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  • Volume 98, Issue 44

    • Volume 98, Issue 44

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    Worldwide Construction Update: Four-year downward trend is reversed

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Oil and gas companies have let a declining number of contracts in the downstream sector to engineering and construction companies during the past 4 years.
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    New technology improves portable well testing units

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The availability of 0-100% water-cut measurement devices and accurate flow measurement meters has improved the results of portable well testing units in the Kern River field in...
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    Wellhead growth index aids multistring casing design

    Oct. 30, 2000
    A newly developed Wellhead Growth Index (WHI) allows engineers to design multistring casings more effectively.
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    Industry needs standardization of precious-metals management

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The formation of an industry group can help develop standards for the processing industry better to manage the reclamation of precious metals from catalysts.
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    Drilling activity and dayrates continue to rise

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The good news is that US drilling activity is up a record 41% from year-ago levels, but the best news is that day rates are up, too, and likely to continue rising with the available...

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    Silence on global warming

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The US presidential election draws near, with candidates of both major political parties noticeably quiet on what should be a defining issue. Their positions are clear enough....
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    Area Drilling

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Unocal Corp.'s Spirit Energy 76 unit started production from its Muni gas find on Ship Shoal Block 295 under budget and in less than 10 months after discovery.
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    Pemex anticipates deepwater gulf drilling program

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos plans to drill five deepwater exploratory wells in the Gulf of Mexico during the next 7-10 years, a company official indicated at a deepwater...
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    CAA's Title V permitting process for US terminals slow but moving

    Oct. 30, 2000
    New permitting requirements, primarily under US federal operating permits program of Title V of the 1990 Clean Air Act, and the changing scope and extent of air policy and rulemaking...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 30, 2000
    This report offers information on the geology of this large area of northern Siberia immediately north of the East Siberian oil-gas province.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Houston, announced it has created a new company, eProduction Solutions Inc., which will provide turnkey solutions for production management, automation, and optimization.
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    Release oil for SPR

    Oct. 30, 2000
    As the country debates President Clinton's decision to release 30 million bbl of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and we wait to see what effect, if any, it will...
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    Bad air?

    Oct. 30, 2000
    OK.... Al G., et al, are continually crying about how bad the air is in Texas/Houston, so I have a remedy.
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    Speculation on the role of OPEC

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Speculation about the role of OPEC in the fluctuation of world oil prices has been well reported by the press in past months.
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    Domestic energy policy needed

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The US is using 22 million bbl of the world's daily consumption of 76 million bbl of oil.
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    A good energy policy

    Oct. 30, 2000
    A good energy policy (OGJ, Oct. 9, 2000, p. 19). We need it but...
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    Watching Government: SPR issues

    Oct. 30, 2000
    The US Senate has finally passed a bill reauthorizing the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the law under which the 571 million bbl US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is operated...
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    Watching the World: Global oil's faithful servant

    Oct. 30, 2000
    So fundamental has the North Sea industry's contribution been to Europe's oil and gas supply-and economies-over the last 30 years, that one can become blinkered to the broader...
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    Seven Sisters redux

    Oct. 30, 2000
    At an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries summit meeting outside Algiers in March 1975, the conference host, Algerian Pres. Houari Boumedienne, proclaimed that oil was...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Instead of the oft-predicted global surplus in supply of methanol and resulting soft prices, the market has seen a tightening supply-demand balance that occasionally yielded spot...
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    COMPANY NEWS: State firms diversifying global portfolios

    Oct. 30, 2000
    State-owned oil and gas firms that face deregulation, privatization, and other changes at home continue to diversify their asset portfolios internationally.
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: NY independent gets new E&P chief

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Jack Krug has been named acting president of American International Petroleum Corp.'s (AIPC) exploration and production division.
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    ExxonMobil's Thompson: Latin oil potential appealing-if terms are right

    Oct. 30, 2000
    In a world that should see continued robust growth in oil and gas demand for the next 20 years, Latin America offers some of the most appealing prospects for petroleum company...
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    Worldwide Construction Update: Pipelines

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Worldwide Construction Update: Pipelines
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    Worldwide Construction Update: Refining, Petrochemicals, Sulfur and Gas Processing

    Oct. 30, 2000
    Worldwide Construction Update: Refining, Petrochemicals, Sulfur and Gas Processing