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  • Volume 102, Issue 16

    • Volume 102, Issue 16

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    Companies

    Clean-fuels initiatives push refining construction projects

    April 26, 2004
    Clean-fuels initiatives, driven by government-mandated low-sulfur fuel specifications in the US and elsewhere, continue to push refining expansion and revamp construction projects...
    Home

    Worldwide Pipeline Construction Update

    April 26, 2004
    Listed here are major pipeline projects.
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    Production Operations

    Factor identifies hydrocarbon recoverability, type

    April 26, 2004
    A proposed technique determines the hydrocarbon recovery factor and mobility from resistivity logs.
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    Refining & Processing

    Refining catalyst business shows signs of strong recovery in 2004-07

    April 26, 2004
    Worldwide refiners' needs to produce cleaner fuels and operate to meet environmental regulations, convert more heavy feedstocks to satisfy regional fuel market needs, and maximize...
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    Production Operations

    Hydrating lost-circulation squeeze resolves issues in deep HPHT gas pay zone

    April 26, 2004
    Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. controlled losses and a significant H2S kick in a deep well using a new dual-action lost-circulation material. CNRL experienced severe losses while...

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 16

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    Companies

    Busy E&P year planned in France, its possessions

    April 26, 2004
    Continuing high oil prices have improved the attractiveness of France's E&P scene.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Questions over stocks driving oil prices

    April 26, 2004
    Taking stock of the oil market these days can get complicated, especially when it comes to—well, oil stocks.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    April 26, 2004
    Ariel Corporationwww.arielcorp.com
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    Production Operations

    Optical technology improves batch cutting, quality determination

    April 26, 2004
    Operating experience on an 800-mile products pipeline in China suggests that optical technology may not only be used to improve batch cutting, reduce "transmix" (mixture of products...
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    Reserves

    Australia making new initiatives for greater exploration data access

    April 26, 2004
    Australia contains established oil and gas provinces (Fig. 1), is politically stable, and has a fiscal regime that encourages petroleum exploration and development.
    Exploration & Development

    Area Drilling

    April 26, 2004
    The Reliance Industries Ltd.-Niko Resources Ltd. partnership gauged two more gas discoveries on Block D-6 in the Krishna-Godavari basin off eastern India.
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 26, 2004
    By helping to ensure that valves and actuators are only operated by authorized individuals, this new antitamper lock (ATL) helps secure company assets by reducing the risk of ...
    Companies

    Despite fighting, Iraqi oil industry resumes operation

    April 26, 2004
    Despite fighting, Iraqi oil industry resumes operation Despite fierce fighting in parts of the country, Iraq's oil industry is nearly back on its achy feet.
    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    April 26, 2004
    Houston, has named Richard R. Lonquist as a partner in the firm. Lonquist, formerly with Capital Minerals LLC, and Huddleston & Co. Inc., has over 16 years of engineering and ...
    General Interest

    Letters

    April 26, 2004
    Coming home from Boston yesterday the flags were at half mast at a Connecticut rest stop north of Hartford. This was to honor a local woman killed in Iraq.
    HSE

    Science and energy

    April 26, 2004
    Imagining the future of the energy industry without science would be somewhat akin to imagining the US government without acronyms.
    Production Operations

    Sakhalin II partners let pipeline, platform contracts

    April 26, 2004
    Earlier this year, Russian authorities approved development of the Sakhalin II Phase 2 crude oil and natural gas development project in the Sakhalin Island region of Russia's ...
    General Interest

    Iraq conflict complicates UAE-Japanese oil supply deals

    April 26, 2004
    Geopolitical concerns related to the Iraq conflict could well be complicating oil and gas deals between some major Persian Gulf exporters and their biggest customers.
    Government

    Watching Government:Iraq consensus

    April 26, 2004
    Iraq consensus Just as multinationals anticipated, it could be years before Iraq holds serious promise for oil companies.
    Production Operations

    Editorial: EOR and climate change

    April 26, 2004
    A new report from the UK government warmly embraces the idea of moderating emissions of carbon dioxide with projects that raise oil production.
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    Reserves

    World oil production capacity model suggests output peak by 2006-07

    April 26, 2004
    Simulations of the World Oil Production Capacity (Wocap) model suggest that global oil production will peak at a point near 81 million b/d well before the end of the decade, likely...
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    Companies

    Former Shell execs wary of reserves reporting problems

    April 26, 2004
    In a report prepared for its Group Audit Committee (GAC), Royal Dutch/Shell Group outlined how its former top executives knew and argued about a reserves reporting problem for...
    Refining & Processing

    Two ethanol futures contracts poised to launch in 2004

    April 26, 2004
    Companies tracking US gasoline futures prices soon will be armed with another set of financial derivatives for a rapidly growing component of the nation's gasoline pool: ethanol...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 26, 2004
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries denied news reports that the group is using a new formula to calculate the daily price of its basket of seven benchmark crudes...
    Petrochemicals

    New centrispun tube technology launched in Americas

    April 26, 2004
    Centrispun tube technology entered the North and South American markets on Mar. 1 with the inauguration of the Schmidt & Clemens Brasil Ltda.'s production facility in Jundiai,...
    New Plants

    Worldwide Processing Construction Update

    April 26, 2004
    Listed here are major construction projects by processing categories.