The Oil and Gas Journal articles from August 2002

The Oil and Gas Journal archives from August 2002

The past, the future. (Journally Speaking).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The past is the future. This 100th Anniversary issue of Oil & Gas Journal samples the treasury of information generated by a century of serious writing about the world's most interesting business. It's not intentionally a history. It's...

OGJ's 100-year record celebrates the many dimensions of discovery. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The archive amassed by Oil & Gas Journal in 100 years of publication is as various as it is vast. Through news stories, technical articles, nontechnical features, and special reports it celebrates achievement along the whole spectrum of...

100 years of OGJ. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... There is an old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Never was that more true than in the creation of Oil Investors' Journal, the magazine that was to become Oil & Gas Journal. It began with a St. Louis newspaper man named...

Diesel engine development aided by oil industry. (General Interest).(historical review)
August 1, 2002... Feb. 27, 1936 An interesting article by Gordon McIntyre of the Imperial Oil Limited appearing in the Imperial Oil Review; in which he traced the evolution of our present high-speed diesel engine from its beginning in the seventeenth...

When will the United States navy department wake up! (General Interest).(hitory of petroleum fuel in warships)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 1, 2002... Mar. 5, 1907 The British Admiralty continues to let the world know that it is expanding the already extensive facilities in the use of crude petroleum as fuel under the boilers of English warships. Announcement is made that four supply...

Petroleum and products are ideal insecticides; used with success on a large scale. (General Interest).
August 1, 2002... Jan. 4, 1934 The use of petroleum products, including the heavy fuel oils, and in some instances the crude oil, has been a recent development for the control of objectionable fungus growths and the destruction of insects that are harmful...

Oiled roads in England. (General Interest).(historical look at efforts to keep dust down on roads)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Mar. 5, 1907 It is recognized by the highest medical authorities, says an English paper, that disease germs are widely scattered by the dust clouds which motor cars place in motion and that the dust thus circulated is one of the causes of...

Oil is found with ideas. (Exploration & Development).(history of oil drilling)
August 1, 2002... Sept. 15, 1958 We usually find oil in new places with new ideas. When we go to a new area we can find oil with an old idea. Sometimes also we find oil in an old place with a new idea, but we seldom find much oil in an old place with an old...

Patillo Higgins in the role of trust buster. (Exploration & Development).(history lesson)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Mar. 5, 1907 A year ago Patillo Higgins, who was the original Spindletop enthusiast, organized the Higgins-World Oil Company, with an authorized capital of $6,000,000 under the laws of Arizona. Leases in the neighborhood of Hockley, in...

Geophysics offshore is a must. (Exploration & Development).
August 1, 2002... Oct. 30, 1967 In the search for oil over most continental-shelf areas, the question, so common in exploration on land, of whether or not to use geophysics isn't likely to arise because it is seldom a matter of choice. The high cost of...

Rules for the names at oil sands. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 20, 1909 (From an article titled "Oil sands of the Mid-Continent field.") 1. Any oil sand name which has come into general usage by the drillers will be preferred, no matter what is its origin, provided it is not a very serious...

Essential points in use of geophysics. (Exploration & Development).(history)
August 1, 2002... Jan. 2, 1930 In discussing the use of geophysical methods in solving the problems of the oil industry it seems unnecessary to detail the many successes these methods have had. The most important factor, however, still seems to be as it has...

Vibroseis hailed as major tool. (Exploration & Development).(history of seismic technology for oil exploration)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Feb. 27, 1961 Exploration executives of several leading oil companies are evaluating a new exploration tool called the Vibroseis system. Its developers say it is a major development in geophysics. Seismograph Service Corp. staged a...

More research set for 3D seismic profiling. (Exploration & Development).(history of seismic technology for oil exploration)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Nov. 7, 1977 Three-dimensional seismic profiling, still in the early stages of development, will get more study in an industry-sponsored research program. Nineteen oil companies and geophysical contractors are participating in the...

Coal beds: a source of natural gas. (Exploration & Development).(history)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 16, 1975 Work by the Bureau of Mines has demonstrated that coal beds can yield substantial quantities of pipeline-quality natural gas. The estimated volume of gas contained in U.S. coals--some 300 trillion cu ft--is equivalent to the...

Oil scout has fewer thrills but more responsibility. (Exploration & Development).(history of oil exploration)
August 1, 2002... Mar. 4, 1937 Scouting has become a different thing. Less of adventure and detective work and thrill. More systematic, more precise and contributing vastly more to the fund of solid information upon which the oil company of 1937 builds its...

