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  • Volume 101, Issue 2

    • Volume 101, Issue 2

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    Drilling & Production

    Steerable hole-enlargement technology drills complex directional wells

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Following repeated failure of bicenter drillbits to meet demanding requirements in a number of offshore East Malaysia wells, Royal Dutch/Shell Group's Shell Malaysia Ltd. drilled...
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    Production Operations

    Relays help prevent storm-generated power failures

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Relays installed in Occidental Permian Ltd.'s operations in the Permian basin of West Texas and New Mexico have contributed to decreased power distribution and equipment failures...
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    Refining & Processing

    POINT OF VIEW–Special Report: NPRA will increase advocacy as refiners face challenges

    Jan. 13, 2003
    The next decade will be a crucial time for refiners in the US and throughout the world as they face more-stringent environmental regulations, historically high operating rates...
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    Economics & Markets

    Special Report: US policymakers urged to act quickly on clean fuel rules

    Jan. 13, 2003
    US refiner-marketers want policymakers to update federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) rules before the summer driving season starts.
    Economics & Markets

    Special Report: EPA denies California refiners guidance on post-MTBE supply uncertainty

    Jan. 13, 2003
    California's refiner-marketers continue to work under a cloud regarding the status of federal vs. state guidelines on clean fuel supplies once the state's ban on methyl tertiary...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 2

    Reserves

    COMPANY NEWS: Talisman delays sale of Greater Nile Oil Project stake

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has delayed until Jan. 31 the sale of its 25% interest in the Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP) to New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh Ltd., extending the...
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    Refining & Processing

    Special Report: Europe could adopt zero-sulfur fuels ahead of schedule

    Jan. 13, 2003
    When German refiners supply the country's markets with sulfur-free gasoline and diesel on Jan. 1, 2003, the event is likely to trigger a more widespread adoption of clean fuels...
    Pipelines

    AGA calls on policymakers to expand access to energy resources

    Jan. 13, 2003
    The American Gas Association joined a growing chorus of trade groups warning US consumers they could see higher natural gas prices in the next decade unless policymakers boost...
    Production Operations

    RBC Capital poll: Oil service stocks expected to rise in 2003

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Energy experts are bullish about oil service company stocks for 2003 but more cautious about exploration and production stocks, according to an annual energy poll conducted by...
    Companies

    E&P firms' 2003 capital outlays to be flat or lower than in 2002

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Many oil and gas exploration and production companies are planning 2003 capital expenditure budgets that are flat or lower than their 2002 budgets amid concerns about volatile...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: IMF updates

    Jan. 13, 2003
    The International Monetary Fund recently scrutinized the economies of two key oil exporters, Nigeria and Kuwait. Both governments, like most other members of the Organization ...
    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: ConocoPhillips makes senior management changes

    Jan. 13, 2003
    ConocoPhillips reported that Rob McKee—executive vice-president, exploration and production, with Conoco Inc. and Conoco- Phillips since 1992—will retire effective Mar. 31. McKee...
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    Production Operations

    Algeria mulls equal footing for Sonatrach, foreign firms

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Algerian officials are debating a proposal to strip Sonatrach, the state oil firm, of its monopoly market powers and put it on a nearly equal competitive footing with foreign ...
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    Companies

    Lehman: Increases slight for 2003 global E&P outlays

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Worldwide exploration and production budgets are expected to increase by 4.2% to $132.4 billion in 2003 vs. those for 2002.
    HSE

    Developing countries make strides to cut GHG emissions

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Certain developing countries' efforts to strengthen their economies, improve energy security, and protect their local environments are at the same time reducing significantly ...
    LNG

    IEA to study European gas market liberalization

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Paris-based International Energy Agency is undertaking a survey to determine the impact of liberalization of the European natural gas market on the supply safety of its 26 member...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 13, 2003
    There was speculation at presstime last week that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would hike its new production quota by more than 1 million b/d on Jan. 12 in...
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    Reserves

    IPAA: Agency cooperation needed for public land access

    Jan. 13, 2003
    An independent producer group said that new government surveys show there is reason to be optimistic that there is more undiscovered oil and gas within US public lands than once...
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    Drilling & Production

    Drilling execs see oil field services demand rebounding

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Oil field services demand should rebound throughout 2003 following a sluggish fourth quarter 2002, drilling managers at US and Canadian exploration and production companies told...
    Refining & Processing

    Alternate pollution solutions

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Clean fuel regulations have received a great deal of media and industry attention in recent years.
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    LNG

    Letters

    Jan. 13, 2003
    A significant inconsistency appears in your recent article by Steve Shu, Francis Christiano, and Malcolm Harrison, "Analysis points to electric-motor drivers for Angola LNG" (...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    PIPELINE INSPECTION— Conclusion: Reliability-based method assesses corroding oil pipeline

    Jan. 13, 2003
    This concluding article of two focuses on application of a reliability-based pipeline condition-assessment methodology to the assessment of an in-service corroded oil pipeline...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 13, 2003
    The new Liquiphant FTL 20 point level switch provides liquids level measurement.
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    LPG Markets

    New York Devonian black shale: A Barnett-like play in waiting

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Since the inception of oil and gas exploration in New York, geologists have speculated on the potential of the fractured Upper and Middle Devonian shale/siltstone of the Appalachian...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Aurado Exploration Ltd., Toronto, reported a small, shallow gas discovery at the East Tegen structure on the Liman block in the North Caspian basin.
    Exploration & Development

    Kenyan anticorruption crusade deserves industry support

    Jan. 13, 2003
    Although it has no hydrocarbon production and only one small refinery, Kenya deserves the oil and gas industry's keen attention.
    Reserves

    OGJ Editorial: Gas in the US West

    Jan. 13, 2003
    In preparation for whatever the 108th Congress holds in store for US energy policy, oil and gas producers should dispense with fallacies that arose last year about natural gas...
    Economics & Markets

    Venezuela displacing Iraq as chief oil market worry

    Jan. 13, 2003
    The prospect of regime change in Venezuela has become a bigger factor in oil markets than that of regime change in Iraq.
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