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  • Volume 103, Issue 3

    • Volume 103, Issue 3

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    Economics & Markets

    Oil to lead US energy demand growth in 2005

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Oil to lead US energy demand growth in 2005 Total energy consumption in the US will grow again this year, buoyed by increased economic activity and the need for greater quantities...
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    Gas Processing

    Global need for OPEC crude to ease in 2005

    Jan. 17, 2005
    With worldwide oil demand growth slowing and inventories of crude and products abundant in countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the call for...
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    Drilling Operations

    Drilling Market Focus: Singapore leads in current jack up construction

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Singapore leads in current jack up construction Strong worldwide demand for rigs has companies placing orders for newbuilds.
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    Companies

    Analysis estimates sulfuric acid emissions from FCCU wet gas scrubbers

    Jan. 17, 2005
    A new analysis of data collected from various field tests allows more accurate estimations of sulfuric acid emissions from FCC units equipped with wet gas scrubbers.
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Advanced process control cuts offshore production constraints

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Multivariable predictive control technology increased oil and gas production by 4% from BP PLC's Marlin tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico.

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 3

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    Advertising Index

    Jan. 17, 2005
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    Companies

    Stunning Utah oil, gas discovery focuses spotlight on Hingeline

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Central Utah, once the orphan child of hydrocarbon exploration, may soon have many fathers.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Total SA let a contract worth nearly $18 million for a high-resolution 3D seismic survey in the Mahakam Delta of East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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    New Plants

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Here's the 5000ASM Series Rotary Union for abrasive fluid applications.
    Tankers

    Russia's pipeline decision important debottleneck step

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Russia's pipeline decision important debottleneck step Russia's decision to favor an oil pipeline from East Siberia to Nakhodka, near Vladivostok, will have market effects more...
    Exploration & Development

    Energy markets remain tight

    Jan. 17, 2005
    The US Energy Information Administration expects growth in world demand for oil to slow this year in reaction to high prices, down 23% to an increase of 2 million b/d.
    Production Operations

    Letters

    Jan. 17, 2005
    I have read Dr. S. Fred Singer's article "The real oil problem" not once, not twice, but three times and with all due respect, I would have to ask, "What's your point?" Are you...
    Reserves

    Watching Government - Canada and China

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Many US oil executives and officials will be watching Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin Jan. 14-23 as he swings through energy-hungry Asia, eager for deals in what everyone ...
    LNG

    Revisiting hydrogen

    Jan. 17, 2005
    More than a year ago in this column, this editor wrote about the push for research into the deployment of hydrogen technologies, fuel cells, and hybrid-vehicle technologies (OGJ...
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    Pipelines

    Method determines valve automation for remote pipelines

    Jan. 17, 2005
    An economical and technically feasible method is available for determining effective pipeline block valve automation for remote operations.
    Economics & Markets

    Editorial - Suing OPEC

    Jan. 17, 2005
    A new way for government to distort oil markets advanced a step Jan. 6 in a Senate hearing on the nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales to be US attorney general. Attention focused...
    Companies

    Fracture-mapping method taps tight gas

    Jan. 17, 2005
    A new technology—developed in a project sponsored by the US Department of Energy—is being used to tap into large volumes of natural gas trapped in the tight rocks of New Mexico...
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Oil and natural gas futures prices will be volatile and likely lower by Dec. 31 than they were on Jan. 1, analysts from Foresight Research Solutions LLC said in a Jan. 11 conference...
    Companies

    Personnel Moves and Promotions: ChevronTexaco Corp. announced the following senior executive appointments:

    Jan. 17, 2005
    George Kirkland has been appointed to the position of executive vice-president, upstream.
    LNG

    Industrial gas consumers group list policy aims

    Jan. 17, 2005
    A group of US industrial consumers of natural gas will submit to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 24 a long list of incentives to both reduce demand and...
    Companies

    Company News - Noble Energy to acquire Patina Oil & Gas

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Noble Energy Inc. and Patina Oil & Gas Corp. have received their boards' approval for Noble to acquire Patina for $3.4 billion, including the assumption of Patina's debt.
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    Companies

    Resource plays, CBM to fuel drilling upturns in US, Canada

    Jan. 17, 2005
    Drillers had a busy year in the US in 2004, and a good gain is likely in 2005, OGJ predicts.