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    Production Operations

    Fines control increases gas production

    Feb. 2, 2004
    A surface-modification additive (SMA) to the proppant in a fracture-stimulation treatment increased the gas production rate and prolonged the life of a gas well in Saudi Arabia...
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    Companies

    Construction plans surge on prospects for gas use

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Construction plans surge on prospects for gas use War in the Middle East last year didn't roil world energy markets, and major countries' economies at yearend 2003 were clearly...
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    Refining

    Increasing Russian crude oil exports changing worldwide trade patterns

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Increasing Russian crude oil exports changing worldwide trade patterns Russian oil product exports will increase in the next few years, but will face major roadblocks from more...
    Drilling & Production

    Pemex sets the course for Mexican drilling

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Pemex sets the course for Mexican drilling Great interest among international companies is driving increased activity in Mexico's on and offshore basins.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 5

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    Production Operations

    Russian production growth pushes infrastructure needs

    Feb. 2, 2004
    The rapid development of the Russian oil companies into well funded, market-focused international players and international investment in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan has led to ...
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    Companies

    Company News - Halliburton issues payment for alleged overbilling

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Halliburton Co. reported Jan. 23 the issuance of a $6.3 million payment to its customer, Army Materiel Command, to cover "the potential overbilling charges" made by a Kuwaiti ...
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    Production Operations

    Study of pipeline SCADA spending reveals a mature industry

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Study of pipeline SCADA spending reveals a mature industry Research last year by the Newton-Evans Research Co., Ellicott City, Md., targeted the worldwide petroleum pipeline industry...
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    Companies

    Energy, development, and climate change: considerations in Asia and Latin America

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Climate change is a global environmental concern with potentially significant consequences for society, both from the possible future impacts of climate change and from the socioeconomi...
    Government

    MMT and HEI

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Automakers and environmentalists are hoping a new Health Effects Institute (HEI) report will help convince the US Environmental Protection Agency to more strictly regulate, or...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Despite severe winter storms across much of the US, energy futures prices continued to fall through Jan. 28, largely because of conflicting government and industry reports on ...
    Home

    MMS issues deep-well, shallow-water royalty relief rule

    Feb. 2, 2004
    The US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service Jan. 26 expanded offshore royalty relief to existing US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) production that comes from...
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves & Promotions - Devon Energy, Devon Canada name new presidents

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has announced a new president and a new chief financial officer.
    Companies

    Reserves reporting rules seen to have pros, cons

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Reserves definitions and reserves reporting standards are designed to help protect investors, but the US regulatory process sometimes actually constrains the amount of available...
    Government

    DOI finalizes leasing plan for northwestern NPR-A

    Feb. 2, 2004
    US Sec. of the Interior Gale Norton Jan. 22 finalized a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plan that allows for more leasing in the northwestern portion of the National Petroleum...
    Companies

    A new model?

    Feb. 2, 2004
    This week's cover depicts work in 2002 along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline.
    Companies

    Iraq gives mixed signals about northern oil exports restart

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Iraqi officials are giving mixed signals about the resumption of crude oil exports from the country's northern fields, some saying it could start in days, while others insisting...
    Gas Processing

    Letters

    Feb. 2, 2004
    I've been exploring for oil and gas for so long now (and reading OGJ for just as long) that my college physics courses are pretty much forgotten.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Houston, has named Chuck King as vice-president and general manager.
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    Petrochemicals

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Here's the JLMD System, which the company says enables a 70-90% reduction in the pollution caused by shipwrecked oil tankers.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Collapsed trade talks take two steps toward revival

    Feb. 2, 2004
    International trade, jeopardized by collapse last September of World Trade Organization negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, received two lifts this month.
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    Economics & Markets

    Quantifying exploration back-in options using DCF method undervalues asset

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Most upstream petroleum contracts provide for host countries to hold back-in rights to acquire an equity participation in resulting commercial discoveries at no exploration risk...
    Government

    Those special interests

    Feb. 2, 2004
    The theme runs shrilly through rhetoric of Democratic presidential contenders in the US.
    Economics & Markets

    Data uncertainty to leave OPEC at status quo

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Will another episode of "The Missing Barrels" trip up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' efforts to sustain a $25/bbl OPEC basket price?
    New Plants

    Advertising Index

    Feb. 2, 2004
    ADIPECwww.adipec.com
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    Drilling & Production

    Cairn Energy to test sizable oil find in Rajasthan, India

    Feb. 2, 2004
    Cairn Energy PLC, Edinburgh, reported that a significant oil discovery has followed a long string of tantalizing smaller successes in the Rajasthan basin in northwestern India...