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    Acid-gas injection proves economic for West Texas gas plant

    May 22, 2000
    GPM Gas Co. LLC, formerly GPM Gas Corp., realized signeificant cost reductions with an acid-gas injection well at its 60-MMscfd Dumas, Tex., gas plant
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    Paleomagnetism provides alternative core orientation methods

    May 22, 2000
    Paleomagnetic techniques provide a means for orienting the vast volumes of inventoried core samples. This article presents three methods, developed at the University of Windsor...
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    Changes in store for France's refining sector

    May 22, 2000
    Despite a record year-to-year drop in profits in 1999, from 6.1 billion francs to 0.8 billion, France's refiner-marketers maintained their investments, which, at 5.1 billion francs...
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    Williams boosts gas plant capacity

    May 22, 2000
    The energy services business unit of Tulsa-based Williams has completed a $60 million expansion at a natural gas plant in Opal, Wyo.
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    RBI reduces turnaround costs for petchem, gas processing plants

    May 22, 2000
    Risk-based inspection (RBI) programs applied in an Aristech Chemical Co. polypropylene plant (Fig. 1) and an Altura Energy Ltd. gas-processing plant used plant-specific evidence...

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    Deepwater GOM production topping shallow-water output

    May 22, 2000
    Late last year, deepwater oil production in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time exceeded production from the shallower waters of the outer continental shelf. And deepwater gas...
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    Application of new code will extend equipment lives

    May 22, 2000
    A recent study found that just 0.13% of the highest leaking components in a plant represented more than 90% of reducible fugitive emissions.
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    Cook field produces first crude oil

    May 22, 2000
    UK firm Enterprise Oil PLC has put Cook oil field in the UK North Sea on stream.
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    New compact plug container installs easilyon casing

    May 22, 2000
    A compact plug container, installed with a quick-latch coupler, allows the head to be quickly and easily attached to the casing during cement operations, reducing the risk of ...
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    Refinery revamp uses photogrammetry to produce as-built model

    May 22, 2000
    Having used three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design (CAD) technology on numerous greenfield engineering projects, Kvaerner Engineering & Construction, Zoetermere, The Netherlands...
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    Magnetostrictive sensor technology proven in process applications

    May 22, 2000
    Various tests and operating environments have successfully demonstrated magnetostrictive sensor (MsS) technology.
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    Rodríguez: Current crude oil price level satisfactory

    May 22, 2000
    Japan and the US could be headed for a showdown over Japan's plan to improve economic ties with Iran.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 22, 2000
    With natural gas futures prices touching $4/MMbtu and crude oil futures prices hovering near $30/bbl, the market bulls are in full stampede.
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    US, Japan may collide over Tokyo's Iranian oil overtures

    May 22, 2000
    Japan and the US could be headed for a showdown over Japan's plan to improve economic ties with Iran.
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    Canadian M&A action continues to set torrid pace

    May 22, 2000
    Canada's merger and acquisition frenzy continues unabated.
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    Regional heating oil reserve a solution with its own problems

    May 22, 2000
    President Bill Clinton on Mar. 18 proposed the establishment of a heating oil reserve for the US Northeast region.
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    Personnel Moves and Promotions

    May 22, 2000
    Australia's petroleum industry has warned that the investment ...that might ultimately lead to declines in oil production, disruptions to supplies, worsening of national accounts...
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    Watching Government: Energy games

    May 22, 2000
    Many times-in fact, most times-that legislation is introduced in the US Congress, it's not with the expectation that the bill could pass.
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    New Jersey offers online permitting, payment service

    May 22, 2000
    The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has launched what it claims is the first online air quality permitting and payment process.
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    Cyber pipelines

    May 22, 2000
    In recent months, there has been an internet rush to capitalize on oil and gas business.
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 22, 2000
    Marine Technology Society (MTS) has named Sandeep Khurana, a facility engineer with Paragon Engineering Services, Inc., chairman of the Houston section.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 22, 2000
    A new approach for salt dome mapping is offered via the ShapesProspector PC-based earth modeling software.
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    SW Siberia's Jurassic, Bazhenov may contain much larger oil reserves

    May 22, 2000
    The name "Bolshoi Salym" is applied to a group of areas and oil fields located in Shirotnoye Priob'e between the Ob' and Irtysh Rivers. They include Salym, North Salym, West Salym...
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    A statement of value

    May 22, 2000
    In recent months, there has been an internet rush to capitalize on oil and gas business.
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    Erika effect to chill use of older tankers, report says

    May 22, 2000
    The wreck late last year of the tanker Erika off the coast of France (OGJ, Dec. 20, 1999, p., 38) is chilling shipping-industry attitudes about using older tankers, especially...
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    US natural gas storage: Study foresees regulatory changes and steady growth

    May 22, 2000
    Regulatory changes and steady growth in US natural gas consumption will trigger a 21% increase in gas-storage capacity over the next 15 years with a $5 billion investment, according...
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    Spain's Gas Natural enters Brazilian distribution market

    May 22, 2000
    Spain's Gas Natural enters Brazilian distribution market
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    First pipelay job:

    May 22, 2000
    The offshore construction and pipelay reel barge Midnight Eagle will lay pipe on South Marsh Island Block 27 beginning this month for Taylor Energy.