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  • Volume 98, Issue 46

    • Volume 98, Issue 46

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    GCC petrochemical industry must unite to compete

    Nov. 13, 2000
    The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) petrochemical producers, particularly small ones, need to cooperate with one another to counter the global trend of fewer and larger companies...
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    Blending amines debottlenecks Iranian gas plant

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Mixing amines can increase capacity or improve efficiency in an amine sweetening plant.
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    Horizontal wells provide bilinear pressure signatures

    Nov. 13, 2000
    A limiting equation may explain the unexpected pressure signatures that appear to indicate bilinear flow in horizontal-well pressure analysis.
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    Sudan experience offers corporate-responsibility lessons, opportunities

    Nov. 13, 2000
    As existing hydrocarbon basins mature, the hunt for substantial new reserves often requires companies to explore and operate in less-developed countries.
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    First US-built deepwater semisubmersible enters Gulf of Mexico fleet

    Nov. 13, 2000
    The first-ever, US-built, deepwater semisubmersible, ENSCO International Inc.'s ENSCO 7500, is scheduled to spud its first well this month in East Breaks Block 599, Gulf of Mexico...

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    Power-pulse, seismic-while-drilling technologies tested

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Engineers at the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory have begun to study the use of hydraulic power pulses through a drilling rig's mud-circulating system.
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    US oil, gas industry enhances health, safety, environment

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Oil and natural gas products have raised our standard of living and helped make us freer, safer, and more comfortable than any people at any time in history.
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    COMMENT: Is Shell Report 2000's sustainable development focus an anomaly or sign of the future?

    Nov. 13, 2000
    A sea change is occurring in the way that petroleum companies report results.
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    US Northeast has cause for concern over heating oil supply but no cause for panic

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Low inventories, memories of last January's cold snap, tight supplies of natural gas, and renewed threats to stability in the Middle East have all contributed to new worries about...
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    IPAA seeks public focus on gas development issues

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Growing US demand for natural gas will cause supply shortages and high prices, but it may finally focus public and political attention on producers' problems in finding and developing...
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    Watching Government: Canada's drilling ban

    Nov. 13, 2000
    British Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh last week squelched an effort to lift a long-standing moratorium that prohibits drilling off his province's picturesque Pacific coast.
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Industry associations appoint new leaders

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Three industry associations have named new leadership to their top positions.
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    Company News: Amerada Hess to acquire Lasmo in $3.5 billion deal

    Nov. 13, 2000
    The merger frenzy among oil and gas companies continues apace-with recent weeks' announcements not bucking the trend.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 13, 2000
    US heating oil stocks remain stubbornly low despite record distillate production levels, and concerns about this winter's supply may rest more in the perception of shortage than...
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    Watching the World: The state of independents

    Nov. 13, 2000
    In the wake of the recently announced merger between US oil companies Texaco Inc. and Chevron Corp. and the announced $3.5 billion takeover of UK independent Lasmo PLC by another...
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    News from the dot-com front

    Nov. 13, 2000
    The dot-com revolution had it half-right.
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    Azerbaijan production estimates

    Nov. 13, 2000
    In 1993, the World Bank produced the first independent estimates of Azerbaijan's oil potential.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Harken Energy Corp. Houston, announced that it has entered into a consulting agreement with Global Ventures/Consultants Inc. to provide exploration services for the company.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 13, 2000
    A new series of explosionproof valves is designed for use in hazardous areas and wherever fast, reliable, positive shutoff is required.
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    Area Drilling

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Chevron Corp. awarded Chinese Offshore Oil Geophysical Corp. a contract to acquire 1,165 sq km of 3D seismic data over blocks 02/31 and 06/17 in northeastern Bohai Bay, said China...
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    New president's challenge

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Now he must govern.
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    More pipelines planned for US Northeast

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Additional gas-delivery capacity is planned for the US Northeast through extensions of existing systems.
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    Deepwater US gulf pipelines set for 2001 installation

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Williams Field Services, Houston, last month awarded a contract for design, procurement, installation, and commissioning of pipelines to be installed in the US Gulf of Mexico ...
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    E&D interest picks up in eastern Caribbean islands

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Exploration and development work is stirring in several areas of the eastern Caribbean.
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    Gippsland basin's coastal blocks due search for shallow gas

    Nov. 13, 2000
    A small Melbourne independent hopes to extend Gippsland basin production onshore in southeastern Australia.
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    Lightly drilled Morocco gears up for more exploration

    Nov. 13, 2000
    Exploratory drilling should pick up in Morocco during the next 2 years.
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    Gas discovery draws attention to Thrace basin, Turkey

    Nov. 13, 2000
    A gas and condensate discovery west of Istanbul in the Thrace basin of European Turkey is believed capable of rates far higher than the stabilized 12.4 MMcfd tested through small...
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    Cash payment extends Argentine field rights

    Nov. 13, 2000
    The government has extended Repsol-YPF SA's concession on giant Loma de la Lata field to 2027 from the original expiry in 2017 in exchange for $300 million in cash in three payments...