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    A continuing potential threat to Persian Gulf shipping tied to the war in Iraq has spiked tanker insurance rates sharply.
    April 7, 2003
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    Subsea wellhead pressure-temperature transmittersThe new PTX 400 Series underwater wellhead pressure-temperature transmitters have been specifically designed for long term use...
    April 7, 2003
    Environmentalists and their friends in high office go too far when they decorate politics with religion.
    April 7, 2003
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    While trying to define a topic for this column, I was torn between discussing the current military conflict in Iraq or its related oil price volatility effects on the US. After...
    April 7, 2003
    The Mar. 10, 2003, issue of the OGJ, p. 10, included a letter to the editor from Mr. John B. Somers II, president of High Plains Petroleum Corp., entitled "Limits on federal land...
    April 7, 2003
    The US Senate, on a 56-43 vote Mar. 25, rejected efforts to revive an expired "Superfund" toxic waste tax on industry. Before 1995, oil and chemical companies were charged a fee...
    April 7, 2003
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    Anadarko, El Paso Corp. name new CEOs Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and El Paso Corp. both recently named new executives to head their respective companies.
    April 7, 2003
    The oil and gas industry is becoming much more interconnected and moving towards "mutual interdependence," according to Sharaf Salamah, president of Saudi Refining Inc.
    April 7, 2003
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    Despite continued uncertainty over oil supplies from Nigeria and Iraq, oil futures prices dipped last week after the US Department of Energy and the American Petroleum Institute...
    April 7, 2003
    The regulatory hangover from the Enron Corp. debacle and the California power crisis continues (see Editorial, p. 19). Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took...
    April 7, 2003
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    A multilateral well drilled in northeastern Brazil was highly successful in a mature field that had already been under waterflood and steam injection.
    April 7, 2003
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    Iraq has formally rejected a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously Mar. 28, that authorizes UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan to administer the oil-for-aid program...
    April 7, 2003
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    With Japanese financial backing, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil-exporting states have confirmed they will provide Jordan with crude and fuel oil, replacing supplies from...
    April 7, 2003
    Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has completed late last month the long-awaited sale of its 25% stake in Sudan's Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP) to New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh Ltd...
    April 7, 2003
    While US spending is flat, worldwide exploration and production expenditures will increase modestly this year, according to a handful of analysts conducting E&P spending surveys...
    April 7, 2003
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    Capital spending in the US oil and gas industry will increase 10% this year, with jumps in both the upstream and downstream sectors.
    April 7, 2003
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    A pilot project in Saudi Arabia aims to determine the benefits of remote monitoring technology with an integrated web-based system for lowering operating costs, maximizing production...
    April 7, 2003
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    Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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    Indexes for selected equipment show moderate increase
    April 7, 2003
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    A simple equation presented here provides good estimates of C7+ K-values, also known as equilibrium ratios.
    April 7, 2003