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  • Volume 101, Issue 25

    • Volume 101, Issue 25

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    New Plants

    Premilled window improves Level 3 multilateral design, functionality

    June 30, 2003
    A new premilled window system provides another option for completing multilateral wells in the Orinoco heavy oil projects in Venezuela.
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    Companies

    World's LPG industry shifting to a supply-driven market

    June 30, 2003
    Global demand for LPG has grown rapidly for many years. Much of this growth has occurred east of the Suez Canal, which has shifted international trade patterns.
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    HSE

    US pilot plant mimics effect of planned changes

    June 30, 2003
    In April 2003, Dow Chemical Co. started up a gas treating pilot plant in Freeport, Tex., to help customer operating companies minimize the risk involved in altering gas plant ...
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    Production Operations

    Rest of world continues to gain ground on Canada, US

    June 30, 2003
    With worldwide natural gas production flat at the end of 2002, it's no surprise that the world's gas processing capacity showed virtually no growth last year.

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 25

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    Production Operations

    Can we identify limits to worldwide energy resources?

    June 30, 2003
    In the course of considering long-term technology development directions for research and development in fuels and electric power generation, we examined predictions of long-term...
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    Production Operations

    Iraq's contracting policies await state succession

    June 30, 2003
    The end of Saddam Hussein's presidency in Iraq marks a new beginning for oil and natural gas companies previously barred by US or United Nations sanctions from doing business ...
    Pipelines

    Watching Government: Budapest and Bucharest

    June 30, 2003
    Budapest and Bucharest; Federal appeals court says states have authority to ban MTBE
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    Refining

    Iraq awards oil exports; Basrah refinery starting up

    June 30, 2003
    Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) announced June 11 the results of its tenders for the export of 9.5 million bbl of oil currently stored at Ceyhan, Turkey, the US...
    Production Operations

    ASPO sees conventional oil production peaking by 2010

    June 30, 2003
    The Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)—a network of scientists, universities, and government departments—met near Paris at the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) late...
    Companies

    Saboteurs continue to blast Iraqi oil, gas pipelines

    June 30, 2003
    Even as Iraq began loading its first oil for export in 3 months on June 21, saboteurs blasted an Iraqi natural gas pipeline at Hit the following day and...
    HSE

    Federal appeals court says states have authority to ban MTBE

    June 30, 2003
    The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco early this month unanimously affirmed a lower court decision that found California did not preempt federal authority...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 30, 2003
    High prices seen for decade. The US is facing high prices for both oil and natural gas for a decade or more, analysts reported last week.
    Companies

    Letters

    June 30, 2003
    Benchmarking study; Three world oil forecasts predict peak production; Duncan's reply; MORE...
    Companies

    A new pipeline era

    June 30, 2003
    Oil and gas pipeline companies in North America are getting serious about safety. As if they were not already.
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    June 30, 2003
    Houston, has elected Jon A. Marshall as president and chief executive officer, and a director of the company.
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    Companies

    New supply projects to push LNG into major markets

    June 30, 2003
    LNG's share of the world's trade in natural gas set records in 2002 even as gas production growth was flat.
    Home

    Pivotal moment approaches for US-Iranian relations

    June 30, 2003
    For better or worse, relations between the US and Iran—such as they are—soon will change.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 30, 2003
    Lathe comes with a fully programmable hydraulic tailstock.; Long-bed lathe designed to handle lengthy oil field parts; MORE...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Area Drilling

    June 30, 2003
    A group of independents was preparing for further geophysical analysis on the 86,485-acre South Larne license in northeasternmost Northern Ireland.
    Production Operations

    US refiners still banking on 2003 recovery

    June 30, 2003
    US refiners are clinging tenaciously to the notion that 2003 will continue to be a recovery year.
    New Plants

    Conservation confusion

    June 30, 2003
    Confusion over the nature of conservation threatens to lead the US into serious mistakes with natural gas.
    Capacities

    LNG carriers' near-term glut will ease by 2008

    June 30, 2003
    LNG vessel ordering over the past 2-3 years suggests that at least 65 new vessels are due to start trading over the next 4-5 years.
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    Production Operations

    How to realize LEM benefits in ultradeepwater oil and gas

    June 30, 2003
    Ultradeepwater oil and gas exploration and development is a frontier much like landing on the moon was in the 1960s.