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    Companies

    OGJ survey: Global processing, transportation construction brisk

    April 24, 2006
    Construction remains brisk in the processing and transportation segments of the global oil and gas industry.
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    Companies

    Point of View: Surge Global Energy chief sees big oil sands potential

    April 24, 2006
    Canadian oil sands will advance Alberta’s status as a North American oil and gas hub beyond generally held expectations, says David Perez, chairman and chief executive of Surge...
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    Companies

    Swelling-rubber packer enhances multilateral viscous oil production

    April 24, 2006
    In multilateral wells where high costs, shallow depths, and long step-outs present completion difficulties, the use of swelling rubber packers (SRPs) enables operators to manage...
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    Companies

    Marathon uses mol sieve to remove mercaptan from gas stream

    April 24, 2006
    At its Indian Basin gas plant, Marathon Oil Co. is using molecular sieve for primary mercaptan removal and Selexol for treating the regeneration gas to meet pipeline specifications...
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    Companies

    DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Industry players must align efforts for future success

    April 24, 2006
    Drilling contractors, technical service companies, and operators share concerns in today’s marketplace over staffing, financial performance, and planning.

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 16

    Companies

    Advertising Index

    April 24, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue
    Exploration & Development

    Area Drilling

    April 24, 2006
    The Ministry of Mines & Energy signed a production-sharing agreement with Afar Exploration Co.
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    LNG

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 24, 2006
    The low temperature properties of Basotect melamine resin foam suit it for use in insulation of LNG tanks.
    Companies

    Automaker’s oil tirade ignores past two decades

    April 24, 2006
    “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.
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    Companies

    5-year study shows pipeline spills reduced

    April 24, 2006
    Since the voluntary environmental performance tracking initiative Pipeline Performance Tracking System began in 1999, the petroleum pipeline industry has reduced both the number...
    Refining

    IEA lifts 2004, 2005 demand estimates

    April 24, 2006
    The International Energy Agency increased its 2004 and 2005 estimates of world oil demand by 300,000 b/d due to growth in the Middle East and Asia.
    Companies

    HUBBERT’S: UNRELIABILITY-3: Post-Hubbert challenge is to find new methods to predict production, EUR

    April 24, 2006
    This is the third and final part of a three-part article that addresses the question: Does the Hubbert method provide a reliable means of predicting future oil production?
    Companies

    Managing perception

    April 24, 2006
    Attention on pipeline integrity management first approached current levels in the 1970s when debate surrounding the 800-mile Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System unleashed activism previously...
    Exploration & Development

    Letters

    April 24, 2006
    I am probably Nashville’s only reader of “Oil & Gas Journal” and no doubt the only one who has submitted articles published there about cutting-edge techniques in oil exploration...
    General Interest

    Editorial: A secular religion

    April 24, 2006
    Activism inspired by alarm over climate change has long been described by detractors as a secular religion.
    General Interest

    Watcing the World: Yukos faces new squeeze

    April 24, 2006
    If the arrest, trial, and sentencing of former OAO Yukos Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky have had any meaning whatsoever, it has been lost on most people in the oil industry...
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    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Chesapeake Energy appoints Dixon, makes other executive changes

    April 24, 2006
    Chesapeake Energy Corp. appointed Steven C. Dixon executive vice-president, operations and chief operating officer.
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    Pipelines

    Clean coal urged for CO2 control, energy security

    April 24, 2006
    Advocates of clean coal are pushing that technology in the UK as the ideal solution to carbon management and the answer to Europe’s need for a diverse energy portfolio.
    Companies

    Company News: Pogo Producing to buy Latigo Petroleum for $750 million

    April 24, 2006
    Pogo Producing Co., Houston, signed a definitive agreement to acquire private Latigo Petroleum Inc.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 24, 2006
    Chad has delayed its halt to oil production, a threat it made this month to protest the World Bank’s freezing of funds held by Citibank in London.
    General Interest

    Democrats press Bush to act as energy prices increase

    April 24, 2006
    New Jersey’s US senators asked President George W. Bush to initiate dispute proceedings against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries through the World Trade Organization...
    Refining & Processing

    Schumer seeks probe of refining capacity utilization in letter to FTC

    April 24, 2006
    Citing rising gasoline prices, US Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) suggested that some refiners may be keeping plants off-line as they switch to summer fuel blends to push prices...
    Companies

    US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt

    April 24, 2006
    CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US Oil and gas companies operating in...
    Drilling & Production

    US drilling recovery evident in completions, other data

    April 24, 2006
    Completion totals and federal onshore permitting and leasing data reflect the strong drilling recovery under way in the US.