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  • Volume 100, Issue 32

    • Volume 100, Issue 32

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    Petchem producers must adopt proactive strategies to improve profits

    Aug. 12, 2002
    In the next 10 years, the worldwide commodity petrochemicals industry will experience a larger fixed and variable production cost gap between the large, global petrochemical companies...
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    Special Report: Global LNG industry expanding to meet heightened gas-demand projections

    Aug. 12, 2002
    The world's LNG industry is poised for unprecedented growth. Pushed by natural gas demand projected to grow 2.5-3%/year over the next decade, LNG could grow at twice that rate...
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    Formation damage traced to contaminated completion fluids

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Extensive compatibility tests determined the severity of the problem and developed preventive and remedial measures to deal with organic sludges that choked hydraulic fractures...
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    EXPANDABLE-PROFILE LINERS IN WELL CONSTRUCTION-1: Liners extend casing length without wellbore diameter loss

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Expandable-profile liners have stabilized problem wellbores throughout Russia, solving lost circulation and wellbore stability problems, regardless of severity or the size of ...
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    Special Report: POINT OF VIEWBG riding wave of LNG capacity expansion boom

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Projected strong growth in global natural gas demand, coupled with advances in LNG economics, is spawning a wave of LNG projects around the world. A number of top energy companies...

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    Special Report:Trinidad & Tobago orders construction start for fourth LNG train

    Aug. 12, 2002
    The Trinidad and Tobago government has mandated that construction of a fourth LNG train at the Atlantic LNG complex on Trinidad begin this month and for negotiations for supply...
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    Accord opens access to Canada's Laurentian subbasin

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Settlement of a boundary dispute has opened the exploration door to the strongly prospective Laurentian subbasin off Canada's East Coast.
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    Trinidad and Tobago seeks sustainable gas development

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Trinidad and Tobago's plan to use its energy sector as a vehicle for outside investments to build its economy from the grassroots level depends on sustainable development of its...
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    Comment— US offshore oil and gas policy: A fresh look is needed

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Recent reports from Standard & Poor's indicate the US oil and gas supply is being threatened by the Bush administration's failure to counter the effects of plunging supplies and...
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    US upstream property sales seen reviving in second half

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Recent deal activity between buyers and sellers of US oil and gas properties has been relatively low in both total transaction size and the number of packages being offered for...
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    Brazil's president orders curbs on oil product prices

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has ordered the country's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to curb hikes in oil products prices.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Petrobras eyes assets in financially strained Argentina

    Aug. 12, 2002
    The fallout from Argentina's fiscal woes has staggered the oil and gas industry there, as it has other sectors.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Stock values of publicly traded exploration and production companies on average kept pace with the securities market overall as perceptions of an "inevitable" US attack on Iraq...
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    Watching Government: Additive wars

    Aug. 12, 2002
    A utomakers last month said they are worried that US refiners may expand their use of the octane-enhancer MMT.
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    PDVSA poised to enter Brazil's oil products distribution market

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has requested permission from Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to become a distributor of oil products in Brazil, said Andres Riera, ...
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    Free press, free enterprise

    Aug. 12, 2002
    It seems as though the US media are unveiling another example of corporate scandal almost daily. Although all these headlines probably become tiresome to executives working hard...
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    ZEV issue

    Aug. 12, 2002
    This California ZEV issue is not merely a matter of people being forced to buy what they do not want (OGJ, July 22, 2002, p. 76). The environmental groups have made it clear that...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Aberdeen, has appointed Iain Anderson as operations manager for BJ Com pletion Assembly Services. His responsibilities include managing the division's facilities in Aberdeen and...
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    Bush clean-air proposal correctly omits CO2 limits

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Cheers to the Bush administration's "Clear Skies" proposal for what it doesn't do.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 12, 2002
    A series of condensate reinjection pumps for new or retrofit applications that eliminate flaring to the atmosphere through closed-loop pumping is available.
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    Area Drilling

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Murphy Oil Corp., El Dorado, Ark., reported the first deepwater oil discovery off Malaysia and planned to move the rig immediately to drill an appraisal well.
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    OGJ Editorial: Rescuing the energy bill

    Aug. 12, 2002
    The US Congress has a tangle of proposals to unravel if it is to enact energy legislation before the current session ends. It has little time left in which to do it. Danger is...
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    US gas prices facing another rollercoaster

    Aug. 12, 2002
    Even a summer heat wave hasn't buoyed near-term US natural gas prospects much.
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    ARMENIA'S PROSPECTS —1: Armenia void of production but not without prospects

    Aug. 12, 2002
    The Republic of Armenia is situated in the Transcaucasus, with Georgia Republic to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south, and Turkey to the west. The territory ...
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