Modern methods subdue 'Wild Mary'. (Drilling & Production).(historical look at bringing a wild well under control)
August 1, 2002... Apr. 10, 1930 "Wild Mary" has been tamed. After running wild for 11 days the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co.'s No. 1 Mary Sudik, known to the workmen of the Oklahoma City Pool as "Wild Mary," was brought under control at 7:05 p.m....

Gravel-packed liners reduce well caving and sand production. (Drilling & Production).(historical look at well completion)
August 1, 2002... Oct. 14, 1937 In the San Joaquin Valley of California the Texas Co. is completing all wells with slotted liners set in large-diameter holes, the space around the liners being filled with screened river gravel. While gravel packing of...

Stabilization of crude oil in the field comes into general use. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 24, 1937 Developments in several fields of widely different characteristics indicate that the subject of stabilization of crude oil at the well, or at some central point in the field, is destined to be of major consideration during...

Holding up the offshore drilling rig. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 28, 1947 At the present time there are approximately 1,775,000 acres of water bottoms, extending out to the 27-mile limit, under lease off the coast of Louisiana between the Texas-Louisiana boundary and the Mississippi delta. That...

Undersea completion unit passes tests. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Aug. 10, 1970 The oil industry has moved a step closer to developing a successful technique for ocean-floor well completion and production. Lockheed Offshore Petroleum Services, Ltd., supported by the Canadian government, has conducted...

Mid-summer rotary drilling fantasy. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Aug. 21, 1930 During this period of proration in the principal oil-producing states it has been suggested that one well placed in the center of a 40-acre tract would be sufficient. This idea meets objection because it is generally accepted...

Well drilled horizontally yields good producer. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Apr. 13, 1939 McConnelsville, Ohio, Apr. 10.-Leo Ranney reports the world's first horizontal oil well on the Dion S. Birney farm, Morgan County, Ohio, in the first Cow Run sand with 15 vertical feet of pay. It has two branches, one 800...

Dr. Day's paper on natural gas resources. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Apr. 6, 1909 A paper on the natural gas resources of the United States, by Dr. David T. Day, chief of the department of petroleum research of the United States geological survey, has been made public by the National Conservation...

Prospecting with rotary equipment. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 7, 1928 Rotary continues to progress with mechanical improvements and in experience and training of crews and field men. That progress is based on the solution of drilling problems as they have become manifest. The two general...

Batson a year ago and Batson today, with a review of present drilling operations. (Drilling & Production).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Batson's history furnishes an excellent example of the reckless and extravagant waste of money, labor and life that so often accompanies man's uncontrollable and selfish scramble after that twentieth century deity-the almighty dollar. Just...

New catalytic processes for the production of motor fuels having high octane value. (Processing).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Oct. 19, 1933 There have recently been brought to commercial development two entirely new catalytic processes, one for the production of high octane gasoline, and the other for the refining of gasoline made by any process. The principles...

Refiners may spend millions to improve gasoline octane number. (Processing).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Oct. 22, 1931 With very few exceptions every refinery organization operating plants east of California faces 1932 with the problem of raising the octane number of its gasoline. A comparatively small number of Middle West and East Coast...

Fractionation in petroleum refining. (Processing).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Feb. 24, 1927 Rectification is the best term to describe what takes place in refinery tube stills and towers as well as in old shell stills. In each case we have distillation, condensation and countercurrent scrubbing. Modem refinery...

New technique raises yield of refinery war materials. (Processing).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... May 28, 1942 NEW YORK--Development of a new refining technique in which established processes are capable of producing substantially larger quantities of raw materials for synthetic rubber and still maintain the capacity production of base...

First fluid-catalyst cracking unit starts operating. (Processing).(Standard Oil Company of New Jersey)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 11, 1942 NEW YORK--First of the new fluid-catalyst refining units which will boost the nation's supply of 100-octane aviation gasoline is in successful operation, the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) announced Monday. In the first 10...

Continuous residuum coking by delayed coking process. (Processing).
August 1, 2002... Nov. 18, 1938 Coking has for many years been an important process in the refining of petroleum. It is well known that, by a combination of crude-residuum coking and gas-oil cracking, a higher over-all gasoline yield is obtained from crude...

Advantages of vacuum distillation. (Processing).
August 1, 2002... Dec. 8, 1927 In the distillation of a typical crude oil by methods common in the petroleum industry practically three-fourths of the lubricating oil fraction are destroyed. A yield of 6 per cent to 7 per cent of an oil having a viscosity...

Chemists foresee broad field of utilization for petroleum. (Processing).
August 1, 2002... Sept. 9, 1937 ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 9--America is rapidly mining to chemistry to find ways and means for improving the products of its increasingly important part in that program according to the statements made here this week during the...

