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    Electronic commerce (e-commerce) presents challenges and opportunities unique to the energy industry-as well as potential to change the balance of power between oil companies ...
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    ENOC Processing Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Co. (ENOC), began processing gas condensate in its new Dubai, UAE, refinery at the end of 1999.
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    The development of new software tools and downhole sensors has led to a better understanding of dynamic conditions in the wellbore, allowing drillers to make fundamental changes...
    March 27, 2000
    Texas Eastern Products Co. has agreed to acquire ARCO Pipe Line Co. from ARCO for $355 million.
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    Greece's Hellenic Petroleum SA (HP) is refocusing its upstream strategy by farming out more of its domestic acreage and expanding its international portfolio in selected regions...
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    For about 30 years the author has studied the geology of the San Joaquin basin, concentrating largely on the highly-productive west side.
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    Santos Group and its partners made a new-pool oil discovery last month on Petroleum Prospecting License 8 in the South Australian portion of the Cooper-Eromanga basins.
    March 27, 2000
    The oil industry learned earlier this month that Phillips Petroleum Co. had agreed to buy all of ARCO's Alaskan operations for about $7 billion in a move that will nearly double...
    March 27, 2000
    Reacting to increasing gasoline prices, President Bill Clinton will ask Congress to approve two tax credits to increase US oil production.
    March 27, 2000
    Mexico's Energy Regulatory Commission awarded Gaz de France (GDF) the concession to distribute natural gas in the Puebla-Tlaxcala distribution zone, which covers 51 municipalities...
    March 27, 2000
    FFRESHeX is a new radiography system that produces digital images in real-time as a single, continuous strip, at speeds of up to 55 mm/sec. A motorized orbiting mechanism allows...
    March 27, 2000
    An environmental issue toppled Norway's government earlier this month, also threatening proposals to sell part of state-owned Statoil.
    March 27, 2000
    Stockholders of TotalFina SA and Elf Aquitaine SA have approved the firms' merger, and the combined company has been renamed TotalFinaElf SA.
    March 27, 2000
    The administration of President Bill Clinton plans to significantly reduce or eliminate the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline in the US.
    March 27, 2000
    The administration of US President Bill Clinton has played the ethanol card in its effort to win Vice-President Al Gore a promotion next November.
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    The Kern River field near Bakersfield, Calif., was the test site for a prototype downhole fiber optical acoustic sensor for investigating the continuity of oil-bearing layers....
    March 27, 2000
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    The mating of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s 500-ton Hickory platform cellar deck to it legs required a 70-ft lift with ten 100-ton cranes at Gulf Island Fabrication Inc.'s yard in...
    March 27, 2000
    First gasoline, and now diesel.
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    It's a bull market in speculation over the scope of OPEC's expected decision this week to hike oil production.
    March 27, 2000
    American Gas Association, Washington, D.C., has named Lori Traweek senior vice president, operations and engineering management.
    March 27, 2000