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  • Volume 101, Issue 39

    • Volume 101, Issue 39

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    Refining

    Staged modifications improve BTX extractive distillation unit capacity

    Oct. 13, 2003
    A well-planned and executed test run of existing equipment followed by a distillation fundamentals review can yield cost-effective production increases.
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    Drilling & Production

    Interventionless actuated completions reduce risks, costs

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Operators can reduce costs and risks involved in completing wells by using pressure-pulse communication, absolute well pressure, or a hydromechanical valve to set wellbore packers...
    Companies

    Sarbanes-Oxley concerns dominate US corporate governance issues

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Sarbanes-Oxley concerns dominate US corporate governance issues The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed by the US Congress last year to deter corporate fraud in financial reporting with...
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    Drilling Operations

    'Hands free' system reduces rig injuries

    Oct. 13, 2003
    In its drilling operations worldwide, Noble Corp. has reduced reportable hand and finger injuries resulting from material-handling incidents among rig employees by two thirds ...
    Companies

    Liability insurance a growing concern for energy company directors, officers

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Liability insurance a growing concern for energy company directors, officers New governance issues and criminal penalties under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are increasing the need ...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 39

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    Companies

    Oil project lending faces new environmental litmus test

    Oct. 13, 2003
    A group of major international banks led by ABN Amro Bank NV, Amsterdam; Barclays PLC, London; Citigroup Inc., New York; and WestLB AG, Düsseldorf, has disclosed plans to follow...
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    Companies

    FCPA compliance a challenge for US oil, gas companies

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Few US federal statutes have generated as much controversy over how US companies do business abroad as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
    Companies

    Interest in Iraq grows despite reconstruction uncertainty

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Multinational oil companies and oil service firms expect the US Congress to play an increasing role in shaping the pace and scope of Iraq's oil sector reconstruction and eventual...
    Production Operations

    US to deploy airborne snipers to protect Iraqi pipelines

    Oct. 13, 2003
    The US soon will begin deploying airborne snipers to prevent further acts of sabotage that already have stopped the flow of oil from Iraq's northern fields to its export terminal...
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    Companies

    ExxonMobil 'better positioned' for YukosSibneft takeover

    Oct. 13, 2003
    As rumors continue to circulate concerning a possible takeover of Russia's YukosSibneft, analysts say ExxonMobil Corp. is better positioned than ChevronTexaco Corp. to consummate...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 13, 2003
    For now, oil markets have dodged the bullet of a Nigerian supply outage.
    Companies

    Watching Government - Transparency test

    Oct. 13, 2003
    The World Bank hopes that by tying transparency guidelines into its financing of the $3.7 billon Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project it will mean other resource-rich developing...
    Production Operations

    Peak concern

    Oct. 13, 2003
    This issue's special report, beginning on p. 22, tackles the subject of corporate governance.
    HSE

    Letters

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Tom Standing furnished an excellent rebuttal to Michael Wang's letter, "Hydrogen as a Transportation Fuel" (OGJ, Aug 25, 2003, p. 10).
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    Companies

    Tests prove indentation technique for assessment of in-service line pipe

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Techniques for testing in-service materials using portable indentation systems have been developed for more than 15 years.
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    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Norwich, UK, has announced the appointment of Alan MacKenzie as engineering services business manager.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 13, 2003
    New controllers available to the industry are rugged, field-mountable platforms intended for those process applications that might have previously used programmable logic controllers...
    Home

    Gas supply crunch in US moderates hope for hydrogen

    Oct. 13, 2003
    Amid all the recent talk in Washington, DC, about natural gas, did anyone notice crust forming around the other fuel of the future?
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Resisting oil taxes

    Oct. 13, 2003
    A French industry group takes the right approach to taxation of petroleum products.
    Drilling & Production

    US gas drilling, production surge no threat to prices

    Oct. 13, 2003
    At what point does drilling for natural gas become the driving factor in gas markets?
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    Oct. 13, 2003
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    Discoveries

    Northern Taranaki graben described as promising area in New Zealand

    Oct. 13, 2003
    The Taranaki basin1 2 produces from several oil and gas fields, including the 3,450 bcf/180 million bbl Maui field that has been the backbone of New Zealand petroleum production...
    Companies

    EnCana sees 4 tcf recoverable at Cutbank Ridge, western Canada

    Oct. 13, 2003
    EnCana Corp., Calgary, said it acquired 500,000 net acres in the Alberta-British Columbia foothills in a play from which it expects to recover more than 4 tcf of gas.