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  • Volume 103, Issue 33

    • Volume 103, Issue 33

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    Petrochemicals

    Flare minimization practices improve olefins plant start-ups, shutdowns

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Lyondell Chemical Co. is implementing flare minimization processes at all its olefins plants to reduce emissions and minimize effects on the surrounding community.
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    Drilling & Production

    Japan explores for hydrates in the Nankai Trough

    Sept. 5, 2005
    In early 2004, the Japanese completed field operations for a second methane hydrate exploration program in the Nankai Trough.
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    Companies

    Numerous studies analyze CO2 sequestration options

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Starting in the 1990s, various government, academic, and industry organizations have initiated studies to determine the best methods for mitigating the excess carbon dioxide entering...
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    Sept. 5, 2005
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    Reserves

    Iraqi oil­­-1: Production now a fraction of potential

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Studies attempting to quantify Iraq’s oil reserves potential have in the past varied widely.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 33

    Companies

    Chad-Cameroon oil production behind design

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Production from the Chad-Cameroon export project has settled at 180,000 b/d, compared with a project design level of 225,000 b/d, said operator Esso Exploration & Production Chad...
    Companies

    Hawaii imposes wholesale gasoline price cap

    Sept. 5, 2005
    The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has set a cap on wholesale gasoline prices, effective Sept.
    Production Operations

    Venezuela’s Chavez using oil for influence in S. America

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is increasingly using oil to gain influence in South America and to advance his effort to create a regional oil company called Petrosur.
    Production Operations

    IEA chief urges government action on demand

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Oil market conditions demonstrate the need for governments to push energy conservation, says Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
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    Companies

    Industry assesses Hurricane Katrina’s impact

    Sept. 5, 2005
    While the remnant of Hurricane Katrina continued to flood parts of the southern US at presstime last week, oil and natural gas companies began assessing the storm’s damage along...
    Government

    Aid extension sought for 5-b/d wells

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Two associations representing California independent operators asked the US Bureau of Land Management to extend the Stripper Well Royalty Relief Program (SWRRP) for wells producing...
    Economics & Markets

    Katrina impacts substantial, API officials predict

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Emphasizing that it is too soon to be specific, officials from the American Petroleum Institute predicted Aug.
    New Plants

    Venezuela, Brazil ready to build refinery

    Sept. 5, 2005
    A dispute that lasted almost 2 years over a planned $2 billion binational refinery to be built in Brazil by Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and Petroleos de Venezuela SA seems...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 5, 2005
    The US Minerals Management Service is seeking initial public comment on development of its next 5-year Outer Continental Shelf leasing plan for the Gulf of Mexico.
    Refining & Processing

    Editorial: The gasoline hearing

    Sept. 5, 2005
    There has never been a better time for a Senate committee to hear testimony on the rising price of gasoline, and there has never been a worse time.
    Companies

    Numbering the future

    Sept. 5, 2005
    The future is, well, the future, known with any certainty only when it becomes the present.
    Exploration & Development

    Watching the World: Bangladesh in a pinch

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Poverty-stricken Bangladesh is seeking new sources of oil and gas as it considers moving to a 5-day work week and raising fuel prices to reduce energy demand.
    Exploration & Development

    Watching Government: States study OCS issues

    Sept. 5, 2005
    As US President George W. Bush signed the 2005 energy bill requiring the first significant evaluation of potential Outer Continental Shelf resources in years, coastal US states...
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    Companies

    Study assesses thermomechanical buckling in shore-approach pipelines

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Shallow and insufficient soil support may lead to upheaval buckling of heated pipelines in shore approach areas.
    Refining

    Letters

    Sept. 5, 2005
    In his Aug. 1 letter, Ted Lofstrom correctly concludes that the entire US corn and soybean crops, if converted to ethanol and biodiesel, would offset only a very small fraction...
    Companies

    Was Katrina as destructive as Ivan?

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Just hours after Katrina, a category 4 hurricane, roared ashore 70 miles south-southeast of New Orleans on Aug.
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    Companies

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Harvey, La., has promoted J.R. Gibbons to vice-president of operations for its electric line division, based in Broussard, La.
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    Help is at hand for service hurt by gasoline cost

    Sept. 5, 2005
    Help is at hand for an industry likely to suffer more than others from high gasoline prices.
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    Petrochemicals

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 5, 2005
    The latest release of RIMDrill drilling information and IADC daily reporting software includes the option to measure performance characteristics of the drilling process.
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    Production Operations

    Geothermal electric power supply possible from Gulf Coast, Midcontinent oil field waters

    Sept. 5, 2005
    The rising price of electrical power and the current high price of hydrocarbons have changed the geothermal outlook in the US in a major way.
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    Sept. 5, 2005
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