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    BP Amoco PLC has agreed to buy lubricants giant Burmah Castrol PLC, Swindon, UK, for £3 billion ($4.7 billion).
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    Phillips Petroleum Co. is appraising giant Penglai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay to determine its commercial potential.
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    The fundamental driver of the 20th century's economic prosperity has been an abundant supply of cheap oil.
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    Union Pacific Resources Inc., Fort Worth, hopes to start gas production in mid-2000 from underdeveloped Klua field in a remote area of Northeast British Columbia.
    March 20, 2000
    A large onshore oil field in Myanmar has responded to initial production enhancement work and is in line for a large waterflood project later this year.
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    Occidental Petroleum Corp. is buying Altura Energy LP, Texas' biggest oil producer, from BP Amoco PLC and Shell Exploration & Production Co. for $3.6 billion in a move that will...
    March 20, 2000
    This March is an emblematic month for US energy policy schizophrenia.
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    Congress has done a pretty good job of ignoring oil and gas issues the past decade.
    March 20, 2000
    Shell Exploration & Production Co. agreed to sell its 80% interests in Shell CO2 Co. Ltd.-the largest US transporter and marketer of carbon dioxide-for $185.5 million to Kinder...
    March 20, 2000
    A gasoline spill of 12,000 bbl was contained Mar. 10 about 10 miles north of Greenville, Tex., after leaking from a pipeline owned by Explorer Pipeline Co., Tulsa.
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    Laboratory studies of polysiloxane (DB-31), an antifoaming agent used in diglycolamine (DGA) gas-sweetening units, indicate that DB-31 substantially reduces the DGA solution surface...
    March 20, 2000
    Mera Petroleums Inc. and Millennium Energy Inc., Calgary, began reviewing seismic data on the 332,800-acre Salinas block in the Guajira basin granted under new fiscal terms.
    March 20, 2000
    Pakistan has begun a privatization program and is trying to boost potential investors' confidence by introducing a privatization law, says Altaf M. Salim, chairman of Pakistan...
    March 20, 2000
    Three Formosa Plastics Group companies have announced plans to spend $110.3 billion (Twn.), or $3.6 billion (US), to build 15 petrochemical production units at FPG's petrochemical...
    March 20, 2000
    Nine industry groups are urging the US Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a pending rule that would slash the sulfur content of automotive diesel fuel to 15 ppm in 2006...
    March 20, 2000
    The US Department of Energy overlooked something in the recommendations it published last week on the subject of electric power outages: natural gas.
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    Several operators have found that waterfracs with minimal proppants effectively stimulate low-permeability gas formations in several Texas basins.
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    After 4 years and four revisions, the US Minerals Management Service has issued a final rule revising how producers calculate the cash royalties they owe on production from federal...
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    One result of the roller coaster ride that crude oil prices have taken during the last 2 years has been the sale of noncore assets by many companies.
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    What may be the biggest sale of E&P assets ever will also drastically alter the landscape in one of North America's most critical petroleum provinces while clearing the way for...
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    J.D. Fields & Co., Inc., Houston, Tex., has named Yuki Matsunaga vice president of international to assist with further broadening the company's business to international markets...
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    The new series TFXP portable transit time flowmeter features advanced noninasive flow measurement technology that provides a measuring system with accuracy, versatility, ease ...
    March 20, 2000