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    Refining

    'Benign' era of refining represents greater profitability for best performers

    Aug. 9, 2004
    The refining industry is entering a new "benign" era that reflects basic, permanent, structural changes in the market due to an improving global economy.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Deepwater production off Brazil continues steady increase

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Oil and gas production from new fields and facilities in the deepwater off Brazil continues to increase.
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    Companies

    Analogs, work commitments drive drilling in Atlantic Canada

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Operators are drilling on and offshore the eastern Canadian provinces, moving forward with most project plans and work commitments but letting others slide.
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    Production Operations

    Is oil shale America's answer to peak-oil challenge?

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Recent discussions regarding the advent of a peak in global crude oil production generally fail to address the potential of America's rich, massive oil shale resources to augment...
    Reserves

    Shell reaches agreements to resolve FSA, SEC inquiries

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group July 29 said it has reached agreements in principle (AIP) with the UK's Financial Services Authority and US Securities and Exchange Commission staff to...

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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Editorial - US respect and oil

    Aug. 9, 2004
    If the goal is US respect in the world, why would a presidential candidate pursuing it treat an important part of the world with deliberate disrespect?
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves & Promotions - ConocoPhillips names Mulva as chairman

    Aug. 9, 2004
    The board of ConocoPhillips has elected James J. Mulva to succeed Archie W. Dunham as chairman upon Dunham's retirement in September. Mulva also will continue to serve as president...
    Government

    USFS seeks to reverse 'roadless rule' policy

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Producers and their congressional supporters looking to expand drilling on certain federal lands praised a recent action by the US Department of Agriculture's US Forest Service...
    Reserves

    Watching Government: Proving reserves

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Regulators face growing scrutiny over how publicly traded oil and natural gas companies book proven reserves, thanks to shareholder lawsuits and election-year politics.
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    Companies

    Point of View: Independent successful in reviving old LA basin fields

    Aug. 9, 2004
    In 1988, when 27-year old Stanford University petroleum engineers Hal Washburn and Randy Breitenbach prepared to launch BreitBurn Energy Co. in Los Angeles, people tried to discourage...
    Companies

    Company News - Arawak Energy to buy Siberian, Canadian firms

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Most recent merger and acquisition activity in the oil and natural gas industry has involved multinational corporations, while independent firms continue to trade upstream properties...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Crude oil futures prices last week reached above the $44/bbl mark on the New York Mercantile Exchange, setting another record.
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    New Plants

    Discovery down under

    Aug. 9, 2004
    In the process of exploring for oil and natural gas under the Earth's waters, oil companies conducting surveys occasionally make some other interesting discoveries, such as sunken...
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Aug. 9, 2004
    In the US, discovery of oil peaked back in 1950. US production of oil peaked in 1970, 20 years after the discovery peak.
    HSE

    Environment helped by repairs to Clinton's lurches

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Among polemical straw men slain at the Democratic National Convention July 26-29 was a beauty smitten by former President Bill Clinton.
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    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Enhancements have been added to the VX500 dockable photoionization detector (PID). The new features increase its functionality and accuracy while maintaining its simplicity.
    Companies

    Role reversal looming for Venezuela, Russia

    Aug. 9, 2004
    A year from now, will oil markets be buzzing about investment prospects brightening in Venezuela but worsening in Russia?
    Home

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Venture Oil & Gas Inc., Laurel, Miss., staked a wildcat to Lower Tuscaloosa in nonproducing George County, southeastern Mississippi.
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    Advertising Index

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Baker Atlaswww.bakeratlas.com
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    Tankers

    Intertanko: Tanker incidents level off since 2001, drop below decade average

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Data compiled and published last month by Intertanko, the international association of independent tanker owners, suggests the trend in tanker incidents per year since 2001 has...
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    Production Operations

    European pipeline project gets major boost

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Plans for a major European petrochemical pipeline took an important step forward earlier this summer when a commission of the European Union approved subsidies for the project...
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    Reserves

    Afghans take first steps toward licensing

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Afghanistan's transitional Islamic administration is working towards licensing oil and gas blocks in the North Afghan-Tajik basin.
    Companies

    Trinidad gas wildcat could set islands' depth mark

    Aug. 9, 2004
    BP Trinidad and Tobago and EOG Resources will jointly drill the deepest well in the Caribbean island, Prime Minister Patrick Manning has announced.
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    Companies

    Blocks off N. Madagascar drawing explorers' interest

    Aug. 9, 2004
    Blocks that range from shore into deep water in the Mozambique Channel off northern Madagascar are garnering more interest from exploration companies.