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  • Volume 98, Issue 29

    • Volume 98, Issue 29

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    Industry leaders shed light on drilling riser gas effects

    July 17, 2000
    Field tests conducted by three major operators show that gas-bubble formation in deepwater drilling risers, filled with water-base mud, is governed through dispersion rather than...
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    First concrete gravity unit installed in South China Sea

    July 17, 2000
    The 91,000-tonne Malampaya concrete gravity substructure (CGS) was recently installed off Palawan Island in the Philippines.
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    NPC study: Proposed regulations to sharply hike US refining costs

    July 17, 2000
    Most US refineries and many product terminals can expect exceptionally large costs in refinery and distribution investments within the next 6 years if recently proposed Environmental...
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    Seawater streamlines polymer-free fracturing

    July 17, 2000
    A novel seawater-based, polymer-free, fluid improved the operational efficiency of 23 frac packs in Eni Agip's Giovanna field, off Italy in the Adriatic Sea.
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    Japanese processors pressing ahead with integration

    July 17, 2000
    Japan's refining and petrochemical companies are pressing ahead with integration of their production facilities under the Ministry of International Trade & Industry's (MITI) petrochemic...

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    Apparent deepwater oil, gas find drilled off Nigeria

    July 17, 2000
    Famfa Oil Ltd., Texaco Inc., and Braspetro, the international arm of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, reported early results of a wildcat drilled on deepwater OPL Block 216 about 70 miles...
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    Perupetro to re-offer Trujillo offshore acreage

    July 17, 2000
    Repsol SA, Madrid, which signed an offshore E&P contract with oil regulator Perupetro SA in March 1995 for Block Z-29 offshore in the Trujillo basin, has returned the area to ...
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    SE Asia exploration drilling rebounding in some areas

    July 17, 2000
    Certain areas in Southeast Asia continue to attract the attention of oil and gas companies looking for exploration opportunities despite fallout from the economic crash of 1997...
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    Italy's southern Apennines on threshold of large oil development

    July 17, 2000
    Italy is still coming to terms with the existence of an estimated 1.02 billion bbl of recoverable reserves tucked beneath the rolling hills of its southern Apennines.
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    Foam insulation used for GOM oil flowline

    July 17, 2000
    A proprietary foam insulation was used on the 6-mile oil flowline for Shell Inc.'s King subsea project in Mississippi Canyon Block 807 in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Bay of Campeche pipelay gets under way

    July 17, 2000
    Enron Offshore Services & Technology, a division of Enron Engineering & Construction Co., Houston, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp., has joined with Horizon Offshore, ...
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    Politics of global problems

    July 17, 2000
    The prime minister of France has issued a proposal that oil and gas companies should treat as a looming political hazard.
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    Area Drilling

    July 17, 2000
    A Japanese group led by Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corp. made a significant gas and condensate discovery in the Timor Sea.
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    TOP-OF-LINE CORROSION-Conclusion: Models updated; remediation strategies set out

    July 17, 2000
    This conclusion indicates how corrosion-prediction models can be updated and presents remedial actions for the prevention of TLC.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    July 17, 2000
    A new welded line pipe features earthquake-resistant performance.
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    Services/Suppliers

    July 17, 2000
    A new welded line pipe features earthquake-resistant performance.
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    Oil scout humor

    July 17, 2000
    In a 1915 book, The Oil Scouts: Reminiscences of the Night Riders of the Hemlocks, author J.C. Tennent tells why the Oil Scouts group was founded and how it helped stabilize the...
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    Watching Government: Clinton and ANWR

    July 17, 2000
    Pres. Bill Clinton has always opposed oil exploration on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Coastal Plain in northeastern Alaska.
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    Clinton orders up heating oil reserve

    July 17, 2000
    US Pres. Bill Clinton has ordered the Department of Energy to establish a temporary 2 million bbl northeastern US home heating oil reserve by October.
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    Letters

    July 17, 2000
    I would like to respond to OGJ's June 19, 2000, editorial, "The lay-off legacy."
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    OGJ Newsletter

    July 17, 2000
    US drivers undaunted by prices
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    Hammer union mismatches threaten wellsite personnel

    July 17, 2000
    Fatalities, injuries, near misses, and uncontrolled releases of potentially hazardous fluid may result when two of the most widely used high-pressure hammer unions are accidentally...
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    "Boutique' gasolines main culprit in US Midwest price spikes

    July 17, 2000
    Few subjects attract as much public outcry as rising gasoline prices.