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    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.
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    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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    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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    The market is booming for coiled-tubing equipment and services for well interventions and drilling.
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    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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    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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    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...
    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...
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    General Interest - Quick Takes
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    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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    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...
    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...
    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...
    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.
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    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...
    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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    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.
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    O il and gas probably don’t figure in many romantic visions of the South Pacific.
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    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...
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    “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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