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  • Volume 103, Issue 24

    • Volume 103, Issue 24

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    LPG Markets

    World LPG production poised to surge; ethane will grow in Middle East

    June 27, 2005
    The worldwide LPG industry continues to expand faster than most other energy markets.
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    Reserves

    Comment: Market gives OPEC opportunity to improve oil reserves data

    June 27, 2005
    It is time for members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to reevaluate their oil reserves and publish more accurate data than they do now.
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    Drilling Operations

    Nozzle flow modeled for rotary drillbit design

    June 27, 2005
    Mathematical modeling demonstrates that nozzle distribution on drillbits affects the performance of the drilling fluid flow from the bit. This article is about the internal flow...
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    Companies

    Regional shifts in worldwide capacity, production slow

    June 27, 2005
    Worldwide in 2004, natural gas and related NGL production continued steady but slower growth, as worldwide demand for all types of energy pushed natural gas and crude oil production...
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    Production Operations

    Norman Wells field replaces steel flowlines with fiberglass

    June 27, 2005
    Fiberglass flowlines proved effective for replacing some corroded flowlines in the Norman Wells oil field in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 24

    Companies

    Operators evaluate shale gas play in Palo Duro basin

    June 27, 2005
    Several operators are pursuing gas in an infant unconventional shale play in the Palo Duro basin.
    New Plants

    BTC battles poverty, communication problems

    June 27, 2005
    Although great care was taken in dealing with environmental problems, the region’s fragile political stability, and about 20,000 local landowners during the BTC construction, ...
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    Discoveries

    Gulf of Mexico reservoir properties are helpful parameters for explorers

    June 27, 2005
    A great deal has been published on discoveries, reserves, and production from the Gulf of Mexico, but little has been published on what reservoir properties are present.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    June 27, 2005
    Rockhopper Exploration Ltd., Swindon, UK, plans to run 3D seismic surveys the next 2 years on the PL 032 and PL 033 exploration licenses formerly held by a Shell affiliate in ...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    June 27, 2005
    COGNIS Deutschland GmbH
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    June 27, 2005
    A new line of single-stage steam turbines provides what the maker calls a rugged and versatile low-horsepower turbine that’s designed to be equally suited for new or retrofit ...
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    Companies

    BTC Pipeline completed, ready to move new crude supplies

    June 27, 2005
    Azerbaijan soon will become a major energy exporter. Officials opened the valves to start line fill late last month at the Sangachal terminal near Baku on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan...
    Government

    Government fuel choices costly in energy policy

    June 27, 2005
    Government fuel choices costly in energy policy The making of energy policy is at its worst when policy-makers assign themselves responsibility for decisions best left to markets...
    Refining & Processing

    Prices rise with OPEC quota hike

    June 27, 2005
    Crude futures prices rocketed to record highs just days after members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries voted June 15 to raise the cumulative production quota...
    Production Operations

    Hubbert’s graphical-heuristic method (1956)

    June 27, 2005
    Cavallo’s article begins, “It is well known that M. K. Hubbert (in 1956) successfully predicted the timing (1970) of peak US oil production.... The questions that must be asked...
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial: Clarity from crisis

    June 27, 2005
    Clarity of US thinking about energy occurs most often during crises of supply. A case in point is the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System, which since its opening in 1977 has made as...
    LNG

    Business, HIV/AIDS in China

    June 27, 2005
    In 2 weeks, Oil & Gas Journal will publish the first installment of a three-part series on energy issues in China.
    Companies

    Worries over Nigerian security help raise crude price

    June 27, 2005
    A threat from Islamic terrorists and the kidnapping of six oil workers raised concerns about security in Nigeria and helped push the price of crude oil past $59/bbl on June 20...
    Economics & Markets

    Watching the World: Bin Laden and oil markets

    June 27, 2005
    Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is out to upset the international economy and-judging by the reaction of world oil markets to recent events in Nigeria-he’s doing a good job (...
    Companies

    CNOOC bid raises stakes in the takeover of Unocal

    June 27, 2005
    CNOOC Ltd. on June 22 bid $67/share for Unocal Corp.
    LNG

    Gazprom to sell additional stake to Russian government

    June 27, 2005
    Gas monopoly OAO Gazprom has agreed to sell a controlling stake to the Russian government, setting the stage for more liberalized trading of Gazprom shares, consultants said.
    Companies

    US lawmakers seek review of Chinese energy activity

    June 27, 2005
    Two House committee chairmen from California have asked US President George W. Bush to launch a review of China’s growing energy requirements and the implications for US political...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    June 27, 2005
    Vela International Marine Ltd. cut emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by nearly one-half during tanker loading of crude oil in tests of a system that increases vent...