The Oil and Gas Journal articles from February 1998

The Oil and Gas Journal archives from February 1998

OGJ Newsletter.6/vv96/pp2(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOGJ Newsletter.
February 2, 1998... The Asian economic crisis is continuing to wreak havoc, the latest victims being refineries and petrochemical plants (see related story, p. 23). The crisis is causing Shell to consider temporarily idling one of the crude distillation units at...

[CO.sub.2] flood high hopes.(carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery)
February 2, 1998... This year should be a good one for new and expanded carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery projects in West Texas and New Mexico Permian basin fields. One active company is Shell [CO.sub.2] Co. Ltd. It continues efforts of its predecessor...

Editorial.(Editorial)
February 2, 1998... Picking on 'pessimists' The 1998 state-of-the-union address by a desperate American leader raised an issue that the oil and gas industry cannot afford to ignore. "Every time we have acted to heal our environment, pessimists have told us it...

Asian economic crisis to curb oil, chemical demand well into 1999.
February 2, 1998... Arved Teleki is senior consultant, economics and hydrocarbons, with Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMA1), Houston. While his efforts are focused on the petrochemical industry, his specialties include economic and energy analysis and...

Oil price rallies as U.S. threatens Iraq.
February 2, 1998... Once again, a standoff between Presidents Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein has bolstered oil prices in an otherwise stagnant crude market. As the U.S. threatened Iraq with military action, in response to continued Iraqi disruption of the work of...

WEC foresees $80 trillion in energy outlays.
February 2, 1998... The world will need to spend up to $30 trillion during 1990-2020 to meet anticipated energy requirements, but raising finance may be tough. This is the view of London-based World Energy Council (WEC), which says this capital outlay will be...

Union Pacific Resources to buy Norcen In $3.5 billion deal.
February 2, 1998... Another big merger involving Canadian company was disclosed last week, albeit somewhat overshadowed by the NOVA/Trans-Canada megamerger (see related story, this page). Big independent Union Pacific Resources Group Inc. (UPR), Fort Worth, will...

NOVA/TransCanada deal to create energy giant.
February 2, 1998... The pending merger of Canadian pipeline giants TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. and NOVA Corp., disclosed last week, will create the fourth largest energy services company in North America. The combined companies will have $16 billion (Canadian) in...

Petrochem tanker trade set to rise.ate en
February 2, 1998... Worldwide seaborne trade in organic chemicals is set to rise to almost 55 million metric tons in 2000 from just more than 46 million tons in 1996. This is the prediction of Ocean Shipping Consultants Ltd. (OCS), Chertsey, U.K., which says...

U.S. ethylene demand to rise 2.9%/year.
February 2, 1998... Projected growth in U.S. demand for ethylene will follow a decline in ethylene plant capacity utilization, according to a report by Chem Systems Inc., Tarrytown, N.Y. Demand for ethylene will jump to 63 billion lb/year by 2005-a 2.9% compound...

Butadiene demand set to accelerate.?H.
February 2, 1998... Global demand growth for butadiene is set to accelerate heading into the turn of the century Butadiene demand growth will increase at an average rate of 4.2%/year during 1996-2002, according to a new study by Chemical Market Associates Inc.,...

[C0.sub.2] utlilization technology eyed for development.
February 2, 1998... Canadian and U.S. organizations are developing technology to enhance production of Alberta's large coalbed methane reserves while disposing of utilities' carbon dioxide emissions The Alberta Research Council and Sproule Associates Ltd. are...

Sulfur and gasoline.
February 2, 1998... A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency review of emissions standards for model year 2004 autos has the oil and auto industries at odds over sulfur levels in gasoline. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require EPA to consider stricter, Tier II,...

BLM sets tighter rules against drainage.
February 2, 1998... The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has proposed a rule to clarify the obligations of federal oil and gas lessees to protect against drainage by third parties. BLM Director Pat Shea said, "This proposal is aimed at ensuring that America's...

Software models naturally fractured fields.
February 2, 1998... The U.S. Energy Department said research it has funded soon will provide producers with software programs that improve capabilities to model the way fracture systems control the flow of fluids through a reservoir. Golder Associates, Redmond,...

Offshore system cuts radioactive waste costs.
February 2, 1998... AEA Technology plc, Didcot, U.K., has developed an offshore descaling sys tern it claims can cut the costs of treating radioactive waste from production platforms. Naturally occurring uranium and thorium from producing wells is typically...

