to lower transportation costs key for many gas projects
Wide fluctuations in energy prices have caused some concern over the viability of new capital-intensive natural gas projects.
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Asian demand growth driving global gas trade outlook
Asia's booming natural gas demand growth will be the driver in international gas trade in the years to come.
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Trans-Korean gas pipeline could help Asia energy security, environmental problems
Since the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been caught up in the great integrative trend for trade and business that is called globalization.
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Drive to lower transportation costs key for many gas projects
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General Interest
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Deepwater concerns main OTC focus of technology agenda
Deepwater challenges dominated technical presentations at the recent Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
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Supersonic gas separation held out for offshore gas conditioning
Hope for large offshore gas separation and conditioning that doesn't require much platform space nor produce pollution got a boost at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
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Company News: Top US firms replace 98% of reserves during 1999
The 50 largest US oil and gas companies were able to sustain their reserve replacement levels in 1999 despite a 25% decline in capital spending, according to petroleum research analyst John S. Herold Inc.
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Personnel moves and promotions
The supermajors that are leading the charge into the Gulf of Mexico's deep water are shuffling their organizations to high-grade that effort (see related story, p. 22).
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Watching Government: POGO's predicament
A public advocacy group dedicated to unlocking government secrets is working hard to keep a few of its own.
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Deepwater concerns main OTC focus of technology agenda
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Exploration & Development
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Bolivia's sedimentary basins hold large gas, oil potential
The Republic of Bolivia is a land-locked country that comprises 1,098,582 sq km (424,163 sq miles), equal to the size of California and Texas combined.
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Bolivia's sedimentary basins hold large gas, oil potential
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Drilling & Production
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Geologic CO2 sequestration may benefit upstream industry
Should restrictions on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions arise, operators in the upstream petroleum industry with the right technology and reservoir access will be positioned to benefit from the emerging geologic sequestration industry.
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First Marlim Sul field module to get $1.2 billion investment
The first of four modules in Petroleo Brasiliero SA's Marlim Sul field, in the deepwater Campos basin off Brazil, is due on stream in the second half 2000.
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Competitive pressure introduces disparate bicenter design
In response to competitive pressures introduced by recent shoe drill-out achievements, major bit manufacturers have begun using disparate bit features to drill reliably through plugs, packers, and formations in one run, while retaining toolface control throughout complex build and tangent sections.
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Geologic CO2 sequestration may benefit upstream industry
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Processing
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Guide to World Crudes
Four Mexican crude assays updated
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Australia LNG eyes equity in Indian petrochemical project
An Australian LNG marketing venture has lined up a possible equity stake in an Indian petrochemicals and power complex to promote sales of LNG to the complex.
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CHP unit on line at Esso's Fawley refinery
Another UK refinery has started commercial operations for an adjoining combined heat and power plant.
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Guide to World Crudes
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Transportation
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Belgian gas-storage site gets direct-drive compressor
Natural gas transporter and distributor Distrigaz NV, Brussels, has installed a fifth compressor at its Loenhout mixing plant and underground natural-gas storage site that is powered directly by a diesel engine, eliminating the need for a diesel generating set.
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Plug assists valve changeout on South China Sea platform
PTTEP, Thailand petroleum authority's exploration and production unit, has taken receipt of what the supplier, Pipeline Engineering, Richmond, North Yorkshire, UK, calls a unique gas pipeline low-pressure plug.
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Belgian gas-storage site gets direct-drive compressor
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
The global refining sector has staged a remarkable recovery this year after touching bottom a year ago.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Letters
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Understanding Hubbert curve
The content of Mr. Laherrere's article (OGJ, Apr. 17, 2000, p. 63) is interesting and useful.
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Future natural gas problems
For the first time in my 55 years in the industry, we have essentially no excess capacity to produce natural gas in North America.
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Project planning and the environment
We read the article titled "An Industry Can Learn From Past Project Failures" (OGJ, Apr. 24, 2000, p. 37) with much interest because it describes pitfalls commonly encountered in the planning and execution of a complex project. Although we are in agreement with much of Mr. Rothman's account of things that can go awry, we believe certain aspects of project planning and development have not been adequately addressed.
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Understanding Hubbert curve
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Journally Speaking
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Recovering space history
For the survey crews of John E. Chance & Associates Inc., Lafayette, La.-part of the multinational Fugro group of companies-the job site is usually a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Recovering space history
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
System detects and locates third party intrusions
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Editorial
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Waiting for a new Iraq
The oil business generates many surprises. Iraq should not be one of them.
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Waiting for a new Iraq
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
eNersection.com, Houston, Tex., has named Thomas A. (Tom) Lopus vice president - director of client operations.
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Services/Suppliers
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