Volume 101, Issue 30

Lower natural gas prices may dent US drilling

Aug. 4, 2003

Tropical Storm Bill had little effect on drilling and other oil field operations as it moved through the central Gulf of Mexico and came ashore in Louisiana on June 30, but it...

Reserves

API's Cavaney addresses US House on plight of US gas supplies

Aug. 4, 2003

In a letter presented July 24 to the US House of Representatives, American Petroleum Institute Pres. Red Cavaney addressed the plight of the supply of natural gas in the US in...

Refining & Processing

Study identifies optimum operating conditions for ULSD hydrotreaters

Aug. 4, 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...

Companies

Progress in IOR technology, economics deemed critical to staving off world's oil production peak

Aug. 4, 2003

Progress in improving oil recovery rates is critical to helping stave off the day when global oil production enters into permanent decline.

Companies

Custom designed single-cone bit works for well off Albania

Aug. 4, 2003

Recent experience in an Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) well off Albania shows how custom design and manufacturing of bits allow drillers can optimize each application.

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Companies

Indonesia

Aug. 4, 2003

Unocal Rapak Ltd. completed the Ranggas-Selatan 1 appraisal well, extending deepwater Ranggas oil field to the south on the Rapak production-sharing contract off East Kalimantan...

Discoveries

The petroleum system: A fundamental tool

Aug. 4, 2003

The petroleum system (PS) is today a paradigm of hydrocarbon geology and has become a reliable and basic tool for oil and gas explorationists and geoscientists worldwide.

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Sustainable development

Aug. 4, 2003

Thank you for addressing the issue of "sustainable development" (OGJ, July 7, 2003, p. 17) which has become the latest buzzword in environmental circles. As you correctly noted...

Companies

Not off Nags Head?

Aug. 4, 2003

Summertime is in full swing in Houston and elsewhere. School-age children now populate the city streets during the daytime hours, temperatures climb in a seemingly direct correlation...

Companies

Personnel Moves & Promotions: Total promotes three executives to higher vice-president positions

Aug. 4, 2003

Total SA has promoted three executives and announced that Jean-Luc Vermeulen, Total executive vice-president and president, upstream, will retire.

Companies

OGJ Newsletter

Aug. 4, 2003

To no one's surprise, ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries voted July 31 to maintain their oil production quotas at the current total of 25.4 million...

Economics & Markets

PWC: World natural gas markets undergoing transformation

Aug. 4, 2003

Natural gas markets are changing worldwide, and although the pace of change varies by region, the overall challenge for energy companies is to deliver a market model with investment...

Home

Watching Government - Angola and IMF

Aug. 4, 2003

Attractive geology and reform-minded politicians make Angola an encouraging place to drill for oil.

Companies

Point of View: Unit's Nikkel: US onshore drilling remains attractive

Aug. 4, 2003

Technology keeps the US onshore appealing to oil and gas producers and drilling contractors, says the chief executive of a company active in both businesses.

Companies

Company News: Multinationals active in exchanging property interests

Aug. 4, 2003

Multinational oil and natural gas companies are pursuing more property and equity deals.

Reserves

US companies run governance risks in some countries

Aug. 4, 2003

Many oil-producing countries with the biggest reserves don't measure up to international standards for open governments and human liberties, putting US oil companies at risk of...