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    Drilling Operations

    Managing wellbore temperatures may increase effective fracture gradients

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Drilling operations cause changes in wellbore temperatures that can significantly impact effective fracture gradients.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Refinery construction
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    General Interest

    Fieldbus technology modernizes gas platform off Brazil

    Sept. 6, 2004
    To comply with new regulatory requirements, Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) modernized the process control on its Merluza offshore platform in the Santos basin, off Brazil....
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    Companies

    Middle East feedstock advantages continue to support surge in petchem capacity

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Feedstock advantages in the Middle East are fueling a powerful and continuing upsurge in ethane-propane cracking for petrochemicals.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Sabic's Al-Mady cites feedstock costs, location as keys to Middle East petchem industry success

    Sept. 6, 2004
    The key to success in the petrochemical industry always has been access�access to feedstock, technology, and the right markets.

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 33

    Companies

    BLM gives nod for ConocoPhillips's Alpine satellites plan

    Sept. 6, 2004
    A ConocoPhillips plan to expand its western North Slope Alpine field satellites development in Alaska moved forward following a decision Aug. 31 by the US Department of the Interior...
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    Reserves

    Framework of policies, institutions in place to enable China to meet its soaring oil, gas demand

    Sept. 6, 2004
    For China, the energy challenge is clear but formidable: It must find additional sources of energy, both domestic and foreign, to fuel its growing economy.
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    HSE

    METI: Japan's oil use to drop; gas, nuclear to rise

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Japan's reliance on oil and liquefied petroleum gas will drop, both in the near and distant future, while its reliance upon nuclear energy will continue to increase significantly...
    HSE

    Watching Government: Land grab

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Federal land management is, and always is likely to be, controversial. Just ask any Energy Bar Association member.
    New Plants

    Editorial: The capacity imperative

    Sept. 6, 2004
    A drop in prices brings new attention to the necessity of buffer supply in the oil market—and to the issue of who does and who doesn't contribute to it.
    Production Operations

    Yukos to cut capital expenditures, oil production

    Sept. 6, 2004
    OAO Yukos announced "stringent cash conservation measures" Aug. 23, including cutting capital expenditures and trimming its 2004 oil production target from 90 million tonnes to...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 6, 2004
    From a then-record closing price of $48.70/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 19, near-month contract prices for benchmark US light, sweet crudes plunged to $42.12/bbl...
    Economics & Markets

    China reportedly to guarantee rail payments for oil from Yukos

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Russian Railways claims that China has offered to guarantee payments for railroad deliveries of crude from OAO Yukos, but Chinese government officials have yet to confirm that...
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    Companies

    Point of View: Far East Energy pressing big CBM schemes in China

    Sept. 6, 2004
    China, where personal incomes have quadrupled in recent years while the country's burgeoning economy has grown fivefold, currently is consuming energy at a pace surpassed only...
    Production Operations

    US DOE, IEA heads hold Paris meetings

    Sept. 6, 2004
    US Sec. of Energy Spencer Abraham met Aug. 24 separately with French Industry Minister Patrick Devedjian and International Energy Agency Executive Director Claude Mandil in Paris...
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    A snapshot of China's national oil companies

    Sept. 6, 2004
    PetroChina - Average production 2.1 million b/d of oil, 1.9 bcfd of gas.
    Companies

    More refining musings

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Although US gasoline prices are almost as high as they were in May (OGJ, May 24, 2004, p. 15) this once-hot topic has lost some of its allure with the driving public and local...
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Ivan Sandrea's argument (OGJ, July 26, 2004, p. 18) that the deepwater oil discovery rate may have already peaked and that deepwater oil production may peak within 10 years, rests...
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    LPG Markets

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Tenaris SA Luxembourg, has announced acquisition of Tubman International Ltd., the company holding over 84% equity in the Romanian company, S.C. Silcotub SA, and controlling interest...
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 6, 2004
    This Liftomatic Ergo-1000-OBS allows the operator automatically to pick, lift, weigh, and move plastic, fiber, and steel drums.
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    Washington should be planning for exit from Iraq

    Sept. 6, 2004
    The US government should plan better for its departure from Iraq than it apparently did for the occupation.
    Economics & Markets

    Pullback from $50/bbl could be temporary

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Is the so-called speculative bubble in crude oil prices about to burst?
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    Companies

    Brazil round draws $220 million from 19 bidders for 154 blocks

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Brazil's sixth oil and gas licensing round began under heavy stress for representatives of the 24 qualified companies due to an injunction of a supreme court justice that would...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Camisea plants, pipelines start up

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Ceremonies early last month marked official start-up of the Malvinas gas plant, export pipelines, and Pisco fractionation plant for Peru's Camisea natural gas project with the...
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    Advertising Index

    Sept. 6, 2004
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    Companies

    Gulf Sale 192 draws $171.4 million in apparent high bids

    Sept. 6, 2004
    Apparent high bids totaling $171.4 million were offered for 351 offshore tracts at Lease Sale 192 for the western Gulf of Mexico, the US Minerals Management Service reported.