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  • Volume 101, Issue 40

    • Volume 101, Issue 40

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    Drilling Operations

    Enhancing seismic frequency bandwidth using VSPs—a case study

    Oct. 20, 2003
    A new method for restoring high frequencies within the seismic bandwidth has been applied to a producing field in southern Alberta.
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    General Interest

    POINT OF VIEW: Technology called key to geophysical industry's recovery

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Recovery of the troubled geophysical industry will spring from the industry's core strength, predicts the incoming president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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    Companies

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Drilling activity expected to increase in 2004

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Analysts and oil service companies predict an increase in drilling activity for 2004.
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    Production Operations

    Suncor optimizes sulfur-recovery facility

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Suncor Inc. Resources Group and Gas Technology Products LLC collaborated to significantly reduce plant operating costs while maintaining a high H2S removal efficiency in the LO...
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    Reserves

    Custom graphs help analyze oil, gas operations

    Oct. 20, 2003
    The generation of custom graphs with Microsoft Excel enables an engineer or analyst to plot untransformed data for gaining an understanding of problems related to oil and gas ...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 40

    Home

    Advertising Index

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Houston; Southwest; New York/New England; MORE...
    Companies

    OPEC quest for higher prices self-defeating or sly?

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Could the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries be stepping into a trap of its own making?
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Self-contained reflux sampler; New program helps manage drilling, well data; Accuracy promised by new insertion flowmeters
    Production Operations

    A move against corruption

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Inauguration of the long-awaited Chad-Cameroon pipeline on Oct. 10 gives international oil and gas companies something beyond a challenging project to cheer...
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    General Interest

    Thorny issues impede progress toward final Transit Protocol

    Oct. 20, 2003
    The last session of the Energy Charter Conference in December 2002 marked progress towards completing negotiations, in their third year, among 51 European and Asian nations trying...
    Drilling & Production

    California needs new approach to OCS leasing, too

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Are Californians serious? When they kicked Gray Davis out of the governor's office on Oct. 7, did they truly intend to repair their state's economy?
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    IOR/EOR

    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Petrofac Facilities Management; VMonitor Inc. and Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI); American Cast Iron Pipe Co.; MORE...
    Production Operations

    Peak oil production

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Everyone I talk to agrees with me that your series is the most significant in our memories.
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    Discoveries

    The paradox of reserves

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Reserves, revisions, and discoveries are important subjects to readers of Oil & Gas Journal.
    Production Operations

    SPE: BP's Davies has bullish view on future oil supplies

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Pessimistic views abound about future conventional oil supplies, but much of the current pessimism stems from weak demand signals, not from a lack of resources or an imminent ...
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    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: PTTEP appoints new president

    Oct. 20, 2003
    PTT Exploration & Production PCL (PTTEP) has elected Maroot Mrigadat president of the subsidiary of Thailand's majority state-owned firm.
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    Economics & Markets

    NGSA: US gas supplies may be tight during heating season

    Oct. 20, 2003
    There continues to be a tight balance between supply and demand in the US natural gas market, which could mean higher fuel costs for consumers this winter, the Natural Gas Supply...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Energy futures prices fell early last week as traders took profits from the previous week's rally and awaited the next movements in US inventories of crude, petroleum products...
    Companies

    Russian corporate advancements hinge on Putin, public opinion

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Two elements are necessary to "make big changes" and ensure Russia's long-term successful dealings with Western oil and gas companies: the conditioning of the Russian people to...
    Companies

    SPE: Technology expanding CBNG recovery to new areas

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Technological advances for recovering natural gas from coalbeds continue to expand the role this gas plays in meeting the US energy balance, as well as make it more likely that...
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    Economics & Markets

    POINT OF VIEW - Burlington CFO: More gas business consolidation ahead

    Oct. 20, 2003
    This is an interesting time in the natural gas business because the market has moved to a slightly different pricing mechanism where demand is being rationed by price as opposed...
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    Companies

    COMMENT: How to fix oil industry 'brain drain': Change the industry, not the image

    Oct. 20, 2003
    A number of recent articles in industry publications have highlighted the maturing of the oil and gas workforce, quoting any number of statistics that highlight the impending ...
    LNG

    COMPANY NEWS: Tractebel pulls out of Atlantic LNG project

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Tractebel LNG North America LLC has pulled out of the $1.2 billion Atlantic LNG Co. of Trinidad & Tobago's (ALNG) Train 4 expansion project after more than a year of negotiations...
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    Reserves

    Total sees positive oil supply future based on technology

    Oct. 20, 2003
    French supermajor Total SA holds a positive view of the future of oil supply because it contends that nonconventional oil can be extracted at economically sustainable prices and...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: Taxes to access

    Oct. 20, 2003
    There's a lot US oil and natural gas producers like about the pending comprehensive energy bill before the US Congress.
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    Economics & Markets

    EIA: 'Cautious optimism'

    Oct. 20, 2003
    Assuming normal weather patterns in the US, winter fuel prices this year will stay the same as last year for households that use heating oil and propane, the US Energy Information...