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  • Volume 101, Issue 10

    • Volume 101, Issue 10

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    Companies

    Asia-Pacific gas faces more competition, seeks new markets

    March 10, 2003
    Asia-Pacific natural gas faces many new challenges and opportunities.
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    Companies

    Fewer capacity-addition plans will boost Asia refining margins

    March 10, 2003
    Average Asia refining margins deteriorated in 2002 from previous year levels. The last quarter of 2002 was an exception, however, which could be a turning point for Asia refining...
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    Production Operations

    Coiled-tubing fracturing effectively stimulates multiple coal seams

    March 10, 2003
    Coiled-tubing fracturing provides a way to stimulate multiple coal seams economically and effectively in the Black Warrior basin in Alabama, according to Joseph Legenza of Halliburton...
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    Companies

    Russia's gas production, exports future hinges on dramatic changes needed at Gazprom

    March 10, 2003
    Russia controls immense reserves of natural gas, but the country faces problems of a comparable magnitude to bring them to market.
    Economics & Markets

    Point of View: TNK's Khan: PSAs still crucial for Russian oil industry

    March 10, 2003
    Despite the recent successes of Russia's oil industry, one of that country's dynamic new players, Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK), contends that the failure to implement a viable production...

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    Production Operations

    Watching Government - Energy bill redux

    March 10, 2003
    Leaders in the Republican-led US Congress say they want a comprehensive energy bill to become law before Labor Day (Sept. 1). Last year, a bill died after being mired in election...
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    Drilling & Production

    UBS: Operators to boost US, Canadian upstream spending

    March 10, 2003
    Oil and natural gas companies expect to increase US and Canadian drilling and spending plans, but spending on workovers and seismic services likely will remain flat, UBS Warburg...
    Refining

    Russian firms exporting more crude oil to Iran

    March 10, 2003
    Russian firms exporting more crude oil to Iran Russian firms are stepping up exports of crude oil to Iran.
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    Economics & Markets

    Canadian oil industry financings hit 10-year high

    March 10, 2003
    The Canadian oil and natural gas industry's 2002 treasury financings totaled $9.98 billion (Can.)—the highest level in a decade—said Sayer Securities Ltd., an investment firm ...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 10, 2003
    February racked up a near-record price in the oil futures market, based on a combination of Middle East war worries, Venezuela's strike, the first sustained cold US winter of ...
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    Companies

    FBR: Worldwide E&D spending to increase by 4.8% in 2003

    March 10, 2003
    Oil and natural gas companies plan to increase worldwide exploration and development spending by 4.8% to $136 billion in 2003 compared with 2002, although potential exists for...
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    Companies

    Russian firms, LNG suppliers top Energy 50 rankings

    March 10, 2003
    The yearend 2002 ranking of the world's 50 largest energy companies was shaped by some significant events:
    Drilling & Production

    UKOOA: UK North Sea continues to attract independents

    March 10, 2003
    The UK oil and gas industry is at the halfway stage of development, with "at least as much oil and gas to produce as has already been produced," said James May, director general...
    General Interest

    Comment: Kremlin support of Transneft hinders private Russian pipeline projects

    March 10, 2003
    Since the beginning of 2003, Russia's oil pipeline monopoly AK Trans- neft has demonstrated its growing influence, resisting pressure from oil companies and winning support from...
    Home

    California dreamin'

    March 10, 2003
    With deadline approaching, it was time to start thinking seriously about a topic for this week's Journally Speaking.
    Companies

    Limits on federal land

    March 10, 2003
    After waiting 5 years for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to approve a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) request that a parcel be made available for leasing and after being unable...
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    March 10, 2003
    American Aero Cranes / Titan Industries New Orleans, has appointed David Crouser as vice-president of finance and accounting, and Terry J. Hoffman as director of engineering.
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    General Interest

    MADAGASCAR DEEPWATER-2 - How new seismic data show basin off western Madagascar

    March 10, 2003
    With the cooperation of Madagascar's OMNIS, TGS-Nopec and a consortium operated by Xpronet Inc. acquired a test seismic survey in late 2001. The program was designed to answer...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Question remains: Can international oil sharing work?

    March 10, 2003
    International management of strategically hoarded oil has always been a tenuous proposition.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 10, 2003
    High-horsepower compressor designed for natural gas pipeline operations
    LNG

    Gas in the US—1 Attention to supply

    March 10, 2003
    Stratospheric prices of natural gas in the US summon new attention to an important and officially favored source of energy.
    Discoveries

    Area Drilling

    March 10, 2003
    TotalFinaElf plans a 22% hike in upstream investment in Indonesia this year to maintain gas production.
    Reserves

    Oil price collapse around corner? Not likely

    March 10, 2003
    The mind reels: $40/bbl oil looms on the horizon, natural gas futures top $11/Mcf, heating oil futures set a record above $1.15/gal, and odds grow that gasoline prices will hit...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Study for West-East gas pipeline shows safety benefits of overmatched girth welds

    March 10, 2003
    Welding tests in advance of construction of China's West-East Pipeline indicated that an overmatch between a girth weld and line pipe metal would improve limit load properties...
    Government

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