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    Enron Corp. Pres. Jeffrey K. Skilling has been elected CEO of Enron Corp. effective Feb. 12. Kenneth L. Lay will continue to serve as chairman of the board.
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    Orimulsion's 20-year development history includes basic and applied research, process scale-up to industrial level, commercial utilization, and the creation of new generations...
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    In December 1922, a huge blowout in the Los Barrosos-2 well in one of Venezuela's Bolivar Coast oil fields became an economic watershed for that nation. A steady high column of...
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    Downhole mixing of carbon dioxide (CO2) with fracturing fluid allowed for better control of a hydraulic frac treatment in a Morrow gas zone, according to RealTimeZone Inc., Roswell...
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    The natural gas sector in Venezuela has recently undergone a profound change as a result of regulatory reforms launched in 1999 by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
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    Worldwide spending on exploration and production of oil and natural gas will jump more than 19% next year, based on what Lehman Bros. called "the largest, most comprehensive study...
    Jan. 8, 2001
    Pres.-elect George W. Bush has selected Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.) to be US Secretary of Energy.
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    A pair of takeover battles among major oil companies tops the latest flurry of merger and acqusition action.
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    ExxonMobil Corp. plans to appeal a $3.5 billion verdict awarded in a case that alleged predecessor Exxon Corp. defrauded Alabama of royalties on production from 10 gas wells in...
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    Although recent survey results indicate that planned capital spending for exploration and production in 2001 will increase by 20% over 2000 spending, Raymond James & Associates...
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    ArivaSol, a new carrier fluid for use in drilling and production operations, offers solvent performance the developer says is equivalent to that of aromatic solvents and physical...
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    The furor over high US natural gas prices won't die even after futures prices have fallen back from their current near-$10/ MMbtu highs.
    Jan. 8, 2001
    With UK analysts Wood Mackenzie Consultants Ltd. reporting largely static production levels in the Italian oil and gas sector over the last 2 years, ENI SPA's last-minute bid ...
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    The Åsgard transport system in the Norwegian North Sea began operating in October 2000.
    Jan. 8, 2001
    Despite this column title, the Oil and Gas Journal is not turning into a doctor magazine.
    Jan. 8, 2001
    California deserves sweltering in the heat, or the coldness of darkness.
    Jan. 8, 2001
    Mr. Wyman's letter (OGJ, Nov. 27, 2000, p. 10) repeats a tired argument usually heard from the don't-eat-meat people: that using grain to produce fuel (or meat) somehow takes ...
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    Chesterfield, Mo., has opened its third mill, the 16 in. mill, in its Blytheville, Ark. location.
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    The Tucumcari, Estancia, Carrizozo, and Vaughn basins are in northeast and central New Mexico.
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    The spirit of bipartisanship to which everyone in Washington, DC, must pretend for a while longer took an interesting turn last week.
    Jan. 8, 2001