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  • Volume 99, Issue 12

    • Volume 99, Issue 12

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    Model predicts more accurate PI over a field's life

    March 19, 2001
    A model, using the vertical lift performance (VLP) for each oil producing well in a UK North Sea oil field, improved the predictions of the productivity index (PI) over the field...
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    InterOil builds first refinery in Papua New Guinea

    March 19, 2001
    InterOil Corp., Cairns, Australia, is building a US$180 million hydroskimming refinery in Napa Napa, Papua New Guinea (PNG), on the western side of the Port Moresby Harbor.
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    Industrial gas partnership enables upgrade at BP refinery

    March 19, 2001
    In a rare type of partnering, BP and the BOC Group jointly invested in a major upgrade of BP's Bulwer Island refinery in Queensland, Australia.
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    Future US regulations, product demand will tighten fuels market

    March 19, 2001
    In the future, three themes will continue to dominate the US refining scene: ownership restructuring, clean fuels, and price volatility.
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    Egypt builds high-conversion refinery

    March 19, 2001
    Middle East Oil Refinery (MIDOR) is building Egypt's first refinery to involve private investment, one of the largest grassroots refineries to start up this year.

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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Ocean Energy appoints president, operations director for Russian unit

    March 19, 2001
    Houston-based independent Ocean Energy Inc. has added a president and an operations director to its Russian subsidiary, Texneft Inc.
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    Terms set for Persian Gulf's Dolphin gas project

    March 19, 2001
    Qatar Petroleum and the United Arab Emirates Offsets Group (UOG) have signed a $4 billion deal for the Dolphin natural gas project that clears the way for the development and ...
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    High stakes hinge on Russia's energy choices

    March 19, 2001
    For the sake of health, governments should uncouple marketing from science in environmental politics.
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    Japan energy security strategy revanp urged

    March 19, 2001
    Japan should reconsider its energy security strategy, which is outdated, given changes in international market forces and global politics, contends Cambridge Energy Research Associates...
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    Industry praises Bush's reversal on carbon dioxide limits

    March 19, 2001
    US oil industry groups last week praised a surprise decision by US President George W. Bush to oppose mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions for power plants.
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    Democrats to unveil alternative energy plan

    March 19, 2001
    US Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) this week is expected to introduce legislation that fellow Democrats say will provide a more pragmatic approach to energy policy.
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    With an eye toward the east

    March 19, 2001
    It's good politics for a new US president to focus almost exclusively on domestic issues his first year in office.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Top UK independents post record results for 2000

    March 19, 2001
    Top UK independent oil and gas firms are reporting record profits for 2000, citing higher oil and gas prices as the chief driver behind their increased earnings.
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    Russia's oil output expected to exceed official forecasts

    March 19, 2001
    While official forecasts of Russia's crude oil and condensate output this year stand firm at 325 million tonnes (6.5 million b/d), the Moscow-based International Center for Petroleum...
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    Watching the World: An all-consuming need

    March 19, 2001
    The actual business of selling fuel to motorists, it turns out, is kind of a loss leader for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group-and, one supposes, most diversified oil companies.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    March 19, 2001
    Two massive blasts have crippled the world's largest semisubmersible production platform, working in Roncador oil field in Brazil's Campos basin.
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    FTC clears US firms in gasoline price spike probe

    March 19, 2001
    Oil companies did not conspire to drive up the price of gasoline last summer in the US Midwest, the US Federal Trade Commission has told the House of Representatives committee...
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    Maintaining balance

    March 19, 2001
    Growing up outside of town, I spent many hours wandering through the woods with my trusty Boston Terrier.
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    ANWR, imports, and policy

    March 19, 2001
    How casually the environmentalists dismiss ANWR's oil potential (OGJ, Feb. 26, 2001, p. 19) in the Feb. 15, 2001, study by World Resources Institute (WRI).
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    Services/Suppliers

    March 19, 2001
    This new FVM model viscometer is pressure-resistant, explosionproof, and operates in temperatures to 280° C.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 19, 2001
    This new FVM model viscometer is pressure-resistant, explosionproof, and operates in temperatures to 280° C.
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    Hot tap installed on operating sour-gas line

    March 19, 2001
    In the winter 1999-2000, Chevron Canada Resources, Calgary, successfully completed a hot tap on the Simonette high-pressure sour gas transmission line near Grande Prairie, Alta...
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    Energy and environment-2: Counting the uncountable

    March 19, 2001
    For the sake of health, governments should uncouple marketing from science in environmental politics. A good place to start is the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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    Report lists Arizona's oil, gas potential

    March 19, 2001
    A wealth of evidence indicates that Arizona has potential for oil, natural gas, coalbed methane, helium, and carbon dioxide resources.