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  • Volume 98, Issue 8

    • Volume 98, Issue 8

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    Profile indicator helps predict pipeline holdup, slugging

    Feb. 21, 2000
    An indicator has been developed quantitatively to characterize pipelines based on the propensity of their profiles to induce liquid holdup.
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    FERC updates gas transportation rules

    Feb. 21, 2000
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has adjusted its regulatory framework governing the interstate gas market and transportation grid.
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    Pipe-collapse issues provide economic opportunities

    Feb. 21, 2000
    To overcome design issues that affect well economics and operations, historical methods of casing design require revisions.
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    Underreaming technologies provide array of applications

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Underreaming, a complex market consisting of at least 22 drilling applications, offers several product options, including bicenter bits, reaming wing tools, expandable bits, and...
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    Study reveals variables that affect cement-plug stability

    Feb. 21, 2000
    A recent operating-service company study provides greater understanding of slurry movement after placement in the wellbore.

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    Area Drilling

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Norwest Energy is about to engage in an important Timor Sea exploration program in 2000, beginning with appraisal of undeveloped Puffin oil field on Permit AC/P22.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Here's a new line of high alloy investment cast ball valves.
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    Renewable energy

    Feb. 21, 2000
    In general, I appreciate the articles in Oil & Gas Journal.
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    Moves and Promotions

    Feb. 21, 2000
    PennWell, the leading information provider to the petroleum industry, announces the appointment of D. King Anderson as president of its PennPoint division. PennPoint is the new...
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    The world needs more oil

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Regarding the editorial, The world needs more oil (OGJ, Jan. 24, 2000, p. 17), a quibble if you please.
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    A graphical rendition

    Feb. 21, 2000
    This week's issue of OGJ begins a series of posters and wall-sized maps that utilize advanced graphical and geospatial technologies to depict many facets of the oil industry.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Feb. 21, 2000
    The hottest industry talk continues to circulate around the steady rise in oil prices and speculation over what OPEC members will do about their production curtailments after ...
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    Politics of oil and steel

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Did someone in Washington, DC, forget something?
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    PDVSA modernizes controls at the Jusepín oil production complex

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) is upgrading automatic controls at its Jusepín production complex, serving the Furrial oil field, about 450 miles east of Caracas.
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    Malaysian LNG plant plans major expansion

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Malaysia LNG Tiga Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Malaysian state oil firm Petronas, awarded a $1.5 billion turnkey contract for a major expansion of its LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak...
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    Canada opts not to sanction Talisman operations in Sudan

    Feb. 21, 2000
    The Canadian government will not impose sanctions on the operations of Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. in a major Sudan oil project.
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    Unit converts H2S to raw material for lube-additive production

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Lubrizol, Le Harve, France, converts hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a byproduct of its lube-oil additive production, into sulfur, a raw material for additive manufacture.
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    Watching GovernmentItalian gas decontrol

    Feb. 21, 2000
    The Italian government has proposed to end ENI SPA's near-monopoly on natural gas distribution but let it keep most of its assets and contracts.
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    ENI, Edison to take Libyan gas

    Feb. 21, 2000
    ENI SPA subsidiary Agip North Africa BV has signed a contract to supply 4 billion cu m/year of Libyan natural gas to Edison Gas, the natural gas arm of Italian energy firm Edison...
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    Industry Briefs

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Bureau Veritas (BV), Paris, became the first signatory of the Ship Safety Charter, a good conduct charter on maritime safety developed through a round table discussion of all ...
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    Oil company earnings surged during 3Q 1999

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Rising crude oil and natural gas prices in 1999 led to significantly higher third quarter profits for a sampling of US and Canadian oil and gas companies, compared with their ...
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    Petroleum companies must fight corruption, instill responsibility in evolution of social awareness

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Petroleum companies must fight corruption, instill responsibility in evolution of social awareness
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    Pluspetrol-led group wins Camisea contract

    Feb. 21, 2000
    A consortium of Argentina's Pluspetrol Resources Corp., Hunt Oil Co. of Peru, and South Korea's SK Corp. Sucursal Peruana, has won the tender for development of the world-class...
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    Cooperative economics needed to tap stranded Kamchatka gas

    Feb. 21, 2000
    An indicator has been developed quantitatively to characterize pipelines based on the propensity of their profiles to induce liquid holdup.
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    Strong oil, gas prices drove up profits in 4Q

    Feb. 21, 2000
    Growing global demand has nearly tripled oil prices in the past year, fueling a recovery among producers in the last months of 1999 that is expected to propel the oil and gas ...