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  • Volume 101, Issue 20

    • Volume 101, Issue 20

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    Companies

    Personnel and Promotions

    May 19, 2003
    Petrobras names Dutra to administration council, appoints executives
    Government

    US seeks accord on Iraqi oil revenue by June deadline

    May 19, 2003
    US officials want the United Nations to quickly lift sanctions on Iraq and phase out an oil-for-aid program. The program would extend past its scheduled June 3 expiration, under...
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    Companies

    Enterprise asset performance management improves plant maintenance

    May 19, 2003
    Plant operators can improve plant maintenance strategies by implementing a well-structured, integrated, and comprehensive approach to equipment reliability called "enterprise ...
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    New Plants

    Low-maintenance control systems improve NGL recovery at Texas gas plant

    May 19, 2003
    Advanced regulatory control strategies at El Paso Field Services Co.'s Thompsonville, Tex., gas plant have optimized plant performance for the past 9 years with little or no required...
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    Drilling & Production

    US drilling surge will continue into the year

    May 19, 2003
    The upward trend in US drilling activity since the start of this year is likely to continue through the summer and boost day rates for premium offshore rigs in the second half...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 20

    Companies

    Area Drilling

    May 19, 2003
    New Zealand Crown Minerals launched a licensing round that covers 17 land and offshore blocks in the Taranaki basin.
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    Economics & Markets

    Ultradeepwater oil-gas development: Designing uncertainty into the enterprise

    May 19, 2003
    Lean energy management is a methodology for efficient "manufacture" of oil and gas using software to enforce process rigor and discipline in order to dramatically cut costs and...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    May 19, 2003
    Advertising Index A Aramco Services Companywww.jobsataramco.com
    Drilling & Production

    Nuclear outages bolster gas price outlook

    May 19, 2003
    Problems with nuclear power plants are proving to be a wild card in the outlook for North American natural gas markets.
    Companies

    Bombs in Saudi Arabia

    May 19, 2003
    Pressure builds on the House of Saud, controller of the most important single source of crude oil in world trade.
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    Drilling & Production

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 19, 2003
    New PTX 300 Series offshore pressure transmitters come with operating ranges of as much as 15,000 psi and are fully submersible with an ambient pressure rating of as much as 4...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Anxiety over US oil imports breeds bad energy ideas

    May 19, 2003
    The US government needs to relax about imported oil, anxiety over which makes serious people say and propose silly things.
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    Companies

    Canyon Express touts industry firsts, shared infrastructure for deepwater gulf development

    May 19, 2003
    In September 2002, TotalFinaElf E&P USA Inc. announced first gas on the industry's deepest subsea project to date.
    Home

    Letters

    May 19, 2003
    Your Editorial (OGJ, May 5, 2003, p. 21), issue is right on mark, up to a point. In my opinion, the war in Iraq was not over oil, it was over the lucrative contracts to be had...
    Companies

    Putting 'Pee-ay' on the map

    May 19, 2003
    Putting 'Pee-ay' on the map While anxiously anticipating a fast-approaching 6-day trip to visit the eastern Pennsylvania stomping grounds of my childhood and early adulthood, ...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching Government - Energy laboring

    May 19, 2003
    The US Congress may send the White House a comprehensive energy plan before Labor Day. Or it may not. Public interest is not a motivating factor these days, given today's retail...
    Companies

    Trade groups ask FERC to save gas price reporting system

    May 19, 2003
    Producer and consumer groups told federal energy regulators that an industry-led price reporting process remains the most effective way to ensure natural gas price transparency...
    Government

    OPEC grappling with postwar Iraq questions

    May 19, 2003
    OPEC grappling with postwar Iraq questions Postwar Iraq commands center stage on the agenda of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, but the issue remains surrounded...
    Production Operations

    Venezuelan officials say they have program to improve PDVSA

    May 19, 2003
    Venezuelan officials say they have program to improve PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) is a reliable supplier of oil and petroleum products to the US, and this market a...
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    Companies

    Market Movement

    May 19, 2003
    The May 12 explosion of terrorist bombs that killed 34 people, including 8 US citizens and 9 suicide bombers, in Saudi Arabia also rattled energy markets worldwide as traders ...
    Companies

    Company News: Perenco buying UK North Sea properties from BG Group

    May 19, 2003
    Oil and gas company property divestitures have accelerated this year, and recent activity included two North Sea property deals.
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    Reserves

    Point of View: OPEC's Silva Calderón: OPEC a force for market stability

    May 19, 2003
    Stability is a word that arises quickly and often in conversation with the secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Álvaro Silva Calderón.
    Refining & Processing

    Leader says former PDVSA workers still hope to win battle

    May 19, 2003
    Thousands of former employees of Petroleos de Venezuela SA, fired for participating in a 63-day general strike aimed at toppling Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, still hope to...
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    Economics & Markets

    Upstream Opportunity Index assesses E&P investments

    May 19, 2003
    The year 2000 was a stellar year for the upstream end of the oil and gas industry.