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  • Volume 100, Issue 18

    • Volume 100, Issue 18

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    New kinetic method models VGO hydrocracking

    May 6, 2002
    A simple first-order kinetic model of hydrocracking reactions using pseudocomponents closes the gap between the process and a model of the separation and reaction network. The...
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    Water-injected flare tips reduce radiated heat, noise

    May 6, 2002
    Several case studies illustrate the benefits of an ultra-low radiation, water-injected, sonic flare tip.
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    Unocal focuses on ‘people’ factors to improve deepwater drilling performance

    May 6, 2002
    In recent years the petroleum industry has relied heavily on technological advancement for the much-needed improvement in its drilling efficiency.
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    Offshore industry confronts issues, new market cycles

    May 6, 2002
    The offshore oil and gas industry’s ability to grapple with the many issues facing it is being tested by continuing–and briefer–boom and bust cycles.
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    How US Gulf of Mexico development, finding, cost trends have evolved

    May 6, 2002
    The US Gulf of Mexico is a major source of domestic oil and gas supplies. Recently, some have begun to speculate that this important producing area will soon experience a decline...

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    SPE’s Mark Rubin: OTC an opportunity for industry to tell public its story on environment

    May 6, 2002
    The 34th annual Offshore Technology Conference opens this week in a new facility in Houston and under a new executive manager for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
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    Watching Government: Enron Fallout

    May 6, 2002
    The Enron Corp. financial disaster and its reverberating political damage could help facilitate new rules designed to tame increasingly volatile international energy markets.
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    Senate bill deemed interim step for comprehensive US energy policy

    May 6, 2002
    Major oil companies and independents both said they see a recently passed Senate energy bill as an important step in finalizing a comprehensive US energy policy.
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    IADC: Management must equate safety with profits

    May 6, 2002
    To be effective in its safety initiatives, the oil and gas industry must incorporate safety into management systems, making it equal in importance to production and profits.
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    US oil, gas industry seen entering long-term recovery

    May 6, 2002
    Natural gas prices in the US will recover sharply this year. Next year promises to be a very good year for the number of drilling rigs working and for the use of coiled tubing...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 6, 2002
    In his first meeting with the press since being named president of Petroleos de Venezula SA, Alí Rodríguez Araque last week emphasized that Venezuela still firmly supports the...
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    Pipeline safety progress noted at API pipeline conference

    May 6, 2002
    Gathering in Dallas last month for the 53rd annual American Petroleum Institute Pipeline Conference, US pipeline industry executives and managers faced the same challenge as when...
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    COMPANY NEWS: EnCana buys gas reserves in Colorado Rocky Mountains

    May 6, 2002
    Units of EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. will acquire natural gas and NGL assets in the Northwest Colorado Rocky Mountains from El Paso Corp., Houston, for $461 million (Can.).
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Shell Oil elects Watts chairman, Routs president

    May 6, 2002
    Shell Oil Co., Houston, has elected Philip Watts, chairman. Watts will take up the US chairmanship Sept. 1 while continuing in his role as chairman of the committee of managing...
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    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    May 6, 2002
    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes
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    Buried Threats

    May 6, 2002
    Pipeline safety issues have become more prominent of late. An article on p. 38 updates the US pipeline industry’s status on some of those issues.
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    Letter: ANWR

    May 6, 2002
    The hypocrisy existing by the majority members of the Senate has never been more evident than not allowing debate on the leasing of a small tract of land in the coastal plain ...
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    Tie-in system uses low-cost flanges on deepwater Girassol development

    May 6, 2002
    TotalFinElf SA’s Girassol deepwater project started up off West Africa in December 2001. Stolt Offshore SA’s application on Girassol of its modular advanced tie-in system (MATIS...
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 6, 2002
    Rueil-Malmaison, France, has named Jean Sentenac as chairman and chief executive officer, and Jean-Pierre Franck as chief operating officer.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 6, 2002
    New Series P3 trunnion-mounted ball valves are available in sizes 2-48 in. in ANSI 150-1500 ratings.
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    OGJ Editorial: EPA’s diesel-sulfur study

    May 6, 2002
    US refiners have a welcome opportunity to improve looming sulfur standards for highway diesel fuel. The US Environmental Protection Agency on Apr. 22 announced a review of its...
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    The Editor's Perspective: UK North Sea hit by new tax, new uncertainty

    May 6, 2002
    The worst thing about the UK government's new supplementary tax on North Sea oil and gas profits is what business people hate most: uncertainty.
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    Market Hotline: Canadian gas supply strength to rein gas price rise

    May 6, 2002
    While the general outlook for the North American gas market has brightened this year, there is much debate over whether this improvement will be driven mainly by supply or demand...