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  • Volume 103, Issue 1

    • Volume 103, Issue 1

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    Companies

    Market surprise, technical advance expected in 2005

    Jan. 3, 2005
    A year of market surprise and technical advance lies ahead for the oil and gas industry.
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    Home

    Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Nelson-farrar cost indexes
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    Reserves

    Geosteering horizontal wells enhances production in Middle East field

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Joint Operations, Saudi Arabian Texaco-Kuwait Oil Co., used geosteering to drill two wells in the South Umm Gudair (SUG) field for the first time in 2004.
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    Production Operations

    US refiners continue to process crudes with lower gravity, higher sulfur

    Jan. 3, 2005
    The gravities of crude oils processed in US refineries have slowed from a previously rapid decline in quality to a decrease of 0.10° API/year during 1994-2003.
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    General Interest

    Study tabulates idle Gulf of Mexico structures

    Jan. 3, 2005
    A study of idle oil and gas structures in the Gulf of Mexico has found that at yearend 2003, the gulf had 2,175 active structures, 1,227 idle structures, and 505 auxiliary structures...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 1

    Home

    Advertising Index

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Ernst & Young www.ey.com/us/oilandgas
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    Pipelines

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 3, 2005
    A new in-line pipeline inspection tool can help reduce pigging costs by as much as 50% while improving data quality.
    Production Operations

    Oil supply not what's threatened by Yukos drama

    Jan. 3, 2005
    While there's plenty to regret in Russia's expropriation of core OAO Yukos assets, the supposed threat to security of US oil supply deserves far less worry than it receives.
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    Drilling & Production

    New interpretation reveals potential in onshore Algoa basin, South Africa

    Jan. 3, 2005
    The Algoa basin is one of several Mesozoic sedimentary basins located along the southeastern margin of South Africa.
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    Reserves

    China wants more pipelines for improved oil import security

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Construction is under way on the second part of the 1,000-km (621-mile) Sino-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline (Atasu, Kazakhstan, to Alataw Shankou, China).
    Production Operations

    2004 crude prices most volatile

    Jan. 3, 2005
    For those who suspect that crude prices were unusually volatile in 2004, Paul Horsnell of Barclays Capital Inc., London, has a simple explanation: they were.
    Petrochemicals

    A world without plastics?

    Jan. 3, 2005
    What would this past holiday gift-giving season be without plastics?
    HSE

    IEA sees potential in hydrogen, fuel-cell technologies

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Although commercial maturity and significant market penetration remain decades away, hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies represent high-potential options for a secure energy future...
    LNG

    Sandia study assesses hazards of LNG transport

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Damage from an accidental or intentional breach of an LNG carrier would extend as far as 1,600 m from the damaged ship for a large spill but pose little threat beyond that, says...
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    General Interest

    Point of View: 'Disconnect' seen in industry's use of technology

    Jan. 3, 2005
    With the perspective of a geophysicist who has worked as both an operator and service provider, Steven Tobias sees a troubling "disconnect" in the upstream oil and gas business...
    New Plants

    Editorial - New energy approach

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Attention to US energy policy will revive in 2005 after an impressive string of failures by Congress to enact comprehensive energy legislation.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 3, 2005
    A recent International Energy Agency forecast of Russia's crude oil production is "unjustifiably optimistic," argued a report from Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI), Boston...
    New Plants

    Rosneft to buy purchaser of core Yukos unit

    Jan. 3, 2005
    A surprise bidder calling itself Baikal Finance Group (BFG) bought nearly 77% of the Yuganskneftegas unit of OAO Yukos for $9.37 billion at an auction Dec. 19, prompting some ...
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    Companies

    ExxonMobil president sees long-term energy changes

    Jan. 3, 2005
    Long-term changes are under way in global energy market that will affect all Americans and the US energy industry of the future, said Rex W. Tillerson, president of ExxonMobil...