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  • Volume 102, Issue 21

    • Volume 102, Issue 21

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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    June 7, 2004
    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    Economics & Markets

    China becoming world oil market's 'most dynamic factor'

    June 7, 2004
    China accounted for 40% of total growth in world oil demand during 2000-04, said Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in a report on China energy.
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    Companies

    Oil sands drive Canada's oil production growth

    June 7, 2004
    Forecasts show that bitumen production from Canada's oil sands may exceed 1.8 million b/d by 2010 up from an average 920,000 million b/d in 2003.
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    General Interest

    US propane: prices hold, inventories remain low in first quarter 2004

    June 7, 2004
    At the end of first quarter 2004, monthly average propane prices in the US firmed to 58¢ and 60¢/gal at Conway, Kan., and Mont Belvieu, Tex., respectively. February stocks closed...
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    Companies

    SAGD drilling parameters evolve for oil sands

    June 7, 2004
    Optimized drilling procedures, incorporating improved directional drilling and ranging systems and slant drilling, allow operators to use steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD...

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 21

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    Companies

    Interest in Canadian Laurentian acreage may overshadow extended French block

    June 7, 2004
    Interest in Canadian Laurentian acreage may overshadow extended French block ExxonMobil Canada Properties and Conoco Canada Resources Ltd. have been awarded an extension of the...
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    Companies

    Newfield groups prepare for drilling on gulf shelf ultradeep Treasure blocks

    June 7, 2004
    What Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, said is likely to become the deepest well on the Gulf of Mexico shelf might spud before the end of 2004.
    Exploration & Development

    Exploration off N. Korea might include S. Korean participation

    June 7, 2004
    Press reports in mid-May said South Korea's state Korea National Oil Corp. was considering participation in an exploration project off North Korea's west coast.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    June 7, 2004
    ADIPECwww.adipec.com
    Production Operations

    Area Drilling

    June 7, 2004
    Centurion Energy International Inc., Calgary, was awarded 75% working interest in the West Manzala and West Qantara blocks in the onshore Nile Delta.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    US gasoline demand spike belies price worries

    June 7, 2004
    US motorists complaining about the high price of gasoline are a little like those folks who sued McDonald's for making them fat.
    Refining & Processing

    Role of mergers overstated in GAO fuel-price study

    June 7, 2004
    Even if it's right—which it probably isn't—a new report by the US General Accounting Office on oil-industry mergers amounts to whistling in a storm.
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    Pipelines

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 7, 2004
    As many as six gas hazards can be measured and monitored simultaneously via this new G750 Polytector II gas detector.
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    June 7, 2004
    Wärtsilä Corp. Vaasa, Finland, has appointed Lars Hellberg as group vice-president, head of engine division, and member of the board of management.
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    Production Operations

    Preparation key for pipeline's management of large spill, explosion

    June 7, 2004
    Preparation key for pipeline's management of large spill, explosion A significant pipeline spill or explosion can cause substantial damage to a company.
    Reserves

    Letters

    June 7, 2004
    The well-written article by Sadad al-Husseini "Rebutting the critics: Saudi Arabia's oil reserves" (OGJ, May 17, 2004, p. 16) has prepared us for higher oil prices in the future...
    IOR/EOR

    Oil sands boom

    June 7, 2004
    The oil industry goes through many boom-and-bust cycles. Some cycles are global in nature, affecting the entire industry.
    Production Operations

    PDVSA reassures US investors about its supplier role

    June 7, 2004
    Top executives from state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) came to New York May 19 looking to reassure nervous US investors that the company takes its role as a key short...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 7, 2004
    At a special June 3 meeting in Beirut, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries hammered out a compromise agreement to immediately raise their total crude ...
    Refining & Processing

    US energy price political rhetoric likely to heat up

    June 7, 2004
    With motorists expected to pay higher gasoline prices this election year summer, US policymakers are looking to place blame.
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    Companies

    Point of View: Pan-Ocean CEO, Pres. Lyons cites caution, diligence as keys to African success

    June 7, 2004
    There is only one way to take a smaller North American independent and turn it into an expanding producer in Africa with good growth prospects.
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves & Promotions

    June 7, 2004
    Royal Dutch recommends managing director; Shell Canada appoints CEO Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. has recommended that its shareholders later this month elect Linda Zarda Cook as ...
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    EIA: China, US lead future long-term oil demand growth

    June 7, 2004
    Over the next 2 decades China and the US will fuel much of the new global oil demand, a long-term analysis by the US Energy Information Administration predicts.
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    Companies

    Former CPA advisor's hopes high for Iraqi oil industry

    June 7, 2004
    Iraq's oil business "is basically ready to hand over now" to Iraqi control, said Robert E. McKee III, the former ConocoPhillips executive who recently completed 6 months' service...
    Production Operations

    Ecuador postpones bidding round in Amazon basin

    June 7, 2004
    Ecuador has indefinitely postponed a bidding round aimed at ramping up oil production at four state-owned fields in the Amazon basin that have combined reserves of some 905 million...
    Companies

    Company News - US independent E&P firms top recent M&A activity

    June 7, 2004
    Several US independents have been actively acquiring or merging with companies smaller than themselves, and XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, announced plans to acquire a package of...
    Refining

    Middle East strife, US economy to fuel oil, gasoline prices

    June 7, 2004
    Continued tensions in the Middle East, a strengthening US economy, and increased oil demand by China and the US are fueling high oil and gasoline prices, analysts for Standard...
    LNG

    Middle East to play large role in gas supply to China, India

    June 7, 2004
    Zooming demand for energy in rapidly growing China eclipses other growth markets in the Eastern Hemisphere, speakers said May 12 at the Middle East Gas & LNG Forum in Bahrain....
    Reserves

    Editorial - Reserves questions

    June 7, 2004
    Politics threatens the unsteady relationship between financial accounting and the reporting of oil and natural gas reserves.
    Economics & Markets

    Watching Government: Indian horizons

    June 7, 2004
    India's new leader wants foreign investment in the country's oil and gas sector, but state-owned companies may not be privatized anytime soon.
    LNG

    KPMG: Energy officials assess industry challenges

    June 7, 2004
    KPMG: Energy officials assess industry challenges A panel of industry experts assessed a variety of challenges facing the oil and natural gas industry at an energy conference ...
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    Companies

    Long-term contracts vital in EU free gas market

    June 7, 2004
    Long-term supply contracts will play a more important role in the new European Union free gas market than originally planned, contends London-based analyst Prospex Research Ltd...