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  • Volume 103, Issue 4

    • Volume 103, Issue 4

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    Drilling & Production

    Specialized steel enables deep, high-pressure completions in Tahiti field

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Grant Prideco LLM designed connectors that use a new steel alloy for high-pressure completions in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Tankers

    Japan urges Malacca Strait shipping safety

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinoro Ono, on a swing through Southeast Asia, has urged Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore to do more to protect oil shipping through the Malacca...
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    Drilling & Production

    PDM performance depends on internal geometries

    Jan. 24, 2005
    PDM performance can be predicted with analyses based on fluid mechanics and kinematic relationships.
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    Gas Processing

    Equation predicts adsorption of oxygenated petchems on activated carbon

    Jan. 24, 2005
    This article presents the results of a correlation that accurately estimates the adsorption capacity of activated carbon for removing oxygenated petrochemicals in water.
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    Drilling Operations

    Improved field test measures polyacrylamide fluid

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Scientists have developed a safer, faster, more cost-efficient method for analyzing polyacrylamides in drilling fluids, suitable for field use.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 4

    Reserves

    BPZ lists provisions for commercializing stranded gas off NW Peru

    Jan. 24, 2005
    The main objective of BPZ Energy Inc.'s initial project in northwestern Peru is to develop natural gas reserves that until now had been overlooked and treated as "stranded" gas...
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    New Plants

    BlackRock presses heavy oil work at Seal, Alta.

    Jan. 24, 2005
    A Calgary independent has sharply boosted heavy oil production and plans more heavy oil development this year on properties at Seal, Alta., 190 miles northwest of Edmonton.
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    Companies

    Gas-power project proposed to serve NW Peru, Ecuador

    Jan. 24, 2005
    A Houston independent has advanced to the brink of an onshore/offshore project to supply natural gas to northwestern Peru and southwestern Ecuador.
    Home

    Advertising Index

    Jan. 24, 2005
    CapRock Communicationswww.CapRock.com
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Repsol YPF, Madrid, made gas discoveries on two blocks in the Neuquen basin.
    Production Operations

    Sudanese peace pact important but not enough

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Sudanese peace pact important but not enough Sudan took a step toward the 20th Century Jan. 9 with the signing of an agreement halting 22 years of civil war.
    Production Operations

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 24, 2005
    New lifting service helps pump's run time Recently launched Axia lifting service is designed to help improve overall performance of a well's lifting system.
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    General Interest

    Services/Suppliers

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Dubai, UAE, and Aberdeen, UK, has announced the addition of well services specialist Tim Eley, and well support expert Ahmed Al Mashgari to its consultancy.
    Home

    Energy market faces possible surprises

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Analysts J. Marshall Adkins and James M. Rollyson, in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc., recently listed 10 surprises that could upset energy markets this ...
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    LNG

    Where we are: Relationships, contracts evolve along supply chain

    Jan. 24, 2005
    International LNG trade continues to experience significant growth and diversification.
    Refining & Processing

    Letters

    Jan. 24, 2005
    We have read your review article "Product sulfur specs will determine future refining configurations" (OGJ, Oct. 18, 2004, p. 48). Haldor Topsøe AS is a supplier of ultralow-sulfur...
    Production Operations

    Portrait of a franchise

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Press reports surfaced early in 2005 that China National Offshore Oil Corp. was considering an offer to acquire Unocal Corp.
    Companies

    Tax break ending for Prudhoe Bay satellites

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has said that, effective Feb. 1, satellite fields surrounding Prudhoe Bay oil field no longer will be allowed to take advantage of a state tax break...
    Government

    Editorial - The UN inquiries

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Serious days lie ahead for the United Nations. The Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) investigating the UN's Oil-for-Food Program soon will issue its first interim report.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 24, 2005
    A US District Court for the District of Alaska effectively opened the northwestern part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to exploration by denying an injunction requested...
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    Economics & Markets

    The Oil Market–1: Past, present, and near term

    Jan. 24, 2005
    The high price of oil has become a dominant subject of interest not only for the international oil business but also for the global economy and the economies of most countries...
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    Drilling & Production

    US upstream jobs rose in 2004, data show

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Employment in the US upstream oil and gas industry gained along with total nonfarm employment for the first time in many years in 2004, preliminary data show.
    Companies

    Company News: Independent E&P firms bolster size through acquisitions

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Several US independent exploration and production companies have reported acquisitions or proposed acquisitions that would bolster their oil and natural gas operations.
    Drilling & Production

    Watching the World - Japan, China dispute field

    Jan. 24, 2005
    As everyone knows, Japan and China are racing neck and neck to secure ever greater supplies of oil and natural gas to keep their economies from sputtering.
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    Companies

    API seeks energy policy; IEA notes spending caution

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Red Cavaney, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, called for major changes in US energy policy in a Jan. 18 address to a forum of the US Energy Association of...
    LNG

    Watching Government - Sandia report, a month later

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Now that the US energy community has had nearly a month to consider a Sandia National Laboratories report on identifying and managing risks of importing liquefied natural gas,...
    Pipelines

    Myanmar, India, Bangladesh sign gas line agreement

    Jan. 24, 2005
    India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh have agreed in principle to lay an onshore pipeline to carry gas to India from large discoveries off Myanmar.
    General Interest

    Japan, Russia start talks on oil pipeline details

    Jan. 24, 2005
    Japan's Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, on a visit to Moscow that began Jan. 13, was expected to confer with Russian officials about their recently announced decision to ...