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  • Volume 101, Issue 19

    • Volume 101, Issue 19

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    HSE

    Critical path diagrams optimize FCC start-ups

    May 12, 2003
    Critical path diagrams, which have evolved from logic diagrams, can help refiners optimize the timing of FCC start-ups. Those start-ups require that certain steps occur simultaneously...
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    Companies

    Method predicts brine crystallization temperatures

    May 12, 2003
    A new method calculates brine crystallization temperatures at elevated pressure based on the true crystallization temperature and the brine composition. The method predicts temperature...
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    Companies

    US onshore industry bustles with high prices, decline legacy

    May 12, 2003
    Relatively high gas and oil prices are exerting more punch into US onshore exploration and development.
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    Companies

    Kinder Morgan CO2's Fox: SACROC a 'home run' for company

    May 12, 2003
    Kinder Morgan CO2 Co. LP purchased its interest in the Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Committee (SACROC) unit in 2000 and to date has more than doubled the unit's oil production...
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    HSE

    Indicators to evaluate environmental, social, and economic sustainability: a proposal for the Brazilian oil industry

    May 12, 2003
    Terms such as sustainable development, sustainable growth, and sustainable consumption are today used to present a new view of economic and social progress that is more encompassing...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 19

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    Production Operations

    Deepwater gulf gas onrush to flatten decline from shelf

    May 12, 2003
    With almost no fanfare, gas production from the deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico has risen significantly during the past 6 months and will continue to rise as new projects...
    Government

    EISs chart bigger future for Powder River CBM

    May 12, 2003
    The US Bureau of Land Management issued final environmental impact statements on Apr. 30 that govern coalbed methane drilling on federal lands in the Powder River basin in eastern...
    HSE

    Energy is key area for worldwide 'sustainable development'

    May 12, 2003
    Energy deserves its place as a "key area" when discussing global "sustainable development," said Amy Myers Jaffe, a consultant with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public...
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    Companies

    Deepwater hotspots, offshore gas transport advances top OTC agenda

    May 12, 2003
    Advances in offshore technology used for oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production—especially in the deepwater arenas of the world—abounded at the 35th annual...
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    Companies

    Shell reaffirms commitment to 'sustainable development'

    May 12, 2003
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the world's second-biggest publicly traded oil company, has reaffirmed its commitment to "sustainable development," with a special focus on combatting...
    Drilling & Production

    New approaches hold promise for overcoming drilling barriers

    May 12, 2003
    Presentations at the 2003 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston stressed the need for offshore drillers to move away from conventional overbalanced drilling to drilling with...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US Senate starts energy bill floor debate

    May 12, 2003
    The US Senate may pass comprehensive energy legislation as early as late May, Republican lawmakers said May 7 on the eve of floor debate in the chamber.
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    Production Operations

    Douglas-Westwood: Expenditures for FPSs to rise through 2007

    May 12, 2003
    Oil and natural gas companies' capital expenditures (capex) on floating production systems (FPSs) is expected to reach $32 billion over the next 5 years compared with the $17 ...
    Production Operations

    US tabs Iraqi oil leadership; UN dispute lingers

    May 12, 2003
    The UN Security Council looms large in any plans for the development of Iraq's petroleum industry and the sale of its oil, despite the appointment by the US of three executives...
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    Companies

    Market Movement

    May 12, 2003
    Futures prices for crude and petroleum products seesawed early last week, culminating in a midweek uptick when a big build in US oil inventories, anticipated by traders, failed...
    Discoveries

    Letters

    May 12, 2003
    As an author of several books and publications about the Arctic Refuge, and a person who has lived in Alaska for 28 years, I read Scott Montgomery's recent article about the Arctic...
    Economics & Markets

    Secure supplies

    May 12, 2003
    With the Senate now debating sweeping energy legislation (see related story, p. 26), some US lawmakers say a key policy goal should be to encourage oil and gas development outside...
    Production Operations

    How E&D is done in the US

    May 12, 2003
    It has long been a fact that independent companies discover most of the gas and oil in the US.
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    Companies

    Pioneering deepwater gulf pipeline system integrates five segments

    May 12, 2003
    Construction on the groundbreaking Mardi Gras transportation system in deepwater Gulf of Mexico by BP America Inc. and partners is well under way.
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    May 12, 2003
    Emerson Process Management, Rosemount Analytical
    Refining & Processing

    Gasoline hoard another bad energy idea for California

    May 12, 2003
    Under direction of the state legislature, the California Energy Commission last month held workshops to consider a government stockpile of gasoline.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 12, 2003
    Avoidance sonars available for underwater vehicles
    Government

    Hydrogen and hydrocarbons

    May 12, 2003
    The administration of US President George W. Bush deserves credit for two aspects of its push for hydrogen as vehicle fuel. The initiative is ambitious. And it draws useful attention...
    Production Operations

    Reports of OPEC's demise again 'greatly exaggerated'

    May 12, 2003
    It didn't take long for the puzzlement of some analysts over the recent "split decision" by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to turn to predictions of OPEC's ...
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