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    Drilling Report: Proactively managed drilling operations optimize company performance

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Economics strongly motivate operating companies to set up drilling management systems that have active feedback from post-well analysis to real-time drilling operations.
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    Drilling Report: Drilling contractors mobilize badly needed rigs and crews

    Sept. 17, 2001
    The drilling industry must be commended for finding crews, mobilizing an aging rig fleet, and generating newly built rigs, exceeding the 1997 peak drilling activity, both in terms...
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    Water management strategy improves tight gas recovery

    Sept. 17, 2001
    A water management strategy of proactively reducing liquid loading has increased both production rates and gas recovery from multilayered, tight Cotton Valley sands.
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    Calculations help determine carbon steel piping in cold temperature relief service

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Gas processing facilities may have flare or vent systems that occasionally handle cold relief flows for short periods of time.
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    Robust natural gas market drives US rig fleet renewal

    Sept. 17, 2001
    US drilling activity has been a roller coaster ride over the past 4 years. As activity climbed steadily through 1997, it appeared the industry was returning to boom times with...

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    Venezuela to explore marine basins for gas, lighter crudes

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) will reactivate a program to explore its offshore basins.
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    Tucumcari basin potential borne out in new source rock studies

    Sept. 17, 2001
    The Tucumcari basin of east-central New Mexico is an asymmetric structural depression that existed as a depositional basin from the Atokan (Early Pennsylvanian) through Wolfcampian...
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    Advertising Sales / Advertisers Index

    Sept. 17, 2001
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    Area Drilling

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Phillips Petroleum International Corp. Denmark said its Hejre-1 exploration well on License 5/98 in the northern Danish central graben found oil in sandstones of Late Jurassic...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Now on the market is a range of 4, 6, and 8 in. diameter standard or stainless steel extractor arms designed to provide plant facilities with a noncorrosive, easily adjustable...
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    Irresponsible choices

    Sept. 17, 2001
    I thought at first that Mr. Matt Janoviak's letter(OGJ, Aug. 27, 2001, p. 10) was written with tongue in cheek. But I finally decided he was serious.
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    Right on target

    Sept. 17, 2001
    The editorial (OGJ, Aug. 20, 2001, p. 21) "Terrorism and ILSA" is right on target.
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    Warning signs

    Sept. 17, 2001
    I agree wholeheartedly with Matt Janowiak's comments regarding responsible energy use (OGJ, Aug 27, 2001, p. 10).
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    Global warming

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Your feature "If global warming is real, how should humankind respond?" (OGJ, July 30, 2001, p. 24) contains any number of highly contentious propositions which the author has...
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    OPEC has taken control

    Sept. 17, 2001
    OPEC has once again taken control over the global oil supply, and natural gas production and distribution cannot meet rising demand at traditional prices.
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    Testing, analysis solve insulation problem on gulf flowline

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Upon start-up in late 1997, the Troika flowline system, offshore Louisiana Gulf of Mexico, evinced poor thermal insulating properties when the arrival temperature of produced ...
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    Watching Government: Tragic ironies

    Sept. 17, 2001
    An apparent coordinated terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, DC, last week is expected to have reverberating implications on US energy policy.
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    Petroleum resource, careers

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Two years ago, I had the privilege of speaking during career day at Cypress Creek High School in Northwest Houston, touting the virtues of petroleum engineering as an exciting...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Sept. 17, 2001
    While world oil markets are volatile for now, in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Washington, DC, and New York City, OPEC can be expected to supply added liquidity...
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    Analysts contend oil markets face short-term instability

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Oil analysts contend that last week's terrorist attacks on the US will keep world oil markets unstable in the short term, although supplies are adequate for now.
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    Majors freeze gasoline prices, call isolated price spikes unwarranted

    Sept. 17, 2001
    Plentiful US supplies of crude oil and refined products don't justify a sharp spike in US retail gasoline prices in the wake of terrorist attacks on US targets, industry officials...
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    Editorial: Energy and environment-2 - The fuel fashion show

    Sept. 17, 2001
    The making of energy policy is not a fashion show for fuels.
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    US energy policy outlook an enigma in wake of terrorist attacks

    Sept. 17, 2001
    The outlook for Congress and the White House reaching consensus this fall on energy legislation is a giant enigma, given the horrific wave of terrorism that unfolded in Washington...