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    Congress should move quickly to open what amounts to a strategic reserve of natural gas off US coasts, National Association of Manufacturers Pres. John Engler urged.
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    Turbodrills and diamond-impregnated drill bits have improved drilling metrics through hard, abrasive, allochthonous Mesozoic rocks overlying productive Miocene formations.
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    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered people and structures in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf Coast, leaving many large-scale renovation projects and rising rig rates in...
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    Every link in the energy chain-upstream, processing, pipelines, and the support infrastructure maintaining them-was affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, notes a report released...
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    Hurricane Ivan shut down much production in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico and damaged pipelines and platforms in its path and along the Mississippi River delta apron...
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    The oil and gas producing industry of the US Gulf of Mexico limped into 2006 battered by hurricanes but braced for politics. The conditions are related.
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    Owners of downstream petroleum and petrochemical companies rank qualifications of key personnel as the most important consideration in choosing engineering contractors, says a...
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    Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico survived the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reasonably well, with no loss of life or significant spills, Sec...
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    A sustained period of high oil and gas prices has led operators into exploration in more of the world’s remote, nonproducing, and underexplored areas.
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    Oil companies as a group had mixed results in the replacement of oil and gas reserves in 2005.
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    Congress is growing restless because gasoline prices are climbing weeks before summer driving season arrives as refiners replace methyl tertiary butyl ether with ethanol as a ...
    April 10, 2006
    The Energy Information Administration claimed commercial US crude inventories on Mar. 24 were at the highest level since Apr. 16 1999, but Petromatrix GMBH in Zug, Switzerland...
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    The administration of President George W. Bush still supports leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and working with coastal states to increase access to the Outer Continental...
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    Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Mines has voided operating service agreements with Total SA for Jusepin oil field and Eni SPA for Dacion oil field and made Petroleos de Venezuela...
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    US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has circulated antitrust reform proposals directed at US refiners and overseas producers.
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    Events in Venezuela throw into sharp relief three major categories of risk central to international oil and gas investment decisions: politics, price, and geology.
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    Driven by concerns over stability, China is stepping up cooperation with its neighbors, aiming to secure supplies of oil and natural gas from regional sources instead of the Middle...
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    Reserves values in US and Canadian oil and gas transactions continue to grow, with the weighted average implied value reaching $18/boe during the first quarter of 2006, said John...
    April 10, 2006
    Bolivia will substantially increase prices of natural gas it exports to Brazil, Bolivian President Evo Morales told Sérgio Gabrielli, president of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras...
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    A US House bill that would set limits on ownership, operation, and management of assets deemed part of the critical US infrastructure would create difficulties for domestic pipelines...
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    With much attention focusing on improved recovery, smart completions, and other methods for coaxing hydrocarbons out of places where they are known to occur, it’s easy to forget...
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