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  • Volume 104, Issue 4

    • Volume 104, Issue 4

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    Production Operations

    Cairn Energy aligns interests in India

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Scotland’s Cairn Energy PLC has occupied a niche in the Indian oil and gas community and is beginning to reap the rewards of its successful exploration program.
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    Companies

    Point of View: ONGC’s Raha: Exploring India’s untested basins needs incentives

    Jan. 23, 2006
    The Indian government should offer incentives to companies willing to explore the country’s many untested basins, says Subir Raha, chairman of state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp...
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    Area Drilling

    Eliminating liquid loading hikes Burgos basin production

    Jan. 23, 2006
    An integrated production-management process increased gas production from more than 600 Burgos basin wells that had experienced severe liquid loading.
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    LNG

    BP issues recommendations to prevent recurrence of fatal explosion

    Jan. 23, 2006
    On Dec. 9, 2005, BP Products North America Inc.
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    LNG

    Natural gas, LNG to play support role in meeting India’s increasing energy needs

    Jan. 23, 2006
    India’s energy balance is fundamentally changing due to the adoption of market-based economics, rapid economic growth, and a shift away from traditional biomass energy sources...

    More content from Volume 104, Issue 4

    Companies

    Northern Campos block viable, says Shell Brasil

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Shell Brasil informed Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency that the BC-10 Block in the Campos basin off Espírito Santo is commercially viable.
    Companies

    Range building acreage in US shale gas plays

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, said it has accumulated 180,000 acres of leases in US shale gas plays.
    Companies

    Three key oil discoveries buoy prospects in Peru basins

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Peru ended 2005 with three key discoveries, one in a nonproducing basin in the Pacific Ocean and two in the Maranon basin near several large undeveloped heavy oil discoveries....
    Exploration & Development

    Santos basin 3D campaign starting off Brazil

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) let a contract to Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) to acquire 1,266 sq km of 3D seismic data on prospect area BM-S-42 in the Santos basin off...
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    Companies

    Entrants, returnees to Libya face tight equipment market

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Libya’s plan to nearly double its oil production to 3 million b/d by 2010-11 is off to a rousing start with successful licensing rounds and the return of US operators exiled in...
    LNG

    Contracts let to develop

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Two TNK-BP subsidiaries let contracts worth a total of more than $60 million to Petrofac Ltd.
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 23, 2006
    This new integrated wrist camera for Titan manipulators features a titanium camera housing for protection and internal cabling that eliminates cable snags and abrasions.
    Gas Processing

    OPEC revenues once again key to price forecasts

    Jan. 23, 2006
    A crucial influence on the price of crude this year will be one that all but lacked pricing significance last year.
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    Companies

    Brass LNG shows importance of matching supply, demand

    Jan. 23, 2006
    In an interconnected world, where international LNG trade is growing and poised to grow even more dramatically, buyers and sellers become inextricably linked.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Renewed testing at the LMG03 coalbed methane well in the Gloucester basin resulted in a peak flow rate of 537 Mcfd, said Molopo Australia Ltd.
    Economics & Markets

    Mild weather undermines natural gas price

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Continued mild weather and a bearish report on US natural gas storage undermined the natural gas market in the week ended Jan. 13, with prices falling in all five daily sessions...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Letters

    Jan. 23, 2006
    The article “Oil reconstruction in Iraq: progress and challenges” (OGJ, Dec. 19, 2005, p. 26) was a very disappointing article on an obviously important subject.
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    LPG Markets

    Chinese NOCs go shopping

    Jan. 23, 2006
    The Chinese central government, obsessed with energy security, is pressuring state-owed oil companies to intensify merger and acquisition activity abroad to help meet the country...
    Companies

    Apache buying Pioneer’s Argentine operations

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Pioneer Natural Resources Co. agreed to sell its oil and gas operations in Argentina to Apache Corp.
    Companies

    Petrobras, partners plan Santos basin investment push

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) plans to invest, along with partners, $18 billion over the next 10 years for oil and gas development in the offshore Santos...
    Production Operations

    Shell evacuates workers from Nigerian oil facilities

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC evacuated a reported 326 workers from one of its oil facilities in Nigeria on Jan. 15 after 16 people were killed or wounded in an attack by unidentified...
    LNG

    Solutions proposed for UK’s ‘looming energy gap’

    Jan. 23, 2006
    The UK will require supply from all sources of energy if its standard of living is to be sustained, said 150 scientific, technical, economic, and sociological experts who contributed...
    Drilling & Production

    Future offshore outlays driven by drilling, analyst says

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Over the next 5 years drilling activities will draw a major share of offshore expenditures, according to international UK research firm Douglas-Westwood Ltd.
    Companies

    Eight proposals advance in BLM oil shale program

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Five applicants submitted eight oil shale development and demonstration proposals that are eligible for further consideration, the US Bureau of Land Management said.
    Companies

    Survey: US, China to lead Canadian investment

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Canadian oil executives and investment bankers expect the US and China to be the most active sources of foreign investment this year in Canadian oil and gas assets, particularly...
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Editorial: Iranian desperation

    Jan. 23, 2006
    In its response to nuclear ambitions in Iran, a concerned world must acknowledge but not submit to a motive strongly at work in the Islamic Republic.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 23, 2006
    Indonesia’s State Minister for State-Owned Enterprises Sugiharto said discussions were slated for mid-January concerning operation of the oil and natural gas fields on the Cepu...
    Reserves

    BLM opens more NPR-A acres to leasing

    Jan. 23, 2006
    The US Department of the Interior announced Jan. 11 approval of a US Bureau of Land Management amendment to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s leasing program, opening 389...
    Companies

    Watching the World: Oil heroes in Nigeria

    Jan. 23, 2006
    In the oil industry there are more heroes than one can imagine, and not a few of them are at work in Nigeria.