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    Publicly traded major oil companies’ greatest future contribution may be to supply exploration and production services to national oil companies, an energy consultant suggested...
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    Tatneft has developed guidelines for running expandable-profile liners in wells with complex geology, based on operations in Iran, China, and Tatarstan.
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    Worldwide oil and gas industry capital expenditures will increase sharply this year, especially for upstream work.
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    Repeated trial successes and the global need for new energy sources indicate that underground coal gasification (UCG) may be nearing commercialization.
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    ExxonMobil Corp. conducted an assay of the Bonga crude that recently started production off Nigeria. On Nov. 28, 2005, Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported the start of oil production...
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    Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose slowly to 1,963.
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    Gasoline and ethanol prices are likely to rise in the near term across the US, according to D. Mark Routt, a Dallas-based senior oil analyst with Energy Security Analysis Inc....
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    Since Col. Muammar Qaddhafi renounced his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in 2003, Libya’s pursuit of oil and natural gas is very much in the news these days, especially...
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    When the National Ocean Industries Association held its annual meeting in Washington, DC, last week, it was against a significantly improved outlook for gaining access to more...
    April 3, 2006
    A steep decline in the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a gasoline additive results from refusal by Congress to adopt MTBE liability limits as part of the Energy Policy Act...
    April 3, 2006
    Energy prices see-sawed, down one day and up the next through the week ended Mar. 24 as traders worried about high US inventories vs. possible supply disruptions later this year...
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    Five chief executives from companies that produce, distribute, and consume natural gas Mar. 28 urged the 109th Congress and President George W. Bush's administration to significantly...
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    US drilling contractors will have higher day rates and greater pricing leverage for service costs this year compared with last year, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said in...
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    The 25 European government heads meeting Mar. 24-25 in Brussels agreed to adopt a plan for a transparent and better-integrated single energy market, but they identified few specific...
    April 3, 2006
    Los Angeles investment management firm TCW and partners will acquire CDX LLC, Dallas, an onshore gas producer and drilling contractor focused on unconventional resources such ...
    April 3, 2006
    Gasoline price volatility in store for parts of the US this driving season relates to a larger problem with even larger costs.
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    Venezuela’s national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA is reported to have shut down ExxonMobil Corp.
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    Bill Barrett Corp. Pres. and Chief Operating Officer Fredrick J. Barrett will take on the added roles of chairman and chief executive officer.
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    Sure, ethanol has been receiving a great deal of attention since President George W. Bush's state of the union speech in January. But he was talking about cellulosic ethanol, ...
    April 3, 2006