Automatic welding hits the pipeline right of way. (Transportation).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Jan. 30, 1961 An automatic pipeline welding machine is out to compete with manual welding on the right of way. Field tests on a Humble Pipe Line Co. project near Odessa, Tex., have shown that line pipe can be welded in the field-in a...

Pioneer long electric welded oil line. (Transportation).(Texas Pipeline co.)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Dec. 13, 1928 Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 10.--Pioneering in the field of building long electric welded pipe lines, the Texas Pipe Line Co. is nearing completion on the first, electric welded oil transportation system to be built. So far, the...

Digital telemetering displacing analog in pipelining. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... Jan. 22, 1962 A new form of telemetering known as digital telemetering, has been introduced to the pipeline industry in recent years. It has been estimated that, in 1955, fewer than 15% of the pipeline telemetering systems were digital. By...

Unique pipe-laying vessel's job in N. Sea. (Transportation).(Flexservice N.V.'s Flexserve I)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... June 28, 1976 A unique offshore pipe-laying vessel is scheduled to perform its first job in the North Sea's Brent field in mid-July Flexservice N.V.'s flexible pipe laying ship, Flexserve I, was nearing the end of a $16-million conversion...

First X-100 line pipe tested by Columbia gas. (Transportation).(Columbia Gas System Inc.)
August 1, 2002... June 14, 1965 Pipe and the cost of construction constitute a large percentage of the total fixed capital of any natural-gas-transmission company While Columbia is an integrated company, i.e., transmission, distribution, storage, and...

First commercial liquefaction plant in full-scale operation. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... Mar. 20, 1941 The liquefaction of gas for its storage, and as a solution to the problem of peak-load demands upon gas-distribution systems, has held the attention of engineers for years. In the past the only satisfactory solution to this...

Tanker fleets play big role in transporting crude oil. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... Sept. 21, 1939 NEW YORK, Sept. 19--Importance of the domestic tanker fleet in moving petroleum to points of ultimate consumption is best exemplified by the fact that more than one-quarter of the national production is eventually...

"Go-devils" and radio play important part in cleaning gasoline pipe line. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... Jan. 9, 1936 When die Subsquehanna Pipe Line Co., a subsidiary of the Sun Oil Co., laid one of the first gasoline lines in the eastern part of this country in 1930 it was not anticipated trouble would be experienced through corrosion...

Cold-bending methods in Pipe-line construction. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... Jan. 16, 1941 Several changes in the methods used for cold bending in pipe-line construction have been devised and tested in the field during the past year and a half. Although descriptions of some of these methods have been published in...

Crude-oil measurement is going automatic. (Transportation).
August 1, 2002... June 4, 1956 Each day in the United State approximately 7 to 8 million barrels of crude oil and its products are handled by the oil industry in producing, transporting, manufacturing, and marketing operations. This total volume is measured...

Principles of rectification. (Processing).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Feb. 24, 1927 Following are the essential features of efficient rectification in oil refining: Intimate contact in a column between vapor and liquid. Suitable velocities Suitable temperature, at the top and bottom of the...

Gas injections continue at strong pace. (Market Movement).(Injections of natural gas into US underground storage show no signs of slowing)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 5, 2002... Injections of natural gas into US underground storage show no signs of slowing, despite sweltering summer heat, and could reach capacity before the heating season starts, putting more downward pressure on gas prices, said industry analysts. ...

Industry scoreboard.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 5, 2002... Industry Scoreboard US INDUSTRY SCOREBOARD -- 8/5 4 wk. 4 wk. avg. Change, YTD Latest week 7/26 average year ago (1) % average (1) Demand, 1,000 b/d Motor gasoline ...

PatchWork survey. (Industry Trends).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 5, 2002... OIL AND GAS COMPANIES expect to increase upstream spending plans over the next few months, but the increases likely will be more significant outside the US and Canada, where 37% of respondents plan to increase drilling and only 13% expect to...

The Competition Directorate General. (Government Developments).(The Competion Directorate General of the European Commission has reached an amicable agreement with Norwegian North Sea producers Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro AS)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... THE COMPETITION DIRECTORATE GENERAL of the European Commission has reached an amicable agreement with Norwegian North Sea producers Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro AS, settling their part of the long-standing "GFU (Gas Negotiation Committee) case....

US Lawmakers. (Government Developments).(Antiterrorism legislation leaves outcontroversial Senate proposal directed at Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s crude oil export pipeline in Colombia.)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... US LAWMAKERS declined to include in final antiterrorism legislation a controversial Senate proposal directed at Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s crude oil export pipeline in Colombia. President George W Bush is expected this week to sign...