Exploratory drilling levels off Norway predicted flat for 1998.
February 2, 1998... Norwegian oil industry regulator Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has outlined operators' plans for exploratory drilling off Norway this year and disclosed results of 1997 exploration programs. NPD says Norway's offshore operators plan to...

Boulton first gas tops U.K. North Sea action.
February 2, 1998... Conoco (U.K.) Ltd. claims gas flow in Boulton field, brought on stream on Jan. 28, is the highest sustained rate for a Carboniferous well in the southern U.K. North Sea. In other action, Shell U.K. Exploration & Production intends to study...

Mobil Producing Nigeria..20820694/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tMobil Producing Nigeria.
February 2, 1998... Mobil Producing Nigeria said that 90% of the oil spilled as a result of a pipeline rupture off Nigeria late last month had evaporated or dispersed naturally. A rupture in the pipeline connecting the Idoho production area to the Qua lboe export...

Two oil spills.5/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tTwo oil spills.
February 2, 1998... Two oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico oft Texas were being cleaned up at presstime. The U.S. Coast Guard sealed a hole in one tank of the Gibraltar-flagged Seagull tanker, which had leaked 460 bbl of oil south of Galveston after the unexplained...

Suncor Energy Inc..20820696/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tSuncor Energy Inc.
February 2, 1998... Suncor Energy Inc. let contract to the Conoco-Bechtel Coker Technology Alliance for its Project Millennium, a $2.2 billion oilsands project expansion at Fort McMurray, Alta. The program will increase light crude oil production to 210,000 b/d from...

Oryx Energy Co.,.7/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOryx Energy Co.,.
February 2, 1998... Marathon Oil Co., and Murphy Oil Co. Ltd. entered into a 5-year contract for a Noble Drilling deepwater semisubmersible rig, rated to 6,000 ft of water. Delivery is slated for second quarter 1999. In a separate deal, Oryx plans a 5-year contract...

State-owned Sakhalin
February 2, 1998... State-owned Sakhalin Energia and Rosneft-Sakhalinmorneftegaz, a group of western and Japanese companies, signed a $12.8 million contract tar delineation drilling in Piltun-Astokh field on the continental shelf oft Sakhalin Island. Drilling will...

Rosshelf.p38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tRosshelf.
February 2, 1998... Rosshelf, a Russian joint-stock company owned 51% by Gazprom, claims reserves in the country's Prirazlomnoye oil field in the eastern sector of the Barents Sea are closer to 100 million metric tons than to previous estimates of 65 million tons....

Tesoro E&P Co. LP..20820700/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tTesoro E&P Co. LP.
February 2, 1998... Tesoro E&P Co. LP, a unit of Tesoro Petrolum Corp., San Antonio, completed the 8 Gonzalez well in the Wilcox trend of Webb County, Tex. The well tested at a rate of 33.7 MMcfd from 1-1 sand. When Tesoro purchased its 100% interest in the Gonzalez...

Transocean Offshore
February 2, 1998... Transocean Offshore Inc.'s dynamically positioned drillship Discoverer Enterprise was damaged after being torn from its moorings during a storm late last month at the Astilleros Espanoles shipyard at Ferrol, Spain. The hull, which ran aground,...

Union Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc.?H8(1)
February 2, 1998... Houston, acquired Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s. Venezuelan unit Cia. Occidental de Hidrocarburos Inc. (COH) for $204.5 million. COH operates the 1 million-acre Desarrollo Zulia Occidental (DZO) block. The oil field development project, west of...

BP Exploration Operating Co.
February 2, 1998... BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. let a [pounds]35 million ($56 million) contract to Bond Helicopters Ltd., Aberdeen, for use of two new-design helicopters for 5 years. From September, Bond will deploy the two new Eurocopter Mk. 2 Super Pumas,...

Apache Corp.4/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tApache Corp.
February 2, 1998... Apache Corp. agreed to swap its 86% working interest in West Texas' Cogdell Canyon Reef unit to Altura Energy Ltd. for that company's interests in the New Mexico Federal and Drinkard units of Lea County, N.M. Apache will gain reserves of 18.2...

Patterson Energy Inc.,..20820705/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tPatterson Energy Inc.,.
February 2, 1998... Houston, will acquire Robertson Onshore Drilling Co., Dallas, for $30 million cash and $10 million in shares of Patterson common stock. Robertson has 15 drilling rigs-10 working in East Texas and five in Mississippi-and a yard in Liberty City,...

