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    Acetic acid, vinyl acetate consumption on the rise

    Sept. 11, 2000
    World consumption of acetic acid will increase 2.9%/year on average between 1999 and 2009.
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    Brazil's petroleum prospects bright after successful demonopolization beginning

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Five years after the introduction of changes to the Brazilian constitution that led to the opening of the petroleum sector to private investments, the country's energy industry...
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    Royalty relief, not industry windfall, benefits US

    Sept. 11, 2000
    A decade of restructuring has significantly altered the nature of the oil and gas industry and its approach to exploration, particularly in the US.
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    Corrosion-mitigation program improves economics for processing naphthenic crudes

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Refiners can significantly increase profits by processing discounted high-acid crudes because about 80% of their costs is crude oil.
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    Dewatering techniques gain foothold in Canada

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Canadian operators have successively applied dewatering technologies to meet their environmental and operational needs.

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    The $25/bbl legacy

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Hey, Mr. President! Yes, you: Bill Clinton. A minute of your time, please.
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    Area Drilling

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Hassi Berkine South field in the Ghadames basin averaged 70,950 bo/d in second quarter 2000, up from 60,300 bo/d in the first quarter, said operator Anadarko Petroleum Corp., ...
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    Queensland's new energy policy pushes proposed Papua New Guinea pipeline

    Sept. 11, 2000
    In May, the government of Queensland, Australia, issued details of a new energy policy that will have a positive impact on the proposed 1,988-mile, New Guinea-Queensland gas pipeline...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 11, 2000
    PetroDesk version 2000.1, an engineering integration mapping software application, is designed to browse, visualize, report, and analyze oil and gas data.
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    Three exploration methods model gas field in New York

    Sept. 11, 2000
    A decade of restructuring has significantly altered the nature of the oil and gas industry and its approach to exploration, particularly in the US.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Houston, has named Karl Bartholomew president.
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    Archie's method

    Sept. 11, 2000
    The May 1, 2000, issue of Oil & Gas Journal carries a feature that begins on page 45 under the headlines "Petrophysical insights contradict Archie's equation" by Lanny Dunham....
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    Watching the World: A fine state of affairs

    Sept. 11, 2000
    The fundamental structural change currently being experienced by the oil and gas industry at large is finding a deep resonance in Norway with the hotly debated issue of Statoil...
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    Brazil's energy learning curve

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Brazil's phases of progress along the energy learning curve have been brief but steep.
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    MOL, acquisition targets change leadership

    Sept. 11, 2000
    MOL Rt.'s board of directors has elected Zwsolt Hernadi as the company's new chairman following the resignation this summer of MOL Chairman Janos Csak.
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    Watching Government: Rush to regulate

    Sept. 11, 2000
    At a time when you'd expect the US Environmental Protection Agency to be winding down some initiatives, it seems to be winding up.
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    Shell spending hike bolsters UK North Sea outlook

    Sept. 11, 2000
    The UK North Sea's slow-rolling recovery from the lowest activity levels in its history was given a further shot in the arm last week by news from Shell Exploration & Production...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 11, 2000
    $5/Mcf gas looms as US heat wave hampers gas injectionThe surge in US cooling load demand as temperatures routinely topped 100° F. across much of the Sun Belt last week has weakened...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Conoco names global e-commerce manager; Benton names new CEO

    Sept. 11, 2000
    This week in personnel moves, one firm gains an e-commerce manager, while another gains a chief executive.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Integrated company ranking confirms Conoco's E&P revitalization

    Sept. 11, 2000
    Houston integrated energy company Conoco Inc. steps into this week's company news limelight by being ranked first in exploration and production results in a comparative-performance...
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    MOL gains strength downstream with Slovnaft consolidation

    Sept. 11, 2000
    MOL Rt. and Slovakia's Slovnaft AS are linking up in the first cross-border consolidation of two former East Bloc petroleum firms.
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    Subsea completions key deepwater Brazil development

    Sept. 11, 2000
    With subsea completions tied to floating production vessels, Petrobras has successfully developed many large, billion-barrel recoverable, hydrocarbon accumulations found in deep...
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    Development under way following record financing package for Barracuda-Caratinga fields

    Sept. 11, 2000
    When Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA completed financing in June for $3.59 billion in international credit for developing oil and gas fields in the Campos basin off Brazil, it...