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  • Volume 101, Issue 15

    • Volume 101, Issue 15

    Drilling & Production

    New DOE oil projects focus on long-term research

    April 14, 2003
    In an effort to keep US oil and gas fields producing successfully in the future, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 projects to share in an $8.7-million exploration...
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    Production Operations

    Dispute over postwar Iraq oil control getting nastier

    April 14, 2003
    The dispute over control of Iraq's postwar reconstruction—and by extension its oil wealth—has gotten nastier even as US-led coalition forces last week sought to wrap up the job...
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    Production Operations

    Benchmarking study compares LNG plant costs

    April 14, 2003
    A benchmarking study of several recent LNG projects at greenfield locations compared specific costs and show that low specific cost and low emissions are not mutually exclusive...
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    Companies

    Multilateral, intelligent well completion benefits explored

    April 14, 2003
    In general, a study found that multilateral wells perform better than single horizontal wells. but the best technology to use depends on specific reservoir characteristics, drilling...
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    Companies

    War uncertainties delay construction projects

    April 14, 2003
    Oil and natural gas engineering and construction contractors say that some downstream industry projects could be delayed due to economic and safety concerns arising from the US...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 15

    Companies

    Advertising Index

    April 14, 2003
    Alfa Laval Desalt A/Swww.alfalaval.com/oilandgas
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    Drilling & Production

    ANWR 1002 Area and development: one question, many issues

    April 14, 2003
    In 1999, a young master's degree candidate in photo-journalism, John Dunne, spent the summer in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska, taking pictures and keeping a journal...
    Economics & Markets

    More heat—market and political—looms for refiners

    April 14, 2003
    The US gasoline market will heat up for refiners this year—and not just in terms of gasoline prices and margins.
    Reserves

    Iraq must succeed

    April 14, 2003
    Can newly free Iraq become a successful oil state? History suggests not.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 14, 2003
    System promises to withstand harsh chemicals and punishing weather, take up minimal space
    Home

    Invasion of Iraq ferocious yet careful near holy sites

    April 14, 2003
    The attack against the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been simultaneously ferocious and careful.
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    HSE

    Vapor-recovery unit passes South Texas field test

    April 14, 2003
    Performance testiccng of a vapor-recovery unit developed by Comm Engineering USA, Lafayette, La., has shown the technology capable of collecting 64 MMscf/year of vent gases with...
    HSE

    Making hydrogen

    April 14, 2003
    Jim Barry's letter "H2 should compete on its own" (OGJ, Mar. 3, 2003, p. 10) mentions that using hydrogen as a fuel requires "expenditure of considerable energy."
    Discoveries

    Changing forms of energy

    April 14, 2003
    A few weeks ago a reader called to ask how much oil and natural gas is left in the world, what might be the depletion rate, and when the world might "run out" of oil.
    Home

    MMS to fund study of currents in GOM off Mexico

    April 14, 2003
    The US Minerals Management Service late last month deployed a current meter mooring in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico as part of a study by the Centro de Investigación Cient...
    Reserves

    Analyst sees no meat in MMS proposal to expand offshore royalty relief

    April 14, 2003
    The US Minerals Management Service proposal to expand offshore royalty relief in an effort to increase deep natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is "all sizzle, no steak...
    Drilling & Production

    US Congress pushes through sweeping energy bill

    April 14, 2003
    The US Congress earlier this month moved on several fronts to bring together a sweeping energy bill that Republican leaders say President George W. Bush may sign before the summer...
    Production Operations

    OPEC to address falling oil prices at special meeting

    April 14, 2003
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will discuss the recent drop in oil prices at an extraordinary meeting, tentatively slated for Apr. 24 in Vienna, OPEC Pres. ...
    Companies

    Company News: Frontier Oil, Holly Corp. to merge in $450 million deal

    April 14, 2003
    Frontier Oil Corp., Houston, and Holly Corp., Dallas, have agreed to merge in a cash and stock deal valued at about $450 million.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 14, 2003
    Energy futures prices rebounded early last week with reports of significant declines in US oil inventories and a call for a meeting of ministers from the Organization of Petroleum...
    Refining

    Fuelish waivering

    April 14, 2003
    Some US states, especially in the Northeast and on the West Coast, are growing increasingly worried that current reformulated gasoline (RFG) rules will help drive retail prices...
    Companies

    Personnel and Promotions

    April 14, 2003
    BP PLC and Russian partners Alfa Group and Access-Renova (AAR) tentatively named an advisory board and senior executives to lead newly formed holding company TNK-BP following ...