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  • Volume 98, Issue 2

    • Volume 98, Issue 2

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    Density transmitter

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A new range of explosionproof digital insertion density transmitters offers cost savings to process engineers.
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    New design simplifies coiled-tubing operations

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Schlumberger Oilfield Services' well-intervention business unit expects a new coiled-tubing unit design, called CT Express, to reduce rig-up time, improve safety, and significantly...
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    Microhole technology lowers reservoir exploration, characterization costs

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Development of technology to drill small-diameter boreholes and the imminent marriage of this technology with micro-instrumentation can result in low-cost, deep wells for both...
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    Coiled-tubing drilling technologies target niche markets

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Coiled-tubing drilling (CTD) has been successfully used by ARCO, BP Amoco PLC, and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to access hard-to-reach, overlooked, and depleted reservoirs...
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    Coiled-tubing tools key successful Brunei acid jobs

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn Bhd. increased oil producing rates from its acid stimulation program, offshore Brunei, by incorporating permanently installed downhole sliding-sleeve...

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    Area Drilling

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Italy's Agip opened an office in the capital, Torshavn.
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    Density transmitter

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A new range of explosionproof digital insertion density transmitters offers cost savings to process engineers.
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    MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Nicol & Associates, Inc., Richardson, Tex., has named Mark J. Lane president.
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    TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Algoma Steel Inc. of Canada, and Siderca S.A. of Argentina, one of the DST companies, have signed a preliminary agreement...would lease and operate Algoma's seamless steel pipe...
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    Connections

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A US Public Television series not long ago showed how small discoveries or insignificant events from history have led to current achievements and inventions.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Global oil markets dipped slightly just before the end of the year in response to news that OPEC had stepped up production to prepare for possible supply problems associated with...
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    A test case on trade

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A question crucial to the worldwide oil and gas industry will receive an unusually thorough appraisal in US politics this year.
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    Taiwan may build eighth naphtha cracker

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Taiwanese state oil firm Chinese Petroleum Corp. and the Chiayi County government have signed a letter of intent calling for CPC to build Taiwan's eighth naphtha cracker.
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    Shell Canada proceeds with oilsands project

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Much to the chagrin of environmentalists, Shell Canada Ltd. and its partners are immediately beginning construction of a $3.5 billion (Can.) oilsands project in northern Alberta...
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    Global Energy Investment Index

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Index rises during first quarter of tracking
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    South African company commercializes new F-T process

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Further demonstrating its Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) prowess, Sasol Synthetic Fuels installed the last of eight new reactors using the Sasol Advanced Synthol (SAS) process in its Secunda...
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    Industry Briefs

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A combine of UniSuper and National Australia Asset Management acquired the Moomba-Botany ethane pipeline in Australia from Orica Ltd, Melbourne, for $124 million (Aus.).
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    Watching GovernmentDecontrol in Eastern Europe

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Former Communist nations in Eastern Europe continue to make progress toward privatized energy industries and free markets.
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    China accelerates shift in energy policy, restructuring of state petroleum firms

    Jan. 10, 2000
    China's energy policy has gone through major changes in the last a few years, from a strategy based on self-reliance to one of aggressively seeking oil and gas supplies abroad...
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    Mergers to trim European marketing sector

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Mergers among the petroleum giants and network rationalization will lead to the closure of 20,000 service stations in Western Europe by 2004.
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    Here are recommendations in search of giants in Pakistan

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Could giant fields remain to be found in Pakistan's basins? The first part of this two-part article introduced the question (OGJ, Jan. 3, 2000, p. 56).
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    DOE grant aids Green River basin wells

    Jan. 10, 2000
    The US Department of Energy said a successful horizontal well it helped sponsor in the Green River basin of southwestern Wyoming could encourage nonconventional gas exploration...
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    Thread connection exceeds pipe-body plasticity

    Jan. 10, 2000
    A compression test conducted on a 7 5/8-in., 39-lb/ft P-110 casing joint buckled the pipe body rather than the connection.
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    Changing energy world shifts focus to gas

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Natural gas is the fuel of the future, with new technologies on the threshold and projections that demand will double by 2010, says Richard Flury, chief executive of BP Amoco ...
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    Storage-tank leak detection improved with cable-sensor system

    Jan. 10, 2000
    Since 1995, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Orange, Calif., has used a cable-sensor system to improve leak detection from its aboveground storage tanks.