Forest Oil Corp.,..20820706/vv96/pp38(1)/lPEREW19980623/tForest Oil Corp.,.
February 2, 1998... Denver, will issue 6.17 million shares of common stock to Anschutz Corp. for certain U.S. oil and gas assets, all of its undeveloped Canadian acreage, and 10 undeveloped international concessions. Included are four producing oil and gas fields in...

BG Exploration & Production
February 2, 1998... BG Exploration & Production Ltd. agreed to supply 275 bcf at gas tram its U.K. portfolio over 15 years to Enfield Energy Centre Ltd (EECL). North London-based EECL is a 50-50 joint venture at independent power provider Indeck and the NRG unit at...

ARCO British Ltd.8/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tARCO British Ltd.
February 2, 1998... ARCO British Ltd. exchanged interests in acreage adjacent to U.K. North Sea Gawain field with Mobil Oil Corp. affiliate Superior Oil (U.K.) Ltd. ARCO acquired a 50% working interest in Block 49/29a, to the southeast of Gawain, in exchange for a...

Russia's Gazprom.9/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tRussia's Gazprom.
February 2, 1998... Russia's Gazprom plans to increase annual output for the next 3 years, Deputy CEO Pyotr Rodionov said. He said 1997 production would be 533 billion cu m (bcm), rising to 548 bcm in 1998, 550 bcm in 1999, and 563 bcm in 2000. Gazprom also...

U.K. Health and Safety
February 2, 1998... U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published guidance on design, construction, operation, and maintenance of installations for storage of flammable liquids in fixed tanks. The booklet is aimed at managers and supervisors of new and existing...

Middle East Oil Refinery..20820711/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tMiddle East Oil Refinery.
February 2, 1998... Middle East Oil Refinery (Midor), composed of Egyptian group H. Salem 40%, Israeli investment group Merhav 40%, and state oil company Egypt General Petroleum Corp. 20%, will use the jointly owned Conoco-Bechtel delayed coking technology for a...

Petrochemia Plock SA..20820712/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tPetrochemia Plock SA.
February 2, 1998... Petrochemia Plock SA, Poland, started up what it claims is Europe's largest hydrocracking unit at its Plock, Poland, refinery. The 55,000 b/sd unit uses the Unicracking process, licensed by UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill. The unit will partially...

Concord Oil & Petrochemicals Holdings China Ltd.
February 2, 1998... Concord Oil & Petrochemicals Holdings China Ltd. licensed UOP's reduced-crude conversion technology to process 45,100 b/sd of untreated or hydrotreated atmospheric residue at Concords refinery at Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. The unit is scheduled for...

Ukraine.p39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tUkraine.
February 2, 1998... Ukraine abolished its 20% value added tax (VAT) on gas imports. The State Oil and Gas Committee said the decision to drop the VAT on gas imports for all industrial consumers could lead to price cuts in a sector heavily dependent on gas.

Esso (Thailand) Public Co.
February 2, 1998... Esso (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd., an affiliate of Exxon Corp., finalized plans to invest about $400 million in a major aromatics plant at its Sri Racha refinery on the east coast of Thailand. The plant will be fully integrated with the refinery...

Equistar Chemicals LP..20820716/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tEquistar Chemicals LP.
February 2, 1998... Equistar Chemicals LP, a joint venture of Lyondell Petrochemical Co. and Millennium Chemicals Inc., let contract to Bechtel Corp., Houston, for expansion of its high-density polyethylene plant at Matagorda, Tex. Bechtel will provide engineering,...

European Fund for Regional Development.
February 2, 1998... European Fund for Regional Development will provide financial assistance of 62.9 million (10.2 billion pesetas) to Spain's Repsol SA for the construction of the 350km Cartagena-Puertollano pipeline. The oil pipeline is planned to be on line late...

U.S. Department at Transportation's.
February 2, 1998... U.S. Department at Transportation's Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) assessed 1998 user fees at $67.98/mile for gas transmission pipelines and $59.59/mile for hazardous liquids pipelines. Hazardous liquids pipelines will fund...

Gulf Canada Resources
February 2, 1998... Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., Denver, and Roc Oil Co. Ltd., Australia, acquired interests in the East Gobi basin in southeast Mongolia. The companies purchased Nescor Energy Co. for $14.25 million, with Gulf taking a 75% share and Roc 25%. The...

