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  • Volume 98, Issue 40

    • Volume 98, Issue 40

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    Data shows steep Prudhoe Bay production decline

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Decline curve analysis illustrates the continuing steep decrease in oil production from the Prudhoe Bay field on Alaska's North Slope and suggests that the field may reach its...
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    Current cement technologies provide alternative methods

    Oct. 2, 2000
    As the oil and gas industry expands exploration into new and more-complex areas, improvements in oil-field cementing equipment and techniques continue to address the problems ...
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    Flow simulations give refiner capacity, product-quality gains

    Oct. 2, 2000
    During the past 5 years, Mobil has achieved tens of millions of dollars in capacity and product-quality gains by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
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    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly costimating: Equipment costs rise moderately

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Nelson-Farrar Quarterly costimating: Equipment costs rise moderately

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    Commercial SAGD project launched at Primrose, Alta.

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Alberta Energy Co. Ltd., Calgary, has launched field operations at a $230 million project that is the company's first commercial use of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) ...
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    Caribbean's Saba Bank area might hold pre-Eocene potential

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Reprocessing of several hundred kilometers of seismic data makes it possible for the first time to map structure within the pre-Eocene at Saba Bank in the Netherlands Antilles...
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    Clinton's SPR mistake

    Oct. 2, 2000
    US Pres. Bill Clinton gave illuminating context last week to his Sept. 23 order to make 30 million bbl of strategically hoarded crude oil available to a market straining against...
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    Area Drilling

    Oct. 2, 2000
    TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co., Houston, began a 9,500 km nonexclusive 2D seismic survey in 200-3,000 m of water off Liberia.
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    Vapor combustion solves odor problem at marine crude-oil terminal

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Over the years, Trans Mountain Pipe Line Co. Ltd. (TMPL), a subsidiary of B.C. Gas, Vancouver, had experienced periodic odor problems at its Westridge marine terminal in Burnaby...
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    Find oil in granite

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Following the disclosure that except for Saudi Arabia, the OPEC countries are at production capacity or within 5% of it (The Economist, July 8, 2000, p. 60), and that Saudi Arabia...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Sugar Land, Tex., has named Steven A. Manz vice-president of strategic planning.
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    Wanted: A few more good people!

    Oct. 2, 2000
    We should all be happy, right? The rig count is over 1,000. Natural gas is over $5/MMcf. Oil is trading for $35/bbl.
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    Myanmar article corrections

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Thank you for the opportunity to correct the record regarding the article entitled" Myanmar's Upstream Sector Hobbled By Pipeline Controversy, Poor E&D Results in (OGJ, June 26...
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    Energy policy

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Your "No time for energy policy" (OGJ, July 1, 2000, p. 21), deserved an immediate response, but I have been delayed by the pressing business of summer vacation.
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    Politics of global problems

    Oct. 2, 2000
    I realize that we are still in the "silly season" when a paucity of newsworthy items often results in a proliferation of nonsensical reports and articles in the media.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Oil market slowly rebalancing while the announcement of an 800,000 b/d OPEC output hike effective Oct. 1 may have done a little to improve oil consumer anxiety and take a bit ...
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    Mariculture's oily battleground

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Nonprofit research firm Gulf Marine Institute of Technology (GMIT) may have a long, difficult battle ahead before its plan to research and raise native finfish within their natural...
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    Clement Malin's overview

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Re: Clement Malin's "Petroleum industry faces challenge of change in confronting global warming" (OGJ, Aug. 28, 2000, p. 58).
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    Heating oil worries mount despite SPR release announcement

    Oct. 2, 2000
    US heating oil supplies remain a chief topic of concern, despite the imminent release of more crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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    US natural gas crisis seen looming on the horizon

    Oct. 2, 2000
    A natural gas crisis is brewing, with too little new North American supplies coming on stream to significantly affect rapidly growing demand.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Fitch cautious on oil field sector outlook

    Oct. 2, 2000
    The improvement in energy industry commodity prices and industry fundamentals have strengthened the performance of the oil field services sector the past 6 months.
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    Watching Government: The senator and the secretary

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Pres. Bill Clinton's decision to sell 30 million bbl from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve set the stage for more jousting recently between Energy Sec. Bill Richardson and Sen...
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    Watching the World: Grandstanding and scapegoating

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Rilwanu Lukman must be answering the question in his sleep.
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    High crude oil price to slow global economy

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Economic growth in the world's major industrialized nations could slow by some 0.4 percentage points next year if oil prices are not brought down from their recent $33/bbl-plus...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: US independent refiners shuffle key executives

    Oct. 2, 2000
    A flurry of changes among key executive positions at three US independent refiners tops personnel news this week.
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    LNG imports needed to meet growing US gas supply deficit

    Oct. 2, 2000
    LNG will be the "swing" supply source for natural gas in the US in coming years, according to a recent research report by Prudential Securities Inc., New York.
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    US oil, gas reserves rise during 1999

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Robust commodity prices for oil and natural gas during 1999 bolstered growth in proven US oil and gas reserves, said the US Energy Information Administration in its latest annual...
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    US oil dumping case wins in appeals court

    Oct. 2, 2000
    The US Court of International Trade has ruled that the US Department of Commerce must investigate independent oil producers' complaints that four foreign nations "dumped" oil ...
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    Multiphase flowmeters test wells in Netherlands

    Oct. 2, 2000
    Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) deployed multiphase flowmeters at its onshore Pernis West facility to obtain oil well performance data without the need for traditional...
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    Web-enabled software helps manage, operate Aasgard facilities

    Oct. 2, 2000
    A data warehouse, based on Intergraph Corp.'s Notia software, provides an extensive portfolio of e-engineering applications for creating, browsing, and maintaining facility data...
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    Test verifies water-cut meter accuracy in steamflood

    Oct. 2, 2000
    A field evaluation undertaken by an operator has established the capability of new oil and water-monitoring devices accurately to measure water cut in producing streams that have...