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  • Volume 102, Issue 9

    • Volume 102, Issue 9

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    Drilling & Production

    Analysis used to assess, improve drilling performance

    March 1, 2004
    Perfect-well analysis can quantitatively, unambiguously, and simply assess drilling performance and offer a method to set performance targets and identify where savings can most...
    LNG

    CERA: Natural gas poised to overtake oil use by 2025

    March 1, 2004
    The role of natural gas in the oil industry is being redefined, with gas taking an increasingly vital role in future sustainable energy growth, said energy experts Feb. 11 at ...
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    Companies

    High-temp. MWD, LWD tools help South Texas wells

    March 1, 2004
    Acquiring wellbore and formation data in high-temperature South Texas wells is often limited by the ability of measurement-while-drilling (MWD) and logging-while-drilling (LWD...
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    Companies

    Lisbon gas plant installs acid-gas enrichment, injection facility

    March 1, 2004
    Tom Brown Inc. completed construction of an acid-gas enrichment (AGE) and acid-gas injection (AGI) facility at its Lisbon gas plant near Moab, Utah, in May 2003.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    March 1, 2004
    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    More content from Volume 102, Issue 9

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    Production Operations

    How to use petrophysical data to determine deep prospectivity

    March 1, 2004
    This article describes, using petrophysical data, a technique that will define the depth level of commerciality along the US Gulf Coast.
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    Advertising Index

    March 1, 2004
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    Pipelines

    Saudi budget needs may demand $30/bbl floor

    March 1, 2004
    The evidence mounts that $30/bbl for its benchmark crude basket is the preferred price this year for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries—more particularly for the...
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    HSE

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 1, 2004
    A portable, motorized gun is designed to dispense 50 ml two-component adhesives, even at below freezing temperatures.
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    EU official scorned for sensible talk on Kyoto treaty

    March 1, 2004
    A dust-up in Europe over the Kyoto Protocol typifies discussion there on climate change.
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    Drilling Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    March 1, 2004
    Houston, has appointed Steve Dillard as vice-president/general manager of its newly formed oil and gas business unit.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Two-step method verifies uprating of older German gas pipeline

    March 1, 2004
    A two-step evaluation, using a classical deterministic method and a modern probabilistic one, verified uprating a 35-year-old German natural gas pipeline.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Letters

    March 1, 2004
    I have a few comments on the article on energy, development, and climate change, which asks readers to begin a debate on the whole platform of actions by the mighty United Nations...
    Companies

    Ecuador's oil vacillation

    March 1, 2004
    Minutes after landing in Quito in early February, I was immersed in a conversation with someone carrying the latest issue of Corporate Counsel magazine.
    HSE

    US CSB calls for stronger rules on reactive chemicals

    March 1, 2004
    The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Feb. 5 said it found "unacceptable" that the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has so far opted...
    Companies

    CERA: Industry lacks 'coherent vision' in digital E&P space

    March 1, 2004
    The oil and natural gas industry probably isn't as far along as it should be regarding advances in using digital and information technology (IT) to assist in the exploration for...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Editorial: Politics, security, and oil

    March 1, 2004
    Politics, security, and oil Whatever the distractions of the moment, the US presidential race ultimately will be about a single issue: national security.
    HSE

    Watching Government - Climate change review

    March 1, 2004
    The White House should be spending more money to support its revamped climate-change research program, the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) said last month....
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    HSE

    Point of View - Davis Petroleum president touts employees' entrepreneurial spirit for private firm's success

    March 1, 2004
    Gregg Davis, president of privately held oil and natural gas independent Davis Petroleum Corp. (DPC), largely credits his company's success to the entrepreneurial spirit of its...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 1, 2004
    US gasoline prices may be headed toward another spike at the pump through a pending shortage approaching the peak summer driving season, analysts say.
    LNG

    CERA: Global LNG market could see more contract flexibility

    March 1, 2004
    The LNG market is set to become even more global, with both suppliers and consumers contemplating an emerging trend toward greater contract flexibility, industry speakers told...
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    Drilling Operations

    Calculating the perfect-well time

    March 1, 2004
    The following describes a technique that allows one to consistently calculate the physical limit for a particular drilling operation (and thus create well-cost estimates and identify...