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  • Volume 98, Issue 14

    • Volume 98, Issue 14

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    Ethylene capacity growth flat in 1999; large increase expected in 2000

    April 3, 2000
    Global ethylene production capacity increased by only 1.9% in the past year, reflecting the smallest annual increase in capacity in the past decade since 1996.
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    New ethylene unit commissioned in Brazil

    April 3, 2000
    COPESUL (COMPANHIA PETROQUIMICA DO SUL), Brazil, the largest producer of ethylene in Brazil, commissioned and started up a second ethylene unit at Triunfo, Brazil, at the beginning...
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    INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF ETHYLENE FROM STEAM CRACKERS-2000

    April 3, 2000
    INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF ETHYLENE FROM STEAM CRACKERS-2000
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    Atypical planning process cuts drilling costs for Shell

    April 3, 2000
    A new planning process that defines an ideal well under optimum conditions, then works to eliminate all barriers to that perfect state, has cut drilling times and costs for units...
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    Heavy oil production rising, but exploration low in Cuba

    April 3, 2000
    Exploratory drilling is at a low level in Cuba, but development drilling by one group has boosted domestic production to its highest level in years.

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    Technologies found to hike reserves, benefit HSE

    April 3, 2000
    Application of new technologies led to substantial commercial reserve additions during 1990-97 on the Northwest Europe continental shelf, and further additions are possible.
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    OPEC to boost production, correct market

    April 3, 2000
    Nine members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries voted at their meeting last week in Vienna to increase the group's production by 1.45 million b/d effective Apr...
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    Lukoil has Russia's first Caspian oil discovery

    April 3, 2000
    Lukoil has made the first commercial discovery of oil in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.
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    ExxonMobil sues to block ARCO-Phillips deal

    April 3, 2000
    ExxonMobil Corp. has filed suit in a Los Angeles court to block the sale of ARCO's Alaska assets to Phillips Petroleum Co.
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    Watching Government:Laggard loans

    April 3, 2000
    A year ago, as small US oil producers were suffering from rock-bottom oil prices, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) had an idea.
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    US interstate natural gas pipelines begin to cope with firm-capacity turnback dilemma

    April 3, 2000
    Even as the number of US interstate natural gas pipeline companies continues to dwindle through mergers and acquisitions, the survivors must grapple with what is arguably the ...
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    Industry Briefs

    April 3, 2000
    An explosion and fire Mar. 27 at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer (SBC) plant at its Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) near Pasadena, Tex., killed one...
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    US Midwest gas line slated for conversion

    April 3, 2000
    CMS Energy Corp., Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, and TEPPCO Partners LP have formed the Centennial Pipeline joint venture to convert a 26-in., 720-mile natural gas pipeline to...
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    Tanker orderbook could still spell oversupply in 2000

    April 3, 2000
    At yearend 1999, prospects for newbuilding in the world's tanker fleet would suggest a disturbing oversupply, according to Clarkson Research Studies' semiannual Shipping Review...
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    Cost reductions yet to pull refiners out of doldrums

    April 3, 2000
    Weak demand for oil in spring 1998 reduced margins for the refining industry to record low levels in 1999.
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    Isolation valves aid Bombay High riser replacements

    April 3, 2000
    UNDER A CONTRACT FROM OIL & National Gas Corp., Bombay, Asian Marine Contractors (AMC) recently completed replacement of two risers and subsea isolation valves on the NF platform...
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    Successful frac packs require careful planning

    April 3, 2000
    Because operators usually pump frac-pack treatments in an offshore environment, a successful job requires extensive planning and preparation.
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    NELSON-FARRAR QUARTERLY COSTIMATING

    April 3, 2000
    Indexes for selected equipment items
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    Slew of regulations top NPRA meeting agenda

    April 3, 2000
    Discussions of pending and issued regulations were rife at the 98th National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) annual meeting in San Antonio last week.
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    NELSON-FARRAR COST INDEXES

    April 3, 2000
    NELSON-FARRAR COST INDEXES
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    US refiners oppose EPA's new source review proposal

    April 3, 2000
    US refiners say that the US Environmental Protection Agency is on the wrong track in drafting rules for the new source review (NSR) program.
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    Venezuelan LNG export project back on track

    April 3, 2000
    Venezuela's LNG export project is back on track, albeit in a scaled-down version.
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    OPEC too slow

    April 3, 2000
    Forget squabbles among individual members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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    Washington quotebook

    April 3, 2000
    If you think writing is difficult, you should try having to do it all day, every day.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 3, 2000
    What effect, if any, will OPEC's decision early last week to raise its production ceiling have on gasoline prices later this year?
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    Fix broken US energy policy

    April 3, 2000
    Truck drivers and consumers in the Northeast and across America are screaming about high fuel prices
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    Technology Business

    April 3, 2000
    pennNET www.pennNET.com), a leader in creating secure, reliable e-marketplaces for business professionals in critical global markets, has acquired Global Logistics Partners L....
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 3, 2000
    A new line of carbon steel float and thermostatic steam traps is suited for new and replacement applications in hydrocarbon and chemical processing operations. The new CS Series...
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    Area Drilling

    April 3, 2000
    Empire Oil & Gas NL, Perth, is to drill near Australia's first significant post-World War II oil discovery at Rough Range on the Exmouth Peninsula.