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  • Volume 101, Issue 3

    • Volume 101, Issue 3

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    Production Operations

    Hydrodynamic equations model mud-pulse telemetry transmissions

    Jan. 20, 2003
    A closed-loop drilling system, to be effective, requires reliable two-way communication between the downhole module and surface.1 2
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Special Report:POINT OF VIEW: Nova Scotian independent likes eastern Canada prospects

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The onshore portion of Canada's Maritime Provinces represents a true frontier with practically no oil or gas production and its own set of challenges. The area is slowly becoming...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    STRADDLE GAS PLANTS—Conclusion: Australia straddle plant's operating strategy mirrors Aux Sable

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Wesfarmers Energy Ltd.'s (WEL) Kwinana, Western Australia, plant processes LPG combined with gas flowing in the Dampier-Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGP) from producers on ...
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    Field Start Ups

    Evaluation ranks deepwater, harsh-environment floater, riser concepts

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Results of an evaluation clearly show that deepwater technology development for benign environments has limited use in the hostile waters of the Atlantic margin.
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    New Plants

    Canada's huge gas potential challenged by cost, price, pipeline transport issues

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Canada remains a long-term storehouse to help meet North American natural gas demand. There remain enormous untapped resources of conventional and nonconventional gas in Canada...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 3

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    Exploration & Development

    Gas well development through decision trees

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Data mining massive geological databases is a leading edge statistical technique useful in oil and gas exploration.
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    Jan. 20, 2003
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    Economics & Markets

    Will $5/MMbtu gas price hold in 2003?

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Is 2003 going to be a year of $5/MMbtu natural gas in the US? The latest developments in oil and natural gas markets seem to be pointing that way, and a number of analysts have...
    HSE

    OGJ Editorial: The climate debate

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The US government properly refuses to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change but acts determined to implement it. This month, the Environmental Protection Agency began a ...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 20, 2003
    GeoPetro Resources Co., San Francisco, submitted to Indonesia's BPMIGAS agency a work program for the 2.4 million acre Yapen block production sharing contract off northern Irian...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The new Hytorc-Disc stops bolt turning and twisting when placed underneath a regular nut and held stationary by the click-on bolting machine.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Venezuelan crisis, by itself, not reason to tap SPR

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The US should not tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to disruption of oil imports from Venezuela.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Norman, Okla., has announced the appointment of Alan R. Huffman as its vice-president of operations, and as president and CEO of Fusion's new subsidiary, Fusion Petroleum Technologies...
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    Pipelines

    Pipeline rehab responding to regulatory pressures, technological advances

    Jan. 20, 2003
    As regulatory and safety bodies, such as the US Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety, increasingly emphasize risk management as a tool in pipeline operation...
    Gas Processing

    Weather and energy planning

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Weather forecasting has never been an exact science. In some areas of the world, people inspect "woolly worms" to predict the severity of the coming winter.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iraq's current oil-for-aid program exports fall to 6.7 million bbl

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Iraq exported 6.7 million bbl of oil for the week ended Jan. 10, a reduction of 7.4 million bbl from the 13.1 million bbl exported during the preceding week, according to figures...
    Companies

    New York seeks waiver for federal clean air rule

    Jan. 20, 2003
    New York state Jan. 6 formally asked the US Environmental Protection Agency to waive a federal clean air rule that requires fuel suppliers to sell reformulated gasoline (RFG) ...
    Economics & Markets

    OPEC hikes production quota to quell market worries

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided Jan. 12 to increase their total oil production quota by 6.5% to 24.5 million b/d in an effort to reassure ...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The general strike that has slashed Venezuela's oil production to less than 500,000 b/d was well into its 7th week at presstime last week, with no solution yet in sight.
    Government

    Watching Government: Orderly chaos

    Jan. 20, 2003
    The 108th US Congress is in place with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate. But serious legislative work may not start until next month.
    Companies

    US agencies endorse expanded CBM developments

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Three government agencies are endorsing a dramatic expansion of coal- bed methane production on public lands in Montana and Wyoming under new regional environmental impact statements...
    Production Operations

    PDVSA workers oppose takeover of PDVSA by Chávez

    Jan. 20, 2003
    A panel of former executive and technical employees of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) said Jan. 10 they were struggling to prevent Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from taking...
    Companies

    COMPANY NEWS: Apache, TotalFinaElf expand into uncommon areas

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Two recent company transactions have taken two operators—one large US independent and another international major—into uncharted or uncommon areas of their operations.
    Production Operations

    Venezuela officials plan to split PDVSA into two operations

    Jan. 20, 2003
    Members of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's beleaguered administration announced plans to split state oil corporation Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) into two operations, ...