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  • Volume 101, Issue 28

    • Volume 101, Issue 28

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    Companies

    Improvements in surge protection eliminated rig downtime off W. Africa

    July 21, 2003
    Improvements in electric surge protection eliminated downtime and equipment failures from lightning storms on the Jade platform in Zafiro oil field off Equatorial Guinea. Jade...
    Government

    NPRA to Senate: Support gas conservation, more E&D opportunities

    July 21, 2003
    Flawed government policies prohibiting natural gas development in many areas are to blame for US gas shortages at a time when rising gas demand is expected to continue its increase...
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    Companies

    Debate grows over US gas supply crisis as harbinger of global gas production peak

    July 21, 2003
    Concerns over global natural gas supply are mounting.
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    Companies

    Enhanced NGL recovery process selected for Neptune gas plant expansion

    July 21, 2003
    Enterprise Products Operating LP and partner Marathon Oil Co. conducted a study for the design and construction of a second 300 MMcfd NGL-recovery train at the Neptune plant in...
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    Drilling & Production

    US land drilling activity growns, offshore lags

    July 21, 2003
    The US rig rate increased by an "impressive" 5.9 rigs/week through most of the first 6 months of this year, said Angeline M. Sedita, vice-president of oil service equity research...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 28

    Reserves

    Triana Energy to buy former CNR Appalachian properties

    July 21, 2003
    Triana Energy Holdings Inc., Charleston, W.Va., reached agreement to buy Columbia Energy Resources and its Appalachian basin gas properties from NiSource Inc., Merrillville, Ind...
    Reserves

    Lundin Petroleum has broad plans to develop Tunisia fields

    July 21, 2003
    Lundin Petroleum, Stockholm, plans to develop several fields in and off Tunisia in coming years.
    Home

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    July 21, 2003
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    Refining

    US gas and vehicle fuel

    July 21, 2003
    US lawmakers started too late to do anything useful about the threat of rising prices for natural gas next winter.
    Economics & Markets

    A contrarian view: high oil price + high oil demand

    July 21, 2003
    Think you can have higher oil prices and still have high demand?
    Drilling & Production

    Kazakhstan

    July 21, 2003
    Transmeridian Exploration Inc., Houston, secured a $30 million credit line from Turan Alem Bank to develop its South Alibek field in the eastern PreCaspian basin.
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    LNG

    Libya: Energy investments persist in a puzzling land

    July 21, 2003
    Libya1 is an underexplored, underinvested, underestimated, risk-filled, yet opportunity-laden country.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Chinese gas pipeline overcoming geographic obstacles en route to 2004 start-up

    July 21, 2003
    Under construction since October 2001, PetroChina Co. Ltd.'s West-to-East natural gas pipeline is moving toward a 2004 completion of the approximately 3,800 km, 1,016-mm (40-in...
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    New Plants

    Fire resistant pipe plug for offshore vessels

    July 21, 2003
    Crusher Plug, a fire resistant plug for ducting plastic pipes through decks and bulkheads on offshore vessels, is now available for all types of plastic pipe, including PVC, PP...
    Capacities

    Good times ahead for US refiners investing to survive

    July 21, 2003
    Good times lie ahead for US refiners. But there's a catch: Only survivors will enjoy them.
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    Companies

    Gas Technology Products LLC (GTP)

    July 21, 2003
    Gas Technology Products LLC (GTP) Schaumburg, Ill., has announced that David Graubard joined the firm as a business development engineer to support GTP's hydrogen sulfide treatment...
    Home

    Gas Supply Problems

    July 21, 2003
    Approximately 36,000 Mw of new natural gas generation is scheduled to come on line in North America during March through September 2003.
    Drilling Operations

    More than gray matter

    July 21, 2003
    It is said that humans use only a small portion of the capacity of our brains.
    Economics & Markets

    White House, Congress jump-start energy policy debate

    July 21, 2003
    Looking to address possible price spikes in US natural gas markets,
    Government

    US Senate committee restores oil, gas research funding

    July 21, 2003
    The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) July 10 unanimously voted to expand federally sponsored oil and natural gas research beyond what the White House says it wants for the...
    Exploration & Development

    Pemex official: Mexican MSC round just first step

    July 21, 2003
    Mexico's controversial Multiple Service Contracts, designed to attract foreign investment to exploration and development of natural gas in that country, may someday be utilized...
    LPG Markets

    Company News - Statoil buys into BP's stake in Algerian natural gas

    July 21, 2003
    Multinational oil and gas companies have negotiated major international deals recently, including a transaction that marks Statoil ASA's entry into Algeria.
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    General Interest

    Point of View - TAEP's Mills trying to bring stability to Texas indies

    July 21, 2003
    Volatility has plagued the independent oil and gas producers in Texas for more than a decade.
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions -BG Group names new nonexecutive chairman

    July 21, 2003
    BG Group named Robert Wilson nonexecutive chairman, effective Jan. 1, 2004, to succeed Richard Giordano, who is retiring from the BG board on Dec. 31.
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    Companies

    IEA projects 2004 oil supply, demand

    July 21, 2003
    The latest Oil Market Report from the International Energy Agency includes projections for 2004 global oil demand and supply from countries outside the Organization of Petroleum...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Enron files Chapter 11 reorganization plan

    July 21, 2003
    Enron Corp. filed a 900-page reorganization plan that outlines how it proposes to pay a fraction of the $67 billion that the company estimates in creditors' claims.
    Government

    Watching Government - Oil auditing

    July 21, 2003
    The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service says it is improving its auditing procedures after its Inspector General (IG) found serious flaws with the current...
    LNG

    Coming year to be 'crucial' for the EU's gas market

    July 21, 2003
    "The coming year will be a crucial year," for the European Union's natural gas market, according to Jean Syrota, president of that country's Commission de Régulation de l'Energie...
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    Production Operations

    Algeria becoming North Africa's reserves hot spot

    July 21, 2003
    Algeria becoming North Africa's reserves hot spot An estimated $50-73 billion in investment is expected to be spent in the next 10 years developing Algeria's oil and gas reserves...