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  • Volume 100, Issue 51

    • Volume 100, Issue 51

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    Industry promotes surface BOPs for floating drilling operations

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Offshore operators and drilling contractors are working to advance surface blowout preventer (BOP) technology for floating drilling operations.
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    Oil industry fears over Brazil's new president seen as overblown

    Dec. 16, 2002
    The Oct. 27 landslide victory of Brazilian leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT) over Sen. José Serra, the ruling party's candidate...
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    Special Report: Integrity-verification methods support US efforts in pipeline safety

    Dec. 16, 2002
    The US pipeline industry, undergoing significant changes because of revisions to safety regulations, has responded by developing standards, recommended practices, and guidelines...
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    Alberta gas processing shows significant development

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Alberta straddle plants are some of the largest gas processing plants in North America. They are called "straddle" plants because they are located adjacent to, or straddling, ...
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    Fracing pressure-depleted wells achieves success

    Dec. 16, 2002
    As shown by fracturing results in an Egyptian field, operators should consider pressure-depleted wells as fracture candidates to boost existing production and extend the economical...

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    California operator may plug San Joaquin Temblor wildcats

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Anadarko Petroleum Corp. affiliate Berkley Petroleum Inc., operator of the East Lost Hills Nos. 4 and 9 wells in Kern County, proposed to partners to plug the two exploratory ...
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    Advertising Index

    Dec. 16, 2002
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    Repeat of 2000-01 opportunistic gas drilling unlikely

    Dec. 16, 2002
    The arctic express that blitzkrieged much of the eastern and southern US the first week of December serves as a reminder of how energy commodity prices are beholden to such short...
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    OGJ Editorial: Are the media biased?

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Allegations of bias by prominent Democrats have raised healthy issues about news media in the US. The question most in need of an airing, however, has so far escaped the uproar...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Dec. 16, 2002
    The new LDARManager portable data acquisition system offers wireless interface between a lightweight hand-held computer and an array of gas analyzers.
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    Area Drilling

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Pertamina discovered gas and oil at new wells in Gunung Kemala village in the Muara Enim district of South Sumatra.
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    Petrophysical reinterpretation finds gas in place underestimation off Egypt

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Ha'py field lies in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt and is part of the Pliocene producing trend north of the Nile Delta. The original interpretation for the gas in place for Ha...
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    US favors hard, costly choices on gas supply

    Dec. 16, 2002
    It's only a coincidence. But it reflects a US political prejudice that endlessly obstructs policy-making on energy.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Midland, Tex., has announced the appointment of Gary Wallace as vice-president of national sales. Wallace is a graduate of Eastern New Mexico University, and was director of the...
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    Ventures in communication

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Walking down the halls of the building that houses OGJ and its sister publications, we might overhear an advertising sales representative for Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamerica taking...
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    Caribbean nations back Trinidad-based subsea gas pipeline

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Efforts are under way to promote development of a subsea natural gas pipeline system from Trinidad and Tobago northward through the Caribbean Sea and possibly ending on the North...
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    Shell eyes mid-2003 start-up for Brazilian development

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group's Brazilian unit is targeting a mid-2003 start-up of the first commercial oil development by a foreign company in Brazil since demonopolization of the ...
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    Watching Government: El Paso judgment

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Judgment day is coming. But to beleaguered energy marketing companies struggling to repair investor confidence, the regulatory process is dragging on for an eternity.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 16, 2002
    In a move to improve their market credibility, ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries apparently agreed last week to raise hike their collective production...
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    Point of View: UT center advancing real asset risk management science

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Finance theoreticians 50 years ago defined portfolio optimization, the first methodology of real asset risk management technology, and the emerging science gained recognition ...
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    Fitch: Energy investors' confidence in Latin America shaky

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Latin America's energy industry will require more than $225 billion in investments in the coming decade, but the region's political and economic environment suggests that external...
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    Trinidad & Tobago threatens to ban Atlantic LNG expansion

    Dec. 16, 2002
    Atlantic LNG Ltd.'s planned Train 4 expansion could be in trouble after Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning threatened to ban the LNG expansion unless participants...