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    Learn strengths, weaknesses to understand Hubbert curve

    April 17, 2000
    M. King Hubbert was a distinguished scientist published on many aspects of petroleum geology, but he is most remembered for his 1956 work on forecasting production in which he...
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    Cold-weather electrode employed on North Slope pipeline

    April 17, 2000
    A SPECIAL ELECTRODE WAS NEEDed for pipeline welding on BP Amoco's Northstar project at Prudhoe Bay.
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    Burlington reverse circulates cement, sets world record

    April 17, 2000
    Burlington Resources Inc. and Halliburton Energy Services, Casper, successfully cementing 23,644 ft of casing on the Bighorn 5-6 well in Fremont County, Wyo.
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    Venezuelan government points to in-depth oil policy changes

    April 17, 2000
    A little over a year after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez took office, a wide range of in-depth changes in oil policy is emerging.
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    Offshore rig construction cycle ending

    April 17, 2000
    The current construction cycle for offshore drilling rigs is coming to a close. According to Offshore Data Services Inc. (ODS), from 1996 to the present, a total of 55 semisubmersibles...

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    Watching GovernmentSale 181

    April 17, 2000
    The Gulf of Mexico is the only US offshore region where lease sales have been held with any consistency-but not the eastern gulf.
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    S. Korean hydrocarbon output to start in 2002

    April 17, 2000
    South Korea has taken another step toward the ranks of countries with commercial hydrocarbon production.
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    Wildcat to target Central Texas thrust front

    April 17, 2000
    A group of independents is to drill a wildcat west of the Ouachita thrust belt in central Texas east of an area where several high-flowing wells were gauged in past years.
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    Tasmanian gas project advances

    April 17, 2000
    Yolla gas-condensate field in the Bass basin 100 km off the north coast of Tasmania is finally on course for development, according to its two lead interest holders, AWE Petroleum...
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    Swift pursues more Taranaki prospects

    April 17, 2000
    Swift Energy Co., Houston, is moving to delineate and develop a possibly giant discovery in New Zealand's Taranaki basin.
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    World resource estimate shows more liquids, slightly less gas

    April 17, 2000
    The world's endowment of conventional oil remains on the rise, according to a comprehensive study being released this spring by the US Geological Survey.
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    US, Canadian gas markets to remain strong

    April 17, 2000
    North American natural gas prices, supply, and demand should remain strong through this year, said a full spectrum of industry representatives in response to Ziff Energy Group...
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    EIA sees strong world oil demand

    April 17, 2000
    The US Energy Information Administration predicts that world energy use will continue growing rapidly until at least the year 2020, particularly in developing nations.
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    Recovery widespread for petrochemicals

    April 17, 2000
    The petrochemical and plastics industry "remains on the road to recovery," with a potential return to profitability in 2001 as its global surplus is absorbed, said Gary K. Adams...
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    PDVSA projects $53 billion in outlays for 10-year plan

    April 17, 2000
    Petroleos de Venezuela SA has unveiled its latest 10-year business plan, which calls for capital outlays of over $53 billion.
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    Industry Briefs

    April 17, 2000
    ENI SPA and Russia's Gazprom signed contracts for $1.8 billion in loans to Blue Stream Pipeline Co. BV-a 50-50 joint venture of those two firms-and to Gazprom.
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    New pelletizer makes higher-value fuel from resid

    April 17, 2000
    Devco Cos., Tulsa, and Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. (KBR), Houston, have developed and tested new technology for better handling of asphaltene bottom products from solvent deasphalting...
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    NMR tools afford new logging choices

    April 17, 2000
    Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging has matured during the 1990s and offers the petroleum industry a method for determining bypassed pay, hydrocarbon content, and formation...
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    Zone-pricing politics

    April 17, 2000
    A new snake has slithered out of the gasoline-politics swamp, hunting for oil companies.
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    Comprehensive design, maintenance keys to HIPS reliability

    April 17, 2000
    Reducing cost without jeopardizing overall safety of an oil and gas processing facility can be achieved by careful application of state-of-the-art, unconventional design that ...
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    IPAA sues to overturn oil royalty rule

    April 17, 2000
    The Independent Petroleum Association of America has filed a lawsuit to overturn an oil royalty valuation rule that the US Minerals Management Service issued last month.
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    Personals

    April 17, 2000
    Thomas T. White has been named operations manager, for Ridgeway Petroleum Corp., Calgary.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 17, 2000
    At first glance, OPEC's recent decision to hike output in order to rein oil prices seems to be taking hold on markets (OGJ, Apr. 3, 2000, p. 26).
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    Gas for the world

    April 17, 2000
    The US Geological Survey's recent world resource assessment contains much important information about future oil and gas volumes that might become recoverable.
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    Carbon monoxide issue

    April 17, 2000
    We fully agree with your comments (OGJ, Mar. 27, 2000, p. 25), except to observe that the wintertime carbon monoxide needs are not really a "smaller program."
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    MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    April 17, 2000
    Purvin & Gertz, Houston, Tex., has named William J. Sanderson president and CEO.
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    $10 oil too cheap; $35 too much

    April 17, 2000
    When it comes to energy, the past year has demonstrated to the oil producers that $10 oil is too cheap and to the consumers that $35 oil is too expensive.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 17, 2000
    Hydrop is an advanced wet gas scrubbing technology that removes submicron particulate matter, including heavy metals from stack gases.
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    Area Drilling

    April 17, 2000
    SNH extended to June 30 the closing date of its third licensing round.