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  • Volume 101, Issue 38

    • Volume 101, Issue 38

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    Companies

    Catalyst developments driven by clean fuels strategies

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Clean fuels strategies are at the top of crude oil refiners' lists of challenges this year, and catalyst suppliers have responded with solutions.
    Refining

    Analyst predicts strong third quarter for refiners

    Oct. 6, 2003
    US integrated refiners should enjoy a profitable third quarter, according to a recent report from UBS Securities LLC.
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    International rig count hits 5-year high

    Oct. 6, 2003
    More cash flow from higher oil prices this year will fund an increase in international drilling, particularly in Mexico, India, Iraq, and Russia, analysts said.
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    Companies

    Study estimates Gulf of Mexico decommissioning costs

    Oct. 6, 2003
    A study has established decommissioning costs of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production structures according to the stage of activity and was the first empirical analysis to construct...
    Refining

    OGJ Catalyst Survey 2003

    Oct. 6, 2003
    OGJ Catalyst Survey 2003

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 38

    Companies

    Southern San Juan venture targets Menefee coal gas

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Two Dallas area independents joined to explore and develop coalbed methane and conventional formations in the southern San Juan basin in west-central New Mexico.
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    Economics & Markets

    More aspects of E&P asset and portfolio risk analysis

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Two other factors that should be considered when assessing the commercial risks to specific E&P projects are influenced by the project's maturity.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Akzo Nobel Catalysts
    Companies

    OPEC quota cut preemptive self-defense of $25/bbl

    Oct. 6, 2003
    It is apparent that the US is not the only believer in the principle of preemptive self-defense.
    Discoveries

    Answers due on US gas

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Does the US government mean what it has been saying for a decade about the environmental advantages of natural gas—or not?
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Advanced Marine Innovation Technology Subsea Ltd. (AMITS), Gosport, UK, OceanTools Ltd., Aberdeen, and OceanWorks International Inc., Houston, have teamed up to provide an improved...
    Companies

    Saudi outlet crucial to future exports of Iraqi oil

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Saudi Arabia holds immense but largely overlooked influence over the future of oil exports, now severely bottlenecked, from Iraq.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Houston, has appointed Rich Schiffman as president, and promoted Craig Douglas to vice-president of technology at Seamap Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
    Refining

    Letters

    Oct. 6, 2003
    You commented that the number of editors in 1961 was 45 and that now you have only 18 (OGJ, Sept. 8, 2003, p. 17). This 60% reduction in the number of people doing roughly the...
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    Companies

    Russia's new pipelines will debottleneck exports, production

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Last year, Russia became the world's No.1 producer of crude oil (7.7 million b/d) and the world's second largest oil exporter (3.8 million b/d), having left behind all major oil...
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    Operations

    Use it again, Sam

    Oct. 6, 2003
    As a general rule the men and women who work in the hydrocarbon industry are highly supportive of environmental and conservation efforts—first by choice and secondly by necessity...
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    Companies

    Russian, US interests pledge cooperation on energy sector

    Oct. 6, 2003
    At an energy summit in St. Petersburg late last month, Russian and US oil companies assured each other that the two countries still have a bright economic future together.
    Refining & Processing

    Ethanol's energy contribution: real or imagined?

    Oct. 6, 2003
    The average of 19 attempts to quantify the net energy value (NEV) of making ethanol from corn over its full life cycle indicates a net energy loss of 8%.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 6, 2003
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision to cut production quotas was a step in the right direction, but it will not be enough to prevent additional oil price...
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    Economics & Markets

    New NPC natural gas report receives praise, criticism

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Congressional Republicans from energy-producing states and industry officials lauded a new National Petroleum Council natural gas report that calls for both expanding supply and...
    Drilling & Production

    Watching Government - Refuge management

    Oct. 6, 2003
    The Department of the Interior's US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) needs to better manage oil and natural gas activities within its national wildlife refuge system, the General...
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    Refining & Processing

    COMMENT: More evidence mounts for banning, not expanding, use of ethanol in US gasoline

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Year-to-date ozone data from California are confirming the analysis put forth in this space last year.
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly

    Oct. 6, 2003
    The accompanying table shows how Nelson-Farrar indexes have changed over the period 2000-02 for selected basically nonmetallic building materials.
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    Refining

    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Oct. 6, 2003
    Refinery construction (1946 Basis)