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  • Volume 102, Issue 13

    • Volume 102, Issue 13

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    Companies

    Worldwide capital outlays expected to moderate in 2004

    April 5, 2004
    Oil and natural gas industry capital spending in the US and Canada will be little changed in 2004 from last year's increased investment.
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    April 5, 2004
    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    Companies

    Chevron Texaco assays Doba crude

    April 5, 2004
    ChevronTexaco Corp. conducted an assay of the Doba blend crude produced in Chad and pumped through the recently completed Chad-Cameroon pipeline.
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    Orifice meters provide acceptable wet-gas measurements

    April 5, 2004
    Orifice meters provide acceptable wet-gas measurements Wet-gas metering at wellsites saves capital and operating costs while providing acceptable accuracy unless liquid slugging...
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    Refining & Processing

    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly: Indexes for selected equipment items

    April 5, 2004
    Indexes for selected equipment items Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose slowly from 1,609.5 in January 2002, to 1,742.7 in...

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 13

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    Advertising Index

    April 5, 2004
    ADIPECwww.adipec.com
    Economics & Markets

    Is $3/gal US gasoline in prospect?

    April 5, 2004
    Are gasoline pump prices headed for $3/gal in the US this year?
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    Madrid bombings highlight terrorist links in Iraq

    April 5, 2004
    If Spanish voters are right, the US is right to press the fight against terrorism in Iraq.
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    Economics & Markets

    Shell's reserves revision: A critical look

    April 5, 2004
    Shell's downward revision of its worldwide reserves early this year created a big fuss among investors.
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    LPG Markets

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 5, 2004
    The EPC-150 lean-burn engine air-fuel ratio control shown here is the newest member of an air-fuel ratio control family of products.
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    LNG

    Services/Suppliers

    April 5, 2004
    Houston, has announced that Matt Bratovich joined Baker Atlas as product line manager, geoscience.
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    Production Operations

    Extending Druzhba still makes sense for more Russian oil exports

    April 5, 2004
    stSeveral export proposals have responded to recent and expected growth in Russian crude oil exports.
    Production Operations

    Letters

    April 5, 2004
    In Maureen Lorenzetti's article "Saudis refute claims of oil field production declines (OGJ, Mar. 8, 2004, p. 24), the oil in place of Saudi Aramco was given as 700 billion bbl...
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    Refining

    Gasoline price controversy

    April 5, 2004
    It seems lately that US drivers can't turn on the television without being bombarded by local and national news outfits about the latest gasoline price hike.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 5, 2004
    Energy futures prices climbed ahead of the Mar. 31 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna as traders lost hope that the group might postpone a ...
    General Interest

    Petroecuador resumes oil exports from SOTE system

    April 5, 2004
    Ecuador's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Ecuador resumed oil exports Mar. 26 from its Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) after a warning from the six-company consortium...
    New Plants

    Editorial: A market breather

    April 5, 2004
    Calls last week for a production increase by the world's major oil exporters sounded silly.
    Government

    Watching Government: LNG rules

    April 5, 2004
    Multinational oil and natural gas companies aren't the only ones with an LNG fixation.
    LNG

    LNG14: World's gas demand growth pushes LNG projects

    April 5, 2004
    Despite movement toward spot contracts for LNG cargoes in recent years, Algeria's Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil Mar. 21 defended the centrality of long-term contracts...
    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions: Norsk Hydro elects Reinas chairman

    April 5, 2004
    Norsk Hydro ASA, Oslo, elected Jan Reinas chairman. He succeeds Egil Myklebust, who was on Hydro's board for 12 years and chairman for the last 3 years.
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    Economics & Markets

    Point of View: Saudi Oil Minister Al-Naimi sees kingdom sustaining oil supply linchpin role for decades

    April 5, 2004
    Saudi Arabia is intent on reaffirming its role as the world's linchpin oil supplier for as long as that hydrocarbon can be produced economically.
    Production Operations

    CGES: Iraq's oil production recovery will be slow going

    April 5, 2004
    Restoring Iraqi oil production to prewar levels will be a slow and painful process in the face of widespread looting, sabotage, and armed attacks on US and allied forces.
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    Pipelines

    EIA: Leasing ANWR's 1002 area spells less oil imports

    April 5, 2004
    The US Energy Information Administration told a key US House lawmaker that opening the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and development could...
    Home

    Pentagon awards civilian fuel contracts for southern Iraq

    April 5, 2004
    Three Middle Eastern companies won a total of $191.7 million in fixed-price contracts to help meet civilian fuel demand in southern Iraq for a 3 month period starting Apr. 1, ...
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    Production Operations

    Aramco finds new gas reservoir in Shaybah field

    April 5, 2004
    Saudi Aramco has found a new natural gas reservoir in the heart of Shaybah oil field.
    Companies

    Company News: Marathon Oil to acquire Ashland's stake in MAP

    April 5, 2004
    In a deal that Marathon Oil Corp. said would complement its long-term growth plans, the Houston-based integrated petroleum company will acquire Covington, Ky.-based Ashland Inc...
    Companies

    Reserves uncertainty proving detrimental to E&P stocks

    April 5, 2004
    Reserves reclassifications concern investors because the market has sold off shares of companies reporting negative reserves revisions, Houston-based Simmons & Co. International...
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    Production Operations

    Saudi supergiant Shaybah oil field still growing

    April 5, 2004
    Shaybah oil field, Saudi Arabia's newest supergiant, is approaching its sixth anniversary yet still is growing in terms of reserves and potential productive capacity.
    Reserves

    Shell cuts reserves again; delays annual report release

    April 5, 2004
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group cut its oil and natural gas reserves for the second time this year and announced that its 2003 annual report would be delayed until late May.
    Drilling & Production

    Analysts: 2004 capital spending strong outside the US, Canada

    April 5, 2004
    A handful of analysts' forecasts indicates that there will be a moderate uptick in worldwide exploration and production capital expenditures this year. The forecasts peg worldwide...