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    Horizontal wells find varied applications in Saudi fields

    May 8, 2000
    Horizontal-well applications in Saudi Arabia have many objectives, such as controlling oil and gas coning in relatively thin remaining oil columns, improving waterflood sweep ...
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    Refiners can boost profits using the conversion index

    May 8, 2000
    Refiners can use conversion indices (CIs) to determine if margins will support conversion-unit projects.
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    Software enables cost-effective updates of operating procedures

    May 8, 2000
    The BP Amoco Toledo, Ohio, refinery is testing and using a method to make updating and certifying procedures less time consuming.
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    Market changes importance

    May 8, 2000
    The supply of natural gasoline in Mont Belvieu is gradually being diverted from refinery feedstock and the gasoline blendstock pool to ethylene feedstock.
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    Novel insulated production system planned for deepwater Angola field

    May 8, 2000
    Alto Mar Girassol last month was slated to begin construction of an innovative system of heavily insulated flowline bundles and rigid riser towers for development of TotalFinaElf...

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    Texas Railroad Commission introduces Internet-based permit process

    May 8, 2000
    On May 11, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) will introduce the Electronic Compliance and Approval Process (ECAP), an electronic commerce system that eliminates paper by ...
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    Advanced control improves German aromatics operation

    May 8, 2000
    Implementation of an advanced control project improved the performance of Veba Oel GmbH's Gelsenkirchen, Germany, aromatics unit No. 5 .
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    HIGH INTEGRITY PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS-CONCLUSION: QatarGas' plant reflects typical HIPS applications

    May 8, 2000
    Unconventional designs using high-integrity protective systems (HIPS) are increasingly used to lower the investment cost of new oil and gas production developments or to minimize...
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    Olefin plant revamp affects process control, real-time optimization

    May 8, 2000
    Olefins unit revamps impact existing advanced process control (APC) and closed-loop real-time optimization (CLRTO) systems.
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    Mexico's reserves, production rising

    May 8, 2000
    As of Jan. 1, 2000 Mexico had proven, probable, and possible reserves of 41.495 bbl of crude oil, up from 41.064 billion bbl at the end of 1998.
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    Royalty relief extension vital for continued deepwater development

    May 8, 2000
    Without the deepwater royalty relief program, the US risks suffocating its most promising oil and gas province at the very time it is struggling with what the nation's policy ...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 8, 2000
    A first: E&P stocks lag price rise
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    Operators detail upstream spending plans

    May 8, 2000
    With the rebound in oil and gas prices, US companies are continuing to increase spending for upstream operations for the coming year.
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    Watching Government: Right to know

    May 8, 2000
    O ne of the hallmarks of the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration has been a drive to increase public information about actual and potential pollution...
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    E-commerce seen critical for oil and gas company survival

    May 8, 2000
    Oil and gas companies slow to realize the speed at which e-commerce applications are changing business-to-business (B2B) transactions are in store for a grueling uphill climb-...
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    Personnel moves and promotions

    May 8, 2000
    The massive gulp with which Phillips Petroleum Co. has swallowed ARCO's Alaskan businesses has yielded some organizational changes at the Bartlesville, Okla., company.
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    Wyoming cowboys

    May 8, 2000
    Something new is going on in the Wyoming oil and gas sector, and it's not just coalbed methane (CBM).
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    Online service

    May 8, 2000
    I was recently trying to respond to Oil & Gas Journal's Apr. 10, 2000, editorial.
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 8, 2000
    Houston, Tex., has named Carroll W. Suggs to the company's board of directors.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 8, 2000
    The New WJAF hammer union pressure transducer is designed specifically for use with 1502 and 2202, 2 in. wing unions in onshore and offshore drilling installations.
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    Pipeline design to MAOP rating can skew project economics

    May 8, 2000
    Refiners can use conversion indices (CIs) to determine if margins will support conversion-unit projects.
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    Area Drilling

    May 8, 2000
    Units of Italy's ENI spudded an exploratory well on the 550-sq-km Kur Dashi block south of the Kura river delta and 45 km east of Lenkoran.
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    Big government returns

    May 8, 2000
    A raid on a private residence by federal agents to snatch a celebrity 6-year-old from relatives.
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    Acceptance of composite repair system widens

    May 8, 2000
    Since mid-January 2000, the Clock Spring pipeline repair system has been included under revised wording of US regulatory rules covering pipeline repair.
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    Mississippi River barge dock receiving product

    May 8, 2000
    On May 1, Colonial Pipeline Co., Atlanta, and TransMontaigne Inc., Denver, started up a new barge dock near Baton Rouge, La., that will, say the companies, enhance their ability...
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    Zagros domain of Iran holds exploration, EOR opportunities

    May 8, 2000
    The Iranian part of the Zagros Foothills and of the Persian Gulf is one of the world's most prolific oil and gas provinces.
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    Dolphin gas supply project taking shape

    May 8, 2000
    A little over a year after it was officially launched, the UAE Offsets Group's ambitious $8-10 billion Dolphin gas supply project is developing a more concrete shape.
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    Deep rights licensing to spur drilling on Alberta's Suffield Military Range

    May 8, 2000
    Alberta Energy Co. Ltd.'s AEC Oil & Gas partnership said it could recover 25-50 million bbl of oil ultimately from lands it acquired in April on the active Suffield Military Range...
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    Rimu, other discoveries lift hopes in New Zealand

    May 8, 2000
    Recent discoveries of oil, condensate, and gas could have a profoundly positive effect on New Zealand's energy picture.