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    Planning affects deepwater Apia, Black Widow projects

    March 26, 2001
    Intensive preplanning and coordination among completion team members allowed Mariner Energy Inc. (MEI) to begin production at 40 MMcfd on its Apia well (Gulf of Mexico, Garden...
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    California crisis underscores need for hedging energy price risk

    March 26, 2001
    The recent crisis in California's electric power sector points to the critical importance of being able to use certain financial instruments as tools to hedge energy price risk...
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    Re-examining the Metallgesellschaft affair and its implication for oil traders

    March 26, 2001
    The Metallgesellschaft AG (MG) affair of 1993-94 conveyed three central messages to the petroleum industry: one pertaining to the relationship between hedging and speculating,...
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    Intelligent fuzzy system helps offshore platform start-up

    March 26, 2001
    Intelligent systems with a fuzzy controller can play an important role in controlling and managing start-ups of offshore facilities.
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    Spanish refinery takes precautions in alky-unit design

    March 26, 2001
    In February 2000, BP 's Castellon, Spain, refinery commissioned a new hydrofluoric acid (HF) alkylation unit, employing Phillips Petroleum Co.'s HF alkylation process.

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    SOUTH ATLANTIC GEOLOGY-1: Geologic insights listed into Africa, Brazil deepwater exploration

    March 26, 2001
    Triton Energy Corp.'s discovery of Ceiba field off Equatorial Guinea highlights key concepts of the geology and exploration potential of the central and southern Atlantic Ocean...
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    Energy problems in focus

    March 26, 2001
    There's nothing like shortage to focus the official mind on energy.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    March 26, 2001
    The new DHS110 Heat Spy Series of compact, hand-held, noncontact infrared thermometers provides a completely portable, easy to use, cost-effective, and accurate means to measure...
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    Area Drilling

    March 26, 2001
    Gulf Keystone Petroleum Co. of the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement to explore Block 126 in the Ferkane region in northeastern Algeria, OPEC News Agency reported.
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    (Re)Searching the Internet

    March 26, 2001
    In today's fast-moving business environment, up-to-the-minute business information often makes the difference between being leading edge and being left behind.
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    Oil spill concerns linger after Brazil platform disaster

    March 26, 2001
    The ability to expand domestic and foreign markets, not limited access to working capital, will determine oil production in the Russian Federation within the next 5 years.
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    Watching Government: CO2 battles just beginning

    March 26, 2001
    Climate change is a divisive issue for the oil industry.
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    OPEC deems 1 million b/d production cut 'prudent'

    March 26, 2001
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries considers its agreement to cut crude production by another 1 million b/d effective Apr. 1 to be a "prudent" measure to stem declining...
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    Murkowski: Energy bill a policy starting point

    March 26, 2001
    US Senate Committee on Energy and natural Resources Chairman Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alas.) last week said his omnibus energy bill is a "starting point" that will be used to help...
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    Watching the World: Near-field of dreams

    March 26, 2001
    To scan Bassoe Offshore Consultant Ltd.'s latest rig update for the North Sea, the upturn in drilling activity on which the UK oil and gas industry pinned its hopes during the...
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    New markets, business models key to future Russian oil production increases

    March 26, 2001
    The ability to expand domestic and foreign markets, not limited access to working capital, will determine oil production in the Russian Federation within the next 5 years.
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    OGJ Newsletter

    March 26, 2001
    Higher oil prices and a slowing economy-a slowdown that those higher oil prices are contributing to-are cutting into oil demand growth.
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    Platte inspection program supports alternative to hydrostatic testing

    March 26, 2001
    Platte Pipe Line's use of a new inspection tool to identify seam-weld defects revealed that the transverse field inspection (TFL) tool had less impact on pipeline operations and...
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    New energy pricing tool needed to stave off capital starvation for energy companies

    March 26, 2001
    Given the high energy prices and record earnings now being reported by energy companies, access to capital should improve in 2001.
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    Electronic energy trading begins to take hold

    March 26, 2001
    The energy industry was a little late to the dot-com party but was not damaged by the market crash of last spring. While slow to embrace electronic commerce, the energy industry...
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    New accounting standard to change energy financial derivatives reporting

    March 26, 2001
    Energy companies worldwide use financial derivatives to divide business risk into smaller components, which are bought or sold, in order to diversify risk and manage strategic...