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  • Volume 99, Issue 34

    • Volume 99, Issue 34

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    Petrochemical Operations: Ethylene must compete with electricity for natural gas resources

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Increased competition between the ethylene and electricity markets for natural gas is one reason North American natural gas prices will remain higher than in the recent past.
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    Petrochemical Operations: Dow boosts Terneuzen ethylene capacity to support market growth

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., is in the final stages of constructing new ethylene capacity via extensive upgrades to its operations in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.
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    Tests expand knowledge of horizontal gravel packing

    Aug. 20, 2001
    An extensive test program to evaluate a concentric annular packing system (CAPS) also expanded knowledge of horizontal gravel packing.
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    Advanced control project stabilizes delayed coker, increases throughput

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Koa Oil Ltd. improved operations and increased its coker feed rate by applying model predictive control technology combined with an inferential coke-yield model to its No. 2 delayed...
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    Intricate linkages connect natural gas, electricity, heating oil, gasoline

    Aug. 20, 2001
    During the past year a series of US energy supply concerns caused extensive unease about the availability and cost of heating oil, the price of gasoline-in what threatened to ...

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    Advertising Sales / Advertisers Index

    Aug. 20, 2001
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    Area Drilling

    Aug. 20, 2001
    CNOOC Ltd. spudded a wildcat in Qiongdongnan basin in the South China Sea.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Free pipe support catalog
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    Cover photo

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Cover photo
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    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Houston, has acquired OCRE (Scotland) Ltd. from Maritime Well Service, a division of Aker Maritime.
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    Astrobleme model

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Paul Denney's comments on the Potato Hills are welcomed (Letters, "Not an astrobleme," OGJ, July 23, 2001, p. 10). There appears to be a misinterpretation of the OGJ article he...
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    Data mining is key strategy for next cycle of North American exploration

    Aug. 20, 2001
    The recent higher prices for oil and gas coupled with a rising awareness of a potential supply shortage indicate exploration will climb in the next few years. Based on historical...
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    New way for developing natural gas

    Aug. 20, 2001
    In September of 1984, I put forward a new idea-converting water wells into gas wells. But at that time, few geologists and engineers accepted it.
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    Criminalize energy curtailment

    Aug. 20, 2001
    The article "California bill would criminalize energy curtailment," (OGJ, July 23, 2001, p. 34) outlines just the type of legislation the oil and gas industry has needed for years...
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    A pipeline to history

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Petroleum and warfare have been inextricably intertwined from the begining.
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    Preparedness validated in gulf deepwater flowline repair

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Repair of the Macaroni field flowline in the US Gulf of Mexico confirmed for project participants the necessity of adequate preparations in design and equipment.
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    EIA lowers 2001 world oil demand growth forecast

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Although the US Energy Information Administration cut its forecast for world oil demand growth this year to 1 million b/d for 2001 from its previously predicted 1.2 million b/...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 20, 2001
    IEA has left its estimate of worldwide oil demand growth unchanged in its latest report, but the total numbers have shifted upwards as the agency has revised its non-OECD demand...
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    Watching Government: Litmus test

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Environmentalists are livid about a US House of Represenatives energy bill that would open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
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    COMPANY NEWS: Devon to buy Mitchell Energy for $3.1 billion

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, said it would buy Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., for $3.1 billion in cash and stock.
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    Editorial: Terrorism and ILSA

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Many US citizens probably think their government actually did something about international terrorism when Congress passed and President George W. Bush on Aug. 3 signed a 5-year...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Anadarko announces several senior management changes

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Anadarko Petroleum Corp, Houston, announced senior management changes in its exploration and production segment and key executive changes in its business development, strategy...
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    Uzbekneftegas to start up new petrochemical complex by yearend

    Aug. 20, 2001
    State-owned Uzbekneftegas is commissioning parts of its grassroots petrochemical complex in the Shurtan area, south of Uzbekistan, expected to start up by the end of this year...
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    Moving to ethanol use instead of MTBE to have major impacts

    Aug. 20, 2001
    A move away from the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether to the use of ethanol as a blending component in gasoline would have a profound impact on a number of petroleum-dependent...
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    Petrochemical Operations: Joint venture almost doubles Qatar's ethylene capacity

    Aug. 20, 2001
    Qatar Chemical Co. Ltd. (Q-Chem) is building a grassroots petrochemical facility that will almost double the current 525,000 tonne/year (tpy) ethylene capacity at the Mesaieed...