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    Production Operations

    OPEC's challenge: Rethinking its quota system

    July 28, 2003
    Perhaps for the first time in its 42-year history, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has gained the respect of the world oil community as a technically competent...
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    Production Operations

    IMA reports fewer orders for floating production units

    July 28, 2003
    Worldwide orders for new floating production units have tapered off, according to the latest quarterly outlook for these systems by International Maritime Associates Inc. (IMA...
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    Heavy hydrocarbons playing key role in peak-oil debate, future energy supply

    July 28, 2003
    Increasing production of unconventional oil could be crucial for meeting future global oil demand.
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    Refining & Processing

    Study outlines optimum ULSD hydrotreater design

    July 28, 2003
    A recent study for a grassroots 30,000-b/sd hydrotreater that can produce ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) helped assess the critical process design issues for meeting future ULSD...
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    Petrochemicals

    Light, durable mats extend drilling season in Canada

    July 28, 2003
    Light, durable mats have extended the drilling season in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin (WCSC), as shown by Apache Canada Ltd.'s program in Zama field in Alberta.

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    July 28, 2003
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    Economics & Markets

    LNG not 'magic bullet' for US gas supply woes

    July 28, 2003
    Is LNG the answer to US natural gas supply woes?
    Economics & Markets

    Conservation happens

    July 28, 2003
    Conservation happens What can a government do about energy conservation?
    Government

    Who cares who knew what about Iraq and Niger

    July 28, 2003
    Given the challenge of rebuilding Iraq and helping the fractured country establish self-governance, who needs controversy over a presidential remark about uranium from Niger?
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    Pipelines

    Two new radar transmitters

    July 28, 2003
    Two new Rosemount radar transmitters available to the industry provide liquid level and interface measurement.
    Reserves

    Services/Suppliers

    July 28, 2003
    Houston, has appointed Tony Powell as chief executive officer, and Bill Graham as chief financial officer.
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    LNG

    World hot spots, Asian economy boost tanker industry

    July 28, 2003
    A stronger-than-expected Asian economy helped boost the worldwide tanker industry to a positive first quarter 2003.
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    Companies

    Detachment folds and triangle zones: Unexplored hydrocarbon potential along eastern Cumberland escarpment, Tenn.

    July 28, 2003
    An 80 km-long unexplored subsurface detachment fold, the Eureka structure, exists in the southern Appalachian thrust belt just east of the Cumberland escarpment in eastern Tennessee...
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    World's oil supply

    July 28, 2003
    This applauds the article by Richard Duncan (OGJ, May 26, 2003, p. 18) which affirms in lucid terms the undeniable fact that the world's supplies of the oil that makes possible...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government - Great Expectations

    July 28, 2003
    The next 3 months are critical to turning around the security situation in Iraq, according to a new report by Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies...
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    Updating temperature data

    July 28, 2003
    J. Marshall Adkins, an analyst in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc., St. Petersburg, Fla., noted in a recent weekly report that the US National Oceanic Atmospheric...
    Production Operations

    Vinson & Elkins: Iraqis already working on legal reforms

    July 28, 2003
    The Iraqi Governing Council already is working on legal reforms intended to attract foreign investors, promising new opportunities for international oil and natural gas companies...
    Production Operations

    Russia's oil sector to remain free of OPEC pricing plans

    July 28, 2003
    Despite overtures by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to bring Russia into its fold, experts don't see it happening.
    Refining & Processing

    USACE unveils tender for Iraqi oil restoration work

    July 28, 2003
    Soliciting proposals for work to restore the Iraqi oil and natural gas industry, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) estimates that funding requirements might reach $1.68 billion...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 28, 2003
    Energy futures prices plummeted July 22 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, with natural gas hitting a 7-month low of $4.87/Mcf as a tropical storm dissipated in the Caribbean...