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    Companies

    SAUDI PETROCHEMICALS - conclusion: Five strategies drive Saudi Arabia’s petchem industry growth

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Saudi Arabia, a significant global producer of commodity petrochemicals, will increase its position in the global market during the next 5 years due to five growth strategies:...
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    Companies

    Gel-polymer extends Arbuckle high-water-cut well life

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Arbuckle wells provide a good example of how the use of gelled polymer technology can extend the life of high water-cut wells.
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    Refining & Processing

    US industry expects more political turbulence in ‘06

    Jan. 9, 2006
    The US oil and gas industry has moved into 2006 fully expecting the past year’s political turbulence to continue.
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    Drilling & Production

    Method estimates collapse strength of worn casing

    Jan. 9, 2006
    New equations for calculating the collapse strength of worn casing can aid future casing string design.
    Government

    E&P exemption eyed for storm-water permits

    Jan. 9, 2006
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to storm-water regulations under the Clean Water Act that would exempt oil and gas exploration and production...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 2

    Refining & Processing

    Editorial: A lingering supply issue

    Jan. 9, 2006
    A year of rocky energy politics left unresolved too many issues crucial to US energy supply.
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    Reserves

    Accord signed for Venezuela-Argentina gas line

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, on Dec.
    Companies

    Company News: E&P firms continue to set 2006 capital budget plans

    Jan. 9, 2006
    US-based oil and gas companies continue to report their capital spending plans for 2006.
    Companies

    ExxonMobil: Energy demand to increase 50% by 2030

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Energy demand, driven by economic progress and population growth, will increase about 50% from the current 205 million boe/d level to 335 million boe/d by 2030, reported ExxonMobil...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 9, 2006
    ConocoPhillips, to resume Libyan operations
    Drilling & Production

    Barriers seen on industry’s digital technology path

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Oil companies’ growing use of digital technologies could boost world oil and gas reserves, but the industry must overcome barriers to gathering, managing, and sharing data, participants...
    Companies

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc., has named Executive Vice-Pres.
    Refining & Processing

    Watching the World: Iraq’s war over oil

    Jan. 9, 2006
    The administration of US President George W. Bush has always denied that the war in Iraq was over oil.
    Reserves

    Mineral dating tracks oil

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Quenching the world’s ever-increasing thirst for oil is a continuous struggle.
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Jan. 9, 2006
    The Dec. 19, 2005, issue of OGJ ran two articles on peak oil.
    Refining & Processing

    Market Journal

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Energy futures prices continued to climb Dec. 30, the last trading day of 2005, with the February contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes gaining 72¢ to $61.
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    Drilling Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 9, 2006
    A new brochure, yours free for the asking, offers PTFE, FEP, and PFA convoluted tubing in a variety of designs and configurations in sizes of 1⁄8-4 in.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    TEPCO completes Trans-Bay tunnel, pipelay next

    Jan. 9, 2006
    Tokyo Electric Power Co. has completed excavation of a tunnel under central Tokyo Bay and is ready to lay the Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline through it, linking the LNG receiving terminal...
    HSE

    The Editor's Perspective

    Jan. 9, 2006
    That a geographic pattern of opinion has become part of the controversy over global warming suggests a what-if mind experiment that might be illuminating.
    New Plants

    SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES-2: Access to real-time E&P operating data: A nontechnical overview of a solution

    Jan. 9, 2006
    We intentionally avoided getting into the technical details of BP’s RTAP/Web Services solution in the first part of this article (OGJ, Jan.
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    Advertising Index

    Jan. 9, 2006
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