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    Amsterdam Conference — Industry leaders discuss new technology development and deployment

    April 4, 2005
    Drilling industry leaders spoke out during plenaries at a recent conference about responsibility for new technology development and the causes of commercial failures of some new...
    Companies

    CERA: Refiners will face significant regional product imbalances

    April 4, 2005
    During the next few years, worldwide refiners will confront the challenges of mismatched regional supply and demand for refined products, tightening fuel specifications, less ...
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly: Indexes for selected equipment show moderate increase

    April 4, 2005
    Costs for six selected equipment items used in refining construction operations have been surveyed for the 3 years, 2002-04.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    April 4, 2005
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    Industry spending to rise but at lower rate in 2005

    April 4, 2005
    Capital spending in the oil and gas industry this year will be strong but will not grow as much as it did a year ago.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 13

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    Point of View: Forest Oil advances via leadership change, reorganization

    April 4, 2005
    Forest Oil Corp. announced an acquisition in early 2005 that would compliment a series of acquisitions and strategic direction that the company has been implemented since late...
    Companies

    Company News: Range Resources' reserves swell with drilling, acquisitions

    April 4, 2005
    Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, reported replacing more than 8 times its 2004 production last year, including replenishing more than double its production through drilling ...
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    FACTS: Middle East production capacity to continue climb

    April 4, 2005
    The Middle East's crude oil production capacity will continue to rise by 4.35 million b/d from 2003's estimate of 23.9 million b/d, reaching 28.3 million b/d of oil by 2010.
    LPG Markets

    Singapore takes maritime security steps

    April 4, 2005
    Singapore has taken measures to protect key oil and chemical port facilities from terrorist attack following several recent attacks on tankers in and near the Malacca Straits ...
    Tankers

    Watching the World: The Suez Canal and oil trade

    April 4, 2005
    The Suez Canal Authority announced record income last week, saying it had earned close to $4 billion in transit fees for the first time since nationalization of the waterway in...
    Companies

    Editorial - The UN's conflicts

    April 4, 2005
    The Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) investigating the Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq has cleared United Nations Sec.-Gen. Kofi Annan from wrongdoing in relation to money his...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    UK group reviews climate-change mitigation policies

    April 4, 2005
    Energy efficiency is the fastest way of cutting carbon emissions and mitigating climate change but is not on the agenda of many policy-makers worldwide, a meeting of UK energy...
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    Comment: Just how much oil does the Middle East really have, and does it matter?

    April 4, 2005
    Just a few months ago, oil economists were debating if the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had the power to hold oil prices in the mid-$20/bbl range. There was talk...
    General Interest

    Personnel Moves and Promotions: Alliance Pipeline names Birch president, CEO

    April 4, 2005
    Alliance Pipeline names Birch president, CEO Alliance Pipeline Ltd. of Calgary named Murray Birch president and CEO of the company.
    LNG

    NGSA backs tariffs for gas quality, interchangeability

    April 4, 2005
    The Natural Gas Supply Association urged the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to adopt the use of pipeline tariffs as a way to address natural gas quality and interchangeability...
    Production Operations

    High oil prices boost interest in French E&P business

    April 4, 2005
    Higher world oil prices and modest costs of acquiring acreage have boosted the interest of small and midsize oil companies in Frances's mature exploration and production business...
    Refining

    ESAI: US approaches gasoline demand run

    April 4, 2005
    January gasoline demand in the US has increased from its year-earlier level in each of the last 9 years but 1, and 2005 appears likely to follow the trend, said Energy Security...
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    Europe's largest built hydrocracker shipped to France

    April 4, 2005
    Europe's largest built hydrocracker shipped to France GE Energy has build and shipped a 48,000 b/d distillate hydrocracker - one of the largest ever built in Europe
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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 4, 2005
    A leveling of index statistics from previous roller-coaster patterns is expected in the industry, according to an economist who prepares the Texas PetroIndex for the Texas Alliance...
    General Interest

    Watching Government: The US economy and fuel costs

    April 4, 2005
    Have sustained high crude oil prices started to reverberate throughout the US economy? Analysts and observers who loudly proclaimed a year ago that the economy was absorbing rising...
    General Interest

    Brazil warns against Bolivian hydrocarbons legislation

    April 4, 2005
    Future investments by Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) in Bolivia's oil and gas industry will be jeopardized if Bolivia's proposed hydrocarbons bill is ...
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    US prices still cheap

    April 4, 2005
    At this time of year, many Americans are planning summer vacations. Many will hit the highways in sport utility vehicles (SUVs) or minivans and face a dilemma.
    Economics & Markets

    Energy prices swing with changing influences

    April 4, 2005
    Energy futures prices fluctuated strongly Mar. 22-24 in reaction to a succession of different influences that caused markets first to fall and then to rebound.
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    Canadian report examines need for more oil pipeline capacity

    April 4, 2005
    The Canadian Association of Oil Producers (CAPP) has assessed the need for additional oil pipeline capacity in a report released in February "Crude Oil Pipeline Expansion Summary...
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    April 4, 2005
    Aberdeen, has appointed Dicky Robichaux as vice-president of well intervention. Robichaux, a recognized authority on hydraulic workovers, snubbing, and well intervention, joins...
    Gas Processing

    In BP disaster, market question easy, others not

    April 4, 2005
    In the news storm surrounding a refinery accident that kills 15 people and injures more than 100, market responses are incidental.
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    Political struggles overshadowing Latin America's risk attractiveness

    April 4, 2005
    A look at recent history and current developments in certain countries of Latin America gives an uneven prospect on the implementation of privatization and deregulation, industry...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 4, 2005
    New cartridge seal for centrifugal pump
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    April 4, 2005
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    Exploration & Development

    SAGD study due for Dome Flore deposit

    April 4, 2005
    A Malaysian investment concern will take over as license operator and conduct a study of the Dome Flore heavy oil deposit in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal and Guinea Bissau, ...
    Companies

    Williams orders 10 custom rigs to tap Piceance gas

    April 4, 2005
    Williams Cos., Tulsa, plans to ramp up drilling in the Piceance basin at the end of 2005 as it fields new purpose-built rigs in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties, Colo.
    Companies

    Newfield lifts Utah Monument Butte oil flow

    April 4, 2005
    Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, is pressing development of giant Monument Butte oil and gas field in the northern Uinta basin, where it estimates more than 1 billion bbl of...
    Exploration & Development

    ONGC has second deepwater gas find off India

    April 4, 2005
    India’s state Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. is testing a second deepwater gas discovery in the Krishna-Godavari basin.