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    NGL fractionation use in Western Canada will increase through 2010

    Oct. 7, 2002
    The utilization rate of central gas processing fractionators in Alberta should improve from now until 2010. This rate of central fractionation capacity dipped in 2001, coinciding...
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    Appropriate practices avoid tube fitting failures

    Oct. 7, 2002
    A corrosion-related failure of a tube fitting on an offshore platform highlights a potential safety issue that could affect thousands of fittings currently in service worldwide...
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    Design for operational events throughout well life maintains zonal isolation

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Preliminary results for varied temperature and pressure-loading conditions suggest that operators should analyze wells on an individual basis and apply forward-looking design ...
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    Nelson-Farrar Monthly Cost Indexes

    Oct. 7, 2002
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Costs for the five equipment items which make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed in the 2000-01 period. The miscellaneous equipment index average...

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    SPECIAL REPORT: Curved-ray time migration can improve seismic imaging

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Curved-ray prestack Kirchhoff time migration is rapidly replacing other seismic time migration methods for focusing seismic images of subsurface structures.
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Point of View-New SEG president takes business view of technology

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Discussion of seismic technology with the new president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists doesn't go far before business topics intervene.
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    FOCUS ON TURKMENISTAN: Turkmenistan's future in gas and oil hinges on certainty for export options

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Turkmenistan is an important natural gas and oil-producing former Soviet republic of Central Asia whose potential is significant but constrained by a lack of certainty in hydrocarbon...
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    Watching Government: Data quality

    Oct. 7, 2002
    The way federal agencies use data to form new regulations and policies changed Oct. 1, thanks to a little-known piece of legislation called the Data Quality Act. Industry proponents...
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    US-Russian summit spotlights need for Russian oil law

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Government and industry officials from the US and Russia called for production-sharing agreements (PSAs), a transparent and fair tax regime, and definitive minerals rights laws...
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    No roadblocks seen to use of FPSOs in Gulf of Mexico

    Oct. 7, 2002
    A 2-day workshop by offshore industry participants and government regulators in Houston late last month found "no identifiable roadblocks" barring use of floating production, ...
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    Study shows operators respond to economic drivers

    Oct. 7, 2002
    A 7-year analysis of operating expenses among 100 exploration and production firms in nearly 3,000 fields indicates "companies are responding to strong influence of economic drivers...
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    Senate asks Interior to halt new drilling off California

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Following related House action earlier this summer, the US Senate unanimously approved a measure that seeks to prohibit new drilling activity on 36 undeveloped federal oil and...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: El Paso Corp. shifts executive team after NYSE changes

    Oct. 7, 2002
    El Paso Corp. revealed that it would be shifting certain key members of its executive management team.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 7, 2002
    For the first time in 15 months, the near-month natural gas futures price jumped above $4/Mcf on the New York Mercantile Exchange at the end of September as the second major tropical...
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    COMPANY NEWS: Anadarko to acquire Howell in $265 million deal

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it will acquire Houston-based Howell Corp. in a cash deal valued at $265 million, which includes an estimated $65 million of Howell's bank debt once...
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    US reserve additions hum

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Operators' stellar performance in more than replacing US production in 2001 revealed some interesting differences with respect to gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
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    Global staffing challenge

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Ms. Judah's comments regarding the desirability of replacing US oil and gas technical staffs with foreign nationals strike me as ironic (OGJ, Sept. 23, 2002, p. 18).
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    Analysis points to electric-motor drivers for Angola LNG

    Oct. 7, 2002
    As part of work to develop a set of functional specifications for the Angola LNG project, Angola's state oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola (Sonangol) and...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 7, 2002
    New Iberia, La., has appointed Allen C. Porter Jr. as its president and chief executive officer, as well as president of Allen Process Systems LLC; and Bill Downey as its executive...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 7, 2002
    The new Anchor pump 101E is an electrically operated positive displacement piston jack version with a top head drive motor suited for low flow bottom intake recovery at abandoned...
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    With Iraq, it's time to take names, make lists

    Oct. 7, 2002
    It's time to stop talking and start taking names. Two lists: for and against military action to end the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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    OGJ Editorial: California's real problem

    Oct. 7, 2002
    Before foes of electricity deregulation draw grand conclusions from an official opinion against El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline Co., they should ask why the supposed market manipulation...
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    US refiners facing tough times for another year

    Oct. 7, 2002
    US refiners have weathered choppy seas this year—and it doesn't look like smooth sailing ahead for quite a while.
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