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    The US Congress's ambivalent treatment of comprehensive energy reform legislation is an obvious industry distraction. But an even more immediate concern for oil and gas interests...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Encouraging use of more diesel-powered passenger vehicles in the California market could reduce fuel consumption in that state by 141 million gal/year in 2010, according to a ...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Even as Congress moves to mandate the use of ethanol as part of the US clean fuels mix (see related story, Clean fuels spec part fo shifting US political landscape), government...
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    The Energy Information Administration said US crude oil and natural gas proved reserves increased in 2001, replacing production by substantial margins.
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Charles A. James has been named vice-president and general counsel for ChevronTexaco Corp. James succeeds Harvey D. Hinman, who will retire. James's new position becomes effective...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    The impressive gains of natural gas in the world's energy supply will falter as the century moves toward 2050, according to Gerald Doucet, secretary general of the World Energy...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Complying with the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change would "trigger a migration of capital investment out of Canada," said Murray Smith, Alberta minister of energy, in a keynote...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    A future that encompasses a global "sustainable development" cannot come to pass without a massive effort to make low-cost, conventional energy available to the world's poorest...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Calls for oil importing countries—particularly the US—to reduce their dependence on Middle East oil by securing their supplies elsewhere or by switching to other fuels don't jibe...
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    A survey of 30 of the largest US gas producers indicates that US gas production declined by 1% sequentially in the third quarter and likely will be down 6% for the year as a whole...
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    Worldwide energy demand is set to grow by 1.7%/year to 2030, but there are abundant oil, gas, coal, uranium and renewable resources to meet this growth.
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Unocal Thailand Ltd., a unit of Unocal Corp., said it will purchase all of the shares of Amoco Thailand Petroleum LLC, the Thai unit of BP America Production Co.
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    Before this decade is out, Turkmenistan, a leader among the former Soviet republics in terms of hydrocarbon resources, intends to make a giant leap in raising production and export...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    While big international companies seek production-sharing agreements (PSAs) for billion-dollar oil and gas projects in Russia, smaller companies are prospering with smaller projects...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    US drilling activity should increase in 2003, said a panel of energy industry executives in Houston Oct. 4.
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    Williams Alaska Petroleum Inc.'s North Pole refinery outside Fairbanks in North Pole, Alas., recently celebrated its 25-year anniversary.
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    Berea, Ohio, has appointed Gerald M. Pierman as sales and marketing manager. Pierman is a graduate of Cleveland State University with a BBA in marketing, and held a variety of...
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    Here's the new DPG-6700 digital pressure gauge/transmitter, a unit that combines pressure transducer technology with multitemperature calibration routines to provide stable process...
    Oct. 14, 2002
    The Russia-US energy summit in Houston Oct. 1-2 featured repeated reference to US reliance on oil from the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in particular.
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    A group of seven European oil pipeline companies joined together in late 2000 to initiate a comparative performance analysis of pipeline operations.
    Oct. 14, 2002
    Sinopec Corp. of China won a contract from Sonatrach and the Energy & Mines Ministry to enhance recovery from giant Zarzaitine field in east-central Algeria.
    Oct. 14, 2002
    The three superpowers of oil production take instructively contrasting approaches to a fundamental question: Why produce oil?
    Oct. 14, 2002
    The chorus is getting louder for a secular change in US gas markets.
    Oct. 14, 2002
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