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  • Volume 98, Issue 42

    • Volume 98, Issue 42

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    Operating, financial results for OGJ200 recover in 1999

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Financial and operating results for 1999 of companies on the OGJ200 list of publicly traded oil and gas producing companies in the US mostly reflected improvement over a dismal...
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    Tubing completion analysis corrects computational errors

    Oct. 16, 2000
    A thorough analysis of tubing-completion design, which takes into account the differences between single and multiple strings, can reduce or eliminate planning and operational...
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    Modeling technique adds reservoir geometry to decline curves

    Oct. 16, 2000
    A method that is consistent with the physical understanding of the reservoir can be used to project production rate as a function of time.
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    Gas oil desalting reduces chlorides in crude

    Oct. 16, 2000
    A new atmospheric gas oil (AGO) electrical-desalting process reduced the amount of chlorides in the main fractionator of a Chinese fluid-catalytic cracking unit (FCCU).
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    Texas alphaolefins plant switches to DCS

    Oct. 16, 2000
    A new distributed-control system (DCS) at BP's Pasadena, Tex., alphaolefins plant allows it to operate at 105% of its theoretical maximum.

    More content from Volume 98, Issue 42

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    Peciko start-up caps Total Indonesia Mahakam program

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Completion of Phase 1 of the giant Peciko gas field development off Indonesia's East Kalimantan is a major milestone in the long history of Total Indonesia.
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    A Bush misstep on CO2

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Carbon dioxide occurs naturally.
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    Area Drilling

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Triton Energy Ltd., Dallas, spudded G-2, the first of 6 wildcats planned between now and mid-2001 off Rio Muni.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Oct. 16, 2000
    The new FieldBrowser monitors any field device on a HART network, capture data for computer automated diagnostics, and sends alarms via e-mail, internet, intranet, or mobile phone...
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    Services/Suppliers

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Houston, named Max L. Lukens director of the company. Lukens is the former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Baker Hughes Inc. in Houston.
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    New Louisiana benzene terminal, pipeline relieve traffic at chemical plant

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Completion in 1999 of an integrated terminal and benzene pipeline along the Mississippi River reduced tank-truck movements to and from a chemical plant in Geismar, La., and debottleneck...
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    Global natural gas market poised for dramatic change

    Oct. 16, 2000
    The global natural gas market is about to change more drastically than most observers expect, and in directions few suspect, according to a University of Houston economics professor...
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    EPA's permitting gauntlet

    Oct. 16, 2000
    What happens if the US Environmental Protection Agency targets your refinery for an investigation of compliance with the New Source Review (NSR) provisions of the Clean Air Act...
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    Watching the World: Caspian's back to the future

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Even before the jaw-dropping discovery this year of the elephantine Kashagan oil field off Kazakhstan, where early reserve estimates were 25-60 billion bbl ...
    Companies

    Company News: Apache joins with Shell to buy Fletcher Challenge Energy

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Strong oil and gas prices continue to serve as the fuel for various mergers, acquisitions, and new structures.
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    Richardson defends energy policy, SPR decision

    Oct. 16, 2000
    US Energy Sec. Bill Richardson defended the Clinton administration's energy policy in a National Press Club speech last week in Washington, denying that the release of 30 million...
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    OPEC resists calls for increased oil output

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Despite current high oil prices and concerns over oil supply levels this winter, some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are resisting calls for an increase...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Oct. 16, 2000
    With the drawdown of crude oil stocks held in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve well under way, the effects that the withdrawal plan have had on oil markets are becoming more...
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    PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Kerr-McGee reorganizes its E&P, chemicals units

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Strong oil and gas prices continue to serve as the fuel for various mergers, acquisitions, and new structures.
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    Rep. Hyde calls for FTC natural gas price spike investigation

    Oct. 16, 2000
    US Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) last week asked the US Federal Trade Commission to undertake an investigation of expected high natural gas prices this winter to determine if they ...
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    EIA: US faces higher heating bill this winter

    Oct. 16, 2000
    It could cost US consumers $190-240 more to heat their homes this winter than a year ago, the US Energy Information Administration predicts.
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    Eleven companies to draw crude from SPR

    Oct. 16, 2000
    The US Department of Energy last week accepted bids from 11 companies seeking 30 million bbl of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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    OGJ100

    Oct. 16, 2000
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    OGJ200 company index

    Oct. 16, 2000
    OGJ200 company index
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    Uncertainties plague Indonesia's gas development projects

    Oct. 16, 2000
    A cloud of uncertainty hovers over prospects for Indonesia's natural gas sector.
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    Watching Government: SDO's second shot

    Oct. 16, 2000
    After a year's delay, Save Domestic Oil (SDO) expects the US Department of Commerce to fully consider its complaint that four other nations "dumped" oil on the US market in 1998...
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    OGJ200

    Oct. 16, 2000
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    Merged companies climb OGJ100 lists of production, reserves leaders

    Oct. 16, 2000
    Financial and operating results for 1999 of companies on the OGJ200 list of publicly traded oil and gas producing companies in the US mostly reflected improvement over a dismal...