Volume 101, Issue 13

Fiber optics profiles real-time temperature across horizontal lateral

March 31, 2003

A fiber-optic distributed temperature system (DTS) across a horizontal wellbore off Trinidad provided valuable information and benefits such as identifying areas of oil and gas...

Companies

Ethylene margins decline, capacity additions slow in 2002

March 31, 2003

Global ethylene capacity growth experienced a significant slowdown in 2002. Last year saw only 2.4 million tonnes/year (tpy) of net additions, compared with an increase of 6.2...

Pipelines

Al Qaeda, tanker insurance rates, mines among key war concerns

March 31, 2003

As war rages in the Middle East, military analysts said that Iraq's navy poses a minimal threat to shipping in the Persian Gulf, but attacks by the Al Qaeda terrorist network,...

Companies

Far-reaching oil industry repercussions expected from Gulf War II

March 31, 2003

The US-led attack on Iraq will have far-reaching repercussions for the global oil and gas industry for years to come, well beyond the near-term ramifications of the conflict.

Production Operations

Energy legislation again in House, Senate committees

March 31, 2003

Republican congressional leaders redoubled efforts last week to reach consensus on a comprehensive energy bill this year that tracks the White House's energy policy goals.

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Petrochemicals

Ethylene Survey

March 31, 2003

International survey of ethylene from steam crakers - 2003.

Companies

OGJ Newsletter

March 31, 2003

Nigeria, Venezuela figure into OPEC oil export outages

Companies

A&D: going, going, click

March 31, 2003

War with Iraq, threat of terrorist attacks, and anti-American sentiments coupled with a weak US dollar have prompted US oil and gas management teams to reconsider the costs and...

Companies

In the wings

March 31, 2003

Few analysts dispute Iraq's powerful allure as a long-term investment opportunity. But the actual payout may take several years, if not a decade or longer after US-led military...

Exploration & Development

Letters

March 31, 2003

Use the public's language

Production Operations

Services/Suppliers

March 31, 2003

Robroy Industries Verona, Pa., has promoted David A. Marshall to the position of president and chief operating officer. Marshall succeeds Peter McIlroy II, chairman and CEO, who...

Refining

Business scandals temper Chirac's moralizing about Iraq

March 31, 2003

Days before French President Jacques Chirac's antiwar absolutism yielded to the invasion of Iraq, an interesting trial began in Paris.

New Plants

Equipment/Software/Literature

March 31, 2003

Here's the NCK2 5G, a new generation Noack evaporation loss tester.

New Plants

Point of View: Enbridge's Tutcher: Burgeoning US gas demand bodes well for long-distance gas pipleines

March 31, 2003

The recent history and current stance of Enbridge Energy Partners LP, Houston, provide perhaps the clearest example of growing Canadian involvement in the US midstream oil and...

Drilling & Production

ANWR and tax cuts

March 31, 2003

US Senators would rather tax individuals than oil companies. That's one way to read recent Senate votes on tax cuts and leasing of federal land. It's somewhat distorted, maybe...

Home

Talk of oil price 'soft landing' premature?

March 31, 2003

Is it premature to talk of a postwar "soft landing" for oil prices?

Companies

Study sees Angola LNG project feasible but uncertain

March 31, 2003

A recently completed review of an LNG project in Angola by Wood Mackenzie Ltd., Edinburgh, has found the project holds great promise but remains threatened by, among other concerns...

Government

Advertising Index

March 31, 2003

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Companies

Positive factors dominate negatives for Illinois basin coalbed methane

March 31, 2003

The Illinois basin is an elliptical, intracratonic basin that covers 34 million acres in Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky (Fig. 1).

Companies

Gulf bidders aim at deep gas blocks on shelf

March 31, 2003

Two-thirds of the tracts bid at Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 185 on Mar. 19 were for shelf blocks, many of them believed prospective for gas below 15,000 ft.