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  • Volume 102, Issue 47

    • Volume 102, Issue 47

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    Companies

    Crude oil production climbs as reserves post modest rise

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Worldwide reserves of crude oil and natural gas have changed little from those of a year ago in Oil & Gas Journal's annual estimate.
    Companies

    Editorial - Organizational paradox

    Dec. 20, 2004
    In his nomination of Samuel Welch Bodman as secretary of energy, US President George W. Bush is flirting with taboo.
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    Production Operations

    Study shows downhole water separation languishes

    Dec. 20, 2004
    The industry still has installed only a few downhole oil-water and gas-water separators, and the technology has languished compared with activity and expectations made during ...
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    Companies

    World drilling market absorbing new jack ups

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Demand for jack up drilling rigs has pushed up day rates, with 17 newbuilds delivered in 2000-04 and 12 more under construction. Several new designs lead the way, including the...
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    Companies

    Worldwide refining capacity creeps ahead in 2004

    Dec. 20, 2004
    The worldwide refining industry added capacity in 2004, despite a decrease in the total number of operating refineries. For the third year in a row, worldwide capacity is at a...

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    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Dec. 20, 2004
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    Companies

    New graben located on promote blocks in UK North Sea's southern gas basin

    Dec. 20, 2004
    New graben located on promote blocks in UK North Sea's southern gas basin The North Sea, one of the world's major hydrocarbon provinces, is the world's seventh largest oil and...
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Williams Cos., Tulsa, said its net production in Argentina averages 6,000 b/d of oil and 16 MMcfd of gas based on its 69% ownership in APCO Argentina Inc., Tulsa.
    Government

    Reason for Annan to quit should be UN, not US

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Reason for Annan to quit should be UN, not US The administration of US President George W. Bush was right to declare on Dec. 9 that it's not pushing for the resignation of United...
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Dec. 20, 2004
    The Bubbler Gauge system is inherently accurate with a single transducer that is self-calibrated and is temperature compensated automatically.
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    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Aberdeen, has announced the appointment of Glynn Williams as chief executive, Nigel Leggett as vice-president of business development, and Robert Preston as vice-president of ...
    Economics & Markets

    Market Timeline

    Dec. 20, 2004
    After plummeting more than $7/bbl the previous week, crude futures prices bumped up Dec. 6 amid indications by several members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
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    Pipelines

    Integrity assessment methods adapted for stations, terminals

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Methods originally developed for pipeline integrity assessment have been adapted for station and terminal facilities.
    Production Operations

    The real oil problem

    Dec. 20, 2004
    With oil prices at record levels, the perennial related problems of "running out of oil" and the reality of the "oil weapon" are in the news again.
    Companies

    Oil companies' toy trucks

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Various oil company promotions have been used to secure loyalty at the retail level, and toy trucks have been especially popular.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Dec. 20, 2004
    The first cold weather of the US winter blew into the Midwest and Northeast on Dec. 13-14, pushing up prices for heating oil in the world's biggest market for that commodity and...
    Companies

    Russian oil giant Yukos files for bankruptcy in US court

    Dec. 20, 2004
    OAO Yukos has fulfilled its warning that the Russian government's plan to auction a seized oil producing subsidiary would force it into bankruptcy.
    Companies

    Major US supply role seen for unconventional gas

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Over the last 20 years, unconventional natural gas in the US has grown from "just modest expectations back in the early 1980s" to become one of the dominant forces of gas supply...
    Drilling & Production

    Lehman Bros. survey sees E&P outlays up 5.7% in 2005

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Oil and gas companies in a Lehman Bros. survey plan to increase worldwide exploration and production spending next year by 5.7% after raising outlays in those areas this year ...
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    Refining & Processing

    NPC report outlines US refining, import challenges

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Recommendations in the National Petroleum Council's report on refining issues aim at avoiding hindrance to capacity expansion, encouraging investment, and allowing the supply ...
    Refining & Processing

    Watching Government - Abraham's last words

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Since he said he will not be around for a second term, it's no surprise that outgoing US Department of Energy Sec. Spencer Abraham used his appearance at the National Petroleum...
    Companies

    Storage seen as key to managing US gas supply, demand

    Dec. 20, 2004
    As US imports of LNG grow, storage will prove crucial to managing daily variability between supply and demand.
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    Worlddwide Look at Reserves and Production

    Dec. 20, 2004
    Click here to view the Worldwide Reserves and Production Report (2 pages) in PDF.