Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
05/21/2001
Volume 99, Issue 21
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Special Report
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Refinery exceeds industry benchmarks with maintenance outsourcing
Since it outsourced the maintenance part of its organization 2 years ago, Germany's Schmierstoff Raffinerie Salzbergen (SRS) lube oil refinery has achieved above industry average maintenance reliability.
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Gas-plant tests reveal cost-effective inspection, maintenance practices
Tests at selected gas processing plants indicate that the greatest opportunities for cost-effective reduction of natural gas losses are from the control of leaking equipment components and leakage of process gas into vent and flare systems.
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Study identifies new parameters for sourwater corrosion
As part of an ongoing sourwater corrosion study, 15 major refiners and engineering service companies have identified two seldom considered parameters in sourwater corrosion: wall shear stress and process creep.
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Refinery exceeds industry benchmarks with maintenance outsourcing
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Exploration & Development
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Black Warrior Knox gas production on growth trend in Mississippi
The Black Warrior basin in Mississippi has the potential for significant gas reserves in Cambro-Ordovician rocks. Evidence for this potential has been accumulating through the years as occasional wells tested the sequence.
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Black Warrior Knox gas production on growth trend in Mississippi
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Drilling & Production
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Method optimizes Aghajari oil field gas lift
A new approach determined gas-lift valve spacing for an optimized artificial-lift system in the Aghajari oil field in southwestern Iran.
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Three-lateral splitter allows individual zone access in Oklahoma well
Baker Oil Tools says its first-ever commercial application of a stackable splitter, Level 6, three-lateral completion in an Oklahoma gas field provided greater initial production rates than single borehole producers.
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Method optimizes Aghajari oil field gas lift
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Processing
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US gas-processing profitability statistics begin in this issue
Beginning in this issue, Oil & Gas Journal will report several profitability measures for gas processing.
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Tests show diesel additive reduces emissions
Results of engine-bench tests of its diesel fuel additive showed reductions in toxic emissions that comply with or are lower than CARB (California Air Resources Board) clean air standards, said Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. (CDT), Stamford, Conn.
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US gas-processing profitability statistics begin in this issue
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Transportation
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PERMAFROST PIPELINING - Conclusion: Instrumentation yields geotechnical picture of slope movements along northern Canadian pipeline
Inertial pigging of a short section on the 323-mm (12 in. nominal) OD Norman Wells crude oil pipeline from Norman Wells, NWT, to Zama, Alta., revealed the line had experienced an increase in internal diameter, suggesting a localized wrinkle.
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PERMAFROST PIPELINING - Conclusion: Instrumentation yields geotechnical picture of slope movements along northern Canadian pipeline
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
The latest IEA figures released show another drop in projected 2001 oil demand.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Preventive maintenance is key
Common sense tells us that proper maintenance of oil and gas processing facilities is key, in today's tight energy market, to ensure continuous, uninterrupted operation.
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Preventive maintenance is key
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Area Drilling
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Area Drilling
China National Offshore Oil Corp. signed a production sharing contract with Santa Fe Energy Resources (China) Ltd. for Block 27/10, Pearl River Mouth basin, South China Sea.
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Area Drilling
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
In new and retrofit applications, WORM flexible sensors for thermowell temperature assemblies replace straight sensor probes with a universal sensor strategy.
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
Bank of Texas Dallas, has promoted Tim Merrell to senior vice-president of its energy lending department.
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Services/Suppliers
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General Interest
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Editorial: Europe and fuel sulfur
With its proposal to remove nearly all sulfur from gasoline and diesel fuel, the European Commission threatens to follow the precautionary principle on global warming up an economic smokestack.
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Newly combined GTI coping with US natural gas industry R&D challenges of gas supply, pipeline safety
Gas Technology Institute, the result of combining the two leading US natural gas research and development organizations, has marked progress in creating a "one-stop-shopping" venue for gas R&D.
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US officials hopeful for full federal oil and gas R&D funding
Strong support in Congress and within industry may help restore funding to oil and gas research programs that the US Department of Energy's budget proposal would cut, administration and industry officials have said.
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House Democrats unveil their own energy plan
Two days before the White House was to release its long-awaited energy task force report at presstime on May 17, US House Democrats last week unveiled their own energy blueprint for the future.
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Watching Government: Mixed signals on sanctions
Industry hopes that the Bush administration would be able to convince Congress to move forward with sanction reforms this summer are fading fast.
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Watching the World: Norway setting up its stall
Lining up Norway's 30-year-old state-owned oil and gas giant Statoil AS for partial privatization, while at the same time reapportioning a slice of the country's lucrative stake in its offshore assets, the SDFI, has, understandably, been a slow-rolling process for the Scandinavian country.
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COMPANY NEWS: Kerr-McGee to buy HS Resources for $2.15 billion
The consolidation trend between major energy companies and independent exploration and production companies would appear to be picking up some momentum.
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PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Phillips to reorganize key personnel following close of Tosco acquisition
Pending the completion of its acquisition of Old Greenwich, Conn.-based refiner Tosco Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co. has announced the designation of personnel to its new refining, marketing, and transportation (RM&T) unit.
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Editorial: Europe and fuel sulfur
