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  • Volume 102, Issue 29

    • Volume 102, Issue 29

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    Companies

    Markets returning to normal; petchem demand running strong

    Aug. 2, 2004
    In second-quarter 2004 North American propane markets and gas processing extraction rates returned to their 5-year averages, indicating that supply is effectively back to normal...
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    Polymer treatment isolates depleted zone, enabling untapped-zone production

    Aug. 2, 2004
    A polymer treatment isolated a watered-out zone and enabled production from a lower, previously untapped zone in a Gulf of Mexico (GOM) well, operated by Marathon Oil Co.
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    Capacities

    Russian refiners slowly building new units, upgrading refined product quality

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Aging Russian refineries are slowly being upgraded and revamped with more modern processes and technologies. A significant amount of overcapacity in Russia in the 1990s delayed...
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    Companies

    Government develops innovative, interactive drilling-waste MIS

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Drilling-waste management practices vary throughout the world and are subject to all applicable legal requirements imposed by the relevant regulatory agencies to protect human...
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    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 29

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    IOR/EOR

    Study correlates asphaltene precipitation to reservoir pressure

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Modeling of asphaltene precipitation in Bangestan reservoir of Kupal field in southwest Iran estimated the pressure at which asphaltenes precipitate under reservoir conditions...
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    Reserves

    Why higher oil prices are inevitable this year, rest of decade

    Aug. 2, 2004
    The stubborn refusal of oil prices to drop in recent months has amplified doubts regarding the adequacy of near-term oil supplies and the long-term outlook for crude oil prices...
    Reserves

    Watching Government - Energy referendum

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Bolivian President Carlos Mesa faces the daunting task of keeping both voters and investors happy following a referendum meant to ensure a large government role in the country...
    Companies

    ConocoPhillips reportedly eyeing Kremlin's Lukoil stake

    Aug. 2, 2004
    ConocoPhillips is thought to be close to signing a major agreement to acquire Russia's 7.59% stake in OAO Lukoil—that country's second largest oil and natural gas company—for ...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 2, 2004
    US imports of crude oil averaged a record 11.3 million bbl during the week ended July 23, marking "the first time that crude imports have exceeded 11 million b/d. Imports jumped...
    Companies

    OPIC refutes PDVSA complaints over INTESA claim

    Aug. 2, 2004
    The Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC) July 23 disputed charges by Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) that the US agency's decision to ...
    Companies

    Editorial - Questions about Russia

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Recent dramatics in Russia provide a useful reminder that, after a dozen years of economic and political liberalization, the land of the czars is still no Switzerland.
    Production Operations

    Analyst: High oil prices spur need for energy diversity

    Aug. 2, 2004
    In the face of rising oil prices, it is "essential" for national governments to develop more-diverse energy resources, said the managing director of a prominent British consulting...
    Companies

    MMS looks to expand RIK program in selected markets

    Aug. 2, 2004
    The US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service July 12 released a 5 year royalty management plan that expands federal royalty-in-kind (RIK) programs but does ...
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    Companies

    Canadian bitumen stands poised to expand to US markets

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Increased pipeline movement of raw bitumen production from Canada to the US could mitigate North America's vulnerability to crude supply disruptions and require expansion of existing...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    The ideal story

    Aug. 2, 2004
    One of the questions most frequently asked by OGJ's readers of the magazine's news editors is, "Where do your story ideas come from?"
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    Production Operations

    Tight-gas myths, realities have strong implications for resource estimation, policymaking, operating strategies

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Natural gas demand in the US is expected to grow from 23 tcf/year now to 30-34 tcf/year by the year 2025.
    Companies

    Bizarre events

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Regarding your editorial "A bizarre investigation," OGJ, July 19, 2004, p. 15, it is most ironic that in the prodigious producing area of Bakersfield, Calif. (more than three ...
    HSE

    Planet can handle global warming without legal help

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Grandstanding lawyers want to save the planet. Who will save the planet from grandstanding lawyers?
    LNG

    A case for natural gas price stability

    Aug. 2, 2004
    The forecast for US natural gas prices is: more of the same. Get used to it.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 2, 2004
    Quadra Resources Corp., Calgary, signed a farmout with Canadian and Egyptian companies that covers the 7.5 million acre Nuqra Block 1 in the Kom Ombo rift basin in southeastern...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Aug. 2, 2004
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