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  • Volume 101, Issue 48

    • Volume 101, Issue 48

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    Companies

    Hydrajet fracturing effectively stimulates low-permeability horizontal gas wells

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Hydrajet fracturing, which can place multiple propped hydraulic fractures in precise locations, effectively stimulated two underperforming horizontal openhole gas wells in the...
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    Companies

    Drilling planned for North Africa, India, and Mexico

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Rig markets are showing only slight changes, but the initiation of new international projects suggests an upward swing.
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    Companies

    Study finds petchem cash margins out of sync with capex decisions

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Recent research confirms no correlation exists between cash margins and decisions of a large chemical producer to invest in a new plant; specific corporate priorities rather than...
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    Companies

    Petrochemical capacity additions to slow 2002-12

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Petrochemical capacity additions to slow 2002-12 Petrochemical production capacity additions will slow 2002-12.
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    Exploration & Development

    Comment: Time to debunk mythical links between oil and politics

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Over the past year, a perceived connection between the control of oil resources, economic security, and power politics seems to have come back to life from the dusty pages of ...

    More content from Volume 101, Issue 48

    Companies

    Company News - Mitsui to acquire BG's stake in Indonesia's Muturi PSC

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Mitsui Indonesia Gas BV, a wholly owned unit of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., agreed to acquire BG Group's 50% interest in the Muturi production-sharing contract (PSC) in West Papua, Indonesia...
    Companies

    US limits participation in Iraq reconstruction contracts

    Dec. 15, 2003
    The Pentagon last week said it is excluding Germany, France, Russia, Canada, and China from US contracts to rebuild Iraq's oil sector and other critical infrastructures because...
    Government

    Watching Government: More, better, faster

    Dec. 15, 2003
    The US Environmental Protection Agency's new administrator Mike Leavitt struck a conciliatory tone in his inaugural speech to employees and reporters earlier this month.
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves & Promotions - Anadarko names James Hackett as president, CEO

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Anadarko Petroleum Inc. has named ames T. Hackett president and CEO, in what analysts call a move to help restore investor confidence in the Houston-based company.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    OPS: External corrosion is possible risk to new pipelines

    Dec. 15, 2003
    The US Office of Pipeline Safety issued an advisory bulletin to owners and operators of natural gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines warning them to consider external...
    Drilling & Production

    UBS: E&P firms' near-term drilling plans to remain flat

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Oil and natural gas operating companies' spending and drilling activities are expected to remain flat for the next few months, according to the monthly PatchWork Survey released...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Energy futures prices spiked Dec. 8 with the January natural gas contract hitting $6.944/Mcf in overnight trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest price level ...
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    Drilling & Production

    Nereus—a soul of her own

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Drillship Nereus, designed by a team of engineering students from the University of Michigan's Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NAME), is the winning entry...
    Reserves

    Hydrogen and fuel cells

    Dec. 15, 2003
    The letter by Donald Anthrop on hydrogen and fuel cells (OGJ, Oct. 13, 2003, p. 10) commented on my letter on the topic (OGJ, Aug. 25, 2003, 10). I would like to respond to that...
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    Exploration & Development

    New load combination approach brings API 650 into line with ASCE 7

    Dec. 15, 2003
    American Petroleum Institute's pressure vessel and tank committee recently concluded a 5-year effort to revise Standard 650 that provides design rules for reasonable margins against...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Exeter, UK, has announced that Brian Wainman has been appointed senior development engineer with the special engineering projects dept.
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    Drilling Operations

    New miniature flow control valves

    Dec. 15, 2003
    These new miniature dual metering flow control valves are suited for liquid handling applications.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Bush makes right move with end to steel safeguards

    Dec. 15, 2003
    The official word is that a threatened trade war had nothing to do with the decision by US President George W. Bush to end steel tariffs 16 months ahead of schedule.
    Companies

    Sierra Leone

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Three companies acquired exploration rights to four blocks in the Atlantic off Sierra Leone while three blocks were not awarded.
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    Exploration & Development

    Iraq oil development policy options: In search of balance

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Iraq may prove to have one of the world's greatest endowed petroleum resource bases, with oil potential reserves in excess of 215 billion bbl and ultimate proved reserves of around...
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    Area Drilling

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Three companies acquired exploration rights to four blocks in the Atlantic off Sierra Leone while three blocks were not awarded.
    Production Operations

    Physical fundamentals reasserted in oil markets

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Oil markets appear to be edging back towards dominance by mundane physical fundamentals and away from incorporating a geopolitical price premium.
    HSE

    Trading emission credits

    Dec. 15, 2003
    Thoughtlessness typical of climate-change politics is nowhere more evident than in the free ride given until recently to proposals for tradable emission credits.
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