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  • Volume 103, Issue 35

    • Volume 103, Issue 35

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    Companies

    OGJ200 earnings up as list shrinks again

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Although it contains a record-low number of companies, this year’s OGJ200, covering financial and operational results for 2004, reflects record-high earnings.
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    Production Operations

    Production, reserves up for most OGJ100 firms in 2004

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Like their US counterparts, many oil and gas producers based outside the US recorded gains in earnings, production, and reserves last year.
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    Companies

    Modified coiled tubing logs short-radius well

    Sept. 19, 2005
    A modified coiled-tubing-conveyed production logging string proved effective for obtaining logs in a short-radius horizontal well in Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar field.
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    Refining

    Method estimates US refinery fixed costs

    Sept. 19, 2005
    A new method for estimating US refinery fixed costs is useful for comparing data between different refineries and is based on the market approach that uses comparable sales.
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    Companies

    Drilling Market Focus: Coiled-tubing use growing faster than drilling industry

    Sept. 19, 2005
    The market is booming for coiled-tubing equipment and services for well interventions and drilling.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 35

    Home

    Advertising Index

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Advertisers in the print issue.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Frontera Resources Corp., Houston, let a contract to Turkish Petroleum International Co.
    Home

    US has surplus of experts on oil business

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Suddenly, the US teems with experts on the oil and gas business.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 19, 2005
    New ClearSCADA is a premium automation software platform for gathering, processing, and relaying information in real time while providing process visualization, data acquisition...
    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Houston, has announced the appointment of Bart H. Heijermans as executive vice-president and chief operating officer, with overall responsibility for the Production Facilities...
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    Production Operations

    Lean Energy Management—10: How Martingale stochastic control navigates computer-aided lean energy management

    Sept. 19, 2005
    The complex interactions of the financial, logistical, and geological processes that are involved in the production and delivery of oil and gas to market are driving the industry...
    Refining & Processing

    Katrina’s effects seen lasting into 2006

    Sept. 19, 2005
    “Hurricane Katrina has wreaked havoc on US energy markets, and we believe its effects are likely to impact energy prices into 2006,” said analysts at Jefferies & Co.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Consortium developing DRA model, algorithm

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Assessment of Energy Saving in Oil Pipelines (AESOP) is in the process of developing the techniques required to use drag-reducer additives (DRAs) in pipelines, reducing energy...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching the World: South Pacific oil ambitions

    Sept. 19, 2005
    O il and gas probably don’t figure in many romantic visions of the South Pacific.
    Reserves

    Letters

    Sept. 19, 2005
    The article “Forces beyond demand growth reshaping trade in oil and gas” seems to have omitted one of the most critical of those forces-oil supply availability (OGJ, Aug.
    Drilling Operations

    Energy bill not focused

    Sept. 19, 2005
    The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is getting mixed reviews from the critics. Signed into law by President George W.
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    Production Operations

    Second-quarter results mixed for Canadian companies

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Although their first-half 2005 earnings declined, a sample of oil and gas firms based in Canada reported a collective increase in second-quarter earnings compared with the same...
    Government

    Watching Government: In Katrina’s aftermath

    Sept. 19, 2005
    F or a change, a gasoline price spike looked politically easy-but only next to the evacuation of close to a million Gulf Coast residents following Hurricane Katrina’s visit.
    Refining & Processing

    Editorial: Responding to emergency

    Sept. 19, 2005
    By the premier standard of what government should do in crises of oil and gas supply, the US government has performed fairly well since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast...
    Refining & Processing

    EIA sees high US energy costs this winter

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Tight world oil markets coupled with the ravages of Hurricane Katrina have set the stage for a potentially expensive winter heating season, the Energy Information Administration...
    Companies

    Earnings set records in second quarter of 2005

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Growth in commodity prices propelled a sample of US oil and gas producers to healthy earnings gains in the second quarter and first half of 2005.
    Companies

    Montana governor campaigns for fuels from coal

    Sept. 19, 2005
    Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is urging executives from oil companies and fuel technology companies to finance Fischer-Tropsch (FT) projects that would convert coal into gasoline...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 19, 2005
    General Interest - Quick Takes
    Companies

    Oil, gas production recovery mired by Katrina’s damage

    Sept. 19, 2005
    The recovery of oil and natural gas production has been stalled from the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina largely because of damage to pipelines and storage...
    Capacities

    French official threatens ‘windfall profit’ tax

    Sept. 19, 2005
    French Finance and Economy Minister Thierry Breton has threatened to initiate a windfall profits tax against oil majors Total SA, Esso, BP PLC, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC-all of...