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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    April 7, 2003
    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    Companies

    Web-based system remotely monitors Saudi wells

    April 7, 2003
    A pilot project in Saudi Arabia aims to determine the benefits of remote monitoring technology with an integrated web-based system for lowering operating costs, maximizing production...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Simple predictive procedure calculates heptane K-value

    April 7, 2003
    A simple equation presented here provides good estimates of C7+ K-values, also known as equilibrium ratios.
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    Companies

    Multilateral, underbalanced well drilled in mature Brazil field

    April 7, 2003
    A multilateral well drilled in northeastern Brazil was highly successful in a mature field that had already been under waterflood and steam injection.
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    Refining

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly

    April 7, 2003
    Indexes for selected equipment show moderate increase

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 14

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    Companies

    Deepwater 2D data reveal new objectives off South Africa's west coast

    April 7, 2003
    Petroleum Geo-Services recently acquired a regional, 3,660 km nonexclusive 2D seismic survey over the deepwater Orange basin off the west coast of South Africa (Fig. 1).
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    FSU oil exports through Iran set to increase

    April 7, 2003
    Iran's long-held dream of becoming a major export route for oil from the Caspian Sea has taken another step forward with the completion of the first phase of a new pipeline from...
    Government

    Advertising Index

    April 7, 2003
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    Drilling & Production

    Low storage levels underpin bullish gas outlook

    April 7, 2003
    Natural gas storage levels in the US lately have ridden the wildest rollercoaster in some years.
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial

    April 7, 2003
    A desperate governor has good reason to overplay Federal Energy Regulatory Commission findings of market manipulation during California's energy crisis of 2000-01. The rest of...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 7, 2003
    Subsea wellhead pressure-temperature transmittersThe new PTX 400 Series underwater wellhead pressure-temperature transmitters have been specifically designed for long term use...
    Discoveries

    Environmentalism is about politics, not religion

    April 7, 2003
    Environmentalists and their friends in high office go too far when they decorate politics with religion.
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    Production Operations

    Oil import misconceptions

    April 7, 2003
    While trying to define a topic for this column, I was torn between discussing the current military conflict in Iraq or its related oil price volatility effects on the US. After...
    Companies

    Letters

    April 7, 2003
    The Mar. 10, 2003, issue of the OGJ, p. 10, included a letter to the editor from Mr. John B. Somers II, president of High Plains Petroleum Corp., entitled "Limits on federal land...
    Government

    Senate rejects reinstatement of industry Superfund tax

    April 7, 2003
    The US Senate, on a 56-43 vote Mar. 25, rejected efforts to revive an expired "Superfund" toxic waste tax on industry. Before 1995, oil and chemical companies were charged a fee...
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions

    April 7, 2003
    Anadarko, El Paso Corp. name new CEOs Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and El Paso Corp. both recently named new executives to head their respective companies.
    LPG Markets

    NPRA: Industry moving toward mutual interdependence

    April 7, 2003
    The oil and gas industry is becoming much more interconnected and moving towards "mutual interdependence," according to Sharaf Salamah, president of Saudi Refining Inc.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 7, 2003
    Despite continued uncertainty over oil supplies from Nigeria and Iraq, oil futures prices dipped last week after the US Department of Energy and the American Petroleum Institute...
    Companies

    Watching Government - Improving indices

    April 7, 2003
    The regulatory hangover from the Enron Corp. debacle and the California power crisis continues (see Editorial, p. 19). Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took...
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    Companies

    Continuing threat of tanker attacks, oil field sabotage underscore industry worries as war rages in Iraq

    April 7, 2003
    A continuing potential threat to Persian Gulf shipping tied to the war in Iraq has spiked tanker insurance rates sharply.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iraq rejects UN reauthorization of humanitarian aid oil sales program

    April 7, 2003
    Iraq has formally rejected a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously Mar. 28, that authorizes UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan to administer the oil-for-aid program...
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    Refining

    Saudi Arabia, other gulf states to offset Iraqi oil supplies to Jordan

    April 7, 2003
    With Japanese financial backing, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil-exporting states have confirmed they will provide Jordan with crude and fuel oil, replacing supplies from...
    Pipelines

    Company News: Talisman marks end of era with completion of Sudan sale

    April 7, 2003
    Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has completed late last month the long-awaited sale of its 25% stake in Sudan's Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP) to New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh Ltd...
    Companies

    Salomon, Lehman, FBR: 2003 US E&P spending flat; RJA more optimistic

    April 7, 2003
    While US spending is flat, worldwide exploration and production expenditures will increase modestly this year, according to a handful of analysts conducting E&P spending surveys...
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    Companies

    US capital expenditures rebound; Canadian spending flat in 2003

    April 7, 2003
    Capital spending in the US oil and gas industry will increase 10% this year, with jumps in both the upstream and downstream sectors.