Volume 101, Issue 24

Advertising Index

June 23, 2003

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OPEC micromanagement bullish for oil prices

June 23, 2003

The June 11 Doha meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries yielded the strongest middle-to-longer-term evidence supporting a bullish oil price outlook yet this...

Companies

Federal lands access in the US Rockies: Is the glass 40% empty or 60% full?

June 23, 2003

As US energy needs grow, basins in the US West have been identified as a significant future supply source to help meet these needs, especially for natural gas.

Pipelines & Transportation

Political oil supply

June 23, 2003

Construction has begun on an oil pipeline important both for what it is and what it is not. The project is called BTC for the three cities it connects: Baku, Azerbaijan; Tbilisi...

Drilling & Production

Area Drilling

June 23, 2003

American Oil & Gas Inc., Casper, Wyo., said economic incentives and drilling and production techniques could make it possible to exploit nonproducing West Rozel heavy oil field...

Government

Lawyers target CO2 as air pollutant; why not water?

June 23, 2003

Lawyers target CO2 as air pollutant; why not water? A lawsuit by state lawyers from three East Coast states focuses overdue attention on an insidious effort to categorize carbon...

Production Operations

Equipment/Software/Literature

June 23, 2003

A new generation of three-beam ultrasonic flowmeters is designed for a range of heavy crudes to liquefied petroleum gases.

Companies

Services/Suppliers

June 23, 2003

Houston, has announced that Rich Herrmann has joined the company as vice-president of data access and integration.

Production Operations

Letters

June 23, 2003

The interesting article by Richard C. Duncan (OGJ, May 26, 2003, p. 18) analyzes three oil production forecasts predicting peaks between 2003 and 2016.

Government

US Senate resumes energy debate in July

June 23, 2003

The Senate will resume consideration of a comprehensive energy bill immediately after its July 4 recess, Senate Republican leaders said.

Tankers

Imagine that

June 23, 2003

Much has been said and written about the power of imagination.

Production Operations

OPEC opts to hold oil production quota levels steady

June 23, 2003

Ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided June 11 to maintain current oil production quota levels at 25.4 million b/d, but said they will hold...

Companies

Personnel Moves and Promotions

June 23, 2003

ChevronTexaco Corp. names executive of new unit

Pipelines

Point of View - NCE's Yonel: 'free market' corporate culture a success

June 23, 2003

North Coast Energy Inc. (NCE), Twinsburg, Ohio, which ranked third on OGJ's list of the fastest-growing independent oil and gas producers in 2002, started this year by setting...

Companies

OGJ Newsletter

June 23, 2003

Natural gas futures prices remained below $6/Mcf on the New York Mercantile Exchange last week out of concern for another big injection into US underground storage. On June 19...

Companies

Company News - Amerada Hess shedding properties to cut costs

June 23, 2003

Amerada Hess Corp. said it will sell 26 oil and natural gas fields to Ana- darko Petroleum Corp., reported it will exchange some assets with Calgary-based EnCana Corp., and plans...

Companies

API largely endorses pending EPA low sulfur diesel plan

June 23, 2003

Industry generally endorses a pending US Environmental Protection Agency proposal that will reduce most nonroad diesel sulfur levels to 15 ppm by mid-2010, the American Petroleum...

Companies

Watching Government - Gas crisis

June 23, 2003

In 2001, the US government declared an energy crisis. Two years later, policymakers are more specific: Now there is a natural gas crisis.

LPG Markets

Organized 'sabotage' undermines Iraq's crude oil deliveries

June 23, 2003

Even as oil tankers are preparing to lift the first exports of Iraqi crude since the outbreak of the US-led war in March, organized sabotage continues to undermine efforts to ...

Government