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  • Volume 98, Issue 7

    • Volume 98, Issue 7

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    Investment Opportunities Starting To Open Up In Iran's Petroleum Sector

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Despite a major opening in the Iranian oil industry in the past few years, Iran still is a mystery to the international investor.
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    Middle East Petroleum Sector Offering More Foreign Investment Opportunities

    Feb. 14, 2000
    During the past 20 years, the Middle East has probably received more attention globally for its regional politics and position in world affairs than for its enormous energy wealth...
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    Mudlogging method calculates coalbed gas content

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Case studies show that gas-content calculations, as determined by a novel mudlogging technique, closely coincide with information derived through whole core desorption techniques...
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    The Opening Of Iraq: Post-Sanctions Iraqi Oil, Its Effects On World Oil Prices

    Feb. 14, 2000
    The opportunities for investing in Iraq's oil sector after sanctions are lifted are very significant, indeed, but there are enormous consequences for oil markets when those opportunitie...
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    New law, seismic information smooth Nicaragua licensing

    Feb. 14, 2000
    A licensing round is to commence early this year in Nicaragua.

    More content from Volume 98, Issue 7

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    Portugal's Petrogal repositions itself as energy multinational

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Portugal's state-owned petroleum firm Petrogal has embarked on an ambitious plan to reposition itself as a multinational energy firm.
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    Chevron, Shell to share rigs for gulf drilling

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Chevron U.S.A. Production Co. and Shell Exploration & Production Co. have agreed to share rigs to jointly drill two exploratory deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico this year...
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    DOE budget for FY 2001 adds to fossil R&D

    Feb. 14, 2000
    The US Department of Energy's latest budget proposal contains funding for several new fossil energy research and development programs.
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    Oil market turning point seen in 2Q 2000

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Oil market performance in the second quarter of 2000 will signal whether escalating prices threaten the economic recovery in Southeast Asia that is spurring the growth in worldwide...
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    US greenhouse gas emissions growth slows

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Growth in US emissions of greenhouse gases is slowing, and voluntary efforts by industry-especially the energy industry-appears to be a significant factor in that trend.
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    US oil, gas asset sales lighter in 3Q

    Feb. 14, 2000
    US oil and gas property sales during the third quarter of 1999 reached $1.2 billion, bringing the total for the first 9 months to $44.4 billion in 202 transactions, according ...
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    Petrobras faces big tab, shake-up after spill

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) estimates it will spend about 110 million Brazilian real ($62 million) in costs directly related to a January fuel oil spill said to be the ...
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    New transmission-factor formula proposed for gas pipelines

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Joint research involving four European natural gas transmission companies has yielded a new transmission-factor formula as an alternative to the well-known Colebrook-White formula...
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    Chevron, Phillips to form giant chemical JV

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Chevron Corp. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have signed a letter of intent and exclusivity agreement to form a 50-50 joint venture of their global chemical operations-totaling about...
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    Industry Briefs

    Feb. 14, 2000
    A Feb. 4 accident at Formosa Plastics Group's Mailiao naphtha cracking complex killed three Indonesian workers employed by a South Korean subcontractor. The men asphyxiated on...
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    Shell tests low-cost, real-time oil well surveillance

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Several of Shell Group's exploration and production operating units have installed or are testing a low cost and effective well surveillance system.
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    Formosa group to launch tanker fleet

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group will launch its own fleet of ships to transport raw materials to its new naphtha cracker complex in central Taiwan.
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    Watching GovernmentMTBE debate

    Feb. 14, 2000
    An uncommon but politically persuasive coalition is asking the US Congress to reduce the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as an oxygenate in reformulated gasoline (RFG...
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    New gauge reduces error in flare-drum level

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Replacing an old mechanical gauge with a radar gauge on a blowdown drum improved reliability and reduced maintenance costs for Preem Raffinaderi AB's refinery in Gothenburg, Sweden...
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    The FTC's price worries

    Feb. 14, 2000
    The oil consumer has returned to US politics. Concern about the possible effects on retail oil prices lies at the core of federal objections to BP Amoco PLC's proposed acquisition...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 14, 2000
    The US Federal Trade Commission asked a San Francisco US District Court judge to issue a preliminary injunction blocking BP Amoco's combine with ARCO.
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    Platform modules loaded out for Saudi offshore fields

    Feb. 14, 2000
    J. Ray McDermott Middle East Inc. has begun load-outs on its recently completed fabrication contract for five jackets and three production deck modules for Aramco Overseas Co....
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    Double click

    Feb. 14, 2000
    For many of us, purchasing consumable goods, appliances, and clothing through the internet has become the quickest and most efficient way to obtain these commodities, but for ...
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    Cover page

    Feb. 14, 2000
    I've been a subscriber of the Oil & Gas Journal for many years, which I've enjoyed most of the time, as a very serious information media.
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    MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Ziff Energy Houston, Tex., has named Ron Ford senior associate. He has more than 30 years of industry experience.
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    EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE/LITERATURE

    Feb. 14, 2000
    For live, remote viewing inside a vessel or a tank, this new easy-mount camera combines high performance video imaging capability with durability.
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    Area Drilling

    Feb. 14, 2000
    Australian researchers found evidence of a petroleum system in the Eyre sub-basin off Western Australia near the boundary with South Australia.