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    The environmental challenges facing the global petroleum industry emerged as a major theme at the first plenary session last week at the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary.
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    Construction of the Villano flowline in eastern Ecuador has proven that a major pipeline can be built on a 4-m wide ROW through virgin rain forest with minimum environmental impact...
    June 19, 2000
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    Houston, Tex., an energy and general commodity industry logistics provider, has been acquired by ASCo Group Ltd., a U.K.-based international logistics company. The acquisition...
    June 19, 2000
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    One of the world's biggest petroleum associations has a new leadership team.
    June 19, 2000
    Visitors to OGJ Online's free news site last week no doubt were slightly startled to see a distinctly nonpetroleum photo gracing the opening page: that of heavily armed members...
    June 19, 2000
    Even with a history of more than 140 years of petroleum operations, Canada continues to tout its fossil fuel potential and energy-friendliness.
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    Oil prices remain well above $30/bbl, which is starting to boost non-OPEC oil supply and squeeze demand, yet the signs from OPEC are that it seems to be unwilling to budge on ...
    June 19, 2000
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    A report by an influential Japanese think-tank has cast serious doubt on the stability of the future LNG supply-demand balance in Asia.
    June 19, 2000
    Rising energy prices are causing headaches for several European nations.
    June 19, 2000
    A natural gas pipeline from Bangladesh appears to be the most viable alternative to LNG for supplying India's burgeoning energy needs, according to Wood Mackenzie, Edinburgh.
    June 19, 2000
    A widely watched US midstream initial public offering has been shelved.
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    A boom in LNG demand and projects is taking shape in India.
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    At its current rate of production, Bangladesh has enough natural gas reserves to meet its consumption needs for the next 38 years.
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    A novel approach has been employed in construction of one of the world's biggest LNG storage tanks, part of the Dabhol LNG power project that is India's first.
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    Canada's natural gas completions are at record levels, but that has not translated into production growth in the western provinces.
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    Use of diluted bentonite water-base mud systems and a turbulent flow regime throughout the nonreservoir sections of Dukhan field, Qatar, has improved penetration rates and costs...
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    Field trials of a new burner for gas flaring indicated that it significantly reduced NOx, CO, and unburned hydrocarbon emissions, according to Expro International Group PLC, Aberdeen...
    June 19, 2000
    South Korea's Samsung Fine Chemicals let a contract to MDC Technology, Teesside, UK, for a model-based predictive controller, to be installed at Samsung's methyl amine plant at...
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    A new generation of integrated personal computer (PC) software is changing oil company workflows by replacing expensive workstations, eliminating separate software for each step...
    June 19, 2000
    Rising product prices helped earnings of China's listed petrochemical firms recover in 1999, but high crude oil costs have narrowed margins, say analysts.
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    As part of the work associated with its 540,000 b/d Jamnagar, Gurajarat, India refinery, completed in 1999, Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) installed the catalyst-regeneration ...
    June 19, 2000