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    Hokuriku Gas Co. is building Japan's largest natural gas storage tank in Kurosaki.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Davis Petroleum Corp., Denver, and Questar Exploration & Production Co., a unit of Questar Corp., Salt Lake City, made a natural gas discovery in Galveston Bay about 30 miles ...
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Barrett Resources (Peru) Corp. signed an exploration and development contract with Perupetro SA, Peru's oil regulator, for Block 39 in the Maranon basin. The area adjoins Block...
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Exploration interest is growing off central West Africa with recent announcement of a significant oil discovery off Equatorial Guinea's Rio Muni enclave.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Two US companies reported progress on a planned gas field development and studies of several undeveloped fields in Kazakhstan.
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Unocal Corp.'s latest drilling results have confirmed the long-standing conviction that an area in the Gulf of Thailand once disputed by Thailand, Viet Nam, and Cambodia is hydrocarbon...
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Elf Aquitaine SA and partners have hit the exploratory jackpot on Block 17 off Angola.
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    BP Amoco, Grangemouth, UK, recently replaced the optimizer for one of its ethylene plants, named G4.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    European authorities have voiced concerns about the ability of wind power to meet 10% of electricity demand by 2020, as proposed.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Russia has found what has been purported to be a panacea for its economic woes-the production-sharing agreement (PSA), soon to be widely implemented in the country's oil and gas...
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Petrochemical prices are headed toward a trough, which would represent the end of the sector's current 8-year cycle. This bottoming out will be reached at around 2001-02.
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Tests on two field-aged specimens of polyamide-11 (PA-11) pipeline liners in carbon steel crude oil and gas production pipelines indicate the material protects against internal...
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Oil piracy carried out by sophisticated and well-connected syndicates is a growing menace to petroleum tankers in the greater South China Sea area.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    A group led by Tanganyika Oil Co., Ltd. hopes to place two wells on production soon on the West Gharib Block onshore west of the Gulf of Suez.
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    BP Amoco PLC's Shah Deniz gas find in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan has created a new potential supplier to join the fight over Turkey's fast-growing market.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    As a global population landmark stirred the usual fears about feeding humankind last week, US President Bill Clinton moved to limit planetary bounty for the sake of nature.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Thai Shell Exploration & Production Co., a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell, hopes to increase its crude oil production in northern Thailand by about 8% to nearly 25,000 b/d by yearend...
    Oct. 18, 1999
    The Weyburn CO2 project will be the first carbon dioxide miscible flood on a commercial scale in Canada.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    The US Minerals Management Service plans a third royalty-in-kind (RIK) pilot program, using a competitive auction to take up to 260 MMbtu/day of gas from Gulf of Mexico federal...
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Stockholm-based Lundin Oil AB and partners have announced plans to drill another production well under Phase 1 development of Block PM-3 in the Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA...
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Forecasting future economic and oil industry activity can be challenging.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Industry won a major victory recently when the US Senate voted to block the US Minerals Management Service's controversial royalty management rule for another year (OGJ, Oct. ...
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Oil markets are returning to normal following the unsustainable highs that held them aloft during the first few days after OPEC's September meeting.
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Congratulations on your forthright characterization of the recent jaw-boning emanating from certain government officials regarding the pipeline alternatives being considered by...
    Oct. 18, 1999
    Technip, Paris, France, has named Daniel Valot chairman and chief executive officer, succeeding Pierre Vaillaud who has retired.
    Oct. 18, 1999
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    Indicator offers range of process monitoring displays
    Oct. 18, 1999