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  • Volume 102, Issue 26

    • Volume 102, Issue 26

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    General Interest

    New solutions fix old problems with back and hand injuries

    July 12, 2004
    As injury rates continue to decline in the oil and gas industry, solutions to long-standing problems need to become more creative.
    IOR/EOR

    Watching Government - Taxing summer

    July 12, 2004
    A pending corporate tax bill may be as good as it gets this year for industry lobbyists still looking for energy legislation to come from a sharply divided Congress.
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    Companies

    US Natural Gas STAR program success points to global opportunities to cut methane emissions cost-effectively

    July 12, 2004
    The production, processing, transmission, and distribution of natural gas worldwide releases as much as 88 billion cu m (bcm) of methane to the atmosphere annually.1
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    Production Operations

    Duke Energy installs first Morphysorb unit at Kwoen gas plant

    July 12, 2004
    The Morphysorb process, in its first commercial application at the Duke Energy Gas Transmission Corp.'s (DEGT) Kwoen plant, proved to have better performance than competing solvent...
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    HSE

    Driller spearheads effort to baseline greenhouse gases

    July 12, 2004
    Driller spearheads effort to baseline greenhouse gases Drilling contractors can play an important role in eliminating redundant measurement and reporting carbon emissions from...

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 26

    Pipelines & Transportation

    Gas development starting at La Vela, Venezuela

    July 12, 2004
    The Vinccler Oil & Gas CA unit of PetroFalcon Corp., Carpinteria, Calif., activated a completion rig to work over gas wells on the 400,000-acre East Falcon Block near the Caribbean...
    Discoveries

    Gas discovered in Bengal basin off eastern India

    July 12, 2004
    Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, gauged three discoveries with a combined 1 tcf of recoverable gas on the Bengal basin shelf in northeastern India.
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    Companies

    Exploration effort forming in South Falklands basin

    July 12, 2004
    An exploration effort is beginning to take shape in a large basin south and southeast of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
    Companies

    EnCana reinforces emphasis on N. America resource plays

    July 12, 2004
    EnCana Corp., Calgary, is placing strong emphasis on so-called basin-centered or nonconventional resource plays in North America.
    Companies

    Apache sees Egypt's Qasr field as world class

    July 12, 2004
    Qasr field in Egypt's western desert is one of the larger onshore hydrocarbon discoveries in the world in the last couple of years, said Apache Corp., Houston.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    July 12, 2004
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    Refining

    US refiners catching up on supply as margins slip

    July 12, 2004
    US refiners are catching up on supply of both feedstock and product. The result is already showing up in the form of reduced crude and gasoline prices.
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 12, 2004
    A full line of sealless diaphragm metering pumps can be integrated into a range of transfer, process, and recirculation systems for handling volatile fluids such as supercritical...
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    General Interest

    Design guide developed for buried pipelines crossing active faults

    July 12, 2004
    An analysis of the response of buried continuous pipelines to active faults has led to development of a design guideline for both onshore and offshore pipelines at fault crossings...
    Refining & Processing

    Supply needs more attention in energy policy-making

    July 12, 2004
    Has the world's largest energy-consuming country learned anything from its recent bump against the limits of supply?
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    July 12, 2004
    Superior Energy Services Harvey, La., has announced several managerial promotions recently.
    Production Operations

    Hubbert redux

    July 12, 2004
    What a year it's been.
    General Interest

    Editorial - A push for tort reform

    July 12, 2004
    Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has nudged the oil and gas industry, along with the rest of American business, toward a showdown over a problem that hurts commerce, burdens individuals...
    Government

    US House bill leaves oil, gas research funding intact

    July 12, 2004
    The US House of Representatives June 17 passed, by a 334-86 vote, a spending bill that largely keeps federal oil and natural gas research funding intact for the upcoming fiscal...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 12, 2004
    Energy prices fluctuate with market reactions Energy futures prices fluctuated daily as markets reacted to changing supply indicators through the long US Independence Day holiday...
    Production Operations

    PIRA: Energy firms expected to post strong 2Q earnings

    July 12, 2004
    Oil and gas companies are expected to post much stronger net income in the second quarter compared with overall industry consensus, according to PIRA Energy Equity Research (PEER...
    Government

    US EPA reopens comment for NSR changes

    July 12, 2004
    Responding to pending legal challenges, the US Environmental Protection Agency said June 30 it will reconsider recent changes it wanted to make to a clean-air permit program for...
    Production Operations

    Iran to modify oil laws, encourage foreign investment

    July 12, 2004
    Iran's Majlis (parliament) is changing its laws in order to entice foreign firms to participate more in its oil and gas development projects.
    General Interest

    Company News - Atmos Energy to acquire TXU Gas for $1.9 billion

    July 12, 2004
    Atmos Energy Corp. agreed to acquire its Dallas counterpart TXU Gas Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of TXU Corp., for $1.925 billion to create a natural gas distribution company...
    Production Operations

    WoodMac: OPEC's efforts carry 'unintended consequence'

    July 12, 2004
    Efforts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to satisfy world demand for crude this summer had the "unintended consequence" of reducing its spare production capacity...
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    Economics & Markets

    Imbalances among oil demand, reserves, alternatives define energy dilemma today

    July 12, 2004
    A sizzling world economy is expected to grow 2.7% in 2004, the second-highest rate since 1990.