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  • Volume 101, Issue 46

    • Volume 101, Issue 46

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    Petrochemicals

    Study evaluates the impact of nitrogen on gas processing efficiency

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo conducted a study to evaluate the effects of high nitrogen levels on gas processing operations. The results show that the diethanolamine (DEA) ...
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    Companies

    Underbalanced, near-balanced drilling are possible offshore

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Drilling underbalanced, or near balancedwith lightweight drilling fluids, has practical applications offshore.
    Drilling & Production

    A primer on underbalanced drilling

    Dec. 1, 2003
    1. Drilling mud weighted with bentonite or other heavy material is used to create a hydrostatic head pressure that keeps the well under control by overbalancing the formation ...
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    Production Operations

    Petrobras installs deepwater electric intelligent completion

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Capping a 5-year joint effort with Baker Oil Tools, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) installed a deepwater all-electric completion in a Marlim Sul subsea well, in the Campos...
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

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    Production Operations

    North American drilling to increase in 2004

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Banc of America Securities analysts last month pointed out a disturbing trend�natural gas production added per year, per rig in the continental US has been declining since 2000...
    Companies

    Watching Government: Nigeria transparency

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Nigeria last month said it would publicly disclose all government oil and gas revenue.
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    Reserves

    MMS ups Gulf of Mexico deep gas reserves estimate

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The US Minerals Management Service increased its estimate of "technically recoverable" deep natural gas reserves on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico to 15-55 ...
    Economics & Markets

    Company News - Pakistan begins privatization of OGDCL; issues IPO

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Pakistan soon plans to invite expressions of interest for the sale of 51% of its state-owned exploration and production company, Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDCL), to a strategic...
    Companies

    ExxonMobil executive calls CO2 emissions a 'huge' issue

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions growth is a "huge" issue for the energy industry as it works to fulfill a global energy demand that is expected to rise 40% by 2020, an ExxonMobil...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Futures prices for oil and petroleum products plummeted Nov. 24 as Geneva-based Petrologistics estimated that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeded...
    Economics & Markets

    OPEC price band 'too wide but also too high,' analyst says

    Dec. 1, 2003
    It's only a matter of time before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will be forced "to revisit the dilemma of high price vs. market share," said Luis E. Giusti...
    Refining & Processing

    Rising oil, gas investment put at $5.3 trillion to 2030

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Oil companies will have to invest a whopping $5.3 trillion over the next 30 years to supply the world's increasing demand for oil and natural gas, Paris-based International Energy...
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    Production Operations

    Point of View - Vintage Petroleum CEO seeking geographic balance

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, has transformed itself from a US Midcontinent and Gulf Coast niche player in the early 1990s into an international company with operations in Argentina...
    Government

    Senate GOP leaders affirm energy bill dead for the year

    Dec. 1, 2003
    US Senate Republican leaders late Nov. 24 decided to drop a pending energy bill nearly 3 years in the making because they could not secure enough votes to cut off debate on the...
    Production Operations

    DOT: Forecasters expect strong deepwater activity trend

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Although their forecast numbers differ, John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood Ltd., Canterbury, UK, and Paul Hillegeist, president of Quest Offshore Resources Inc., Houston, both ...
    Production Operations

    DOT: Deepwater focus turns to smaller fields

    Dec. 1, 2003
    DOT: Deepwater focus turns to smaller fields The focus of deepwater oil and natural gas production technology (in 2,000-3,000 m of water) now is on less costly and less risky ...
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    Pipelines

    Taking the lead

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Building oil and gas pipelines hits terrain and surrounding habitat as no other industry activity.
    Government

    US Senate bill would restrict Saudi travel, exports

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and six colleagues Nov. 18 introduced a bill that restricts Saudi diplomats' travel in the US and discourages US companies from exporting certain defense...
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    Drilling technology

    Dec. 1, 2003
    I read with interest your article "R&D programs yield advances in drilling technologies" (OGJ, Nov. 10, 2003, p, 55), in particular the sections on TTRD and coiled tubing.
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 1, 2003
    Lafayette, La., has appointed James Moore as vice-president of engineering, and Yancy Williams as manager of projects, both located in Comm's Houston office.
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    Companies

    Use of high-strength line pipe can improve economics of long-distance gas lines

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The recent development of X-120 high-strength steel line pipe (nominal yield strength of 120 ksi)1 enables gas producers to realize significant savings in the total cost of long...
    Government

    Prohibiting routes for arctic gas subverts energy policy

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The House-Senate conference committee that disgorged the omnibus energy bill the Senate rejected on Nov. 21 made half of a good decision on a pipeline that would carry natural...
    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Dec. 1, 2003
    OpenInvoice Image expands the capability of this software solutions company's OpenInvoice technology.
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    Drilling Operations

    Reevaluation defines attractive areas in Peru's Ucayali-Ene basin

    Dec. 1, 2003
    This project presents a regional geophysical and geological evaluation to identify new play types in the Ucayali-Ene basin of Peru through the interpretation of digital seismic...
    Government

    Energy and tort reform

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The same week Congress rejected energy legislation stuffed with as much to regret as to cheer, it also served up a Medicare-reform bill brimming with heartburn.
    Companies

    New Zealand

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The Energy Ministry plans to announce successful bids in January 2004 from among 23 bids received for 17 blocks offered in the offshore/onshore Taranaki basin bid round.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    OPEC in disarray ahead of next meeting?

    Dec. 1, 2003
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision at their last ministerial meeting to cut production quotas by 900,000 b/d, effective Nov. 1, took the market by surprise...
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