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    Companies

    2004 should be a very good year

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Analysts expect oil and gas companies to increase land drilling worldwide and boost offshore drilling abroad in 2004. In addition, shallow water drilling will be stepped up in...
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    New Plants

    Simulation study compares ethane recovery in turboexpander processes

    Jan. 26, 2004
    A simulation study of five ethane-recovery processes showed that significantly higher ethane recovery results in turboexpander processes that have a gas-liquid and gas-gas exchanger...
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    Exploration & Development

    Reservoir characterization improves stimulation, completion practices

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Improved reservoir-characterization insights allow operators to custom-fit stimulations and completion practices in the highly variable Barnett shale reservoirs.
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    Economics & Markets

    US economy propels 2004 US energy demand

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Continued economic growth in 2004 will drive energy demand in the US.
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    HSE

    Rising expectations of ultimate oil, gas recovery to have critical impact on energy, environmental policy—Part 2

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Part I of this article addressed the widely different projections of the timing and magnitude of peak production of conventional crude oil and natural gas and of their remaining...

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    Companies

    US 2004 well outlook up; Canada to slip on rig utilization

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Drilling in the US should pick up modestly in 2004 from a strong showing in 2003.
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    Production Operations

    OPEC under pressure to restrain output

    Jan. 26, 2004
    If oil production growth outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries continues apace, then members of the organization will be forced to curtail output this year...
    Companies

    Watching Government - Permit progressions

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Permit progressions US President George W. Bush's administration is generally succeeding with its effort to streamline the public land drilling permit process, producers say. ...
    Companies

    Shell chairman reassures staff about reserves revision

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group Chairman Philip Watts has written a letter to employees, reassuring them that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing involved in the company's recent reserves...
    Companies

    KBR to continue southern Iraq oil reconstruction work

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Halliburton Co. subsidiary KBR will continue its work to restore Iraq oil infrastructure, but only in the southern part of the country under a new US Army Corps of Engineers contract...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 26, 2004
    As the New York Mercantile Exchange resumed trade Jan. 20, following observance of the US holiday for civil rights leader Martin Luther King, energy futures prices jumped because...
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    Production Operations

    Texas oil, gas production down, but value up

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Texas oil, gas production down, but value up The volume of oil and natural gas produced in Texas declined slightly in 2003 compared with 2002, but the value of that production...
    LNG

    Analysts downplay effects of Algerian LNG plant blast

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Even as energy prices surged Jan. 20, analysts downplayed the danger of any immediate fuel shortages following an explosion early that day that destroyed three of six trains at...
    Pipelines

    Company News - Premcor to buy Motiva's Delaware refinery

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Premcor to buy Motiva's Delaware refinery Premcor Inc., Old Greenwich, Conn., agreed to buy Motiva Enterprises LLC's Delaware City refining complex—Delaware's only refinery—for...
    Government

    Climate alarmism

    Jan. 26, 2004
    The use of renewable energy sources in the US has declined recently, according to US Energy Information Administration data.
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Darleston, UK, has appointed Gary Sears as its new business development manager to drive the development of its business in Malaysia, Singapore, China, and other Far East territories...
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Here's a patented, compact, static mixer for offshore rigs and other applications requiring the blending of gases into liquids at high pressures and high temperatures.
    HSE

    Gore speech turns complex subject into political cudgel

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Former US Vice-Pres. Al Gore has provided a fine example of all that's wrong with debate over global warming.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 26, 2004
    A group led by Vaalco Energy Inc., Houston, made a potentially commercial oil discovery on the eastern flank of the Ebouri prospect on the 3,073 sq km Etame Marin block offshore...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Analyses of incident data show US, European pipelines becoming safer

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Analyses of pipeline-incident data for Europe and the US over 30 years confirm that systems in both regions have become increasingly safer.
    Refining & Processing

    Bush's energy sentence

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Bush's energy sentence The subject of energy received one sentence in the 2004 state-of-the-union address by US President George W. Bush.
    Refining

    At $35/bbl, OPEC still frets over price plunge

    Jan. 26, 2004
    At $35/bbl, OPEC still frets over price plunge US oil futures prices have passed the $35/bbl threshold again, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still frets...
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    Exploration & Development

    Four examples show functions of wavelet energy absorption

    Jan. 26, 2004
    At this point we have the necessary framework to combine all these concepts together into the wavelet energy absorption (WEA) method.
    Discoveries

    Daewoo International makes giant gas discovery in Rakhine basin off northwestern Myanmar

    Jan. 26, 2004
    Daewoo International Corp., Seoul, and Korea Gas Corp. discovered 4 to 6 tcf of recoverable gas on Block A-1 in the nonproducing Rakhine basin shelf in the Bay of Bengal off northwester...