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  • Volume 104, Issue 3

    • Volume 104, Issue 3

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    Drilling & Production

    Technology Drives Today’s Petroleum Industry*

    Jan. 16, 2006
    When people think of the oil and natural gas industry, many envision an old, dirty, staid industry using technology from decades ago.
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    Refining

    Petroleum Industry Careers Start with Exploration

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Oil and natural gas furnish about three-fifths of our energy needs, fueling our homes, workplaces, factories and transportation systems.
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    Companies

    Worldwide Recruiters Seek the Best Match

    Jan. 16, 2006
    As the energy industry invests capital/cash flow derived from higher oil and gas prices to meet the increasing global thirst for oil, companies are working feverously to secure...
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    Drilling & Production

    Exploration and Production Occupations Vary

    Jan. 16, 2006
    People with many different skills are needed to explore for oil and gas, drill new wells, maintain existing wells, and process natural gas.
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    Companies

    Multiphase metering proves effective in SAGD tests

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Field tests in Alberta showed that multiphase meters can measure the high-temperature fluids produced in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects.

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 3

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    Companies

    Executive Leadership - More Important Than Ever

    Jan. 16, 2006
    As in most organizations today, energy industry leaders must have the skills to guide their companies through steady growth and faster progress toward globalization.
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    Capacities

    US crude imports maintain steady gravity

    Jan. 16, 2006
    During 2000-04, the ratio of heavier crudes to lighter crudes imported into the US has remained relatively steady at around 1:1.
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    Drilling & Production

    Spotlight on Petroleum Engineers

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Petroleum engineers search the world for reservoirs containing oil or natural gas.
    Drilling & Production

    Energy Pay Heats Up

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Historical data may be useful for estimating relative pay levels among various petroleum industry jobs.
    Home

    Service Firms Offer Exciting Opportunities

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Petroleum career candidates often focus their job search on the exploration and production companies.
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    Drilling & Production

    Drilling Market Focus: NOCs and others drilling to meet demand in India

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Local demand for natural gas, a string of moderate successes, and improvements in the regulatory environment are driving drilling operations in India.
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    Companies

    US drilling pace to escalate from 20-year high in 2005

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Drillers pulled out the stops in 2005 as the year-average rotary rig counts in the US and Texas were the highest in 20 years.
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    Economics & Markets

    Slim 2006 US energy demand growth projected

    Jan. 16, 2006
    A healthy US economy will bring limited growth to energy demand in 2006, as crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum product prices ease from record-setting highs.
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    Companies

    Worldwide oil market responds to demand growth

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Given current oil demand projections, key members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will need to reduce output to avoid oversupplying the market in the short...
    Government

    Producers, surface landowners confront split-estate issues

    Jan. 16, 2006
    As the Bureau of Land Management begins a new examination of split-estate resource management, Rocky Mountain oil and gas producers and landowners continue to grapple with problems...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Total SA, operator of Block 32 off Angola, and Sonangol EP reported that an ultradeepwater delineation well has confirmed the commercial potential of the adjacent Gengibre-1 oil...
    Drilling & Production

    API: US completions up 10% in fourth quarter of 2005

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Total well completions in the US increased by 10% in the fourth quarter of 2005 from year-earlier levels, with oil and gas completions up 11% in each category, according to American...
    Refining & Processing

    API questions EPA move on particulates

    Jan. 16, 2006
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed revisions to its national standards for pollution from fine and some coarse particles.
    Companies

    Company News: PTTEP sets 5-year, $5.8 billion E&P budget

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Exploration and production companies continue to set their capital budgets for 2006, and beyond.
    Capacities

    Watching Government: Making energy security real

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Energy security has become an ambiguous concept-except when it is applied to protecting facilities and equipment.
    General Interest

    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Falkland Oil & Gas appoints chief executive

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. (FOGL) has appointed 23-year oil and gas veteran Tim Bushell as chief executive.
    Economics & Markets

    Watching the World: PetroCaribe stirs critics

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is beginning to encounter opposition to PetroCaribe, his plan to distribute cost-deferred oil to 13 nations in the Caribbean.
    Government

    Editorial: Abramoff and energy

    Jan. 16, 2006
    The scandal boiling around lobbyist Jack Abramoff raises hope for US energy policy.
    Reserves

    Dutch pension funds sue Shell over reserves

    Jan. 16, 2006
    A group of 26 Dutch pension funds, led by Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, filed a shareholder securities fraud suit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC seeking “hundreds of millions of...
    HSE

    US fuel prices in 2006

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Motor fuel prices remain very sensitive to changes in the price of crude oil, supply disruptions, and weather-related incidents such as last summer’s hurricanes in the Gulf of...
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Jan. 16, 2006
    The article “Oil reconstruction in Iraq: progress and challenges” (OGJ, Dec.
    Companies

    US weather boosts energy price volatility

    Jan. 16, 2006
    With weather still the primary influence over US energy markets, price volatility increased through December and into January, particularly for natural gas.
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    Companies

    Micropilot tests progress, durability an issue

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Retrofit diesel pilot ignition (DPI), or micropilot, systems installed on natural gas pipeline compressor engines can deliver efficiency and emissions improvements when compared...
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    LNG

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Aberdeen, has announced the appointment of Carl Mook as region manager-Middle East & Asia Pacific, based in Dubai. Mook, who holds an ONC in electronic engineering from Norwich...
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    New Plants

    Satellite data finding more uses in E&D, other industry segments

    Jan. 16, 2006
    One of the biggest challenges the oil and gas industry faces today is to extract the natural resources locked into the ground while minimizing cost and the impact on the environment...
    Pipelines

    Economics asserts itself in dispute over Russian gas

    Jan. 16, 2006
    In the matter of Russian gas sales to Ukraine and Europe, separating economics from politics is difficult.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Big Sky Energy Corp., Calgary, began production from its Morskoe Block on the Caspian Sea northeast shore.
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    Jan. 16, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue.