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  • Volume 103, Issue 25

    • Volume 103, Issue 25

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    Companies

    More than $4 billion committed for new MODUs

    July 4, 2005
    Operators have committed more than $3.7 billion for 33 jack up drilling rigs on order, and nearly another $1 billion for three of the five new semisubmersibles under construction...
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    Companies

    Asset-management software improves valve-maintenance program

    July 4, 2005
    In 2003, Chevron Corp. established a pilot program at its El Segundo, Calif.
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    Refining & Processing

    US oil, gas demand rising again in 2005

    July 4, 2005
    While US energy demand will climb again this year as the economy continues to grow, signs of change are clear.
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    Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes

    July 4, 2005
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    Refining

    Indexes for refining chemicals increase at different rates

    July 4, 2005
    The costs of two chemicals used in crude refining changed little for the 3 years, 2002-04, while the costs of three others varied significantly.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 25

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    Drilling & Production

    First half drilling on uptrend in most areas of the world

    July 4, 2005
    The world has been basking in what could be called a drilling boom in the first half of 2005 compared with the same period of 2004.
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    Refining & Processing

    CERA: Global oil, NGL production to rise by 2010

    July 4, 2005
    As much as 16.5 million b/d of additional production capacity for crude oil and natural gas liquids could come on stream around the world by 2010, an increase to 101.
    Companies

    Comany News: SEC clears Unocal stockholders to vote on Chevron offer

    July 4, 2005
    The US Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared Chevron Corp.’s proposed acquisition of Unocal Corp.
    Government

    Watching Government: ANWR leasing outlook hazy

    July 4, 2005
    Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders basked in the glow last week following passage by a vote of 85-12 by the full Senate of their bipartisan energy bill.
    Reserves

    Watching the World: Chávez touts heavy crude

    July 4, 2005
    Speculation is rife over Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s desire to prove his country has the world’s largest oil reserves.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    July 4, 2005
    International Energy Agency Executive Director Claude Mandil issued a written statement on June 29 calling for more oil, more investment, and more energy efficiency in response...
    Drilling & Production

    Editorial: OCS leasing hope

    July 4, 2005
    With an initiative that didn’t make it into comprehensive energy legislation, the US Congress late in June took its most important step yet toward a solution to what should be...
    HSE

    US Senate passes comprehensive energy bill

    July 4, 2005
    The US Senate overwhelmingly passed a wide-ranging energy bill last week that embraces conservation and alternative fuels, in contrast to the House version approved in April, ...
    Companies

    Gazprom seeks to broaden global energy role

    July 4, 2005
    OAO Gazprom wants to diversify its assets by acquiring oil production, broading its natural gas production, expanding its European gas exports, and entering the electric power...
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    Production Operations

    Saudi experience: Leak-detection systems need careful evaluation

    July 4, 2005
    Experience dealing with leak-detection system technologies from design to maintenance indicates that there is no single dominant leak-detection technology.
    Economics & Markets

    US gasoline a bargain

    July 4, 2005
    Do high prices suppress demand for gasoline in the US? Apparently they don’t have much effect, as revealed by data from the Energy Information Administration.
    Capacities

    Energy prices riding high

    July 4, 2005
    Crude futures prices continued to test record highs in the wake of the symbolic attempt by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to deflate energy costs by raising...
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    LNG

    Services/Suppliers

    July 4, 2005
    Aberdeen and West Yorkshire, respectively, have announced the formation of a jointly owned company, OilFlow Solutions Ltd.
    Economics & Markets

    Focus on foreign oil breeding costly proposals

    July 4, 2005
    Exaggeration is nothing unusual from people with something to sell.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 4, 2005
    OxyTrak, an in situ flue gas oxygen analyzer, is self-calibrating and requires no reference air.
    Home

    Advertising Index

    July 4, 2005
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    Reserves

    Undrilled Hunton awaits bit on deep Elk City, Okla., uplift

    July 4, 2005
    The Elk City anticline is perhaps the largest structure in the deep Anadarko basin without a test well to the Siluro-Devonian Hunton formation.