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    Recommendations in the National Petroleum Council's report on refining issues aim at avoiding hindrance to capacity expansion, encouraging investment, and allowing the supply ...
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    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...
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    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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    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...
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    Worldwide reserves of crude oil and natural gas have changed little from those of a year ago in Oil & Gas Journal's annual estimate.
    Dec. 20, 2004
    In his nomination of Samuel Welch Bodman as secretary of energy, US President George W. Bush is flirting with taboo.
    Dec. 20, 2004
    Click here to view the Worldwide Reserves and Production Report (2 pages) in PDF.
    Dec. 20, 2004
    As US imports of LNG grow, storage will prove crucial to managing daily variability between supply and demand.
    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...
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    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 ...
    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 ...
    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...
    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.
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    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...
    Dec. 20, 2004
    Various oil company promotions have been used to secure loyalty at the retail level, and toy trucks have been especially popular.
    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.
    Dec. 20, 2004
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    Methods originally developed for pipeline integrity assessment have been adapted for station and terminal facilities.
    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...
    Dec. 20, 2004