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  • Volume 102, Issue 36

    • Volume 102, Issue 36

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    Refining & Processing

    High NGL, natural gas prices make processing margins more volatile

    Sept. 27, 2004
    A substantial shift in natural gas prices has increased returns for gas producers and provided incentive for increased drilling and well workover activity.
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    Companies

    Various factors affect severance selection

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Companies have various alternatives for decommissioning platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Reserves

    Future South Pars development may include 95/8-in. tubing

    Sept. 27, 2004
    A study showed the benefits of installing 95/8-in. tubing strings in future South Pars gas wells in the Persian Gulf.
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    Companies

    Point of View: Marathon focuses on development of integrated natural gas projects

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Development of integrated natural gas projects to link stranded natural gas resources with key markets in areas where production is declining is "a new part of our business" and...
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    Production Operations

    Comment: Oil and gas in energy research spending: a call for balance

    Sept. 27, 2004
    The US government's oil technology budget has been steadily reduced from $56.2 million in fiscal 2002 to a proposed $15 million¿about 0.1% of the total US Department of Energy...

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 36

    Production Operations

    Investors await new government, legal structure in Iraq

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Definitive laws and regulations that would outline terms for investment by international companies in Iraq still await the establishment of a permanent government, an energy attorney...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial - Heeding demand growth

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Edward M. Gramlich, a governor of the US Federal Reserve System, recently pointed to an important but insufficiently noticed distinction between the recent oil-price leap and ...
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    Refining & Processing

    FACTS: India's crude demand, product exports on the rise

    Sept. 27, 2004
    India has experienced a sharp upward trend in 2004 both in its refined products consumption and in refinery runs, leading to a consequent surge in products exports, reports FACTS...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Benchmark US crude for November delivery jumped by $1.59 to $48.35/bbl—the second highest settlement price ever—Sept. 22 on the New York Mercantile Exchange after the US Energy...
    Production Operations

    Venezuela urged to fast-track PetroCaribe initiative

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Venezuela urged to fast-track PetroCaribe initiative Venezuela has been mandated by several Caribbean countries to draft a multilateral agreement to fast-track the implementation...
    Companies

    Sampling webcasts

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Sampling webcasts An information source rapidly gaining acceptance is the webcast.
    Discoveries

    Letters

    Sept. 27, 2004
    In your Aug. 9, 2004, issue on this subject (HUBBERT REVISITED-5: Is oil shale America's answer to peak-oil challenge?" p. 16), the authors mentioned that the Unocal retort design...
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    Companies

    New methods for CP design offered

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Two new methods for designing pipeline cathodic-protection systems employ newly developed CP design software for marine pipelines.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Houston, has announced its acquisition of Indonesia-based Telematika Java Duta.
    HSE

    OPEC reports highlight confusion in energy news

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Here's a public-education challenge for the oil and gas industry: Teach journalists the difference between production quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
    Economics & Markets

    A columnist's swan song

    Sept. 27, 2004
    A columnist's swan song This column marks the final appearance of the above byline in this space, after logging roughly a decade and some 500 columns, counting earlier fax and...
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    New Plants

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 27, 2004
    This new PathMASTER whipstock system delivers the one-trip and retrievable features of the WindowMaster whipstock with a shorter whipstock ramp and full gauge mills for more efficient...
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    Sept. 27, 2004
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    Drilling & Production

    Benin basin off Nigeria could get first substantial development with oil/gas-to-liquids project

    Sept. 27, 2004
    A Nigerian independent is searching for a partner or partners to appraise a 1996 discovery that could become the first major field development in the Benin basin off western Nigeria...
    Production Operations

    PDO enhancing oil production, expanding gas operations

    Sept. 27, 2004
    The year 2003 was good for gas-condensate reserves bookings but not much for black oil additions, said Petroleum Development Oman.
    Companies

    Forest City basin CBM interests consolidating

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Forest City basin CBM interests consolidating Heartland Oil & Gas Corp., Vancouver, BC, signed a letter of intent to acquire the northeastern Kansas Forest City basin coalbed ...
    Discoveries

    Niger settlement could kick off $55 million program

    Sept. 27, 2004
    A $55 million exploration program on the 8.6 million acre Tenere Block along the Central African Rift in eastern Niger is in the works after the licensees settled differences....
    Drilling Operations

    Sherritt to renew exploration, eyes gas sales in northern Cuba

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Sherritt International Corp., Toronto, plans to resume exploratory drilling in northern Cuba in the third quarter and is considering an increase in its $90 million capital spending...
    Exploration & Development

    Reliance-Niko combine scores more gas off northeastern India

    Sept. 27, 2004
    Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, and Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary, added gas discoveries on blocks D-6 and NEC-25 in the Bay of Bengal off India's northeast coast.