Volume 98, Issue 27

Malaysian company more than doubles petchem complex capacity

July 3, 2000

Titan Petrochemicals Sdn. Bhd., the largest petrochemical company in Malaysia, commissioned a new 330,000 tonnes/year (tpy) ethylene unit in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, in ...

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Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: How indexes have changed

July 3, 2000

Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: How indexes have changed

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Teamwork, extensive preplanning pay off for Norwegian Sea well

July 3, 2000

The results of a wildcat well, located in the Voring Plateau of the Norwegian Sea, show that coordinated management and planning from the service company, drilling contractor,...

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Environmental concerns govern design of UK gas-fired power plant

July 3, 2000

Design and construction of the Scottish Power generating station at Knapton, North Yorkshire, placed environmental considerations ahead of economic ones in important process decisions...

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Residual oil determination, advances key to program

July 3, 2000

The main keys for determining how to redevelop the Romashkinsky field include proper characterization of the volume and location of the remaining oil reserves and implementation...

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Russia's oil privatization is more greed than fear

July 3, 2000

After 7 years of dramatic decentralization and dynamic privatization of Russia's oil industry, the pendulum of oil control has started to move back.

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The precautionary principle

July 3, 2000

The World Petroleum Conference in Calgary last month gave voice to a climate-change approach called the precautionary principle.

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Equipment/Software/Literature

July 3, 2000

A new web site describes a line of mass flowmeters and controllers.

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Services/Suppliers

July 3, 2000

LAGCOE has named Ron Garber of Apache Corp.

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Monitoring data system underpins pipeline-integrity program

July 3, 2000

Statoil's comprehensive, pipeline-integrity management system for buried onshore systems accounts for the unique operation and environmental characteristics of various systems...

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Letters

July 3, 2000

"The lay-off legacy," OGJ's June 19, 2000, editorial, incorrectly (in my view) identifies "wildly variable oil prices" as the key determinant of employment in the oil and gas ...

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US reaction to OPEC production hike guarded at best

July 3, 2000

US reaction to the decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase oil production has ranged from a guarded welcome to yet another call for wielding ...

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OGJ's new design

July 3, 2000

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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EBRD calls for Gazprom break-up

July 3, 2000

The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development has called for the breakup of Gazprom in order to encourage competition in Russia's gas supply sector.

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Watching Government: The blame game

July 3, 2000

Political pundits have begun to proclaim that higher energy prices will be a major campaign issue in the US elections this fall.

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Rodríguez: OPEC faces new challenges

July 3, 2000

The formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1960 was one of the great ground-breaking events of the last century, but the organization today is faced...

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High gasoline prices spark political furor

July 3, 2000

High gasoline prices in the US have sparked a political furor in a presidential election year.

Companies

OGJ Newsletter

July 3, 2000

Oil prices persist above $30/bbl despite OPEC increase

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Canadian company builds largest ethylene and polyethylene complex

July 3, 2000

Nova Chemicals Corp., Calgary, is nearing completion of a $1.4-billion (US) expansion that will make its Joffre petrochemical site in central Alberta the largest ethylene and ...

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Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes

July 3, 2000

Nelson-Farrar Cost Indexes