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  • Volume 103, Issue 19

    • Volume 103, Issue 19

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    Companies

    Tight, stressed market leads to higher day rates, more newbuild contracts

    May 16, 2005
    The drilling market is increasingly robust with an ever-increasing demand for rigs from a fleet of relatively fixed-size.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Severance tax change cuts North Slope asset values

    May 16, 2005
    In his 2005 state-of-the-state address in January, Alaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski announced with little warning some unexpected news.
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    HSE

    Permafrost Cement - Conclusion: Ceramicrete blends produce strong, low-permeability cements for arctic use

    May 16, 2005
    Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, have determined that blending ceramicrete with extendospheres and wollastonite or ash produces a superior cement for extremely...
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    Refining

    New formula yields coking refinery margins more reliably

    May 16, 2005
    A new coking-spread formula is a simple, easily applied, and reliable indicator of US Gulf Coast heavy, sour crude coking margins.
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    Drilling & Production

    RWE Dea drilling in Germany

    May 16, 2005
    The Wietze drilling department, part of drilling and production engineering at the Hamburg headquarters of German operator RWE Dea AG, owns and operates two rigs in addition to...

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    May 16, 2005
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    Pipelines

    Study will examine Dutch gas transmission grid

    May 16, 2005
    Europe’s demand for natural gas is increasing and with it the need for additional transmission capacity.
    Pipelines

    Study finds outside-force damage still greatest threat to pipelines

    May 16, 2005
    Outside force continues to lead all causes of serious pipeline incidents along US rights-of-way, according to a recently completed report.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 16, 2005
    The newly developed SandTrap service uses a formation stabilization system to assist operators with economical recovery of bypassed hydrocarbons in friable or weakly consolidated...
    LNG

    Bolivia threatens gas work with tax increase

    May 16, 2005
    Bolivian lawmakers seem to want their country to remain one of Latin America’s poorest and least developed.
    Economics & Markets

    Upbeat industry outlook evident at OTC

    May 16, 2005
    The 51,000 people who attended the annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on May 2-5-the biggest turnout since 1985-should be good news for crude market prices this ...
    Refining

    Energizing the public

    May 16, 2005
    One of the more interesting venues in which activities were held during the recent Offshore Technology Conference in Houston was the world-class Houston Museum of Natural Science...
    Reserves

    OTC: Cooperation urged to fix US-Libyan relations

    May 16, 2005
    US and Libyan businessmen and government officials must work together to repair US-Libyan relations, said Ambassador Ali Suleiman Aujati at a breakfast meeting May 5 at the Offshore...
    Economics & Markets

    OTC: Technologies require new business models

    May 16, 2005
    The energy industry, suffering a “crisis in technology,” must find a way to compress technology development time from first-generation innovation to product commercialization,...
    Companies

    Gas quality, interchangeability issues await policy

    May 16, 2005
    Eighteen months of natural gas industry discussions culminate with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s technical conference on gas interchangeability on May 17.
    Economics & Markets

    Watching Government: IEA concerned about capital

    May 16, 2005
    Top officials from International Energy Agency member governments met in Paris on May 3 against a backdrop of crude oil prices that had been above $50/bbl for several weeks.
    Government

    Editorial: New stage for SUVs

    May 16, 2005
    Once again, the laws of motion and economics outmaneuver regulation. While fans of frantic governance harrumph about oil consumption and condemn American vehicle preferences, ...
    LNG

    OTC: Issues raised by offshore LNG terminals assessed

    May 16, 2005
    Despite the many LNG terminals planned in major market areas of Western Europe and North America, especially the US, the industry is moving to solve technical issues for offshore...
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    Exploration & Development

    BAS: Industry’s 2004 finding, development costs soar

    May 16, 2005
    The aggregate fully loaded finding and development (F&D) cost for a study group of 12 major integrated international oil companies and 60 US independent companies increased considerably...
    Pipelines

    Watching the World: Bearing up in Baku

    May 16, 2005
    It’s been a long time coming, but the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline looks set to begin operations, and it is already causing quite a political stir in the region.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    May 16, 2005
    The US Geological Survey, in an assessment released May 11, reported “significant” undiscovered oil and gas resources in the central part of Alaska’s North Slope and the adjacent...
    Companies

    OTC: Collaboration in deepwater projects raises issues

    May 16, 2005
    The increased complexity of deepwater operations, coupled with continued downsizing by operators, has boosted the role of contractors in the development of deepwater and ultradeepwater...
    Companies

    OTC: Analyst pushes plan for supply chain management

    May 16, 2005
    The international oil and natural gas industry needs to institute reserves data reform immediately to establish “good supply chain management” of proven reserves, said Matthew...
    Companies

    Company News: Duke Energy, Cinergy sign agreement to merge

    May 16, 2005
    Duke Energy Corp., Charlotte, NC, and Cinergy Corp.
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    Production Operations

    The case of Alaska: modeling lease sales in a mature market

    May 16, 2005
    In the last 20 years much of the work on oil and gas lease auctions has focused on purely theoretical issues of strategic behavior and ignored many relevant market factors.