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  • Volume 98, Issue 18

    • Volume 98, Issue 18

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    Partnership turns around refinery in 2 years

    May 1, 2000
    With the unprecedented pace of change in Eastern Europe during the past decade, local refineries must improve their technical and financial performances to survive.
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    Petrophysical insights contradict Archie's equation

    May 1, 2000
    Laboratory and industry-based evidence shows that recovered waters from hydrocarbon-filled formations may have higher resistivity levels than those found in nearby water-filled...
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    Details of two implemented opportunities

    May 1, 2000
    Opportunity: Improve fuel-oil blending at Rijeka
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    Polyester capacity utilization may top 100%

    May 1, 2000
    Global polyester and intermediates utilization rates will exceed 100% of nameplate capacity by 2007 if worldscale plants are not built, according to a study of polyester and paraxylene...
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    Thai Olefins to boost ethylene capacity gas used

    May 1, 2000
    Thai Olefins Co. (TOC) plans to launch a $120 million project to nearly double its ethylene cracking capacity while switching its feedstock from naphtha to ethane from natural...

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    Engineers overcoming bicenter drillbit design hurdles for offshore applications

    May 1, 2000
    Recent developments in bicenter drillbit design have overcome many of the problems that once precluded their use in costly offshore operations, now allowing operators to eliminate...
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    NELSON-FARRAR COST INDEXES

    May 1, 2000
    NELSON-FARRAR COST INDEXES
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    Reel-barge saves time in GOM gathering-line pipelay

    May 1, 2000
    BP Amoco Pipeline Co., Houston, construction manager and operator of the Main Pass oil gathering system (MPOG), successfully avoided weather-related downtime in the Gulf of Mexico...
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    Industry confronts challenges

    May 1, 2000
    Deep water complicates efforts and increases costs for developing and producing hydrocarbon accumulations.
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    Elf, Agip to hike Qatari field capacity

    May 1, 2000
    Qatari Minister of Energy & Industry Abdullah bin Hamad al Attiyah has approved a $200 million expansion plan for Al Khaleej offshore oil field.
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    Barite demand, prices to rebound by 2002

    May 1, 2000
    The demand for barite along with prices are expected to rebound by 2002 after falling in response to a decline in worldwide drilling activity spawned by low crude oil prices.
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    Oil service-supply stocks shine while earnings still lag

    May 1, 2000
    Oil field service company stocks outperformed the market during this year's first quarter, but their first quarter earnings were relatively dull by comparison, say analysts Donaldson...
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    Watching Government: Patent worries

    May 1, 2000
    US refiners are concerned that a recent Unocal Corp. patent case could exacerbate tight gasoline supplies this summer.
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    Deepwater outlays to double by 2004

    May 1, 2000
    Expenditures in the global deepwater oil and gas sector are set to double by 2004, possibly exceeding $20 billion/year.
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    Offshore NW Europe: A sector facing demise or just transition?

    May 1, 2000
    What is wrong with the oil and gas sector off Northwest Europe?
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 1, 2000
    OPEC needs to take special care not to panic over the recent $9/bbl price drop.
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    Personnel moves and promotions

    May 1, 2000
    Former Amoco Corp. executive Robert Sheppard has taken over the reins of the recently embattled Sidanko. Named president, he previously served as Sidanko executive vice-president...
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    Notice anything?

    May 1, 2000
    Do you notice anything different about this issue of Oil & Gas Journal?
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    Opec has changed

    May 1, 2000
    I am writing this in response to your editorial in your Apr. 3, 2000, issue, "OPEC is too slow."
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    Demand for crude

    May 1, 2000
    "OPEC too slow" in responding to changes in demand for crude (OGJ, Apr. 3, 2000, p. 19)?
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 1, 2000
    New Orleans, La., has named John LaBarbera senior vice president and general manager, Houston area operations.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 1, 2000
    A new generation of single-string retrievable packers is rated for service in high pressure/high temperature environments.
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    Pig behavior provides data for monitoring pipeline geometry

    May 1, 2000
    To inspect and monitor cost effectively the seabed geometry of their newly laid pipelines offshore Nigeria, Moni Pulo Ltd. and Brass Exploration Unlimited deployed a system that...
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    Royalty reform in court

    May 1, 2000
    The contentious American issue of federal-royalty reform now heads for the courts.
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    Area Drilling

    May 1, 2000
    Hardman Resources NL, Perth, planned to case to 600 m of 7-in. casing and test the Colombo-1 wildcat 17 km south of Rome.
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    Tanker spills decline amid increased trade

    May 1, 2000
    Spills of crude oil and refined products from tankers have declined markedly since the 1970s, despite a pronounced increase in tanker trade, according to the International Association...
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    Hainan seeks foreign capital for pipeline

    May 1, 2000
    China 's Hainan Province is seeking foreign investment jointly to build and operate the second and third segments of an integrated natural gas pipeline grid.
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    Honduras-Nicaragua border dispute

    May 1, 2000
    A long-simmering dispute over a maritime boundary in the southwestern Caribbean, a region thought to hold potential hydrocarbon reserves, broke into an angry argument between ...
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    Iran's NIOC discovers supergiant gas, condensate field

    May 1, 2000
    National Iranian Oil Co. has discovered a supergiant sweet gas field, Tabnak, in the southern part of the country.
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    Sabah Shell presses Kinabalu field drilling

    May 1, 2000
    Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. has conducted further development drilling at Kinabalu field in the South China Sea off Sabah.
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    First Azerbaijani land well drilled under sharing pact

    May 1, 2000
    Ramco Energy PLC, Aberdeen, Scotland, set production casing on its first new well in giant Muradkhanli field, one of Azerbaijan's largest onshore fields.