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  • Volume 103, Issue 10

    • Volume 103, Issue 10

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    Drilling Operations

    ONGC drilling high angle offshore wells through shale

    March 14, 2005
    ONGC drilling high angle offshore wells through shale India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. used a different approach to improve extended reach drilling through shales at its offshore...
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions:MOL names head of international upstream division

    March 14, 2005
    Hungary's MOL Rt. has new leadership for its international upstream activities.
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    Companies

    Stranded gas, diesel needs push GTL work

    March 14, 2005
    Interest in commercial gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology, limited for over 70 years to countries with political rather than economic drivers, has heightened in the past decade with...
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    Companies

    FASB 143 rules will change decommission liability

    March 14, 2005
    The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued a comment that will change the manner in which oil and gas companies account for dismantling and removing oil...
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    Capacities

    Study shows rising growth in North American compressor market

    March 14, 2005
    A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, "North American Markets for Compressors in the Oil and Gas Industry," shows that this market will increase its revenue to $192.1 million ...

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    Exploration & Development

    Consultant: VLCC rates have resumed their climb

    March 14, 2005
    Consultant: VLCC rates have resumed their climb Tanker rates for very large crude carriers (VLCC; larger than 220,000 dwt) trading internationally fell precipitously at yearend...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    March 14, 2005
    CWC Group, The
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    New Plants

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 14, 2005
    This firm's 375 Field Communicator now supports 82 additional FOUNDATION fieldbus devices and 50 more HART instruments for maintenance purposes.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    March 14, 2005
    Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. selected a bid by IPR Energy Red Sea Inc., Irving, Tex., for the 290 sq km North Ramadan concession in the Gulf of Suez.
    Home

    Sacked prime minister hints at Putin challenge

    March 14, 2005
    Is Russia heading for an upscale version of Ukraine�s late-2004 Orange Revolution?
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    Companies

    Some fields in India's North Cambay basin have oil derived from nearby lignite seams

    March 14, 2005
    Questioning coal as a possible oil source can no longer be taken seriously.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    March 14, 2005
    Baker Hughes Inc.
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    Pipelines

    Xylene-based inhibitor solves crude oil wax problems in Niger Delta pipeline

    March 14, 2005
    Xylene-based inhibitor solves crude oil wax problems in Niger Delta pipeline Experiments in both laboratory and field flow systems in Nigeria have tested the effectiveness of ...
    Economics & Markets

    Gasoline futures price hits record highs

    March 14, 2005
    Gasoline futures for April delivery hit record high prices in consecutive trading sessions Mar.
    Companies

    Time travelers

    March 14, 2005
    For the last couple of years, at yearend, OGJ editors were asked to predict what would transpire in the oil and gas industry during the coming year.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    CERI: Unconventional gas plentiful; technology a must

    March 14, 2005
    Conventional wisdom that US natural gas production is on a steady downward spiral was challenged Mar. 7-8 at a Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) natural gas conference...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching the World: Trouble in paradise

    March 14, 2005
    The good news is that Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to start talking in order to settle a dispute over oil rights in the Sulawesi Sea.
    Companies

    Company News: ExxonMobil completes sale of stake in Sinopec

    March 14, 2005
    ExxonMobil Corp. has completed the sale of its 3.7% stake in China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) for $1.37 billion.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 14, 2005
    OAO Yukos is reviewing its options after a US judge dismissed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed in Houston as part of an unsuccessful attempt to block the sale of Yukos unit ...
    Government

    Editorial: Opportunity at EPA

    March 14, 2005
    Nomination of a scientist to head the US Environmental Protection Agency-a scientist with 24 years of EPA experience-is a good move.
    Production Operations

    Petrobras to boost oil production from Campos basin

    March 14, 2005
    Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has announced the signing of contracts worth $910 million to finance its Director Plan for Flow and Treatment of Oil (PDET...
    Reserves

    Drilling official outlines problems of Iraqi oil industry

    March 14, 2005
    Sabotage, mismanagement, and administrative corruption are the main problems preventing Iraq from stepping up its oil production, according to a senior Iraqi official.