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  • Volume 104, Issue 14

    • Volume 104, Issue 14

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    Companies

    Producers, government study lessons from Hurricane Ivan

    April 10, 2006
    Hurricane Ivan shut down much production in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico and damaged pipelines and platforms in its path and along the Mississippi River delta apron...
    HSE

    Last year’s storms color this year’s leasing issues

    April 10, 2006
    The oil and gas producing industry of the US Gulf of Mexico limped into 2006 battered by hurricanes but braced for politics. The conditions are related.
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    Companies

    Gulf of Mexico rig market responds to hurricanes

    April 10, 2006
    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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    Drilling & Production

    New drills, bits reduce HPHT well costs in Venezuela field

    April 10, 2006
    Turbodrills and diamond-impregnated drill bits have improved drilling metrics through hard, abrasive, allochthonous Mesozoic rocks overlying productive Miocene formations.
    Companies

    WoodMac: Hurricanes hit ‘every link of energy chain’

    April 10, 2006
    Every link in the energy chain-upstream, processing, pipelines, and the support infrastructure maintaining them-was affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, notes a report released...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 14

    Home

    Advertising Index

    April 10, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue.
    Government

    Costly energy choices don’t boost security

    April 10, 2006
    The pursuit of fantasy does nothing for national security.
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    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 10, 2006
    Here’s the Event110 event recorder, a miniature, low-cost, reusable recording device that senses input transitions or contact closures from external sources such as transducers...
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    HSE

    Flexible steel pipe solves Canadian rehabilitation

    April 10, 2006
    When deterioration of existing pipes precludes cost-effective traditional repair, slip-lining the old pipe with flexible steel pipe provides a ready alternative.
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    April 10, 2006
    Houston, has appointed Don McKenzie as president and chief executive officer of M-I Swaco, replacing Loren Carroll.
    Refining & Processing

    US inventory comfort zone questioned

    April 10, 2006
    The Energy Information Administration claimed commercial US crude inventories on Mar. 24 were at the highest level since Apr. 16 1999, but Petromatrix GMBH in Zug, Switzerland...
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    Companies

    A new exploration concept

    April 10, 2006
    With much attention focusing on improved recovery, smart completions, and other methods for coaxing hydrocarbons out of places where they are known to occur, it’s easy to forget...
    LNG

    INGAA: Critical-infrastructure bill would harm pipelines

    April 10, 2006
    A US House bill that would set limits on ownership, operation, and management of assets deemed part of the critical US infrastructure would create difficulties for domestic pipelines...
    Petrochemicals

    Bolivia wants higher price for gas exported to Brazil

    April 10, 2006
    Bolivia will substantially increase prices of natural gas it exports to Brazil, Bolivian President Evo Morales told Sérgio Gabrielli, president of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras...
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    Companies

    M&A reserves values up as company sales dominate

    April 10, 2006
    Reserves values in US and Canadian oil and gas transactions continue to grow, with the weighted average implied value reaching $18/boe during the first quarter of 2006, said John...
    Exploration & Development

    Watching the World: China pursues nearby energy

    April 10, 2006
    Driven by concerns over stability, China is stepping up cooperation with its neighbors, aiming to secure supplies of oil and natural gas from regional sources instead of the Middle...
    Companies

    Editorial: Investing in Venezuela

    April 10, 2006
    Events in Venezuela throw into sharp relief three major categories of risk central to international oil and gas investment decisions: politics, price, and geology.
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    Companies

    Specialists see big problems in oil-focused antitrust reform

    April 10, 2006
    US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has circulated antitrust reform proposals directed at US refiners and overseas producers.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 10, 2006
    Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Mines has voided operating service agreements with Total SA for Jusepin oil field and Eni SPA for Dacion oil field and made Petroleos de Venezuela...
    Government

    Bodman repeats support for ANWR leasing, OCS access

    April 10, 2006
    The administration of President George W. Bush still supports leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and working with coastal states to increase access to the Outer Continental...
    Economics & Markets

    Manufacturers group chief urges action on gas supply

    April 10, 2006
    Congress should move quickly to open what amounts to a strategic reserve of natural gas off US coasts, National Association of Manufacturers Pres. John Engler urged.
    HSE

    Gasoline prices climb with MTBE phaseout

    April 10, 2006
    Congress is growing restless because gasoline prices are climbing weeks before summer driving season arrives as refiners replace methyl tertiary butyl ether with ethanol as a ...
    Companies

    Oil companies turn in mixed reserves results in 2005

    April 10, 2006
    Oil companies as a group had mixed results in the replacement of oil and gas reserves in 2005.
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    Companies

    Operators extend search to several nonproducing, underexplored basins

    April 10, 2006
    A sustained period of high oil and gas prices has led operators into exploration in more of the world’s remote, nonproducing, and underexplored areas.
    Production Operations

    Interior secretary assesses gulf hurricane damage

    April 10, 2006
    Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico survived the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reasonably well, with no loss of life or significant spills, Sec...
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    Companies

    Personnel, company skills listed as highest-ranked traits for engineering firms

    April 10, 2006
    Owners of downstream petroleum and petrochemical companies rank qualifications of key personnel as the most important consideration in choosing engineering contractors, says a...