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    Exploration and production companies continue to set their capital budgets for 2006, and beyond.
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    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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    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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    Petroleum engineers search the world for reservoirs containing oil or natural gas.
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    Historical data may be useful for estimating relative pay levels among various petroleum industry jobs.
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    Petroleum career candidates often focus their job search on the exploration and production companies.
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    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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    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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    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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    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...
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    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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    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...
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    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...
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    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed revisions to its national standards for pollution from fine and some coarse particles.
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    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Energy security has become an ambiguous concept-except when it is applied to protecting facilities and equipment.
    Jan. 16, 2006
    Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. (FOGL) has appointed 23-year oil and gas veteran Tim Bushell as chief executive.
    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.
    Jan. 16, 2006
    The scandal boiling around lobbyist Jack Abramoff raises hope for US energy policy.
    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...
    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...
    Jan. 16, 2006
    The article “Oil reconstruction in Iraq: progress and challenges” (OGJ, Dec.
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    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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    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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    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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    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...
    Jan. 16, 2006
    In the matter of Russian gas sales to Ukraine and Europe, separating economics from politics is difficult.
    Jan. 16, 2006
    Big Sky Energy Corp., Calgary, began production from its Morskoe Block on the Caspian Sea northeast shore.
    Jan. 16, 2006