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  • Volume 104, Issue 5

    • Volume 104, Issue 5

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    Economics & Markets

    With prices high, countries revising E&P fiscal regimes

    Feb. 6, 2006
    With today’s higher wellhead prices for crude and natural gas, governments of many producing countries are reexamining the fiscal terms of their production-sharing contracts (...
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    Companies

    Falcon/TXM drilling for deep gas in Hungary

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Canada’s Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. began drilling operations on its seven-well program in Hungary in November 2005.
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    Production Operations

    Compositional model improves gas-lift optimization for Iranian oil field

    Feb. 6, 2006
    A simulation with a compositional model improved the accuracy when compared with a black-oil model for predicting the performance of gas-lift wells in the Aghajari oil field in...
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    Economics & Markets

    US OLEFINS - FOURTH QUARTER 2005: Hurricanes disrupt North American olefins industry

    Feb. 6, 2006
    This article represents the first of Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual US Olefins series, which will alternate on a quarterly basis with the US Propane series.
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    Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes

    Feb. 6, 2006
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    More content from Volume 104, Issue 5

    Companies

    Denbury gauges large South Louisiana find

    Feb. 6, 2006
    A group led by Denbury Resources Inc., Dallas, gauged an apparently large Miocene discovery at a deep test in Gibson field in northern Terrebonne Parish.
    Drilling Operations

    Lukoil discovers oil giant in Russian Caspian

    Feb. 6, 2006
    OAO Lukoil discovered a multipay oil and gas-condensate field on the Severny license in the Caspian Sea, calling it Russia’s largest discovery in a decade.
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    Companies

    Uinta basin’s multiple pays drawing more operators

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Northeastern Utah’s Uinta basin is under intense exploration and development for oil and gas in multiple formations by numerous operators.
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    Advertising Index

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Advertisers in the print issue.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Here’s the DATUM Model C electric motor-driven compressor for natural gas pipeline uses where quiet, emission-free operations are essential.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Feb. 6, 2006
    The Australian government awarded Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Australian unit 100% interest in a 1,000 sq km block in the Browse basin near giant Ichthys/Brewster offshore gas fields...
    Companies

    Conservation evident in US gasoline data

    Feb. 6, 2006
    US consumers of vehicle fuel don’t have to be forced into conservation. When fuel prices rise, they know what to do.
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    LNG

    Risk-based decision making keys LNG terminal siting

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Transportation and handling of LNG is not a zero-risk activity because of both potential accidents and intentional events, but new risk-based analysis approaches make risks that...
    Companies

    Iran, Nigeria influence markets

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Fear of potential disruptions of crude supplies from Nigeria and Iran is a major factor in the recent fluctuation of world oil prices.
    Refining

    Stubborn on conservation

    Feb. 6, 2006
    I have little quarrel with your comments about Congress’s failure to address oil supply, but you continually amaze me with your stubbornly consistent line on conservation.
    Companies

    A whale tale

    Feb. 6, 2006
    A group of oil companies and geophysical contractors is sponsoring development of a software program designed to improve the detection of marine mammals near seismic surveys and...
    Refining

    Short notice blamed for oil exec absences at hearing

    Feb. 6, 2006
    National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Pres. Bob Slaughter disputed allegations that major oil company executives did not want to testify at a Feb. 1 Senate committee hearing...
    Government

    Bush energy initiative seeks to lower US oil imports

    Feb. 6, 2006
    US President George W. Bush announced an advanced energy initiative aimed at reducing US dependence on imported oil in his state of the union address Jan. 31.
    Production Operations

    EDITORIAL: Bush botches energy

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Meaningless assertions yield poor policy.
    Government

    MMS director responds to royalty-collection allegations

    Feb. 6, 2006
    US Minerals Management Service Director Johnnie Burton questioned comparisons that apparently were the basis of allegations that federal natural gas royalty collections have not...
    Tankers

    Watching the World: Cuba’s oil idealism

    Feb. 6, 2006
    US energy executives met their Cuban counterparts last week in the first private-sector oil summit between the two countries.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 6, 2006
    High energy prices stem from supply-demand fundamentals rather than attempts by any type of traders to manipulate prices, US Commodities Futures Trading Commissioner Sharon Brown...
    Drilling & Production

    Saudis, Chinese agree to landmark energy accord

    Feb. 6, 2006
    Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Chinese President Hu Jintao, following a recent summit meeting in Beijing, have agreed to a landmark accord on oil, natural...
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    LNG

    India faces challenges meeting gas, LNG import needs

    Feb. 6, 2006
    This part of the special report on India’s changing energy balance assesses the growing role the importation of natural gas via pipelines and LNG can play in meeting India’s future...
    HSE

    Watching Government: Virginia mulls OCS potential

    Feb. 6, 2006
    A warmer-than-normal January may have let the US off the natural gas hook this heating season.