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  • Volume 99, Issue 43

    • Volume 99, Issue 43

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    Pakistan's downstream oil sector preparing for deregulation

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Pakistan is moving towards significant energy market changes as its downstream oil sector enters a new world of price deregulation.
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    Improved method makes a soft landing of well path

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Research and field experience have shown that well-path control is important in many cases, not only to reach the desired coordinates, but also to arrive at the well completion...
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    Brazilian test evaluates all-electronic intelligent completion

    Oct. 22, 2001
    An onshore injection well, in Brazil, is the site of an all-electronic, multizone intelligent well completion being tested for eventual use by Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 6: TEC maintains three-pronged growth strategy-in one basin

    Oct. 22, 2001
    San Antonio-based The Exploration Co. has a three-pronged strategy for sustaining the company's production and earnings growth, according to James E. Sigmon, president and CEO...
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    US independents coping with consolidation, price volatility, high costs, limited capital

    Oct. 22, 2001
    As the US oil and gas supply matrix evolves, so too will the role of the US independent exploration and production company.

    More content from Volume 99, Issue 43

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    Sizable Canadian independents an endangered species amid M&A frenzy

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Canadian independents with significant natural gas and land positions are at some risk of becoming an endangered species, with a spate of takeover deals already on the books this...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 7: Toreador Resources seeks out non-US exploration targets for growth

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Toreador Resources Corp., Dallas, primarily sees itself as a manager of its portfolio of 1.4 million net mineral acres in the US, although it envisions expanding its exploration...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 3: Denbury Resources sustains growth through CO2 flood, workovers

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Plano, Tex.-based Denbury Resources Inc. attributes much of its sustained earnings growth to a niche carbon dioxide flood enhanced oil recovery project it operates at Little Creek...
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    Hype aside, renewable energy emerging as viable long-term energy industry business opportunity

    Oct. 22, 2001
    The US government will encounter next month a strong but little-remarked reason to enact sound energy policy.
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-Nos. 1, 4: Mission Resources targeting $1 billion market cap by 2005

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Newly formed Mission Resources Corp.-the product of a merger earlier this year of Houston companies Bargo Energy Co. and Bellwether Exploration Co.-hopes to maintain the same ...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents No. 2: Anadarko Petroleum focusing on growth through the drillbit

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, has drawn attention lately for its acquisitions of other companies, but Chairman and CEO Robert J. Allison Jr. emphasizes that Anadarko still...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 9: Pure Resources on 'fast track to growth' with balanced strategy

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Pure Resources Inc., Midland, Tex., is implementing a balanced strategy while it pursues a fast track to growth.
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 10: Houston Exploration expands business through low-cost operations

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Houston Exploration Co. intends to focus on production and reserves growth, which it plans to control through its capital spending programs.
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents-No. 5: Swift Energy adjusts quickly to market conditions, price environment

    Oct. 22, 2001
    In response to industry conditions, Swift Energy Co., Houston, alternates between acquiring reserves and finding reserves through drilling as it strives to enhance the volume ...
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    OGJ Top 10 Independents No. 8: FieldPoint Petroleum plans to grow through acquisition spree

    Oct. 22, 2001
    FieldPoint Petroleum Corp. is taking great strides to spark tenfold growth in the small exploration and production firm over the next 36-48 months through acquisitions.
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    Company News: Burlington plans $2.1 billion Canadian Hunter purchase

    Oct. 22, 2001
    A rash of recent international mergers and joint ventures have created a number of new companies that expect to advance their interests worldwide.
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    Analyst: Oil firms should focus on managing intangibles

    Oct. 22, 2001
    New business models in the petroleum industry must address intangible elements as well as the shortage of personnel, according to Calvin B. Cobb, vice-president of Cap Gemini ...
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    Watching the World: 'Redrilling' archives

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Almost 25 years ago, reports appeared that a giant discovery had been made in the Atlantic waters to the west of Scotland.
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    US jet fuel demand plunges in aftermath of terrorist attacks

    Oct. 22, 2001
    US jet fuel deliveries fell nearly 10% in September due to reduced air travel following terrorist attacks, the American Petroleum Institute reported last week.
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Williams reorganizes, changes key leadership

    Oct. 22, 2001
    As Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, continues to reposition itself within the energy industry, its board has appointed a number of new officers.
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    EIA: Global oil supplies minimally affected by terrorist attacks

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Global oil supplies appear to have been minimally affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and by continuing military operations.
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    API: Industry not ready to quit fight for energy bill

    Oct. 22, 2001
    The American Petroleum Institute said last week its members are still pushing Congress to pass a comprehensive energy bill this year, although political realities may make that...
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    Editorial: Energy policy and trade

    Oct. 22, 2001
    The US government will encounter next month a strong but little-remarked reason to enact sound energy policy.
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    INGAA: California tariff crimps gas pipeline industry

    Oct. 22, 2001
    California state regulators have approved a pipeline tariff that limits competition and discourages the development of new interstate pipelines needed to directly serve California...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Everything's changed for oil demand
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    Philippines ties energy policy to Malampaya gas prices

    Oct. 22, 2001
    As the Philippines inaugurated its first commercial natural gas field last week, President Gloria Marcapagal-Arroyo unveiled an energy strategy centered on natural gas.
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    Watching Government: Trading places

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Energy markets need more, not less, price transparency. But come January traders may have even less information to go on, creating a higher risk for boom-and-bust price swings...
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    A wildcatter's comments

    Oct. 22, 2001
    The role of the US oil and gas independent has evolved over the decades.
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    Job security

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Regarding Steven Poruban's article (OGJ, Sept. 24, 2001, p. 22), I wonder if Mr. Poruban was employed in the oil and gas industry in the early 1980s?
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    No consensus on climate

    Oct. 22, 2001
    I have received a copy of the editorial (OGJ, Aug. 27, 2001, p. 19) entitled "No consensus on climate."
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    Indonesia's 337 tcf CBM resource a low-cost alternative to gas, LNG

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Indonesia has identified a potentially lower-cost alternative for meeting its domestic demand for natural gas and its liquefied natural gas exports. The authors recently completed...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Baytown, Tex., has named Thomas E. Murdock as sales manager for oil country tubular goods. Murdock, who holds a BS in economics from Slippery Rock State University, Pa., began...
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Here's a new loop-powered stud mount vibration transmitter. The intrinsically safe Model 571 protects rotating and reciprocating machinery from catastrophic failure by alerting...
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    Area Drilling

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Texaco UK plans to begin drilling in 2002 in the Eastern Offshore Area in the Persian Gulf on Block V awarded by the Ministry of Oil.
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    GOM shelf project nears completion

    Oct. 22, 2001
    Pipelay for Williams Cos. Inc.'s East Breaks project offshore Texas in the Gulf of Mexico achieved a high lay rate in its activity in late spring and summer, according to Stolt...