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    Companies

    Ohanet gas processing plant starts up in Algeria

    Sept. 12, 2005
    The BHP Billiton-Sonatrach gas processing plant, completed in 2003, is now online and producing sales gas, LPG, and a condensate product.
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    Drilling & Production

    Japan drills, logs gas hydrate wells in the Nankai Trough

    Sept. 12, 2005
    The Japanese continue to evaluate natural methane hydrates in the Nankai trough, drilling 32 wells through bottom-simulating reflectors (BSRs) during a 2004 research program.
    Companies

    Watching the World: Ecuador’s oil squeeze

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Oil companies are having a rough time in Ecuador, whether from the government or the local citizenry.
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    Companies

    Production, refining resumes slowly following Katrina

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Oil and gas production ramped up in the Gulf of Mexico and some Gulf Coast refineries resumed operation last week in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
    Exploration & Development

    Iraqi oil-2: Future grounded in old INOC

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Iraq’s oil future rests in the reestablishment of Iraq National Oil Co. (INOC), which was taken over by the country’s ministry of oil in the late 1980s.

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    Refining & Processing

    EIA: Gulf oil, gas flow nearly normal by December

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Oil and gas production and distribution from the hurricane-ravaged US Gulf Coast will return to nearly normal operation by December, predicts the US Energy Information Administration...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 12, 2005
    General Interest - Quick TakesUS waives Jones Act in Katrina aftermathThe US Department of Homeland Security has waived the Jones Act, allowing foreign-flagged vessels to transport...
    Refining

    Analysis: Katrina’s aftermath: chilly, blustery oil politics

    Sept. 12, 2005
    In a matter of days, Hurricane Katrina made energy a political issue again.
    Reserves

    Stipulations establishing NIOC

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Law No. 11, which established Iraq National Oil Co., stipulated provisions defining the company’s rights and responsibilities
    Reserves

    Editorial: The UN needs reform

    Sept. 12, 2005
    The oil and gas industry should treat seriously the final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) investigating the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq.
    Government

    Congress warned of limits to gasoline price relief

    Sept. 12, 2005
    US gasoline markets already were tight when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and recovery from the storm’s damage will only moderately relieve the resulting price ...
    Companies

    Company News: CNPC unit offers $4.18 billion for PetroKazakhstan

    Sept. 12, 2005
    A unit of China National Petroleum Corp. has offered $4.18 billion for PetroKazakhstan Inc., Calgary, and the boards of both companies have approved the offer.
    Home

    The other beltway

    Sept. 12, 2005
    “Inside the beltway” normally refers to those politicians, bureaucrats, and other interested citizens who work in the US capital, as well as the often insular nature in which ...
    HSE

    Scientists and climate change

    Sept. 12, 2005
    Congratulations to the Grays, both the geologist and the hurricane scientist, for speaking out on climate change.
    Companies

    Recovery of LOOP, pipelines vital

    Sept. 12, 2005
    The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port was operating nearly at capacity Sept. 5, awaiting restoration of power to the Clovelly storage facility.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Sept. 12, 2005
    AustraliaInnamincka Petroleum Ltd., Brisbane, declared a new gas field discovery in the Ginko prospect on PEL 101 in the South Australian Cooper basin 70 km north of the Moomba...
    New Plants

    ‘Gouging’ anxiety is just outrage over arithmetic

    Sept. 12, 2005
    With regard to anxiety about gasoline price “gouging” arising from Hurricane Katrina’s unprecedented disruption of US oil supply, a few observations need to be made.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 12, 2005
    New process float steam trapClick here to enlarge imageThis new 2 in. JL9X/JLH9X high capacity cast iron-cast steel float and thermostatic trap is inline-repairable to provide...
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    Advertising Index

    Sept. 12, 2005
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    Companies

    Gas seeps lend interest to 15,000 ft prospect in south Val Verde basin

    Sept. 12, 2005
    A fifth test on the Pecos Rio Grande prospect in the nonproducing southern Val Verde basin is scheduled for November 2005 by Patterson Petroleum LP, Austin, in conjunction with...
    Exploration & Development

    First gas due from gulf’s South Padre Island area

    Sept. 12, 2005
    The first discoveries in the South Padre Island federal planning area in the western Gulf of Mexico are to start producing natural gas by yearend.