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  • Volume 94, Issue 17

    • Volume 94, Issue 17

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    U.S.-Mexico dispute simmering in gulf

    April 22, 1996
    U.S. -- Mexico Disputed Deepwater Acreage [58110 bytes] The U.S. oil and gas industry's push into ultradeep waters of the Gulf of Mexico has placed a spotlight on a long territorial...
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    OGJ SPECIAL OGJ's 3-Year Forecast Strong Demand Growth Seen For Oil And Gas In 1997-99

    April 22, 1996
    Robert J. Beck Associate Managing Editor-Economics Worldwide Crude Oil Production [83259 bytes] Oil Share of World Energy Market [23244 bytes] Worldwide Oil Reserves [76866 bytes...
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    EXPLORATION Study upgrades Australia's Otway basin outlook

    April 22, 1996
    Sundar Sarma Geophysical consultant Melbourne Complex faulting and poor quality seismic data have hindered offshore Otway basin exploration. The Victoria Department of Agriculture...
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    TECHNOLOGY Leak detection by mass balance effective for Norman Wells line

    April 22, 1996
    Jim C. P. Liou University of Idaho Moscow Equations [16235 bytes] Portions of the pipeline right-of-way along IPL's Norman Wells pipeline are covered with wood chips to insulate...
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    Amoco adds to list of strikes in area off eastern Trinidad

    April 22, 1996
    Amoco Trinidad's 1995 - 96 Discoveries [73631 bytes] Amoco Trinidad Oil Co. is amassing a large supply of gas in the Caribbean with a string of offshore discoveries east of...

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    OGJ Newsletter

    April 22, 1996
    U.S. Industry Scoreboard [71174 bytes] Expect a tense OPEC meeting in June over the issue of accommodating the return of Iraqi oil to the world market.
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    TECHNOLOGY Solvent removes downhole NORM-contaminated BaSO 4 scale

    April 22, 1996
    W.G.F. Ford Halliburton Energy Services Duncan, Okla. L.L. Gadeken Halliburton Energy Services Houston T.J. Callahan Halliburton Energy Services Grande Prairie, Alta. D. Jackson...
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    U.S. gasoline price spike spawns outcry

    April 22, 1996
    Rocketing gasoline prices in the U.S. once again have spurred calls for government action to deal with the problem. The biggest U.S. independent gasoline marketers association...
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    EDITORIAL The outlook: 1997-99

    April 22, 1996
    The triennium beginning next Jan. 1 holds both promise and questions for the oil and gas industry. OGJ's 3-Year Forecast, the special report beginning on p. 45, notes that...
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    NEWS U.S. refiners face more challenges in wake of RFG introduction

    April 22, 1996
    Patrick Crow Energy Policies Editor U.S. Summer Gasoline OUTLOOK [21085 bytes] U.S. Gasoline Imports by Source [18593 bytes] U.S. Reformulated Gasolines [22071 bytes] Now that...
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    Big Latvian seaport undergoing expansion

    April 22, 1996
    A.D. Koen Senior Editor-News Latvia has begun expanding facilities at the Baltic Sea port of Ventspils in an effort to sustain the port's role as a main export terminal for...
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    Phillips hikes spending plans for 1996

    April 22, 1996
    Phillips Budget [21310 bytes] Phillips Petroleum Co. last week disclosed a 16% increase in its 1996 capital budget to $1.62 billion. The increase, 11% above 1995 outlays, hikes...
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    TECHNOLOGY Low sulfur diesel controversy continues

    April 22, 1996
    Roger L. Leisenring Jr. Texaco Inc. Beacon, N.Y. The introduction of low-sulfur, on-highway diesel fuel into the U.S. market in October 1993 brought to light several concerns....
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    U.S.-Mexico boundary treaty is dead without support

    April 22, 1996
    Since the U.S-Mexico treaty delineating maritime boundaries was tabled in the U.S. Senate in the early 1980s it simply lost momentum, U.S. administration officials say. According...
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    Nigerian state firm's shortfall feared

    April 22, 1996
    Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. has proposed a capital budget of $1.63 billion this year by partners in a venture that accounts for almost half of Nigeria'...
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    Watching Government Bolivian controversies

    April 22, 1996
    With Patrick Crow from Washington, D.C. Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is determined to push hydrocarbons bills through Congress to allow: Partial privatization ...
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    Watching the World Heated debate hits Niger Delta oil

    April 22, 1996
    With David Knott from London The lecture theater at the Royal Geographical Society in London is normally a forum for calm, cool debate. But on Apr. 15 the temperature went up ...
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    Worldwide Use Of Natural Gas To Climb 8% In Next 3 Years

    April 22, 1996
    Robert J. Beck Associate Managing Editor-Economics Worldwide Natural Gas Production [86510 bytes] OGJ Outlook for World Natural Gas Consumption [28589 bytes] Natural Gas Share...
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    Accord seen possible off China, Viet Nam

    April 22, 1996
    A Vietnamese deal with a unit of Conoco Inc. to evaluate a large offshore area in the South Con Son basin could help resolve a territorial dispute with China over the acreage....
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    INDUSTRY BRIEFS

    April 22, 1996
    ARCO Chemical Co. plans to build a plant it claims will be the world's biggest grassroots propylene oxide/styrene monomer complex at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam, to be complete ...