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  • Volume 103, Issue 16

    • Volume 103, Issue 16

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    Market for intelligent wells may triple in next 5 years

    April 25, 2005
    The market for intelligent well completions may grow to $600 million in 2010 from the estimated $200 million in 2005, according to Kevin Wood, Susquehanna Financial Group (SFG...
    Production Operations

    New model predicts oil, synthetic mud densities

    April 25, 2005
    New model predicts oil, synthetic mud densities A simple equation allows engineers to model downhole drilling mud densities for several types of base fluids.
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    Exploration & Development

    Study downgrades gas hydrates potential for northern Gulf of Mexico

    April 25, 2005
    Marine sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico are likely too warm and salty to hold the amount of methane gas hydrates originally thought to exist, according to researchers ...
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    Production Operations

    New Mexico gas processing plants add filtration to improve amine operations

    April 25, 2005
    Duke Energy Field Services recently added amine filtration devices at its Linam Ranch and Eunice gas processing plants because they were experiencing operating problems due to...
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    Companies

    Need for upgraders, pipelines boosts construction projects

    April 25, 2005
    Numerous oil and gas downstream construction projects are on the horizon, particularly heavy-oil processing facilities and transmission pipelines, according to Oil & Gas Journal...

    More content from Volume 103, Issue 16

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    Discoveries

    Exploration picks up in Taranaki basin off New Zealand

    April 25, 2005
    Australian Worldwide Exploration Ltd., Sydney, said it may participate in as many as five high impact exploration wells off the New Zealand north island in the next 12 months....
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Algeria's Sonatrach awards nine licenses in several basins

    April 25, 2005
    Algeria's state owned Sonatrach has awarded nine new licenses for oil and gas exploration to international companies on Apr. 9 in its sixth international licensing round.
    Companies

    Egypt desert discoveries include big Jurassic find

    April 25, 2005
    Apache Corp., Houston, added two land discoveries to its long list of exploration successes onshore Egypt, one of which when appraised could become the western desert's third ...
    Companies

    Advertising Index

    April 25, 2005
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Area Drilling

    April 25, 2005
    Serica Energy Corp., Toronto, began acquiring 2,800 line-km of 2D seismic data on the Biliton block in the western Java Sea.
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    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 25, 2005
    GE Energy, Atlanta, has introduced the J312 GMD, its first Jenbacher gas mechanical drive engine for use in gas compression.
    Refining & Processing

    MTBE liability threat clouds US energy future

    April 25, 2005
    Of all the complex issues facing lawmakers trying to fashion comprehensive energy legislation in the US, one should be simple to resolve: protection against defective-product ...
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    Production Operations

    Inline corrosion inspection verifies integrity of nonpiggable, noninterruptible gas lines.

    April 25, 2005
    Enbridge Energy Co. Inc. has completed a project which demonstrated the validity of external corrosion and internal corrosion direct assessment (ECDA and ICDA) for its pipelines...
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    Production Operations

    Services/Suppliers

    April 25, 2005
    Houston, has named John A. O’Donnell as president of Baker Petrolite, succeeding Edwin C. Howell, who is retiring after 30 years of service with the company. Richard L. Williams...
    LNG

    Oil prices fall for second week

    April 25, 2005
    Energy prices fell again Apr. 15, wiping out the small rally from the previous session on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
    Companies

    Rockets and oil platforms

    April 25, 2005
    Earlier this month, Canadian news media began to report a threat to oil and gas facilities on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Labrador.
    LNG

    LNG's wide-ranging challenges can be met, experts say

    April 25, 2005
    Increasing LNG imports’ contribution to total US natural gas resources poses a wide range of challenges, four experts conceded during an Energy Information Administration conference...
    Companies

    Geopolitics, unconventional fuels to reshape industry

    April 25, 2005
    Current forces having potential to shape the future of the oil and gas industry-consistently higher oil and gas prices feeding on mushrooming energy demand, conventional oil supply...
    Production Operations

    Opportunity seen to raise support of offshore work

    April 25, 2005
    High oil and natural gas prices provide offshore producers a significant opportunity to build public support.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 25, 2005
    With global demand for natural gas likely to grow by 2.2%/year during the next 2 decades, gas trade faces major changes, says Ron Billings, vice-president of LNG for ExxonMobil...
    LNG

    Sempra LNG terminal groundbreaking hits legislative snags

    April 25, 2005
    Even as San Diego-based Sempra Energy announced groundbreaking for its $800 million LNG terminal at Costa Azul in Baja California on Mar.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Watching the World: Spies, taxes, and business

    April 25, 2005
    In the old days, when Her Majesty’s Treasury was being drained dry, the British government dispatched James Bond to sort out the problem.
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    Companies

    Efforts to tap oil shale’s potential yield mixed results

    April 25, 2005
    A huge resource, much of it in the oil-hungry US, sustains efforts in the US and elsewhere to find a way to produce shale oil economically.
    Reserves

    USGS official upbeat about oil reserves outlook

    April 25, 2005
    There are much more oil reserves left in the world than many of the pessimistic forecasts make out, according to Peter McCabe, senior research geologist at the US Geological Survey...
    Companies

    Editorial: Support for transparency

    April 25, 2005
    Quietly but steadily, support is increasing for transparency in oil and gas companies’ dealings with foreign governments.
    Companies

    US Senate offshore leasing foes reaffirm opposition

    April 25, 2005
    US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee members from California, Florida, and North Carolina reiterated their strong opposition Apr.
    Companies

    Oil firms dealt 'major blow' with Venezuelan tax hikes

    April 25, 2005
    Venezuela's plan to increase the corporate income tax on oil companies to 50% from 34% would slash the values of multinational companies' assets in the country, Aberdeen consultant...