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    Petrochemicals

    Understanding unit pressure balance key to cost-effective FCC revamps

    May 10, 2004
    Understanding how system-component pressure losses influence compressor capacity is essential for cost-effective revamps in FCC units.
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    New Plants

    Indirect fracs, frac packs successfully stimulate Saudi unconsolidated gas formations

    May 10, 2004
    Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) successfully applies various fracturing programs in its pre-Khuff sandstone formation ('Unayzah and Jauf reservoirs), including indirect fracs...
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    Companies

    Offshore hammermill process meets OSPAR discharge limit

    May 10, 2004
    A version of the Rotomill hammermill base cutting cleaning unit, specifically designed for offshore operations, has been successfully utilized to clean non-aqueous-based cuttings...
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    Companies

    CPC, BTC pipelines make current Caspian area oil export capacity adequate

    May 10, 2004
    Traditionally oil production in the Caspian region has been constrained by a lack of export infrastructure.
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    Companies

    OTC: LNG surge No. 1 topic at 2004 conference

    May 10, 2004
    Pushed by solidly higher market prices and a rich but remote resource base, the world's LNG industry sits at a pivotal point in its young history.

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 18

    Government

    Editorial - The energy bill's problem

    May 10, 2004
    A recent statement by US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) underscores the problem with comprehensive energy legislation as proposed.
    Exploration & Development

    OTC: UK Energy Minister touts investment opportunities for independents

    May 10, 2004
    The UK North Sea is entering a new development phase with new investment opportunities for independent oil and gas companies, UK Energy Minister Stephen Timms told the Offshore...
    Companies

    ABB Lummus vacates Yanbu; Saudis vow to crush terrorists

    May 10, 2004
    Even as Saudi Arabian officials pledged better security in the country after a terrorist attack at its oil and petrochemical hub of Yanbu on the Red Sea, the company that was ...
    Companies

    Nigerian militants attack Chevron crew in Niger Delta

    May 10, 2004
    Two US workers, contracted with ChevronTexaco Corp.'s Nigerian subsidiary, and five other people were killed Apr. 23 when the boat they were using to visit oil fields in the Niger...
    Government

    Watching Government - Clean or dirty

    May 10, 2004
    Do Americans breathe reasonably clean air? Or are smog and soot levels high enough in some areas to justify tougher controls on refineries and the fuels they produce? The debate...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US energy bill receives new Senate setback

    May 10, 2004
    Industry lobbyists said Apr. 30 the likelihood that the US Congress can pass comprehensive energy legislation this year grows ever more remote, thanks to a series of procedural...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 10, 2004
    Traders last week were predicting that crude futures prices would soon push past $40/bbl because of continued political instability and escalating violence in the Middle East....
    Pipelines

    OTC spotlights drilling-production technology innovations

    May 10, 2004
    Fifteen innovative drilling-production technologies have been awarded special recognition at this year's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
    Home

    International arbitration

    May 10, 2004
    As more companies conduct international business, disputes that eventually could arise with contractors or host country entities may require legal action.
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    Letters

    May 10, 2004
    I'd like to take exception to Steven Plotkin's letter, "Madrid Bombing," (OGJ, Apr. 19, 2004, p. 10).
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    HSE

    Services/Suppliers

    May 10, 2004
    Houston, has named Mitchell J. Provost as a project manager, and Kevin M. Raatz as a project engineer.
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 10, 2004
    Here's the new LPU-2127 loop powered ultrasonic level sensor, which is designed for continuous tank level measurement and environmental monitoring.
    Capacities

    US refining's strength assured for years

    May 10, 2004
    US refining's strength assured for years Is US refining a sure bet for the foreseeable future?
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    May 10, 2004
    Kuwaiti sources reported the country's first natural gas discovery.
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    Political rhetoric exploits fear over premature death

    May 10, 2004
    Political rhetoric exploits fear over premature death Premature death has returned to political rhetoric.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    May 10, 2004
    Ariel Corporation
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    Companies

    Long-discovered gas field starts in N. California's Eel River basin

    May 10, 2004
    Independent operators started gas sales in November 2003 in the Eel River basin in coastal northwestern California after redeveloping Grizzly Bluff gas field.
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    Home

    Few operators equipped to exploit gulf's deep shelf gas opportunities

    May 10, 2004
    Deep shelf gas production from then-existing fields in the Gulf of Mexico peaked at 1.2 bcfd in 2003 and is expected to remain at these levels in the short to medium term.