ExxonMobil Corp. (Refining).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... EXXONMOBIL CORP. and China's Guangzhou Petrochemical Corp. are expected to sign by yearend a $3.24 billion contract by which they will jointly expand capacity at Guangzhou Petrochemical's Guangzhous, China, refinery. The 50:50 joint...

PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP). (Development).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... PTT EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION PLC (PTTEP) has applied to local Thai authorities for a license to produce gas from the 4,000 sq km Arthit structure off Thailand, one of the major gas discoveries in the Gulf of Thailand. PTTEP Pres....

Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. (Power).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... GERMANY'S BASF AG and Sinopec have let contracts for the $2.9 billion natural gas-fired power plant at their planned world-scale, grassroots, integrated petrochemical complex at Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Construction is under way...

PTT Exploration & Production PLC. (Quick Takes).(Awarded an oil and gas exploration license in Oman)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... OMAN'S MINISTRY OF OIL AND GAS has awarded an oil and gas exploration license in Oman to PTTEP Middle East Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PLC, marking PTTEP's first entry into Middle East exploration. The...

Thunder Energy Inc. (Exploration).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... In another type of exploration activity, Thunder Energy Inc., Calgary has entered into a joint venture with Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. to assess coalbed methane resources on Thunder Energy's existing properties, which cover 14...

Hunt Oil Co. (Quick Takes).(Hunt Oil Co., Dallas, represents the Camisea consortium in a prosective bidding process for natural gas oil fields in Peru)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... A proposal to auction Block 56, adjacent the Camisea natural gas fields in Peru, remains on hold while the Camisea consortium decides whether to begin negotiations with Perupetro SA, the state oil agency. Formal talks depend on a written...

Tidelands Oil & Gas Corp. (Pipelines).(Subsidiary Reef International LLC received a presidential permit from the US Department of State for its proposed natural gas and dual propane-butane international pipelines between Eagle Pass, Tex., and Piedras Negras, Mexico.)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... TIDELANDS OIL & GAS CORP. subsidiary Reef International LLC received a presidential permit from the US Department of State for its proposed natural gas and dual propane-butane international pipelines between Eagle Pass, Tex., and Piedras...

Tanknology-NDE International Inc. (Storage).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... TANKNOLOGY-NDE INTERNATIONAL INC. of Austin, Tex., will have to pay a $2 million fine and serve 5 years probation for giving fraudulent underground storage tank (UST) tests to federal environmental regulators, the US Department of Justice and...

Oman-India Fertilizer Co. (Petrochemicals).(Construction of the world's largest grassroots fertilizer complex in Oman)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... FINANCING AND OTHER CONDITIONS affecting the start of construction of the world's largest grassroots fertilizer complex in Oman have now been met, enabling Oman-India Fertilizer Co. (Omifco) to proceed with the project. Completion of the...

Polar resolution joins Philips's tanker fleet in Alaska. (Quick Takes).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The Polar Resolution, one of the newest Millennium-class, double-hulled tankers to join the Polar tanker fleet in Alaska, loaded its first shipment of Alaska North Slope crude July 24. The vessel, operated by Phillips Petroleum Co. unit Polar...

The Doodlebugger. (Journally Speaking).(a statue honoring seismic field workers)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Many organizations have long sought ways to commemorate their pasts while emphasizing to new generations the importance of work still to come. Symbols are needed to mark important events. That's why there are statues in parks of generals on...

Hopeful trade glimmers. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... US economic policy advanced on two legislative fronts last week, the less significant of the two being enactment of a tough corporate-fraud law. More important to economic health--and therefore financial and energy markets--is agreement on...

Central Asia's potential as Asia-Pacific oil supplier limited far years to come. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The Middle East is the Asia-Pacific region's largest energy supplier, currently satisfying a demand for oil that must keep pace with the region's continued economic growth. This dependence on the Middle East has caused Asia-Pacific to join the...

US-Russia oil supply ties deepen with cargo to Texas. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The first direct oil shipment from Russia to the US was lightered last month from a supertanker to Exxon-Mobil Corp. refineries in Baytown and Beaumont, Tex., in a pilot program by OAO Yukos aimed at developing new markets for its rapidly...

Industry says EPA should expand low-sulfur diesel review. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Oil and gas companies including integrated firms, independent refiners, and pipeline operators, urged the US Environmental Protection Agency in comments made public July 25 that the agency must expand the scope of an independent panel reviewing...

Clean fuels and waters. (Watching Government).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Fuel marketers say there is a good chance the White House will chance the say there is a good into law this fall a Senate proposal that accelerates underground storage tank cleanups. That could in turn help alleviate persistent public worries...

