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  • Volume 100, Issue 21

    • Volume 100, Issue 21

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    GTI finds commercialization partner for disposable fiber-optic telemetry

    May 27, 2002
    Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Des Plaines, Ill., has signed a deal with an unnamed oil-field service company to develop further and commercialize a disposable fiber-optic telemetry...
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    Russia's oil majors:engine for radical change

    May 27, 2002
    It is hard to believe that merely a decade ago the Soviet oil empire-the largest oil industry ever built-was falling apart, burying under its debris the biggest centrally planned...
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    Premcor implements fast-track schedule for heavy oil upgrade project

    May 27, 2002
    A recent conversion of Premcor Refining Co.'s refinery at Port Arthur, Tex., allows it to process highly cracked stocks derived from Maya crude.
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    Fracing controls sand in screenless Saudi high-rate gas wells

    May 27, 2002
    Hydraulic fracturing with screenless completions resulted in clean flow from wells completed in the high sanding tendency Jauf gas reservoir in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco has ...
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    Rising Russian oil production must deal with transportation, business issues

    May 27, 2002
    After declining throughout most of the 1990s, Russian oil output is on the rise (OGJ, Apr. 29, 2002, p. 24). This oil production increase will create opportunities and challenges...

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    Advertising Sales/Advertisers Index

    May 27, 2002
    Allegro Development
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    Is $3/MMbtu new floor for US gas output growth?

    May 27, 2002
    Getting a handle on the future of natural gas prices usually means analyzing all the cross-currents of supply and demand. Casting a sidelong glance at what oil prices are doing...
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    OGJ Editorial: New US protectionism

    May 27, 2002
    The oil and gas industry should chill at the election-year romance between US politics and agriculture. The fevered waltz of these two lovers threatens global economic recovery...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 27, 2002
    Here's a new line of fully jacketed internal gear pumps in 11 sizes in a range of 15-1,100 gpm (3.4-250 cu m/hr) at pressures to 280 psi (20 bar).
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    Prosecuting traders won't fix California's energy market

    May 27, 2002
    Newly disclosed practices by energy traders in California look fishy indeed. But they didn't cause the state's power crisis of 2000-01, as Gov. Gray Davis and assorted congresspersons...
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    Early Cretaceous-Miocene potential seen in deepwater Potiguar basin off Brazil

    May 27, 2002
    The structural/stratigraphic evolution of the deepwater Potiguar basin off northeastern Brazil is complex but has resulted in an environment favorable for hydrocarbon accumulations...
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 27, 2002
    Houston, has named the following officers for the 2002-03 term: Sheldon R. Erik son, chairman; George I. Boyadjieff, vice-chairman; L.Craig Ketchum, first vice-president; J. Wayne...
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    One up for diesel fuel

    May 27, 2002
    A recent study comparing emissions from current in-use diesel and compressed natural gas-fueled buses with those from a similar diesel-fueled bus equipped with advanced pollution...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: CMS Energy unit executive steps down amid electricity trading controversy

    May 27, 2002
    CMS Marketing, Services, & Trading (CMS-MST), the energy marketing and trading unit of Dearborn, Mich.-based CMS Energy Corp., reported that Tamela W. Pallas has resigned from...
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    Price consensus weakens between banks, reserve buyers

    May 27, 2002
    The strong price consensus late last year between Houston energy banks and the active middle market of those companies acquiring reserves dissipated as that middle market responded...
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    US reserve values climb as acquisitions increase

    May 27, 2002
    US reserve values strengthened in 2001 along with rising acquisition activity compared with 2000 even though commodity prices declined last year, said Cornerstone Ventures LP'...
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    COMPANY NEWS: M&A activity heats up within oil services sector

    May 27, 2002
    Mergers within the oil and gas services sector began heating up again.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 27, 2002
    Pushed by a combination of psychological factors and market fundamentals, the price of US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) could reach almost $30/bbl in 2003, unless members...
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    Watching Government: Equatorial interests

    May 27, 2002
    The Middle East's political pain may be West Africa's gain. Emboldened by geology and technology, multinationals and independents are showing increased interest in West African...
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    US gas production seen falling 4% in 2002

    May 27, 2002
    Total US natural gas production is likely to drop by 3.5-4% this year instead of the 2% decline previously predicted, because exploration and production companies have depleted...
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    Russian oil privatization proved an unprecedented clearance sale

    May 27, 2002
    Soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union, numerous operating units of the former Soviet oil-related ministries were contentiously divided into regional and technological groups...
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    Western companies' perceptions, experiences

    May 27, 2002
    Moscow's "New Frontier" stigma is diminishing, but Russia's legal and tax regimes and business practices provide few of the assurances that executives take for granted in the ...