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  • Volume 103, Issue 7

    • Volume 103, Issue 7

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    Refining

    Method outlines selection, design of advanced gasoline blending system

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Refiners must recognize the required organizational changes and use an efficient and cost-effective system design when upgrading an existing blending system to an advanced one...
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    Companies

    Tools, procedures facilitate complex well completions

    Feb. 21, 2005
    A new array of downhole tools and completion methods provides a way for the industry remotely to gather data and control fluid flow from the complex downhole environments frequently...
    Tankers

    New R&D grants expand the future of microhole technology

    Feb. 21, 2005
    In January, the US Department of Energy announced new grants for 10 microhole technology projects to be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory...
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    Drilling & Production

    Point of View: DOE technology manager lauds microhole technology

    Feb. 21, 2005
    New drilling technologies are getting a push from government funding; industry needs to "pull" them into implementation, says Roy Long, manager of E&P technology at the Strategic...
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    Production Operations

    Oil supply challenges—1: The non-OPEC decline

    Feb. 21, 2005
    The world faces challenges rather than impending doom with oil supply. The challenges include a sequence of supply crises likely to develop not when oil production peaks�the subject...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 7

    HSE

    Industry facing product delivery, quality challenges

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Challenges facing the oil and natural gas industry have more to do with delivery and product quality than with size of the petroleum resource, company executives told the Energy...
    IOR/EOR

    Oil and gas software available from NETL-SCNGO

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Drilling Tools Directional drilling
    Production Operations

    World oil production to rise by 16 million b/d by 2010

    Feb. 21, 2005
    World oil production capacity could jump by more than 16 million b/d to 101.5 million b/d by 2010, with the addition split "fairly evenly" between members of the Organization ...
    Refining

    Editorial: The next 15 years

    Feb. 21, 2005
    What kind of world does the oil and gas industry want?
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali I. al-Naimi said his country has spent substantial amounts of money securing its oil installations and insisted ...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching the World: Oil's new era

    Feb. 21, 2005
    ChevronTexaco Corp. CEO David O'Reilly has his finger on the world's oil pulse, noting on Feb. 15 that the era of cheap petroleum is over. "We're seeing the beginnings of a bidding...
    Companies

    Watching Government: Hoeven's labor shortage answer

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Some politicians lead task forces by holding hearings and issuing reports that essentially restate the already identified problem. Then there's North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven.
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    Production Operations

    Comment: Voluntary methane cuts would help limit GHG emissions

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Just last week, the Kyoto Protocol set binding limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for many industrialized nations of the world, not including the US or developing nations...
    LNG

    CERA: ChevronTexaco CEO calls for US energy policy

    Feb. 21, 2005
    David J. O'Reilly, chairman and CEO of ChevronTexaco Corp., called for a new US energy policy in his keynote address at the opening of a weeklong conference of energy executives...
    Drilling & Production

    Perceptions in Texas

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Negative perceptions of the petroleum industry persist even in Texas, a state with an economy extensively intertwined with oil and natural gas for a substantial part of its history...
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    Pipelines

    Changes proposed for determining line pipe wall thickness

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Pipeline operating companies' safety records and published results of experimental and analytical studies indicate that the present traditional design formulation for determining...
    HSE

    Hydrogen transportation system

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Your column �Revisiting hydrogen� is based on a Cato Institute paper by Professor Donald Anthrop that paints a very negative picture of a hydrogen transportation system by assuming...
    Economics & Markets

    IEA hikes forecasts again

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Energy prices surged upwards on Feb. 10 as the Paris-based International Energy Agency increased its forecast for 2005 oil demand growth by 80,000 b/d to 1.
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    General Interest

    Decision Strategies Inc.

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Houston, has named Paul Allen as vice-president of its newly formed capital project & finance advisory practice area, and Don Zmick as vice-president of the oil & gas commercialization...
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    Companies

    Annapolis discovery points up potential of deepwater Scotian slope off E. Canada

    Feb. 21, 2005
    Deepwater geologic provinces remain a principal frontier for hydrocarbon exploration worldwide.
    Government

    Ethanol, MTBE liability stalk energy legislation

    Feb. 21, 2005
    The energy bazaar is open again in the US. Congress seems determined to try once more to pass comprehensive energy legislation.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Feb. 21, 2005
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    HSE

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Feb. 21, 2005
    This new generation ultrasonic gas leak detector—the Gassonic Observer—is patent pending.