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    Production Operations

    Three world oil forecasts predict peak oil production

    May 26, 2003
    Forecasts of the imminent depletion of oil are as old as the industry itself, and that has not changed.
    HSE

    Coal group disputes EC's gas-heavy energy scenario

    May 26, 2003
    Associazione Generale Operatori Carboni (Assocarboni), a Rome-based organization representing companies in the Italian coal industry, has challenged the European Commission's ...
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    Companies

    Mud gas isotope logging (MGIL) assists in oil and gas drilling operations

    May 26, 2003
    Advances in sampling and analytical techniques now permit the isotopic analysis of very small amounts of hydrocarbon gases in air that are collected from the circulating mud stream...
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    LNG

    Cost-effective design reduces C2 and C3 at LNG receiving terminals

    May 26, 2003
    with a C2+ or C3+ separation facility can receive LNG feeds with varying compositions, meet stringent calorific value export gas specifications, and decrease capital and operating...
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    Production Operations

    Japan frac succeeds in deep, naturally fractured volcanics

    May 26, 2003
    A multistage treatment successfully stimulated a well in the deep, hot, and naturally fractured volcanic rock of the Minami-Nagaoka field, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 21

    New Plants

    China's booming economy needs energy, pipelines, and technology

    May 26, 2003
    The energy landscape of China has drastically changed since China's first Pipeline Bureau delegation visited Calgary in 1974. Today China needs and wants high international standards...
    Reserves

    Riyadh terrorist attacks spawn new price risk premium

    May 26, 2003
    There is a new risk premium for oil prices: the threat of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia.
    Refining & Processing

    California's ethanol

    May 26, 2003
    In a showdown looming in Congress over gasoline chemistry, a new report by the Energy Information Administration on California's experience will be helpful.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 26, 2003
    This new 48 in. diameter fan blade model joins the Port-A-Cool unit lineup and promises to cool 3,500 sq ft.
    Reserves

    Attacks in Riyadh draw attention to fiery Wahhabism

    May 26, 2003
    The May 12 bombings in Riyadh focus attention on xenophobic rant from Saudi mosques.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Chinese gas pipeline design, contractors target full start-up for 2004

    May 26, 2003
    PetroChina Co. Ltd.'s West-to-East natural gas pipeline project has been under construction since October 2001 and is proceeding toward a 2004 completion of the approximate 3,...
    Companies

    Seeking flammable ice

    May 26, 2003
    Gas hydrates are a flow assurance problem in flowlines, but when found in natural accumulations in the ground, methane hydrates represent a potentially vast energy resource.
    Companies

    NPC study seen as useful tool for energy policy debate

    May 26, 2003
    Industry officials hope that recommendations from an upcoming National Petroleum Council natural gas study will bolster their case that comprehensive energy legislation is needed...
    Companies

    Industry wins concessions in EU chemical regs

    May 26, 2003
    Fierce lobbying helped water down a 2-year-old white paper proposal of European Union policy on the manufacture and importation of industrial chemicals into more "workable and...
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions

    May 26, 2003
    ConocoPhillips announces senior management changes
    Home

    American Bar Association forms postconflict Iraq team

    May 26, 2003
    The American Bar Association May 1 said it anticipates it will soon send a postconflict team to Iraq to make an independent legal assessment of what needs to be done to attract...
    Government

    Congressional leaders take closer look at Iraq policy

    May 26, 2003
    US House congressional leaders earlier this month sharply criticized the United Nations' management of oil revenues under its Iraq oil-for-aid program and called for strong US...
    Companies

    DOI to review heavy oil, stripper well royalty programs

    May 26, 2003
    The US Department of the Interior this year will take a closer look at its heavy oil and stripper well royalty relief programs to see if they are stimulating domestic production...
    Economics & Markets

    Watching Government - Taxing times

    May 26, 2003
    Congress may soon pass a sweeping tax stimulus proposal, possibly in late spring. Corporate America generally likes both House and Senate versions, although oil companies are ...
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    Companies

    Market Movement

    May 26, 2003
    Middle East terrorist attacks push up oil prices
    Companies

    Company News

    May 26, 2003
    Orion files Chapter 11, Valero buying refinery
    New Plants

    DOI's BLM takes steps to encourage Powder River basin CBM drillingDOI's BLM takes steps to encourage Powder River basin CBM drilling

    May 26, 2003
    Producers moved one step closer toward expanding coalbed methane drilling in the Powder River basin under a recent decision by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land...
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    Production Operations

    FACTS: Asia-Pacific oil production flat as imports rise

    May 26, 2003
    Asia's crude oil markets are characterized by moderately flat regional crude production, rising crude imports, and less crude available for export.