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  • Volume 98, Issue 32

    • Volume 98, Issue 32

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    Operational changes fix FCCU catalyst loss problem

    Aug. 7, 2000
    After experiencing a huge catalyst loss while bringing up one of its fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs), Sinopec's Shijiazhuang, China, refinery detected and isolated five...
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    US DOE awards biodesulfurization research grant to Enchira Biotechnology Corp.

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Proponents of biodiesel say it has become the first alternative fuel to complete the health effects testing requirements of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment.
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    Drill-pipe logging string redesign cuts costs for Hibernia

    Aug. 7, 2000
    A drill-pipe-conveyed logging string, capable of gathering in one run per well all measurements and fluid samples needed for proper reservoir evaluation, is one of the innovative...
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    Biodiesel alternative fuel wins health test okay

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Proponents of biodiesel say it has become the first alternative fuel to complete the health effects testing requirements of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment.
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    Propagation equations support top cement pulsation technique

    Aug. 7, 2000
    A new cementing technology, top cement pulsation, can delay the static pressure loss of the slurry and effectively prevent gas migration under complex geologic conditions.

    More content from Volume 98, Issue 32

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    Gas pipeline proposals reviving interest in Arctic Canada E&D

    Aug. 7, 2000
    A pipeline to tap Arctic Canada's natural gas reserves for southern markets in the US and Canada is a possibility once again, for the first time in more than 2 decades.
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    Nelson-farrar cost indexes

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Nelson-farrar cost indexes
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    Sable offshore project delivering gas, with more to come

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The Sable Offshore Energy Project on the Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia is now well under way.
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    Solid expandable tubulars extend well's life

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Expandable cased-hole liners changed the status of a 51-year old, Occidental Permian Ltd. well from a plug-and-abandonment candidate to an active injecting well.
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    Grand Banks' Jeanne d'Arc basin No. 1 hot spot for Canada's remote offshore E&D

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The remote Grand Banks area off Newfoundland continues to be Canada's top offshore exploration and development hot spot, with activity still focused on oil prospects in the prolific...
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    Europe, Asia pace modest gains in Global Energy Investment index

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The first quarter 2000 performance of the 20 countries in the Global Energy Investment (GEI) index maintained the slow growth pace of the index in the third and fourth quarters...
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    Petrobras to undertake ADR offering, swap assets

    Aug. 7, 2000
    In recent months, Brazilian state oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has made several strategic moves while forming several key international alliances to ensure a strong foothold...
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    Personnel Moves and Promotions: Petrobras to undertake ADR offering, swap assets

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Apache Corp., Houston, has named Mike Harris worldwide director of drilling for the company's exploration and production technology group.
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    Watching the World: UK offshore gloom

    Aug. 7, 2000
    As the UK offshore industry struggled to emerge from last year's economic slump, dubiously hopeful headlines began to recur in the trade press. The promise of a "Third Age" for...
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    FTC Midwest gasoline price probe to last another 3-4 months

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The US Federal Trade Commission's investigation into recent US Midwest gasoline price increases will continue another 3-4 months.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 7, 2000
    A study of recent crude oil and gasoline price movements supports the view that, in general, higher gasoline prices are the result of high crude oil prices.
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    Russian oil firm privatization push proceeds amid takeover battles

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The Russian Ministry of Property Relations has submitted draft resolutions to the government on the sale of 19.68% of the shares in the Slavneft oil company and 85% of Onako in...
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    US independents pace strong reserve replacement rate

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Independent US oil and gas companies replaced a robust 256% of total oil and gas production in 1999-the highest reserve replacement figure recorded in the past 5 years-compared...
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    Andersen: Upstream spending to improve into 2001

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Spending for oil and gas exploration and production should improve through the last half of this year and into 2001-after plummeting 22% to $62 billion worldwide in 1999, including...
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    Summertime, and the driving's easy

    Aug. 7, 2000
    While traveling on a minivacation with my family while the US price of gasoline was peaking recently, that price spike didn't appear to have slowed down summer vacationers, truck...
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    Watching Government: Gas outlook

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Industry spokesmen are trying to remain optimistic, but the US appears headed for tighter natural gas supplies and much higher prices this winter.
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    Richardson calls for improvement in oil data

    Aug. 7, 2000
    US Energy Sec. Bill Richardson has called for an improvement in oil supply and demand data gathering as a means to bolster oil market stability.
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    Solar photovoltaics business

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Here are some comments on the article in OGJ, July 10, 2000, p. 80, "The solar photovoltaics business: Has its time arrived?"
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    Gas to liquid

    Aug. 7, 2000
    I read with interest Mr. Paul Grimmer's recent comments on gas-to-liquid (GTL) economics (OGJ, July 10, 2000, p. 7).
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    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Houston,Tex., has named Lisa A. Floyd executive vice president, business development and E&P services.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 7, 2000
    The LCI series winch monitor is designed for marine environments.
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    Area Drilling

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov and Socar president Natik Aliyev signed an agreement on the main principles and conditions of rehabilitation, prospecting, and production sharing...
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    Model helps prevent failures from pressure-induced fatigue

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Liquid pipeline service failures have occurred because of pressure-cycle-induced fatigue crack growth of defects.
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    The politics of energy use

    Aug. 7, 2000
    With the always simmering politics of energy and the environment headed for the boil in a US presidential election year, the oil and gas industry should stay ready to assert perspective...
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    Snøhvit development prospects hinge on LNG commerciality

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Gas discoveries in the Snøhvitarea of the Barents Sea-currently only marginal economically-could become commercially viable if sufficient LNG markets materialize within the next...
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    Russia hopes for huge reserves in Barents, eastern arctic basins

    Aug. 7, 2000
    Supergiant Shtokmanovskoye gas field, in the Barents Sea, is in the western part of Russia's vast arctic continental shelf.