DOE marks progress on crude, heating oil reserves. (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... After reviewing industry bids this summer, the US Department of Energy said it will sign new leases with the same storage terminal operators that currently manage the government's 2 million bbl Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. Leases...

US energy merchants face period of "extreme stress". (General Interest).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The US natural gas and wholesale power trading sector, along with the power-generating sector, is presently facing a period of "extreme stress," according to Richard Hunter, managing director, global power group, for New York-based Fitch...

Energy merchants dropping from PFC 50 rankings. (General Interest).
August 5, 2002... Non-US companies continued to dominate the top spots in the second quarter ranking of the world's 50 largest energy firms, while natural gas-power merchant firms continued to fall from the ranks. These same merchant firms populated some of...

Beleaguered energy merchants divest key assets. (Company News).
August 5, 2002... US energy merchants--struggling to gain the capital they need to reduce debt and shore up their battered balance sheets--are divesting themselves of some of their key assets in recent weeks. Some of the more recent transactions include: ...

New Carboniferous potential seen in Cumberland subbasin, Canada. (Exploration & Development).
August 5, 2002... Considerable exploratory interest has come to focus on eastern Canada's Maritimes basin. This basin defines a large and complex tectonic depression of Late Paleozoic age, encompassing most of eastern New Brunswick, northern Nova Scotia, Prince...

Polymer-free self-diverting acid stimulates Kuwaiti wells. (Production).
August 5, 2002... Eighteen field trials of a new polymer-free viscoelastic diverting acid (VDA) in Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) wells restored production and increased reserves from both new and existing wells completed in the Mauddud formation, in the north fields of...

Energy merchants name new CFOs. (Personnel Moves and Promotions).
August 5, 2002... Thomas J. Webb has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of CMS Energy Corp., effective Aug. 5. Webb succeeds Alan M. Wright, who will leave the Dearborn, Mich.-based company Aug. 16 to join another firm outside...

Cement design, evaluation method improves well safety and economics. (Drilling).
August 5, 2002... Natural gas may be one of the cleaner sources of energy, but the petroleum industry's challenge in the well-construction process is to drill and complete wells to produce it safely and economically. The extreme operating conditions that...

Troubleshooting identifies, solves operating problems. (Petrochemicals).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Successful troubleshooting combines a thorough understanding of the process and equipment, application of chemical engineering basics to problem solving, and good field techniques and data interpretation skills. Troubleshooting often fails due...

Procedure analyzes low-frequency ERW, flash-welded pipe for HCA integrity assessments. (Pipelines).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... New US regulations, CFR Part 195 Section 195.452, require that special integrity assessments be made to address potential seam-defect problems in low-frequency, electric-resistance-welded (ERW) pipe where a failure of such materials could have...

New midsize clamshell. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... In addition to cutting and beveling in-line pipe and tube, this new MS. or midsize, clamshell is capable of boring, flange facing, outside diameter turning, ring tool joint grooves, and compound angle weld preps. The on-site portable...

Wellsite data management system updated. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... WellWizard version 3.0 is the latest release of an advanced wellsite data integration and information management system. Operating on any Windows platform, this software package offers ease of use and customization of your data. You may use...

New 420 hp driver for gas compression uses. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The KTA19GC is a new 420 lip driver for natural gas compression operations. The 19 l. displacement, rich-burn engine is designed for wellhead, gathering, and related gas compression uses. It is available in a standard or catalyst rating...

Low-cost method designed to increase turbine output. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... PowerFog, a low cost method for combustion turbine inlet air cooling, cools the turbine's inlet air to within 10 of the ambient wet bulb temperature. It results in increased turbine power output of as much as 15% and increased plant efficiency,...

Impurities measurement capability extended. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... New detection technology from this firm offers the capability to measure trace levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide at 10 ppb in ethylene and to generate calibration standards for analytical systems. The technology includes new grades...

New in-stream hydrogen sulfide analyzer. (Equipment/Software/Literature).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... The new Model 4400 in-stream hydrogen sulfide analyzer is used to verify continuously the [H.sub.2]S content of a natural gas stream. It is used to help insure that the in natural gas collection lines remains at acceptable levels to help guard...

ITT Industrial Pump Group. (Services/Suppliers).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Seneca Falls, NY, has appointed Robert J. Pagano Jr. as president. Pagano, a certified public accountant and certified management accountant, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in accounting from the State University of New York...

BJ Services Co. (Services/Suppliers).(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Houston, has promoted Trey Whichard to vice-president and chief financial officer, and Jeff Smith to treasurer. Whichard, who has been with BJ Services since 1 989, previously served as vice-president and treasurer. Smith previously was...