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    Reliability assessment avoids new FCCU expander purchase

    Nov. 27, 2000
    BP Amoco's Whiting, Ind., refinery saved millions of dollars by avoiding the purchase of a new power-recovery turbine expander (PRT) to replace its existing one, which experienced...
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    Refinery feed, complexity determine investment for US fuel specs

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The types of crudes processed and the complexity of a refinery will significantly impact the level of investment required to make new US fuels.
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    Study says 2005 EU product specs may cost refiners up to $9 billion

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Depending upon the final 2005 fuel specifications, the necessary European Union (EU) refining investment could be huge-as much as $9 billion, says a study by Nexant Ltd., London...
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    Expandable tubulars set new records

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Expandable liner and sand-screen technologies are setting new records and being installed in more-difficult environments.
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    Jack Ryan drillship to use retractable thrusters, MUX control systems

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The state joint stock company Chornomornaftohaz has begun to prospect the North Kazantip gas deposit in the southern Azov Sea, according to press reports from Kiev.

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    Flat Asia-Pacific markets to deflect Middle East products westward

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Petroleum products from the Middle East are moving westward more and more frequently.
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Shell names new production vice-president for US E&P unit

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Jørn Berget has been named vice-president, production, for Royal Dutch/Shell's US exploration and production unit Shell Exploration & Production Co. Berget replaces Steve McVeigh...
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    COMPANY NEWS: US E&P companies bolstering their portfolios

    Nov. 27, 2000
    US-based exploration and production companies are scrambling to acquire more assets to bolster their portfolios amid a robust oil and gas price environment.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Unseasonably warm weather had taken the wind out of the sails of high gas prices earlier this month, but that trend was abruptly reversed in the past week or so.
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    Watching the World: Gordian energy knot tightens

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The coincidental overlap in the staging of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP-6) in The Hague and International Energy Forum (IEF) in Riyadh last week could ...
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    Watching Government: Alaska's choice

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles said his state will push for construction of a gas pipeline from the North Slope to Alberta, paralleling the oil pipeline and Alaska Highway.
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    OPEC under fire for considering output cuts

    Nov. 27, 2000
    A rising chorus of Western politicians has called for further production increases from oil exporting nations, notably the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, as OPEC...
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    DOE: Energy savings key to US Kyoto goals

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The US Department of Energy says energy efficiency savings could enable the US to comply with the goals of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change without harming the domestic economy...
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    Siegfried's 'aGoreaphobia'

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Pity poor Siegfried the Wonder Bug.
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    Coating, CP failures behind corrosion problems on African fuel oil line

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Laboratory analyses of a section of 8-in. pipe in heavy-fuel-oil service revealed failure from damaged coating and thermal insulation and from inefficient cathodic protection ...
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    Ethanol backer bashes oil

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The OGJ Oct. 23, 2000, editorial, p. 19, "Ethanol backer bashes oil," observes that the government forgoes federal tax amounting to $0.54/gal to make it possible for ethanol producers...
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    Silence on global warming

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Your editorial "Silence on global warming," (OGJ, Oct. 30, 2000, p. 21) attacks the scientific credibility of global warming.
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    The new president's challenge

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Your editorial "Silence on global warming," (OGJ, Oct. 30, 2000, p. 21) attacks the scientific credibility of global warming.
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    Services/Suppliers

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Houston, has named Eugene Williams manager - reservoir characterization and Raymond Flumerfelt senior consultant.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Nov. 27, 2000
    With the addition of a new impeller, the self-aspirating Hurricane aerator now provides 22% more oxygenation than previously.
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    The climate change stampede

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Are you confused about the 2-week conference that concluded last week in The Hague on climate change?
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    Statoil tests, adopts deepwater pipe tool

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Statoil, after tests on its Gullfaks Satellites Phase II project, has adopted a new subsea tool that allows flanged piping to be assembled in deep water without diver assistance...
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    Perupetro to revive offshore bid rounds

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Peru's state oil agency Perupetro released a generalized timetable starting in early 2001 of licensing rounds for offshore blocks left pending since 1999.
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    Algeria sets onshore licensing, Mediterranean seismic

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Algeria's Sonatrach has opened its first competitive exploration and production licensing round and commissioned a marine seismic survey along the country's entire Mediterranean...
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    China awards more coalbed methane PSCs

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Texaco China BV has signed production sharing contracts with China United Coalbed Methane Corp. in Beijing to explore three blocks in northwestern China for coalbed methane.
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    Average US well, footage costs peaked in '99, API says

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The cost per well and cost per foot of the average completed well in the US set records in 1999.
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    New Zealand to see more dirlling in East Coast basin

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Exploratory drilling is to start soon in land and offshore portions of New Zealand's East Coast basin, whose first discovery came in 1998.
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    Forest-Anschutz work to turn good geology, connections into South African business

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Operations off western South Africa took a positive turn at mid-November with good results from an exploratory test in the Orange River basin.
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    Ukraine to tap gas on Black, Azov Sea shelf

    Nov. 27, 2000
    The state joint stock company Chornomornaftohaz has begun to prospect the North Kazantip gas deposit in the southern Azov Sea, according to press reports from Kiev.
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    Tchatamba West field starts up off Gabon

    Nov. 27, 2000
    Marathon Petroleum Gabon LDC has begun producing 6,000 b/d of oil from the Tchatamba West field, in 165 ft of water 15 miles off Gabon.