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  • Volume 99, Issue 30

    • Volume 99, Issue 30

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    HSE in Oil & Gas Operations Zero flaring can achieve operational, environmental benefits

    July 23, 2001
    A flare system can safely be designed to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to the environment as well as reducing the cost of operating the overall flare system.
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    Another GOM deepwater gas development announced

    July 23, 2001
    The Einset discovery is one of the latest announced deepwater Gulf of Mexico development projects.
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    Rotary steerable tool design targets increased drilling efficiency, lower running costs

    July 23, 2001
    Operating companies continually seek new technologies to drill laterals and extended reach wells further, more efficiently and at lower cost.
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    Texas gas plant faces ongoing battle with oxygen contamination

    July 23, 2001
    Duke Energy Field Services (DEFS) is using oxygen (O2) scavenging and ion exchange to battle oxygen contamination at its Wilcox gas plant in Lavaca County, Texas.
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    HSE in Oil & Gas Operations Coalbed methane production faces numerous concerns

    July 23, 2001
    Operators contemplating developing coalbed methane gas face numerous regulatory, residential, and legal concerns.

    More content from Volume 99, Issue 30

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    S. Africa's Sable field moves to development stage

    July 23, 2001
    Partners in Sable field off South Africa have sanctioned its development, said Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Irving, Tex.
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    Agip starting two fields off Congo (Brazzaville)

    July 23, 2001
    Eni SpA has begun production from Foukanda field off Congo (Brazzaville) in record time for that area, company officials said.
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    New Zealand Potential - 2: Numerous play types evident in Taranaki basin

    July 23, 2001
    After almost 50 years of utilizing "modern" techniques to search for hydrocarbons in New Zealand's Taranaki basin, explorationists are only now beginning to appreciate its multiplicity...
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    Court order represents more delays for drilling programs off California

    July 23, 2001
    Operators that desire to conduct development and exploratory drilling programs off California face more delays.
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    Advertisers Index

    July 23, 2001
    Advertisers Index
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 23, 2001
    Ampul reference materials for oil industry labs
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    Services/Suppliers

    July 23, 2001
    Apex Environmental Inc. Rockville, Md., has announced that Caley Parrish has joined its Urbandale, Iowa, office as project manager specializing in environmental construction.
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    California's energy crisis

    July 23, 2001
    In listening to the hearings concerning California's energy crisis and Governor Davis' testimony, there would appear to be a cover-up of one important fact: The decision to depend...
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    Pipeline owners must reassess utility of undivided-interest ownership

    July 23, 2001
    Undivided interest joint-venture pipelines work best in high entry-barrier markets with cost-focused owners.
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    Not an astrobleme

    July 23, 2001
    A recent item (OGJ, Oct. 30, 2000, p. 35) states that the Potato Hills structure of Latimer and Pushmataha counties, Okla., may be a model for structural and depositional environments...
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    Climate change belly-flop

    July 23, 2001
    The article "Climate change belly-flop" (OGJ, June 18, 2001, p. 19) was well done.
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    HSE ground zero

    July 23, 2001
    Health and safety concerns are as old as the petroleum industry itself.
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Shell, Phillips, and Devon promote executives to international slots

    July 23, 2001
    Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Phillips Petroleum Co., and Devon Energy Corp. each recently promoted executives to key international positions.
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    IPAA chairman sees steady US gas prices for 2-5 years

    July 23, 2001
    US natural gas prices likely will hold at near current levels for as long as 2-5 years rather than fall further, as many forecasters think, the chairman of the Independent Petroleum...
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    COMPANY NEWS: BP negotiates international refining, marketing deals

    July 23, 2001
    Oil and gas companies' recent merger and acquisition activity involved various international transactions. BP PLC was a player in two separate deals as the British oil and gas...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    July 23, 2001
    IEA again has slashed its projections for 2001 oil demand growth.
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    Energy subcommittee deletes phase-in for low-sulfur diesel

    July 23, 2001
    A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee approved an energy efficiency bill July 12 that includes a proposal to drop the phase-in period for a controversial low-sulfur diesel ...
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    House Democrats file competing public lands reform bill

    July 23, 2001
    US House Democrats this month are seeking to pass energy legislation that its supporters say does a better job of balancing public land management.
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    Power sector takes a downturn in Energy 50 2Q ranking

    July 23, 2001
    The latest ranking of the world's 50 largest energy companies, compiled for the second quarter 2001, was colored by some notable events:
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    Watching Government: Mutual respect

    July 23, 2001
    Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and US President George W. Bush both were in New York City July 10.
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    Commmittee okays ANWR leasing but full House unlikely to agree

    July 23, 2001
    Legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge passed the House Committee on Resources late July 17.
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    Editorial: Oil, politics, and money

    July 23, 2001
    With a political frenzy under way in Congress over energy, US oil and gas companies should stay alert to developments in the uneasy stalemate over reform of campaign finance.
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    MMS to issue 5-year lease sale plan

    July 23, 2001
    The US Minerals Management Service is expected this week to release its proposed 5-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program for 2002-07.
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    California bill would criminalize energy curtailment

    July 23, 2001
    A proposed bill making it a felony for natural gas or electric power producers to curtail production or to sell energy "at prices above marginal cost" is now before California...
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    Post-Kyoto climate policy possible

    July 23, 2001
    Although fraught with scientific uncertainty, there is a growing consensus that our planet, probably because of natural forces and climate cycles but very likely reinforced by...