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    Control-system improvements expand refinery processes

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Despite their often secondary consideration, process-control improvements can generate substantial benefits with little or no investment.
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    Tight schedule prompts staged start up for Viet Nam's first gas plant

    Sept. 25, 2000
    A very tight project schedule for which all equipment could not be supplied by the targeted start-up date led to a novel stepwise completion of the first natural gas-processing...
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    Pressure-varible cantrol system simplifies well testing in China

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Pressure-varible cantrol system simplifies well testing in China
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    Thermal system handles cuttings at Colombian site

    Sept. 25, 2000
    A thermal desorption process used by BP in Colombia has proven efficient and cost effective in treating oil-based-mud (OBM) drilled cuttings.
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    Propellant perforating improves hydraulic frac treatment

    Sept. 25, 2000
    A combination of propellant and underbalanced tubing-conveyed perforating enhanced the hydraulic fracturing treatment of a well in the foothills of western Alberta.

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    Drilling crews receive pay raises, dayrates higher

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Drilling crews receive pay raises, dayrates higher
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    Governments, operators eyeing effects of synthetic-based drilling fluids

    Sept. 25, 2000
    By yearend, rig operators in the UK Continental Shelf will have reduced to zero the discharge of their synthetic-based drilling fluid contaminated cuttings.
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    E&P strategy prepares producers for 21st century

    Sept. 25, 2000
    The exploration and production industry has bred a set of established rules for success over the past several decades.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Megamajors open door to China expansion plans

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Megamajors BP, ExxonMobil Corp., and Royal Dutch/Shell Group have signed separate strategic joint-venture agreements with China's state oil and petrochemical company, Sinopec ...
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    Watching the World: Production at what cost?

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Through the latter half of the 1990s, the UK North Sea offshore industry was eager to hold itself up as a shining example of a forward-looking business that had been streamlined...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Marathon consolidates US upstream sector, appoints new senior team

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Marathon Oil Co., a unit of USX Corp. unit USX-Marathon Group, Pittsburgh, plans to consolidate parts of its US upstream organization in an effort to cut costs by $75 million/...
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    Watching Government: Energy strategy

    Sept. 25, 2000
    American Petroleum Institute Pres. Red Cavaney says the US needs to open a discussion on drafting a national energy strategy.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Despite few changes in market fundamentals since early August lows, oil prices have increased $7-8/bbl, and OPEC's recently proposed output hike has not eased market jitters, ...
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    Low-tech exploration

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Finding oil and getting its products to market have intrigued us for about 150 years. The search, however, was not always as high-tech as it is now.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Centerline Geophysical has named George Dallas market-ing/explorationist. Dallas was previously with GeoCenter.
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    San Joaquin basin is scene of new effort to evaluate EOR in Monterey

    Sept. 25, 2000
    An important new effort is under way to evaluate enhanced oil recovery through carbon dioxide flooding in the prolific Monterey formation of the San Joaquin basin, southern California...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 25, 2000
    New clamshell casing cutters mount directly onto the OD of well casing, requiring minimal radial and axial clearance.
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    Area Drilling

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra, launched a 2-year project to inventory and document all depositional centers under Australian marine jurisdiction.
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    Statoil completes hot tap, sends out first ethane from Karsto

    Sept. 25, 2000
    Norway's Statoil AS reported earlier this month that a hot-tap operation completed at the end of August has prepared the Statpipe gas trunkline for tie-in of an export line from...
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    Attention revives oil myths

    Sept. 25, 2000
    The world now glowers at oil. Prices of crude oil and petroleum products have reached unprecedented levels. Heavily taxed European consumers are protesting in various ways. Newspaper...