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    Iraq's oil business "is basically ready to hand over now" to Iraqi control, said Robert E. McKee III, the former ConocoPhillips executive who recently completed 6 months' service...
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    At the end of first quarter 2004, monthly average propane prices in the US firmed to 58¢ and 60¢/gal at Conway, Kan., and Mont Belvieu, Tex., respectively. February stocks closed...
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    Forecasts show that bitumen production from Canada's oil sands may exceed 1.8 million b/d by 2010 up from an average 920,000 million b/d in 2003.
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    Optimized drilling procedures, incorporating improved directional drilling and ranging systems and slant drilling, allow operators to use steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD...
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    China accounted for 40% of total growth in world oil demand during 2000-04, said Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in a report on China energy.
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    Long-term supply contracts will play a more important role in the new European Union free gas market than originally planned, contends London-based analyst Prospex Research Ltd...
    June 7, 2004
    KPMG: Energy officials assess industry challenges A panel of industry experts assessed a variety of challenges facing the oil and natural gas industry at an energy conference ...
    June 7, 2004
    India's new leader wants foreign investment in the country's oil and gas sector, but state-owned companies may not be privatized anytime soon.
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    Politics threatens the unsteady relationship between financial accounting and the reporting of oil and natural gas reserves.
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    Zooming demand for energy in rapidly growing China eclipses other growth markets in the Eastern Hemisphere, speakers said May 12 at the Middle East Gas & LNG Forum in Bahrain....
    June 7, 2004
    Continued tensions in the Middle East, a strengthening US economy, and increased oil demand by China and the US are fueling high oil and gasoline prices, analysts for Standard...
    June 7, 2004
    Several US independents have been actively acquiring or merging with companies smaller than themselves, and XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, announced plans to acquire a package of...
    June 7, 2004
    Ecuador has indefinitely postponed a bidding round aimed at ramping up oil production at four state-owned fields in the Amazon basin that have combined reserves of some 905 million...
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    US motorists complaining about the high price of gasoline are a little like those folks who sued McDonald's for making them fat.
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    Over the next 2 decades China and the US will fuel much of the new global oil demand, a long-term analysis by the US Energy Information Administration predicts.
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    Royal Dutch recommends managing director; Shell Canada appoints CEO Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. has recommended that its shareholders later this month elect Linda Zarda Cook as ...
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    There is only one way to take a smaller North American independent and turn it into an expanding producer in Africa with good growth prospects.
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    With motorists expected to pay higher gasoline prices this election year summer, US policymakers are looking to place blame.
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    At a special June 3 meeting in Beirut, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries hammered out a compromise agreement to immediately raise their total crude ...
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    Top executives from state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) came to New York May 19 looking to reassure nervous US investors that the company takes its role as a key short...
    June 7, 2004
    The oil industry goes through many boom-and-bust cycles. Some cycles are global in nature, affecting the entire industry.
    June 7, 2004
    The well-written article by Sadad al-Husseini "Rebutting the critics: Saudi Arabia's oil reserves" (OGJ, May 17, 2004, p. 16) has prepared us for higher oil prices in the future...
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    Preparation key for pipeline's management of large spill, explosion A significant pipeline spill or explosion can cause substantial damage to a company.
    June 7, 2004
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    Wärtsilä Corp. Vaasa, Finland, has appointed Lars Hellberg as group vice-president, head of engine division, and member of the board of management.
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    As many as six gas hazards can be measured and monitored simultaneously via this new G750 Polytector II gas detector.
    June 7, 2004
    Even if it's right—which it probably isn't—a new report by the US General Accounting Office on oil-industry mergers amounts to whistling in a storm.
    June 7, 2004