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    New FPSO design produces LNG from offshore sources

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Merlin Production Inc., in cooperation with Costain Oil, Gas & Process Ltd. and Moss Maritime AS, has demonstrated that an economically viable floating LNG plant can be designed...
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    Model accurately predicts intermediate casing-run surge pressure in Marlin SS-1 well

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Significant casing-job planning and modeling, with a dynamic-surge model, enabled BP PLC successfully to run and cement the 135/8-in. intermediate casing, in the subsea development...
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    Special Report: Progress solid but uneven in fight against corruption

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Problems of corruption in the oil and gas sector of the business world stood out in a recent survey commissioned by Transparency International (TI), a nongovernmental organization...
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    Shell Pecten Cameroon integrates software for real-time gas lift control, optimization

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Pecten Cameroon Co. (PCC), an operating unit in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, extended the existing supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) infrastructure at offshore ...
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    North Sea evolution to track Gulf of Mexico model

    Aug. 26, 2002
    The North Sea (for purposes of this article the UK, Norway, and Denmark) produced about 6.5 million b/d of oil in 2001, representing about 14% of non-OPEC (Organization of Petroleum...

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    Special Report: The US anticorruption record in principle and practice

    Aug. 26, 2002
    The US can claim credit for taking a strong legal and moral lead against transnational bribery by passing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in 1977 and, more recently, ...
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    Western gulf sale generates less money for more tracts

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Interests were almost evenly divided between shallow and deep waters at the federal oil and natural gas Lease Sale 184 held last week in New Orleans, which drew apparent high ...
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    COMPANY NEWS:Williams continues to divest assets, align balance sheet

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Williams Cos. Inc. is continuing to divest itself of certain assets in an effort to shore up its balance sheet. Earlier this month, the Tulsa-based energy company announced a ...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS:Panaco, Tag Oil, CNOOC name new leaders

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Houston-based independent oil and gas exploration company Panaco Inc., Tag Oil Ltd. of Vancouver, BC, and Chinese company CNOOC Ltd. have all recently named new leaders.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 26, 2002
    The possibility of military conflict between the US and Iraq has boosted oil prices nearly 10% in recent weeks and could trigger increased US demand for natural gas, said Christopher...
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    Analysts claim early peak in world oil production

    Aug. 26, 2002
    The world is drawing down its oil reserves at an unprecedented rate, with supplies likely to be constrained by global production capacity by 2010, "even assuming no growth in ...
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    Watching Government: Good and evil

    Aug. 26, 2002
    When does a country stop being an axis of evil? In the oil business, that's a delicate question that demands frequent visitation.
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    Improving company disclosures

    Aug. 26, 2002
    The most interesting finding in a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) study of financial reporting by oil and gas companies isn't how much invest- ors wish they knew about companies...
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    New ideas on global warming, ocean solutions

    Aug. 26, 2002
    I thought you might be interested in learning about a variation on the forestry theme that the Planktos Foundation is introducing. Since the world is more than 70% ocean-and within...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Pittsburgh, Pa., has appointed Peter Tedesko as managing director of international sales and marketing for its Cutler-Hammer business. Tedesko had most recently served as director...
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    Slap-dash economics summit in Waco a stunt that flopped

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Here's the best news going about the US economy: the slap-dash economic summit in Waco, Tex., on Aug. 13 can't do any real harm.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Three new SensAir personal gas detectors for carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and oxygen deficiency come with standard vibrating, light, and sound alarms for low and high alarm...
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    Area Drilling

    Aug. 26, 2002
    GeoSphere Exploration Ltd., Wellington, and Thomasson International Ventures Inc., Denver, were awarded 3,124 sq km PEP 38223 on the southernmost South Island.
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    OPEC hewing to defense of price vs. market share

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Are markets assured of high oil prices for the next 5 years or so?
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    Variety of codes governs design, construction of LNG carriers

    Aug. 26, 2002
    A host of national and international codes and standards usually comprises a list in a shipbuilder's contract specification for a new LNG carrier. Prospective owners must review...
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    OGJ Editorial: OPEC's challenge

    Aug. 26, 2002
    It should be easy to predict what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will do when ministers meet Sept. 19 in Osaka, Japan. Under normal circumstances, the group...
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    US classification society to vet CNG concept

    Aug. 26, 2002
    As LNG continues its resurgence as a means of moving natural gas between supply and market areas (OGJ, Aug. 12, 2002, p.56), another oceangoing technology has moved closer to ...
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    Advertising Sales / Advertisers Index

    Aug. 26, 2002
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    Operators drilled more wildcats, fewer 2001 discoveries

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Operators made 173 new oil field discoveries and 162 gas discoveries outside North America in 2001, down from 2000 totals, reported IHS Energy Group, Epsom, U.K.
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    Talisman group moves to exploit BC foothills gas find

    Aug. 26, 2002
    A group led by Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has made the first commercial discovery to produce from the deeper, underexplored Paleozoic reservoirs in the Monkman area in the...
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    Alaska streamlines coastal-use permit regulations

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Alaska's Coastal Policy Council (CPC) voted July 24 to approve new regulations streamlining the permitting process for projects affecting the state's coastal uses or resources...
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    Exploration hums as Sudan's oil output reaches pipeline capacity

    Aug. 26, 2002
    Oil production is exceeding expectations, and development and exploration programs are advancing, said a member of the Sudan consortium Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co.