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  • Volume 102, Issue 11

    • Volume 102, Issue 11

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    Refining

    Refining industry to sustain strong margins through 2004

    March 15, 2004
    California refineries, such as Valero Corp.'s Wilmington plant on the facing page, are mandated to use non-MTBE oxygenates starting on Jan. 1, 2004.
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    Home

    How does the perfect well compare with the technical limit?

    March 15, 2004
    One Occidental partner routinely uses a technical-limit process to improve drilling performance in its deepwater operations.
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    Production Operations

    Point of View: Suncor's George: Oil sands a long-life, low-risk resource

    March 15, 2004
    In addition to its existing oil sands mine and upgrader near Fort McMurray, Alta., Calgary-based Suncor Energy Inc. toward yearend 2003 began in situ production of bitumen with...
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    Drilling & Production

    Perfect Well - Measure drilling performance objectively

    March 15, 2004
    Perfect-well analysis complements traditional analysis methods to create performance standards and improve well-cost estimates.
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    Refining & Processing

    Revamp improves FCC performance at BP's Texas City refinery

    March 15, 2004
    In early 2003, BP Products Co. revamped its Texas City, Tex., refinery.

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 11

    Companies

    Advertising Index

    March 15, 2004
    Baker Hughes INTEQwww.bakerhughes.com/inteq
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    New method developed for siting line heaters on gas pipelines

    March 15, 2004
    In most onshore gas transmission systems, use of a line heater maintains the flowing mixture temperature above the hydrate-formation temperature.
    LNG

    US gas market complexity fogging outlook

    March 15, 2004
    US natural gas market dynamics are getting to be almost as complicated as those for oil.
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    Petrochemicals

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 15, 2004
    New EP-305 Series push-in flange protectors meet ANSI B16.5 and DIN 2627-2638 specifications.
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    Production Operations

    Porosity and permeability effects in Texas Gulf Coast reservoirs

    March 15, 2004
    Exploration for oil involves not only searching for oil but also searching in a financially viable manner.
    Home

    Iraq's best weapon against its enemies is democracy

    March 15, 2004
    Can Iraqis govern themselves? Or are skeptics correct that some people just aren't cut out for democracy?
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Letters

    March 15, 2004
    I'd like to respond to your (OGJ, Feb. 23, 2004, p. 17) editorial on the reasons why the US went to war in Iraq.
    Economics & Markets

    A blast from the past

    March 15, 2004
    A blast from the past In February, a number of OGJ readers received a special supplement, "Leadership in Refining," that featured pioneering articles from past issues.
    Companies

    Industry experts see growing US market for LNG

    March 15, 2004
    A bright future for LNG in US markets was outlined by a panel of industry experts at a recent teleconference with financial analysts sponsored by the International LNG Alliance...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 15, 2004
    Energy futures prices declined Mar. 8-10 on New York and London markets, as profit takers rolled back the price increases of the previous week.
    Companies

    Council finds fault in Iraq oil revenue accounting

    March 15, 2004
    A new report by the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations warns that the US government and its coalition allies are failing to protect Iraq oil revenues from being misused,...
    LPG Markets

    Pentagon issues new fuel contracts to supply Iraqi civilians

    March 15, 2004
    The US Department of Defense's Defense Fuel Support Center (DFSC) Mar. 8 awarded a total of $309.7 million in contracts to help meet civilian fuel demand in northern Iraq.
    Companies

    Editorial - More gasoline politics

    March 15, 2004
    Gasoline consumers in the US have two reasons to worry. Prices of the oil product they use at steadily growing rates are rising in a strong trend.
    Tankers

    Watching Government: EU tanker safety

    March 15, 2004
    The European Commission late last month gave its 12 member states until Apr. 5 to implement new tanker safety rules following two catastrophic oil tanker accidents off the European...
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    LNG

    Growing LNG trade accelerating integration of global gas markets

    March 15, 2004
    A cliché of the energy business has been that "oil markets are global, while gas markets are continental."
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    General Interest

    Comment -The time has come to certify reserves evaluators

    March 15, 2004
    The time has come to certify reserves evaluators Now is the time for the oil and natural gas industry to take decisive steps to restore a loss of public confidence.