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  • Volume 103, Issue 43

    • Volume 103, Issue 43

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    Companies

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS — Gulf of Mexico rig market responds to hurricanes

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered people and structures in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf Coast, leaving many large-scale renovation projects and rising rig rates in...
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    Companies

    Project plans respond to market demands for more, cleaner fuels

    Nov. 21, 2005
    When asked to list the most important issues facing downstream oil and gas engineering and construction companies now and in the beginning of 2006, Ahmad Fatemizadeh, president...
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    Companies

    Venezuela plans Orinoco expansions

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Petróleos de Venezuela SA’s (PDVSA) recent strategic plan calls for the investment of about $15 billion during 2006-12 to increase heavy-oil production from the Orinoco tar belt...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Study compares C6+ characterization methods for natural gas phase envelopes

    Nov. 21, 2005
    A recent study applied different C6+ characterization techniques to generate a phase envelope for natural gases and, using these techniques and a single dewpoint measurement, ...
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    IOR/EOR

    Model predicts compositional grading of a reservoir in Iran

    Nov. 21, 2005
    A study showed that an isothermal gravity-chemical equilibrium model can predict the compositional variation with depth for the Asmari carbonate reservoir in Marun field, Iran...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 43

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    Discoveries

    Diagenetic Reservoirs-2: Data integration vital in exploring for diagenetic hydrocarbon traps

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Basement-involved faults, particularly faults that are reactivated over time, form some of the most important zones of vertical permeability.
    IOR/EOR

    Advertising Index

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Advertisers in the print issue.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., private Calgary independent, logged an apparent discovery at the RN.
    Government

    Oil-price hearing a dark moment for free-market party

    Nov. 21, 2005
    It was good to see, in this week’s congressional inquisition of oil company executives, that Republicans still have among them someone willing to defend markets.
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    New Plants

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 21, 2005
    This new surge protector specifically is designed for four-wire, multivariable transmitters.
    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Houston, has named Scott Leitko as vice-president of engineering. Leitko, who has more than 17 years of experience, most recently served in management for the offshore engineering...
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    Petrochemicals

    North Sea Pipelines-1: Extensive subsea commissioning, pigging pose challenges

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Statoil ASA has installed and commissioned about 8,000 km of subsea pipelines in the North Sea area since 1985, including several of the world’s largest offshore gas trunklines...
    Refining

    IEA urges caution on demand-destruction data

    Nov. 21, 2005
    The sharp drop in US product deliveries in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has sparked speculation about demand destruction, but the data “must be interpreted with caution...
    Refining & Processing

    Phantom refining capacity

    Nov. 21, 2005
    European Union drivers see $3/gal gasoline as deliriously cheap, but to many Americans that price is an assault on their rights.
    Operations

    CSB cites six safety issues in BP refinery explosion

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Oct.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Brazil expects to achieve oil self-sufficiency next year by producing nearly 2 million b/d of oil, Finance Minister Silas Rondeau said.
    Companies

    Company News: Occidental to acquire Vintage for $3.8 billion

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Occidental Petroleum Corp. last month agreed to acquire Tulsa independent Vintage Petroleum Inc.
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    Companies

    US senators grill oil executives over profits, prices

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Five major oil company executives faced sometimes hostile questions about the relationship of record third-quarter profits to dramatically higher product prices during a Nov.
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    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions: EnCana names Eresman president; Morgan to step down

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Randall K. Eresman will succeed EnCana Corp.'s founding Pres. and Chief Executive Gwyn Morgan, effective Jan. 1, 2006.
    Companies

    Watching the World: Legal niceties vs. cash flow

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Yep, here we go again. Ecuador’s energy minister has threatened Occidental Petroleum Corp.
    Companies

    Producers reinvesting earnings, associations tell senator

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Oil and natural gas producers are already reinvesting much of their substantially higher earnings in exploration, production, and refining, officials of three leading trade associations...
    Companies

    Editorial: Profits and responsibility

    Nov. 21, 2005
    The headline on a news release from the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says it all: “GRASSLEY QUESTIONS CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY OF OIL AND GAS COMPANIES; ASKS THEM TO...
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    Production Operations

    IEA: WEO shows rising energy demand to 2030

    Nov. 21, 2005
    If governments stick to current policies, world energy needs will be more than 50% higher in 2030 than they are today, warned Paris-based International Energy Agency in its recently...
    Companies

    Watching Government: Who needs incentives?

    Nov. 21, 2005
    Officials from the five largest publicly traded major oil companies may have told US senators in a Nov.
    Drilling & Production

    Drilling in ANWR cut from US House budget bill

    Nov. 21, 2005
    US House Republican leaders withdrew language authorizing oil and gas leasing within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from their version of the federal budget bill on the eve...