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  • Volume 99, Issue 21

    • Volume 99, Issue 21

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    Method optimizes Aghajari oil field gas lift

    May 21, 2001
    A new approach determined gas-lift valve spacing for an optimized artificial-lift system in the Aghajari oil field in southwestern Iran.
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    Refinery exceeds industry benchmarks with maintenance outsourcing

    May 21, 2001
    Since it outsourced the maintenance part of its organization 2 years ago, Germany's Schmierstoff Raffinerie Salzbergen (SRS) lube oil refinery has achieved above industry average...
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    Gas-plant tests reveal cost-effective inspection, maintenance practices

    May 21, 2001
    Tests at selected gas processing plants indicate that the greatest opportunities for cost-effective reduction of natural gas losses are from the control of leaking equipment components...
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    US gas-processing profitability statistics begin in this issue

    May 21, 2001
    Beginning in this issue, Oil & Gas Journal will report several profitability measures for gas processing.
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    Tests show diesel additive reduces emissions

    May 21, 2001
    Results of engine-bench tests of its diesel fuel additive showed reductions in toxic emissions that comply with or are lower than CARB (California Air Resources Board) clean air...

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    Area Drilling

    May 21, 2001
    China National Offshore Oil Corp. signed a production sharing contract with Santa Fe Energy Resources (China) Ltd. for Block 27/10, Pearl River Mouth basin, South China Sea.
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    Black Warrior Knox gas production on growth trend in Mississippi

    May 21, 2001
    The Black Warrior basin in Mississippi has the potential for significant gas reserves in Cambro-Ordovician rocks. Evidence for this potential has been accumulating through the...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    May 21, 2001
    In new and retrofit applications, WORM flexible sensors for thermowell temperature assemblies replace straight sensor probes with a universal sensor strategy.
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    Services/Suppliers

    May 21, 2001
    Bank of Texas Dallas, has promoted Tim Merrell to senior vice-president of its energy lending department.
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    PERMAFROST PIPELINING - Conclusion: Instrumentation yields geotechnical picture of slope movements along northern Canadian pipeline

    May 21, 2001
    Inertial pigging of a short section on the 323-mm (12 in. nominal) OD Norman Wells crude oil pipeline from Norman Wells, NWT, to Zama, Alta., revealed the line had experienced...
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    Preventive maintenance is key

    May 21, 2001
    Common sense tells us that proper maintenance of oil and gas processing facilities is key, in today's tight energy market, to ensure continuous, uninterrupted operation.
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    Watching the World: Norway setting up its stall

    May 21, 2001
    Lining up Norway's 30-year-old state-owned oil and gas giant Statoil AS for partial privatization, while at the same time reapportioning a slice of the country's lucrative stake...
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    US officials hopeful for full federal oil and gas R&D funding

    May 21, 2001
    Strong support in Congress and within industry may help restore funding to oil and gas research programs that the US Department of Energy's budget proposal would cut, administration...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    May 21, 2001
    The latest IEA figures released show another drop in projected 2001 oil demand.
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    Editorial: Europe and fuel sulfur

    May 21, 2001
    With its proposal to remove nearly all sulfur from gasoline and diesel fuel, the European Commission threatens to follow the precautionary principle on global warming up an economic...
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    Watching Government: Mixed signals on sanctions

    May 21, 2001
    Industry hopes that the Bush administration would be able to convince Congress to move forward with sanction reforms this summer are fading fast.
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    Newly combined GTI coping with US natural gas industry R&D challenges of gas supply, pipeline safety

    May 21, 2001
    Gas Technology Institute, the result of combining the two leading US natural gas research and development organizations, has marked progress in creating a "one-stop-shopping" ...
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    COMPANY NEWS: Kerr-McGee to buy HS Resources for $2.15 billion

    May 21, 2001
    The consolidation trend between major energy companies and independent exploration and production companies would appear to be picking up some momentum.
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    House Democrats unveil their own energy plan

    May 21, 2001
    Two days before the White House was to release its long-awaited energy task force report at presstime on May 17, US House Democrats last week unveiled their own energy blueprint...
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    Study identifies new parameters for sourwater corrosion

    May 21, 2001
    As part of an ongoing sourwater corrosion study, 15 major refiners and engineering service companies have identified two seldom considered parameters in sourwater corrosion: wall...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Phillips to reorganize key personnel following close of Tosco acquisition

    May 21, 2001
    Pending the completion of its acquisition of Old Greenwich, Conn.-based refiner Tosco Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co. has announced the designation of personnel to its new refining...
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    Three-lateral splitter allows individual zone access in Oklahoma well

    May 21, 2001
    Baker Oil Tools says its first-ever commercial application of a stackable splitter, Level 6, three-lateral completion in an Oklahoma gas field provided greater initial production...