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  • Volume 101, Issue 42

    • Volume 101, Issue 42

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    New Plants

    Positional inaccuracies lead to poor drilling decisions

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Rotary drilling with positive-displacement motors can introduce positional inaccuracies that remain undetected with stationary surveys and lead to potentially mistaken drilling...
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Nelson-farrar cost indexes
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    Companies

    Petroleum coke production from US refineries will increase

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The production of petroleum coke by US refineries will increase due to a greater demand for transportation fuels and the deteriorating quality of crude oils processed.
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    Companies

    Performance tracking system provides operators with valuable data

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The industry-wide Pipeline Performance Tracking System (PPTS) has been in place for 4 years (OGJ, Nov. 11, 2002, p. 68).
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    Drilling & Production

    ReedHycalog: US rig fleet utilization drops 15% since 2001

    Nov. 3, 2003
    According to the recently released ReedHycalog 2003 Rig Census, US fleet utilization has dropped to 78% from 93% in 2001.

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 42

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    Advertising Index

    Nov. 3, 2003
    A American Cast Iron Pipe Co.www.acipco.com/steel
    HSE

    Elephantine energy illusion

    Nov. 3, 2003
    When elephants wrestle, mice get trampled. Independent producers in the US must know how the mice feel.
    LNG

    US gas supply, demand numbers in flux

    Nov. 3, 2003
    With the onset of the winter heating season, there is flux in the numbers for US natural gas supply and demand.
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    Pipeline data management tool helps view, analyze, edit, develop reports

    Nov. 3, 2003
    A newly released Pipeline Data Management Extension (PDME) for Redlands, Calif.-based ESRI's ArcGIS is available to the industry. ArcGIS is a scalable system of software for geographic...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Mission Woods, Kan., has announced that its Energy Services & Production Div. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Mohajir Engineering Inc., an oil and gas engineering...
    Government

    Senate flubs chance to give legal system needed repair

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Senate flubs chance to give legal system needed repair The US Senate has passed up a chance to remove a heavy and growing burden from the economy.
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    Companies

    Canada's Mackenzie Delta: Fresh look at an emerging basin

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The Beaufort Mackenzie basin (BMB) is emerging as a major source for the future supply of North American energy demands.
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Hubbert's model Michael Lynch's article (OGJ, July 14, 2003, p. 38) is a peevish exercise in intellectual dishonesty.
    Exploration & Development

    Company News - Indian refiner Hindustan Petroleum foraying into E&P

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Indian state-owned refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) has set aside 5 billion rupees ($109 million) for oil exploration and production, which marks the latest Indian...
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    Drilling & Production

    It's really rocket science

    Nov. 3, 2003
    It's really rocket science Sea Launch Co. LLC, based in Long Beach, Calif., has produced perhaps the most creative reuse of a semisubmersible drilling platform.
    Government

    States, cities sue over NSR clean-air rule exemptions

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Thirteen states, mainly in the US Northeast, and several cities Oct. 27 fulfilled their promise to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency over its latest efforts to streamline...
    General Interest

    OSI: US accountability of Iraq petrodollars falls short

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Days before an international donors' conference for Iraq was to be held in Madrid, a prominent human rights group said the US needs to do a better job informing the public about...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 3, 2003
    US officials' recent optimistic estimate that Iraq could increase its oil production to 6 million b/d in 3 years, from less than 2 million b/d currently, is "physically impossible...
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    Companies

    Khodorkovsky arrest clouds Russia investment outlook

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Russian financial markets appeared to be stabilizing after the initial shock over the arrest at gunpoint of OAO Yukos chairman and CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky by Russian police Oct...
    Drilling Operations

    Watching Government - Law of the Sea

    Nov. 3, 2003
    US offshore drilling contractors want the US Senate to ratify the 21-year-old Law of the Sea Convention sooner rather than later.
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves & Promotions: Fu Chengyu becomes CNOOC Ltd. chairman, CEO

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Fu Chengyu becomes CNOOC Ltd. chairman, CEO CNOOC Ltd., Hong Kong, has appointed Fu Chengyu as chairman and CEO, succeeding Wei Liucheng, who resigned to accept a position with...
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    Production Operations

    Oil production capacity rebuilding experience has implications for Iraq

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Experience with countries disrupted by wars and severe social change in the Middle East and Eastern Europe shows a pattern of about 3 years to regain stability in the oil industry...
    Companies

    ChevronTexaco fined on refinery clean-air compliance

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The US Department of Justice, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Attorney in San Francisco reported last month a clean air settlement with ChevronTexaco Corp.'...
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    Companies

    RMI forum sees good oil, gas profits for short term

    Nov. 3, 2003
    RMI forum sees good oil, gas profits for short term Current high oil and gas prices are sustainable, at least for the next few years, which will be very good for the energy industry...
    Government

    House Republican leader seeks to tighten Iran-Libya sanctions

    Nov. 3, 2003
    A House Republican leader Oct. 21 introduced a bill that would limit exemptions and waivers to a US law designed to punish foreign oil companies that invest in either Libya or...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iran promises to aid Syria against possible US sanctions

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Iran will assist Syria against the impact of any proposed US sanctions, particularly any that hit the country's oil industry, according to a senior Iranian official.
    Companies

    Small refiners to upgrade under US clean-air settlements

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency last month announced clean-air settlements with four small refiners.
    Refining & Processing

    White House playing more active role in energy bill talks

    Nov. 3, 2003
    The White House is playing a more active role in US energy bill discussions due to deep disagreements between US House and Senate tax writers over energy incentives for ethanol...
    Drilling & Production

    NOIA: House Republican state drilling draft faces uphill battle

    Nov. 3, 2003
    A US House Republican plan giving states more authority over some offshore oil and natural gas drilling while lifting existing federal moratoriums faces an uphill political battle...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Composite-reinforced line pipe passes Canadian field tests

    Nov. 3, 2003
    Field tests in the last 2 years by TransCanada PipeLines Inc., Calgary, have shown the practicality of installing composite-reinforced line pipe (CRLP) as an alternative to newly...