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  • Volume 102, Issue 2

    • Volume 102, Issue 2

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    Reserves

    Iraqi oil contract legality issues warrant clarification

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Because of Iraq's vast potential oil and natural gas resources, questions surrounding the legality of contracts related to its petroleum sector are commanding great attention....
    Refining & Processing

    Watching Government - Sulfur limitations

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The US Environmental Protection Agency wants to finalize a low-sulfur nonroad diesel rule by summer.
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    Economics & Markets

    2003 was a year of transition for the MTBE, fuels industry

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The year 2003 was one of transition for the methyl tertiary butyl ether industry.
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    Drilling & Production

    King Kong-Yosemite illustrates smaller deepwater development techniques

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The King Kong-Yosemite deepwater development project in the Gulf of Mexico (Fig. 1) involved several technologies that companies can implement either to make smaller deepwater...
    Government

    Clean fuel rules caught in legislative limbo

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Congress, rather than the White House, stands to make the most dramatic changes to how clean fuels are made and sold in 2004.

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 2

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    Jan. 12, 2004
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    Government

    A US economic hazard

    Jan. 12, 2004
    In a presidential election year, most campaign pronouncements on the US economy deserve to be ignored.
    Refining & Processing

    US refining entering long up cycle

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The US refining sector is enjoying robust margins due to healthy demand growth and relatively tight products markets.
    Reserves

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 12, 2004
    A group led by Daewoo Corp., Seoul, spudded the Shwe-1 wildcat on the Rakhine basin shelf in the Bay of Bengal a few dozen kilometers south of southernmost Bangladesh.
    Refining

    Truckers in US set for more rest, higher fuel costs

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Truckers in US set for more rest, higher fuel costs You have to wonder whether truckers in the US know what else is heading their way.
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    Companies

    LNG spending will reach $39 billion by 2007

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The market for new LNG facilities will expand rapidly through 2007 and see total capital expenditures (capex) of more than $39 billion, according to a recent study by Douglas-...
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    Tankers

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Here's the SENTRY, a nonthreaded, internal pipeline and vessel door closure.
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    Gas Processing

    Direct hydrocarbon detection by wavelet energy absorption

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The quest for the reliable direct detection of hydrocarbons from seismic data is probably as old as seismic data processing and interpretation itself.
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    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Intec Engineering Houston, has named John B. Reed as chief executive officer, and promoted Christophe Tam to president of North America operations.
    IOR/EOR

    Time to debunk

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The article, "Time to debunk mythical links between oil and politics" (OGJ, Dec. 15, 2003, p. 18) is interesting, but the author seems more at home with the business side of oil...
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    Refining & Processing

    Ethanol 101

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Connecticut, New York, and California are working to remove the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether from the gasoline blending pool and replace it with fuel-grade ethanol...
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    Companies

    Point of View - International gas projects are focus for ChevronTexaco

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The international natural gas business today looks like the oil business did 50 years ago.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Energy futures prices were up sharply during the first trading sessions of 2004, with the February contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes jumping by $1.26 to $33.78/bbl...
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    Companies

    WoodMac: Acquisitions drive value creation, loss

    Jan. 12, 2004
    Acquisitions remain an important driver for growth for most upstream companies, especially if these companies have failed to meet market-anticipated production goals. But acquisitions...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    ChevronTexaco promoting Nigerian program to develop local engineering centers

    Jan. 12, 2004
    ChevronTexaco Corp. continues to emphasize development of local engineering expertise and technology-transfer efforts as it pursues several major oil and gas projects in Nigeria...
    LPG Markets

    Pentagon shifts Iraqi fuel supply duties away from USACE

    Jan. 12, 2004
    US Pentagon officials Dec. 23 directed the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) to begin overseeing fuel imports for the Iraqi civilian population.
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    Companies

    ChevronTexaco pressing Nigerian gas monetization plans

    Jan. 12, 2004
    ChevronTexaco Corp.'s investments in Nigeria are increasingly focused on development, utilization, and marketing of that country's vast natural gas resources.
    Government

    US appeals court blocks EPA's revised NSR rule

    Jan. 12, 2004
    The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Dec. 24 blocked a new US Environmental Protection Agency rule designed to let refiners and power generators make certain...