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  • Volume 98, Issue 3

    • Volume 98, Issue 3

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    Violence, Crime Continue To Cast Shadow Over Future Oil Investment In Colombia

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Unfortunately, the peace talks were postponed.
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    Misinformation surrounds controversy over Occidental's Colombian wildcat

    Jan. 17, 2000
    A recent article in Oil & Gas Journal illustrates that even a well-intentioned publication friendly to the petroleum industry can unwittingly serve the purposes of those hostile...
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    Models support potential for drilling deep microholes

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Analysis of developed models suggests that no fundamental or theoretical reason exists to prevent relatively deep microholes from being drilled with hydraulic motors deployed ...
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    Talisman Grapples With Negative Publicity Over Its Oil Project In War-Torn Sudan

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Sometimes the biggest risk for an oil company operating in a high-risk area is the attendant fallout from negative publicity associated with that operation.
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    Foreign Companies In Nigeria's Niger Delta Scramble To Implement Security, Stakeholder Initiatives As Situation Threatens To Worsen

    Jan. 17, 2000
    As high-risk a region in the oil-producing world as there is, Nigeria's Niger Delta is threatening to get worse.

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    Area Drilling

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Victoria Petroleum NL, Perth, extended to 2,000 m the projected TD of a remote wildcat it is drilling in the West Coast basin on New Caledonia island.
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    EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE/LITERATURE

    Jan. 17, 2000
    A 6 page brochure discusses the Sildril silicate-base drilling fluid system that provides shale inhibition and environmental compliance.
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    MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    Jan. 17, 2000
    The American Society for Non-destructive Testing (ASNT) has appointed Professor Edmund Henneke as the new Editor-in-Chief for Research in Nondestructive Evaluation.
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    TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Pipeline Integrity International has merged with Pipetronix GmbH.
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    Dangerous enterprise

    Jan. 17, 2000
    I hope Ms. Dannenmaier (OGJ, Jan. 3, 2000, p. 6) was the only reader to think that my article on crude oil relative values (OGJ, Nov. 22, 1999, p. 51) was about predicting or ...
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    Production milestones

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Under Production Milestones on p. 68 of the Dec. 13, 1999, special issue of the Oil & Gas Journal, it was reported that the first electric power used for pumping an oil well occurred...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Stakeholder concerns in petroleum industry high-risk areas command center stage this week (see special report beginning on p. 32).
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    Unintended Consequences

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Journalists are among the most frequent violators (or victims, depending upon one's point of view) of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
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    Exploration milestones

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Despite the disclaimer following the chart on pp. 39 and 40 indicating that the "milestones" may reflect the bias of the sources from which they were collected, one cannot help...
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    Chile seeks partners for 21 mature fields

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Chilean national oil firm Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) is seeking joint venture partners to help it reactivate mature oil and gas fields in the Magallanes basin, also ...
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    Industry reacts to US royalty rule revisions

    Jan. 17, 2000
    The US Minerals Management Service has issued a revised oil royalty reform rule that gives industry some, but not all, of the changes it had requested.
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    Bradley and oil taxes

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Former Sen. Bill Bradley has tossed tax treatment of oil and gas production onto the glowing coals of presidential politics.
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    Rentech to acquire Colorado methanol plant

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Rentech Inc., Denver, and Republic Financial Corp. Aurora, Colo., have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sand Creek Chemical's 25 million gal/year methanol plant at Commerce...
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    Singapore Refining Co. cuts crude runs

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Singapore Refining Co. says it will be forced to run at 70% capacity this year, as excess supply of oil products continues to undermine profitability in the sector.
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    Joint effort blends DME from coal-bed methane

    Jan. 17, 2000
    NKK Corp., Taiheiyo Coal Mining Co., and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. say they synthesized dimethyl ether (DME) from coal-bed methane in October 1999.
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    Singapore aromatics unit may restart by August

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Singapore Aromatics Co. Pte. (SAC) recently mothballed a 3-year old Singapore aromatics plant, but the $1.1 billion (Sing.) venture could resume operations as early as next August...
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    GPA research data help save time, money in BG plant design

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Data from a GPA research program saved time and money in designing British Gas' Hannibal gas plant, Sfax, Tunisia.
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    El Paso sells pipelines to seal merger deal

    Jan. 17, 2000
    El Paso Energy Corp., Houston, has completed the divestiture of three US pipeline systems.
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    Saudi oil policy combines stability with strength, looks for diversity

    Jan. 17, 2000
    High reserves and low production costs continue to anchor Saudi Arabia's oil policy.
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    Thailand seeks delay in taking Yetagun gas

    Jan. 17, 2000
    The Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) has asked to delay the purchase of incremental natural gas supplies from Myanmar's Yetagun field in the Gulf of Martaban due to a slowing...
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    Watching GovernmentImports study

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Once again, the Clinton administration is in a predicament over an oil-import policy question.
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    Environmental characteristics of Oxy's Gibraltar 1 well site

    Jan. 17, 2000
    The Gibraltar 1 exploration well site is located in Colombia's eastern mountain range in a highly disturbed area where the primary vegetation has almost completely disappeared...
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    Pakistan licenses seven exploration blocks

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Pakistan granted seven new exploration licenses to local and foreign companies at the end of last month.
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    Kazakh recovery lifts Hurricane, tests creditors

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Hard work and the mid-1999 crude oil price rebound seem to have transported Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd., Calgary, from virtual insolvency to profitable current operations as an...
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    Land, shelf opportunities identified along Niger Delta

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Since the early 1990s, oil operators have focused attention on the deepwater part of the Niger Delta (Fig. 1), where the first exploration licenses were attributed in 1993 and...
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    Industry Briefs

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Tuskar Resources PLC, Dublin, announced first oil from ...is exceeding the expected 4,000 b/d and will be transported via the Crystal Sea floating production, storage, and off...
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    Two exploration technologies made available to the industry

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Texaco is making available two exploration technologies the company developed during the 1990s.
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    Qatar plans 10-year, 270-well drilling program

    Jan. 17, 2000
    Qatar General Petroleum Corp. has revealed plans to drill 270 wells in three of its producing oil fields over the next decade in a bid to increase Qatar's productive capacity....