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    Companies

    Worldwide drilling surges ahead

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Contractors are increasing capacity and operators are collaborating in the increasingly tight drilling markets.
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    Petrochemicals

    Demonstration plant for new FCC technology yields increased propylene

    Sept. 26, 2005
    A novel FCC process that boosts propylene production has been proven in a 30-b/d demonstration plant in Saudi Arabia (Fig.
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    Companies

    Canadian operators, contractors adapting to year-round drilling

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Canadian companies are beginning to spread their drilling cycle through the year, in place of the traditional, compressed winter drilling schedule.
    Production Operations

    Iraqi oil-3: Policy key to unlocking potential

    Sept. 26, 2005
    The oil industry is Iraq’s most efficient wealth-creating instrument. Recent and near-term future oil prices, which have reached $50-60/bbl and above from $22-28 last year, are...
    Production Operations

    FERC addresses offshore gathering jurisdiction

    Sept. 26, 2005
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has begun to examine whether it might reassert jurisdiction over offshore natural gas gathering operations.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 36

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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Five Louisiana residents filed a class-action lawsuit against 10 major producer and pipeline companies, claiming damage inflicted by those firms on the coastal marshes in southern...
    LNG

    CERA: LNG, conservation needed in natural gas market

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Development of new LNG facilities is the only way to reduce prices and volatility in the North American natural gas market, and development must begin in 2008, said Michael Zenker...
    Refining & Processing

    Editorial: Attention to refining

    Sept. 26, 2005
    It took a body blow to national energy supply, but the subject of petroleum refining finally has the attention of the US Congress.
    Home

    Watching the World: Elephant grass and saboo dam

    Sept. 26, 2005
    In the oil and gas industry, times are surely changing. Once, energy leaders looked for elephant fields, but now it seems more of them are checking out the possibilities of elephant...
    Companies

    Oil, gas prices leap on approach of Hurricane Rita

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Futures contracts for natural gas and benchmark US light, sweet crudes registered the biggest 1-day gains ever on Sept.
    Production Operations

    Onshore repairs may take until yearend, MMS chief says

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Oil and natural gas production is slowly returning from the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Katrina, but it could take at least until the end of 2005 before onshore transportation...
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    Production Operations

    Neutron examination techniques applied to pipelines

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Information obtained through neutron examination techniques complements that obtained by other techniques (x-rays, TEM, SEM, and magnetic flux leakage) and can reveal significant...
    Drilling & Production

    The evolution of drilling

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Tony Van den Brink is a self-made Canadian businessman, a tool pusher who survived and prospered through many decades in the North American drilling industry.
    Exploration & Development

    Current oil ministry projects

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Iraq’s oil ministry currently is actively engaged with a number of projects on which it had already embarked or which it needed to tackle after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein...
    LNG

    Letters

    Sept. 26, 2005
    The present US and Canadian energy price escalation can be relieved by maximizing available sources for natural gas and enhancing the efficiency of the delivery infrastructure...
    Companies

    OPEC faces dilemma in Vienna meeting

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries faced a dilemma at their Sept.
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    Production Operations

    Maximizing geological information from pressure tests and depth plots

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Pressure-depth plots are powerful methods to visualize the wide array of industry pressure data and aid interpretation for safety, drilling, and exploration purposes.
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    New Plants

    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Dallas, has announced the selection of Lewis M. Kling as president, chief executive officer, and member of the board of directors.
    Companies

    Industry should coordinate its Katrina relief

    Sept. 26, 2005
    An effort is under way to coordinate the oil and gas industry’s relief and reconstruction responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Sept. 26, 2005
    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Petrochemicals

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 26, 2005
    New NovaLoc system allows coatings to be applied in any thickness desired.