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    Drilling & Production

    Well data on steroids

    March 20, 2006
    Commercial debut of wired-pipe telemetry system reveals extremely high speed for delivery of MWD-LWD, other downhole data in ‘really’ real time
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    Drilling & Production

    Sharper and Faster

    March 20, 2006
    Baker Hughes INTEQ lends new fidelity to MWD-LWD tools in quest for more accurate real-time drilling, formation evaluation data
    Drilling Operations

    Logging the ‘while-drilling’ market

    March 20, 2006
    Advances in MWD-LWD data capture, telemetry technologies inspire increased application amid burgeoning current escalation in drilling
    Drilling & Production

    Wireline bias hard to foil

    March 20, 2006
    High rig day rates, slack time-cutting campaign signals MWD-LWD acceptance, uptake, says Sperry; new technology looms ahead, too
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    Production Operations

    Minding those ‘hot’ holes

    March 20, 2006
    Deeper wells, higher heat, pressure gradients and more horizontal well paths merits MWD-LWD tools with staying power, says Pathfinder

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 11

    Companies

    Pioneer speeds up South Texas Edwards reef gas play

    March 20, 2006
    Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, is building activity in the Cretaceous Edwards limestone gas trend south and east of San Antonio with a $115 million capital budget in the...
    Home

    Area Drilling

    March 20, 2006
    Saudi Aramco revealed a gas-condensate discovery in the Eastern Province 27 km off the southeast edge of supergiant Ghawar oil and gas field.
    Home

    Advertising Index

    March 20, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Companies

    ARGENTINA OFFSHORE-1: Argentina’s offshore basins due modern exploration effort

    March 20, 2006
    Since the Argentina Exploration Plan was launched in 1991, exploration in Argentina reached a peak between 1995 and 1997, later began to decline, and now has withered to the point...
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    Exploration & Development

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 20, 2006
    “Radiation: The Basics” is a new safety training program that provides information about radiation to those who work with it or are in its vicinity.
    Economics & Markets

    Selling gasoline with Big Ethanol sure to be a test

    March 20, 2006
    US refiners and marketers should get used to this kind of thing: “Big Oil is talking out of both sides of their mouth, but the words coming out of both sides say ‘higher prices...
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    LNG

    Russian-Ukraine dispute highlights need for supply diversification

    March 20, 2006
    The Russian-Ukrainian natural gas dispute provides a reminder that some suppliers are willing to renegotiate contracts forcibly, even to the point of cutting off supplies, if ...
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    Pipelines

    Services/Suppliers

    March 20, 2006
    London, has completed its acquisition of Roxar, headquartered in Stavanger.
    Economics & Markets

    Natural gas prices spiral down

    March 20, 2006
    With the US heating season officially expiring at the end of March, natural gas prices continued spiraling down earlier this month after the Energy Information Administration ...
    Tankers

    Future farms go with wind

    March 20, 2006
    Farmers could become the “energy moguls of the 21st Century” if they move beyond ethanol to the large-scale development of wind and solar energy, which, like farming, requires...
    Reserves

    Watching the World: Nuclear Iran worries Japan

    March 20, 2006
    Some oil-consuming countries may be intimidated by the idea of offending Iran, but that does not appear to apply to Japan.
    LNG

    Brownell: Gulf disruptions underscore US gas problems

    March 20, 2006
    Continued disruption by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of natural gas supplies from the Gulf of Mexico illustrates “a problem we have been trying to ignore,” says Nora Brownell of...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Editorial: Congress won’t learn

    March 20, 2006
    An institution that can’t learn deserves pity. An institution that won’t learn deserves condemnation.
    Companies

    OCS Sale 198 attracts $588.3 million in high bids

    March 20, 2006
    Near-record oil and gas prices led to robust bidding in Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 198, which garnered $588.
    Companies

    Bingaman seeks to restore energy programs

    March 20, 2006
    Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) last week introduced an amendment to the federal budget resolution that assumes reauthorization of the chemical and toxic waste Superfund tax to help...
    LNG

    Plan addresses flagging Aussie oil output, double gas use

    March 20, 2006
    The Australian government and petroleum industry have jointly launched an outline plan to increase Australia’s flagging oil production, make Australia one of the world’s top five...
    Companies

    Senate Judiciary leaders plan antitrust reform bill

    March 20, 2006
    As they convened a Mar. 14 hearing on oil and gas industry concentration and its potential impact on prices, Senate Judiciary Committee leaders said they plan to introduce legislation...
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    Production Operations

    Gulf Coast senators offer bill to share Sale 181 revenues

    March 20, 2006
    Six US senators from Gulf Coast states introduced Mar. 8 a bipartisan bill to direct a portion of offshore oil and gas revenues from the Gulf of Mexico to Mississippi, Louisiana...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    March 20, 2006
    The US Congress would repeat past mistakes if it tried to punish the oil and gas industry for consolidations resulting from economic pressures and regulatory requirements, the...
    Pipelines

    Watching Government: Canada's role in US energy

    March 20, 2006
    Officials from three Canadian provinces and the Northwest Territories want Canada to retain its important role in US efforts to meet growing needs for natural gas.
    Companies

    KMP reports details of major pipeline expansions

    March 20, 2006
    Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), said major gas pipelines it proposes in the Rocky Mountains and Louisiana have received long-...
    LNG

    Commission proposes EU energy strategy

    March 20, 2006
    European Commissioner for Energy Andris Piebalgs on Mar. 8 released a “major Green Paper” containing the European Union (EU) Commission’s “vision for an energy strategy for Europe...
    Government

    CO2 emissions trading grows in Europe, seen likely elsewhere

    March 20, 2006
    The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS) for carbon dioxide has grown rapidly since its launch amid political arguments and bureaucratic turmoil on Jan. 1, 2005, raising...
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    Production Operations

    Drilling Market Focus: Proppants in great demand; production constrained

    March 20, 2006
    Demand for manufactured proppants is growing, fueling the construction of new production facilities around the world.
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    Petrochemicals

    Correlation measures properties of brominated petchems

    March 20, 2006
    A new correlation predicts the solubility and Henry’s law constant for a wide range of brominated petrochemicals in water.
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    Companies

    Oil companies preparing for more carbon constraints

    March 20, 2006
    Oil and gas companies are working to address climate change concerns while developing strategies to extract value from the management of carbon dioxide emissions.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Simulation examines ice, hydrate formation in Iran separator centers

    March 20, 2006
    A simulation with Pipephase and Hysys software showed that polyurethane insulation with thermal conductivity of 0.22 w/m-°C. and an electric heater could solve the problem of ...