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  • Volume 100, Issue 42

    • Volume 100, Issue 42

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    SPECIAL REPORT: Clean fuels specifications part of shifting US political landscape

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Clean fuels specifications remain a moving target for US refiners and fuel suppliers, thanks to a shifting political landscape.
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Lawmakers continue wrangling over US energy conference bill

    Oct. 14, 2002
    US Senate leaders said congressional negotiators might resolve longstanding differences over a pending energy bill and pass legislation this year.
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    Wellhead retrieval system speeds subsea abandonment

    Oct. 14, 2002
    A tension cut and pull subsea wellhead retrieval system has reduced the time required to abandon subsea wells, according to the service provider Baker Oil Tools.
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    Tubular imperfections pose design problems in short, ultrashort radius wells

    Oct. 14, 2002
    With the emergence of short and ultrashort-radius horizontal wells, tubular failures have become increasingly common. Such wells encounter severe bending stresses that well designers...
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Refiners must optimize FCC feed hydrotreating when producing low-sulfur gasoline

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Refiners that rely only on FCC feed hydrotreating or mild hydrocracking1 2 (i.e., use a cat feed hydrotreater [CFHT]) to meet 30-ppmw gasoline pool sulfur specifications must ...

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    Turkmenistan lists ambitious plans for gas, oil development

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Before this decade is out, Turkmenistan, a leader among the former Soviet republics in terms of hydrocarbon resources, intends to make a giant leap in raising production and export...
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    Advertising Sales / Advertisers Index

    Oct. 14, 2002
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    'Step change' for gas prices ahead this winter?

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The chorus is getting louder for a secular change in US gas markets.
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    OGJ Editorial: The oil superpowers

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The three superpowers of oil production take instructively contrasting approaches to a fundamental question: Why produce oil?
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    Area Drilling

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Sinopec Corp. of China won a contract from Sonatrach and the Energy & Mines Ministry to enhance recovery from giant Zarzaitine field in east-central Algeria.
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    Pipeline study aims at benchmarking operators' performances

    Oct. 14, 2002
    A group of seven European oil pipeline companies joined together in late 2000 to initiate a comparative performance analysis of pipeline operations.
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    Oil-security key is volume flowing freely in trade

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The Russia-US energy summit in Houston Oct. 1-2 featured repeated reference to US reliance on oil from the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in particular.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Here's the new DPG-6700 digital pressure gauge/transmitter, a unit that combines pressure transducer technology with multitemperature calibration routines to provide stable process...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Berea, Ohio, has appointed Gerald M. Pierman as sales and marketing manager. Pierman is a graduate of Cleveland State University with a BBA in marketing, and held a variety of...
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    Success at the North Pole

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Williams Alaska Petroleum Inc.'s North Pole refinery outside Fairbanks in North Pole, Alas., recently celebrated its 25-year anniversary.
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    Optimism grows about US drilling action increase in 2003

    Oct. 14, 2002
    US drilling activity should increase in 2003, said a panel of energy industry executives in Houston Oct. 4.
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    Independents prospering with small Russian projects

    Oct. 14, 2002
    While big international companies seek production-sharing agreements (PSAs) for billion-dollar oil and gas projects in Russia, smaller companies are prospering with smaller projects...
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    Watching Government: EPA's antiterrorism role

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The US Congress's ambivalent treatment of comprehensive energy reform legislation is an obvious industry distraction. But an even more immediate concern for oil and gas interests...
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    COMPANY NEWS: Unocal expands natural gas-based assets in Thailand

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Unocal Thailand Ltd., a unit of Unocal Corp., said it will purchase all of the shares of Amoco Thailand Petroleum LLC, the Thai unit of BP America Production Co.
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    IEA: World energy demand to grow briskly to 2030

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Worldwide energy demand is set to grow by 1.7%/year to 2030, but there are abundant oil, gas, coal, uranium and renewable resources to meet this growth.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 14, 2002
    A survey of 30 of the largest US gas producers indicates that US gas production declined by 1% sequentially in the third quarter and likely will be down 6% for the year as a whole...
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    IADC: Market realities said to bolster Middle East ties

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Calls for oil importing countries—particularly the US—to reduce their dependence on Middle East oil by securing their supplies elsewhere or by switching to other fuels don't jibe...
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    IEA: 'Sustainable development' unachievable amid energy poverty

    Oct. 14, 2002
    A future that encompasses a global "sustainable development" cannot come to pass without a massive effort to make low-cost, conventional energy available to the world's poorest...
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    IPC: Alberta attacks Kyoto agreement, pushes Alberta alternative

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Complying with the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change would "trigger a migration of capital investment out of Canada," said Murray Smith, Alberta minister of energy, in a keynote...
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    WEC deems near-term future for oil, gas problematic

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The impressive gains of natural gas in the world's energy supply will falter as the century moves toward 2050, according to Gerald Doucet, secretary general of the World Energy...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: ChevronTexaco names vice-president and general counsel

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Charles A. James has been named vice-president and general counsel for ChevronTexaco Corp. James succeeds Harvey D. Hinman, who will retire. James's new position becomes effective...
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    EIA: US reserves additions outpaced production in 2001

    Oct. 14, 2002
    The Energy Information Administration said US crude oil and natural gas proved reserves increased in 2001, replacing production by substantial margins.
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Fuel ethanol plant emissions emerging as issue in clean fuels debate

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Even as Congress moves to mandate the use of ethanol as part of the US clean fuels mix (see related story, Clean fuels spec part fo shifting US political landscape), government...
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    SPECIAL REPORT: Study promotes more use of diesel vehicles in California to save fuel

    Oct. 14, 2002
    Encouraging use of more diesel-powered passenger vehicles in the California market could reduce fuel consumption in that state by 141 million gal/year in 2010, according to a ...