Oil & Gas Journal Articles, Aug 2000

Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
    US natural gas prices are expected to sustain their current strong levels.
- Journally Speaking
  - GIS-controlled workflow
    In the industry's effort to bring oil and gas to market faster and cheaper, petroleum professionals have successfully applied a wide range of information technologies in their work.
- Editorial
  - Party politics and energy
    Presidential platforms by the two major US political parties give the oil and gas industry little to cheer.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
    The government let a contract for 10,000 sq km of exclusive multicomponent 3D seismic surveys in advance of a deepwater licensing round.
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
    New HydraBoss Xstream and XLX Tricone bits are on the market.
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
    Houston, has appointed Anne E. Dutcher as senior analyst.
General Interest
- Comprehensive Bangladesh gas strategy needed ahead of export decision
  Bangladesh faces extraordinary challenges in accessing modern energy sources.
- Watching Govenment: Splitting waters
  The problem of dividing the Caspian Sea's energy resources is, of course, tougher than the problem of finding them.
- Gas price strength spawns Canadian innovations
  Strength in natural gas prices is spawning innovative strategies in Canada.
- PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Regulated US natural gas sector sees flurry of leadership changes
  A flurry of changes within the regulated side of the US natural gas industry dominates this week's personnel news, as three big local distribution companies get new leadership.
- Watching the World: Macro e-conomics
  There was a common thread running through the various presentations made at one of the first e-commerce conferences held specifically for the oil and gas industry last year in London: definition.
Exploration & Development
- Incremental economics paramount in oil, gas evaluations
  As with any discipline, the techniques used for evaluating the economics of oil and gas investments have become progressively more sophisticated over time.
- Deep Panuke appraisal tests more gas off Nova Scotia
  Appraisal drilling on the Scotian shelf off eastern Canada has confirmed what PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. is calling "the most significant discovery in Atlantic Canada in more than a decade."
Drilling & Production
- Modern technologies provide environmental, economic incentives
  Modern solids-control technologies, when applied correctly, can reduce environmental wastes, lower drilling fluid and disposals costs, prevent stuck pipe, improve penetration rates, and reduce drill-bit wear.
- Program distributes rock properties for reservoir modeling
  Stochastic distributed rock properties from a random number generator may lead to, in some cases, reservoir models that are more realistic than their deterministic counterparts.
Processing
- Global refining margins on temporary upswing
  Global refining margins will continue to recover in the near term but may weaken later this year, says Purvin & Gertz Inc., Houston.
Transportation
- LNG UPDATE: LNG trade growth to drive vessel demand, set trading patterns
  Increased growth in LNG trade within the next 10 years will directly affect both vessel demand and traditional trading patterns for natural gas worldwide.
- First LNG arrives in Puerto Rico
  Increased growth in LNG trade within the next 10 years will directly affect both vessel demand and traditional trading patterns for natural gas worldwide.
- Japex uses new method for LNG transport
  Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. (Japex) has developed a new method for transporting LNG to Japan's domestic markets.
Special Report
- Coming to terms with risk in Caspian region yields more realistic production, investment outlook
  The Caspian Sea region is entering an exciting new phase as key exploration and development projects move into critical stages.
- Parker rig to drill in giant Tengiz field
  Parker Drilling Co., Tulsa, has completed the modification of its Rig 249, which will begin drilling in giant Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan for Tengizchevroil (TCO) in August.
- Caspian area refineries struggle to overcome Soviet legacy
  Refineries in the Caspian area are struggling to overcome their legacy of outdated technology from the Soviet era.
- Caspian pipeline prospects hinge on transparent, logical regulatory frameworks
  Whether Caspian oil and gas production will justify multiple export routes and when that might happen have been central strategic issues in the development of this hydrocarbon province.

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