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    The yearend 2001 ranking of the world's 50 largest energy companies was shaped by some significant events:
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    A diverse group with different technical backgrounds and from different organizations successfully solved problems that had plagued past attempts to revitalize sour-gas production...
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    The Indian petrochemical industry has grown substantially over the past decade, with annual average consumption growth greater than 15% in many product segments. Market growth...
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    The latest addition to the stimulation-vessel fleet working in the Gulf of Mexico, is the BJ Blue Ray, owned by Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc., Mandeville, La., and operated ...
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    Underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations maintain the net pressure exerted by drilling fluids in the annular space between the drillstring and the formation being drilled at values...
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    Natural gas demand growth in Mexico over the next 10 years is unavoidable and, despite economic uncertainties, will be resilient.
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    For the first time in 50 years, the Mexican government is planning to invite oil and gas companies to participate in international tenders for developing Mexico's onshore natural...
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    Economic projections point toward a gradual recovery of industrial production activity in Mexico in the next few years. A prerequisite for this growth, however, is the timely ...
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    What has been described as the world's largest oil field development project currently under way marked further progress in 2001.
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    Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alas.) said he wants federal legislation directing Alaskan North Slope producers and pipeline companies to build an arctic gas line that parallels the ...
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    A month in effect, an elaborately coordinated curtailment of oil production remains-what else?-a muddle.
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    In Mexico, we are living in times of change, with new demands being voiced by society. At all levels of government in Mexico programs are being developed to respond to this demand...
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    Denver, has promoted Edward M. Portaro to vice-president, power; and William E. Ward to vice-president, oil and gas. Both men have been instrumental in the growth of the firm'...
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    The UK's oil minister is also responsible for other energy sources and is rather proud that he has just inaugurated the world's largest straw-fired power station, a 36 Mw, $100...
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    Alaska is "resource rich" but too "cash poor" to buy in as part owner of a proposed pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas to the Lower 48, said the head of the state's...
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    Petro-Canada, Calgary, leads recent upstream acquisition news with its plan to buy the international oil and gas operations of Veba Oil & Gas GMBH for $3.2 billion (Can.) in a...
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    Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.), chairman of the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, last week said her agenda for this year will complement the White House...
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    The most recent arctic blast across much of the US and Canada has led many to wonder: could natural gas prices be rescued from their sagging levels during an otherwise forgettable...
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    Houston-based energy marketer Dynegy Inc. took temporary possession of Enron Corp.'s Northern Natural Gas (NNG) pipeline Jan. 31 and named Dan Dienstbier as the pipeline's president...
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    The fiscal 2003 budget proposed by the administration of Presiden George W. Bush would require the Department of Energy to overhaul the way it funds oil and gas research.
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    President George W. Bush's first State of the Union speech Jan. 29 gave US oil companies the clearest indication yet that the administration is not yet prepared to allow American...
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    The Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) has accepted a refinery workers' contract offer from Shell Oil Co. that is expected to set...
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    There's nothing like a juicy scandal to hit some new high notes in the perpetual comic opera that is Washington, DC.
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    Your editorial "The energy-economy link" (OGJ, Dec. 17, 2001, p. 17) has some terminology that is undoubtedly and unnecessarily offensive to many, probably most people. Writing...
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