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  • Volume 101, Issue 43

    • Volume 101, Issue 43

    Companies

    Quick US energy bill passage needed for Alaska gas pipeline development

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Getting quick passage of the energy legislation now before the US Senate is critical to the planned timeline for an Alaska-Alberta natural gas pipeline.
    HSE

    US Senate junks mandatory climate change emissions plan

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The US Senate on a 55-43 vote Oct. 30 rejected a bipartisan mandatory carbon dioxide reduction plan unpopular with most US oil companies and power generators.
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    Refining & Processing

    Tesoro refinery improves operation efficiency in amine treating unit

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The Tesoro refinery, Kapolei, Ha., improved operation of its hydrogen plant amine unit by switching to a specialty amine.
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    Companies

    R&D programs yield advances in drilling technologies

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Applied technology projects sponsored by government, academia, and industry offer improved tools and techniques for drilling.
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    Companies

    WITSML emerging as international industry standard

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language (WITSML) is an emerging international data exchange standard.

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 43

    Home

    Advertising Index

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Alfa Lavalwww.alfalaval.com/oilandgas
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Consol Energy Inc., Pittsburgh, hiked its gas production in the quarter ended Sept. 30, and it expects another increase in the fourth quarter.
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    Companies

    New approach offered to smooth fiscal system analysis and design

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The manner in which the economic and system measures of a fiscal regime interact with exogenous and user-defined parameters is complex and complicated, and usually difficult to...
    Companies

    The Kremlin's crackdown

    Nov. 10, 2003
    What now for Russia?
    Companies

    Kremlin squeeze of Yukos bullish for oil prices

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Kremlin squeeze of Yukos bullish for oil prices There's a possible new wild card in play that's supportive of higher prices in the near to middle term.
    Home

    Price-gouging a hollow complaint in still-risky Iraq

    Nov. 10, 2003
    As attacks escalated in Baghdad this week, so did accusations in Washington, DC, about fuel-price gouging by US contractors.
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    Tankers

    Completion system expanded with new choke

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The capability of the InForce Intelligent Completion system has been expended via the new downhole HCM-A hydraulically adjustable choke.
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    LNG

    FERC Hackberry decision will spur more US LNG terminal development

    Nov. 10, 2003
    A significant shift in US regulatory policy has occurred as a result of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision late last year to allow US LNG import terminals ...
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Al Bass-Trigon provides integrity management, risk assessment, pipeline compliance, corrosion data management software and engineering service, and field computer solutions for...
    HSE

    Letters

    Nov. 10, 2003
    In your OGJ, Oct. 6, 2003, p. 19 issue, Cal Hodge pays special attention to ethanol's supposed negative net energy balance ("Ethanol's energy contribution: real or imagined?)....
    Companies

    Iraqi oil exports face delays after pipeline sabotage

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Even as Iraq announced the signing of a contract with a South African security firm for the protection of its oil infrastructure, petroleum officials reported a further delay ...
    Home

    Fixing industry's image

    Nov. 10, 2003
    An early September internet survey asked readers for their opinions of what they thought was responsible for the recent spike in US gasoline prices.
    Government

    US downplays, denies Iranian offer of oil swaps with Iraq

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The US has downplayed an Iranian offer of oil swaps with Iraq, saying no such arrangements are in place or even envisaged as a means of assisting in the reconstruction of the ...
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    Economics & Markets

    World entering into new natural gas era, executive says

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The world is entering a new era in which natural gas is becoming an energy driver, as crude oil has been for more that a century—but there are issues and obstacles to reaching...
    Government

    US refiners on target to meet low-sulfur highway diesel rules

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Refiners are on target to supply federally mandated low-sulfur highway diesel fuel in the next 4-6 years, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Oct. 30.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Energy futures prices escalated in New York and London on Nov. 5 as traders were surprised by reports of lower-than-expected US inventories of oil and petroleum products.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Iraq transparency

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Within 6 months, a new international auditing panel will issue the first of what will likely be several reports detailing how the US will spend Iraq's petrodollars.
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    General Interest

    What happened to US gasoline prices this time?

    Nov. 10, 2003
    In August, US gasoline customers witnessed a sharp escalation in pump prices, which only recently began to abate.
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    Exploration & Development

    IEA: $16 trillion in energy investment needed by 2030

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The world will have to invest $16 trillion—1% of global gross domestic product—over the next 3 decades just to maintain its present level of energy supplies, said Claude Mandil...
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    Companies

    Putin seizes Yukos shares; Yukos names new CEO

    Nov. 10, 2003
    When Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to seize the OAO Yukos shares held by Yukos executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky—who was arrested Oct. 25 at gunpoint—he raised the stakes...
    Production Operations

    White House to sign Iraq reconstruction bill into law

    Nov. 10, 2003
    At presstime last week, US President George W. Bush was expected to sign an $87.5 billion Iraq and Afghanistan spending bill that earmarks $18.6 billion in grants for Iraq reconstructio...
    Companies

    US delays new Iraq oil infrastructure contracts

    Nov. 10, 2003
    The US Army Corps of Engineers Oct. 29 said it expects as long as a 2-month delay in awarding two new Iraq oil infrastructure contracts because it plans to expand the value of...
    Tankers

    Jordan again buys crude oil from Iraq

    Nov. 10, 2003
    Jordan signed an agreement with Iraq Oct. 31 to purchase 2.6 million bbl of crude for $70 million to ensure supplies for the remainder of the current year, officials announced...