Volume 100, Issue 44

Turkmenistan faces challenges in export transportation options

Oct. 28, 2002

This is the fourth and concluding part of a series on Turkmenistan's oil and gas exploration, production, production sharing, and transportation prospects.

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Oct. 28, 2002

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OGJ Editorial: Energy bill founders

Oct. 28, 2002

Chances are fading that the 107th Congress will pass a comprehensive energy bill. So who needs a comprehensive energy bill? The package approach has become a problem.

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Oil fundamentals clearer as geopolitics gets muddier

Oct. 28, 2002

Even as the picture gets clearer on the status of the physical fundamentals underlying oil markets today, the geopolitical outlook just gets more scrambled.

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Equipment/Software/Literature

Oct. 28, 2002

A new flow module with meter-proving capability is available to the industry.

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Diluent availability will constrain Canada's heavy oil, bitumen development

Oct. 28, 2002

Despite significant proposed investments to develop Canada's heavy oil and bitumen reserves, production will continue to lag developments in Latin America.

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Area Drilling

Oct. 28, 2002

PT Medco Energi International Tbk, Jakarta, agreed to acquire as much as an 80% working interest in and operatorship of the 11,600 sq km Rombebai block in Irian Jaya from Ramu...

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Congress should cut spending, boost wealth creation

Oct. 28, 2002

The vanishing federal budget surplus has raised cries for repeal of cuts in income taxation that began last year. But a Heritage Foundation analyst thinks politicians should find...

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Guarding the language

Oct. 28, 2002

They don't make English teachers like they used to. English teachers used to be grey-haired scolds, usually female, who wore scratchy sweaters year-round, painted their fingernails...

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Watching Government: Canada and Kyoto

Oct. 28, 2002

Canadian industry and provincial leaders want their federal government to reconsider the idea of slashing greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.

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OGJ Newsletter

Oct. 28, 2002

Back-to-back storms in the central Gulf of Mexico "have improved the lot of US oil refiners considerably" through a "massive transfer of tightness from crude oil into oil products...

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Energy bill hopes fade as Congress leaves for campaigns

Oct. 28, 2002

An ethanol mandate, oil and gas production incentives, pipeline safety, and other important industry issues may have to be revisited next year as the fate of sweeping energy reform...

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Company News: WesternGeco to fold land operations in Lower 48, Canada

Oct. 28, 2002

In a move that may be indicative of the economic climate that oil services and supply companies will have to weather in the short to medium term, London-based seismic joint venture...

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TotalFinaElf's Desmarest: Long-term view neglected

Oct. 28, 2002

Much of the recent debate on how to strengthen corporate governance, amid the spate of recent accounting scandals and high-profile big business failures, has tilted the debate...

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POINT OF VIEW: NELPI's Langenkamp: What happens with Iraq's oil?

Oct. 28, 2002

The new director of the University of Tulsa's National Energy-Environment Law & Policy Institute (NELPI) takes the helm at a pivotal point in the history of world oil markets....

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Personnel Moves and Promotions: Fomer FERC commissioner joins INGAA as executive vice-president

Oct. 28, 2002

Donald F. Santa Jr., a former commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will join the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America as an executive vice-president...