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    Gas Processing

    Correlation pegs adsorption limits of activated carbon for chlorinated petchems in water

    April 12, 2004
    This article presents a correlation that accurately estimates the adsorption capacity of activated carbon for removing chlorinated petrochemicals in water.
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    Production Operations

    Sustainable supply from Saudi Arabia, Iraq: Oil reserves or politics?

    April 12, 2004
    The availability of future oil supplies from Saudi Arabia and Iraq is a major concern globally and particularly for the main oil-consuming regions of the world.
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    Companies

    EOR continues to unlock oil resources

    April 12, 2004
    Every 2 years, the Oil & Gas Journal surveys worldwide projects that use various injection technologies to enhance oil recovery from reservoirs.
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    Production Operations

    Cogdell Unit CO2 flood yields positive results

    April 12, 2004
    Occidental Permian Ltd., since acquiring Altura Energy Ltd.'s Permian basin properties in 2000, has become the largest operator of CO2 floods for enhancing oil production.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    BP troubled by France's slow-to-open gas market

    April 12, 2004
    BP PLC is showing impatience at the slow opening of France's natural gas market.

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    Reserves

    Study: World oil forecast beset with reserves shortfalls

    April 12, 2004
    The world is facing a future of steep oil price increases that will occur sooner than many people now believe, concludes Canterbury, England-based energy analysts Douglas-Westwood...
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    LNG

    BCC: World gas demand to reach 116.9 tcf in 2008

    April 12, 2004
    Natural gas utilization is expected to increase at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 2.4% to 116.91 tcf in 2008, forecast Business Communications Co. Inc. (BCC), Norwalk...
    Refining

    NPRA: US refiners need sound policy for competitive edge

    April 12, 2004
    The US refining industry should oppose the passage of pending environmental legislation if it has questionable benefits, according to Gary R. Heminger, president of Marathon Ashland...
    Refining & Processing

    SRI: Russia needs to improve oil tax, export incentives

    April 12, 2004
    Russia needs to establish favorable oil taxation and exportation rules as incentives for independent exploration and production companies, speakers said at the second annual Russian...
    Drilling & Production

    Kerr-McGee to acquire Westport in $3.4 billion deal

    April 12, 2004
    Oklahoma City-based Kerr-McGee Corp. Apr. 7 reported it will acquire Westport Resources Corp. of Denver in a merger valued at about $3.4 billion, which will consist of about $...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 12, 2004
    As the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' production quota reduction to 23.5 million b/d went in effect Apr. 1, Jefferies & Co. Inc. in New York raised its price forecasts...
    Companies

    CERI: Alberta oil sands development faces challenges

    April 12, 2004
    Alberta's oil sands, with remaining established reserves of 174 billion bbl of crude bitumen, is a supply powerhouse to help meet North America's oil demand.
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    Companies

    Management integrity seen vital to reserves estimates

    April 12, 2004
    In estimating oil and gas reserves, producers need to look beyond the current fevered focus on primarily third-party engineering to "the more important aspects of internal reserves...
    Production Operations

    Watching Government: African reforms

    April 12, 2004
    The US should be working harder to promote transparency and accountability in African oil-producing countries, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic...
    Government

    Editorial - Oil-for-Food questions

    April 12, 2004
    Investigation of Iraqi oil sales permitted for humanitarian reasons during a long period of trade sanctions shouldn't stop with the kickbacks and favoritism recently coming to...
    LNG

    NPRA: Refiners face 'difficult balancing act' in 2004

    April 12, 2004
    The US refining industry continues to deal with many challenges that are making it difficult to produce transportation fuels at the specifications and volumes that the market ...
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    Production Operations

    World offshore oil, gas production has risen 'steadily'

    April 12, 2004
    Total estimates of worldwide offshore oil and natural gas production have risen "steadily" over the last 10 years.
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    General Interest

    Gas-electric hybrids

    April 12, 2004
    Escalating US gasoline prices have prompted ample headlines regarding US motorists' increasing demand for gas-electric hybrid vehicles.
    Economics & Markets

    Letters

    April 12, 2004
    Looking just at the historical growth of original oil in place (OOIP) as shown in Fig. 2a ("Saudis refute claims of oil field production declines" by Maureen Lorenzetti, OGJ, ...
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    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    April 12, 2004
    Houston, has appointed Peter D. Kinnear as executive vice-president with responsibility for the company's energy production systems and energy processing systems businesses, and...
    Companies

    Antagonism clear in Kerry's plan for gasoline prices

    April 12, 2004
    Antagonism clear in Kerry's plan for gasoline prices Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the leading challenger in this year's presidential race, has provided a glimpse of what life would...
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    HSE

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 12, 2004
    This Titan-OL system provides real-time, multicomponent extractive gas phase analysis for online and continuous multipoint analysis.
    Economics & Markets

    Oil price speculation a chicken-or-egg dilemma

    April 12, 2004
    The oil market's response to the expected announcement of production quota cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries seems, at first blush, to validate what the...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Area Drilling

    April 12, 2004
    The government awarded a permit in the Westland basin on the northwestern South Island. PEP 38521, covering 186 sq km south of Greymouth, is issued to a group that includes McKenzie...
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    LNG

    First offshore LNG terminal moves ahead

    April 12, 2004
    Progress toward the world's first offshore LNG floating regasification terminal took another step last month when ABS, Houston, an international classification society, announced...
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    LNG

    2003 shows spot cargoes, tankers to dictate US LNG supplies, not terminal capacities

    April 12, 2004
    Examining US LNG imports in 2003 provides an understanding the changes projected for LNG in the next few years.
    IOR/EOR

    Advertising Index

    April 12, 2004
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    Discoveries

    Petroleum systems succeed play basis in Appalachian basin resource estimate

    April 12, 2004
    The US Geological Survey (USGS) periodically conducts subjective probabilistic assessments of the technically recoverable undiscovered hydrocarbon resources of the US and of the...