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  • Volume 101, Issue 41

    • Volume 101, Issue 41

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    Production Operations

    Floating proppant stimulates sand with a high permeability contrast

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Fracturing treatments performed in three wells in Minas oil field, on Sumatra Island, successfully placed a floating graded walnut-hull proppant in the top section of a layered...
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    Production Operations

    New charts provide accurate estimations for water content of sour natural gas

    Oct. 27, 2003
    An update of charts that gives estimations of the water content of sour natural gas, published 10 years ago, reflects new experimental data and are more accurate for low pressures...
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    Companies

    Determining positional inaccuracies in directionally drilled wells

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Calculated borehole position may be erroneous in over half of the horizontal wells drilled during the past 15 years, according to the results of an ongoing industry study of continuous...
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    Companies

    US independents maintain bullish outlook despite legislative uncertainty

    Oct. 27, 2003
    US independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies are maintaining a positive outlook for their near and medium-term operational and financial performances...
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    Companies

    GeoResources explores for, develops oil, gas in the Williston basin

    Oct. 27, 2003
    GeoResources Inc., Williston, ND, explores for oil and natural gas in the North Dakota and Montana portions of the Williston basin. The company also operates a contract drilling...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 41

    Reserves

    Canadian indies thrive on strong cash flow, robust commodity prices

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Canadian oil and natural gas exploration and production companies are alive and well, thriving on robust cash flows and strong commodity prices that will likely continue into ...
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    Companies

    Remington focuses on cost-effective, deep-gas reserve growth

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas, is committed to cost-effective reserve growth through exploring Gulf of Mexico shallow waters and using an extensive 3D seismic database to ...
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    Companies

    Ultra Petroleum takes long-term approach to future growth

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Ultra Petroleum Corp. is a rapidly growing US independent based in Houston that focuses on its core assets in the Green River basin of southwestern Wyoming and in the shallow ...
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    Production Operations

    Pogo continues to set company records in 2002

    Oct. 27, 2003
    This year marks the second year in a row that Pogo Producing Co. has made OGJ's list of the fastest-growing independents.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Quest Resource focuses on Cherokee basin CBNG

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Quest Resource Corp., Benedict, Kan., concentrates on coalbed methane (CBM) covering a 10-county region in the Cherokee basin in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma....
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    Companies

    94-year-old independent still exploring new opportunities

    Oct. 27, 2003
    With 97% of its current production in heavy oil from California, Berry Petroleum Co., Bakersfield, Calif., is diversifying through pilot programs to develop coalbed natural gas...
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    Companies

    Devon Energy maintains strategy as largest independent

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has succeeded by adhering to its 32-year strategy "to create a strong, powerful company very focused on quality assets—both quality production...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 27, 2003
    The next 6-12 months will be a crucial period for the recovery of Iraq's oil industry and for future US influence in the Middle East, said Herman Franssen, president of International...
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    Companies

    PetroCorp's growth spurt results in its pending sale to Unit

    Oct. 27, 2003
    PetroCorp Inc has grown rapidly by acquiring oil and natural gas producing properties in the US and Canada.
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    Companies

    'Stars aligned' for success of independent Magnum Hunter

    Oct. 27, 2003
    With an inventory of 2,500 onshore prospects and 171 blocks on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, Magnum Hunter Resources Inc., Irving, Tex., is well-positioned for an...
    Government

    White House-Congress squabble over Iraq funding heats up

    Oct. 27, 2003
    The White House took its strongest action yet to retain control over proposed Iraq reconstruction funds when it told the US Congress that President George W. Bush would veto a...
    Government

    State NSR actions

    Oct. 27, 2003
    State air-quality regulators are mad, and they aren't going to take it anymore.
    Drilling & Production

    Verbal gravitation

    Oct. 27, 2003
    This space generates its greatest response when one of Oil & Gas Journal's editors ventures into a discourse on language.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iraqi interim government unveils plans to halt oil smuggling

    Oct. 27, 2003
    The interim Iraqi government, backed up by US and UK military forces, has announced plans to curb the smuggling of oil, including increased interdiction efforts along with public...
    LPG Markets

    API: Iraqi reconstruction progressing despite security problems

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Reconstruction of Iraq's oil industry has progressed recently despite continuing security problems, government and industry officials reported at American Petroleum Institute'...
    HSE

    Letters

    Oct. 27, 2003
    I'd like to offer another perspective on NSR reform. You call "nonsense" the claim that the proposed reform is an environmental defeat, because the NSR program was broken and ...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Compromise is best course for Russia, EU in Protocol negotiations

    Oct. 27, 2003
    When the energy ministers of European Union countries met in Thesaloniki, Greece, in February 2003, Turkey and Greece signed an agreement to build a 350-km gas pipeline to link...
    Drilling & Production

    Voting against OCS inventory subverts US energy policy

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Can there be any indication clearer than voluntary ignorance that Congress is misguided on energy policy?
    Government

    Ozone and ethanol

    Oct. 27, 2003
    The annual air-quality assessment published recently by the US Environmental Protection Agency contains a sleeping serpent worth stirring up before environmental alarmists appropriate...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 27, 2003
    New level transmitters perform continuous, remote liquid measurement that is based on magnetostrictive float technology.
    Economics & Markets

    Saudis face swing-supply strains in 2004

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Several signs point to the likelihood that oil prices have topped out this year and face growing downward pressure in 2004.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Oct. 27, 2003
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    Production Operations

    France's E&D spending seen to triple from low point

    Oct. 27, 2003
    France's E&D spending seen to triple from low point Exploration and development investment should improve markedly this year in France after sliding to a low point in 2002.
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    Companies

    Sudan could support growth as non-OPEC oil exporter

    Oct. 27, 2003
    Sudan could support growth as non-OPEC oil exporter Sudan, mired in a long-running civil war, could become an even more important oil producing and exporting country in the short...