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  • Volume 100, Issue 30

    • Volume 100, Issue 30

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    Petroleum industry advances international standards

    July 29, 2002
    The petroleum industry has demonstrated support for international standardization by issuing in the past 3 years a stream of standards through the Geneva-based International Organizatio...
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    Agencies seek to reassure senators on NSR policy shift

    July 29, 2002
    President George W. Bush's top environmental enforcers have sought to reassure skeptical senators of US Northeast states that they will still prosecute refiners and power generators...
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    Method calculates sand velocity, hold-up in flowlines

    July 29, 2002
    A relatively simple method of estimating sand velocity and hold-up in multiphase flowlines allows a design engineer to determine whether a producing well needs a sand-exclusion...
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    Asia-Pacific refining will recover from current overcapacity in 2005

    July 29, 2002
    Additions to Asia Pacific's refining capacity in the past 4-5 years have transformed the region from a major net importer to a net exporter of refined products.
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    Revision of API 1130 on pipeline monitoring due by yearend 2002

    July 29, 2002
    The second edition of American Petroleum Institute (API) Standard 1130 for computational pipeline monitoring (CPM) will be published later this year.

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    July 29, 2002
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    OGJ Editorial: Stock markets and energy

    July 29, 2002
    Equity markets are wheezing while the US economy-however tentatively-purrs. Markets for company shares eventually will realign themselves with economic fundamentals. The question...
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    State of stocks bodes ill for refiners

    July 29, 2002
    Keep your eye on inventories. Granted, their recent behavior might make it a bit difficult to focus, but the underlying state of oil inventories will provide some firmness to ...
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    Area Drilling

    July 29, 2002
    State Agency for Regulation of Oil and Gas Resources, Tbilisi, sought bids by Sept. 16, 2002, for oil and gas license blocks onshore and in the Black Sea.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 29, 2002
    A newly introduced line of flow diverters incorporates wear resistant properties.
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    Deeper study of Precambrian warranted in western Ohio

    July 29, 2002
    The casual observer generally rejects the possibility of hydrocarbons occurring in the Precambrian basement rocks of Ohio and surrounding region. However, it appears that a major...
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    Criminal penalties proper for acts of corporate fraud

    July 29, 2002
    Most political feeding frenzies in the US Congress are repulsive. The one under way over corporate governance is an exception.
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    Effects on the climate

    July 29, 2002
    In your editorial, July 8, 2002, p. 19, "Time to pick sides," I couldn't agree with you more that companies must actively tell the true story about fossil fuels and human activities...
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    PV power

    July 29, 2002
    Years ago this editor paid bills working a second job as a caretaker on a friend's horse ranch near Lake Conroe, Tex. As horse breeders know, the breeding and selling of horses...
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    Brazil's ANP, Petrobras lock horns over gas flaring in Campos basin

    July 29, 2002
    Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) reported that Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) flares more than 8 million cu m/day (MMcmd) of natural gas in the Campos basin off Rio...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Pangea Petroleum names new president

    July 29, 2002
    Mark Weller has been named president of Houston-based independent Pan gea Petroleum Corp., Houston. Weller, who has worked as a consultant for Pangea for the last 6 months, has...
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    US oil imports hit largest 6-month fall since early '90s

    July 29, 2002
    Due to a combination of increased domestic supplies and "exceptionally weak" demand, US petroleum imports fell more than 8% during the first half of this year-the largest 6-month...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    July 29, 2002
    The triple threat of political tensions in the Middle East and Latin America, dwindling US exploration for natural gas, and limited access to known low-cost reserves could drive...
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    Pipeline safety bill approved amid energy bill debate

    July 29, 2002
    On a 423-4 vote, the US House of Representatives last week decisively passed a compromise pipeline safety measure largely supported by industry, as House and Senate leaders continued...
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    House passes measure designed to encourage California lease buyback

    July 29, 2002
    The US House of Represenatives, on a 252-172 vote late July 17, approved a measure that seeks to prohibit new drilling activity on 36 undeveloped federal oil and gas leases off...
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    Industry interest in Brazilian E&D seen waning

    July 29, 2002
    The bloom seems to be off the rose for Brazil's exploration and development scene.
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    Watching Government: Adding cabinets

    July 29, 2002
    Congress this year may pass legislation creating two new cabinets, both of which the White House endorses in principle. Serious negotiations are under way for a cabinet-level ...
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    COMPANY NEWS: Petrobras to acquire control of Perez Companc

    July 29, 2002
    Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) announced an agreement in principle to acquire a controlling interest in Argentina's Perez Companc SA from the Perez Companc family and its ...
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    Big growth ahead seen for Saudi gas utilization

    July 29, 2002
    Saudi Arabia is one of the world's richest countries in hydrocarbon resources. Its overall economic stability and growth are heavily dependent on these resources. An ambitious...