Tullow Pakistan Development
February 2, 1998... Tullow Pakistan Development Ltd. of Ireland and Pakistan's Government Holdings were granted an exploration license from the Pakistan government in the Mirpurkhas Sindh province, Nawabshah Khairpur district. As operator of the 7,401 sq km...

Canadian Occidental Petroleum Australia Ltd.
February 2, 1998... Canadian Occidental Petroleum Australia Ltd. acquired from BHP Petroleum Pty. Ltd. half of BHP's 100% interest in WA-260-P exploration permit and Buffalo oil discovery in the Bonaparte basin off Northwest Australia. BHP retains operatorship. BHP...

Oryx Energy Co.2/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOryx Energy Co.
February 2, 1998... Oryx Energy Co., Dallas, cut 110 ft of net pay in one of three zones found by its Yuralpa discovery well on Block 21 in Ecuador's Oriente basin. Operator Oryx 50% will drill two additional wells on the Yuralpa structure this year to establish...

Tornado Resources Ltd..20820723/vv96/pp39(1)/lPEREW19980623/tTornado Resources Ltd.
February 2, 1998... Tornado Resources Ltd., Calgary, signed a memorandum of understanding with Tanzania for development of natural gas to be used in a $32.5 million power project in southern Tanzania. The Mnazi Bay project involves development of the 500 bcf Mnazi...

Strategic role for telecoms.
February 2, 1998... Telecommunications has become such an integrated part of the petroleum industry that telecoms providers will soon join operators, engineers, fabricators, and other contractors in project alliances This is the view of Robin Scurlock, senior...

0ff-design performance evaluations increase hot-gas expander reliability.
February 2, 1998... Ji Zhang is a mechanical engineer at Sinopec's Jinan oil refinery (JOR), where he has about 14 years of experience with petrochemical processing equipment. Presently, he designs pressure vessels for JOR. From 1988 to 1993, Zhang supervised the...

Studies reveal best installation, coatings for desert gathering lines.
February 2, 1998... Kamal Morsi is superintendent of the production engineering department at Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc). He worked previously for the Abu Dhabi Oil Co for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) and at Western Desert Petroleum Co. (Wepco) in Egypt....

Asian petrochemical prices expected to decline until 2000.
February 2, 1998... A study done by Dr. Bruce H. Pickover of Chem Systems Inc. predicts that Asian petrochemical prices will decline about 20% by the year 2000 as a result of lower plant utilization and slowed economic growth. Prices are expected to rebound after...

Program determines rod-pumped well inflow performance.
February 2, 1998... Roy Engineer is a staff reservoir engineer with Aera Energy LLC. He has over 20 years of oil field experience. Engineer has BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer. Gary Grillette is a senior...

Effective gravel packing considers long-term production.
February 2, 1998... With proper design and installation, gravel-pack completions can yield optimum long-term performance. The best strategy should therefore involve a rational compromise between achieving optimum sand control and optimum long-term performance....

Alliance lowers compression costs for U.K. southern gas field.
February 2, 1998... An alliance between vendors and the operating company substantially reduced the cost for installing a compression platform in the British Petroleum-operated Cleeton field, in the southern gas basin of the U.K. North Sea. In alliance with BP,...

Alternators meet Basset a certification.
February 2, 1998... New alternators Type Ex N and Type Ex "e" meet full Baseefa standards and certification. Units meet the standards for use in hazardous environments, such as oil field applications. To maintain Baseefa certification, products are manufactured...

Rig monitoring system..20820732/vv96/pp67(1)/lPEREW19980623/tRig monitoring system.
February 2, 1998... A new generation of Midas rig monitoring systems is specially tailored for drilling contractors, on-site drilling engineering consulting firms, and other organizations requiring data from drilling operations. The system combines field proved...

Portable thermocouple calibration furnace.
February 2, 1998... Calibrating thermocouples to 1,200[DEGREE] C. (2,200[DEGREE] F.) is accomplished with this new 9150 portable thermocouple calibration furnace. It has an accuracy of +4[DEGREE] C. (+7.2[DEGREE] F.) and stability of +0.5[DEGREE] C. (0.9[DEGREE] F)....

Bimetallic thermometer..20820734/vv96/pp67(1)/lPEREW19980623/tBimetallic thermometer.
February 2, 1998... A revised, free "Bi Therm" catalog covers 3 and 5 in. high-visibility, antiparallax dial, bimetallic thermometers. Product capabilities include: temperatures of -150 to + 1,000[degrees] F. (-100 to +500[degrees] C.); standard stem lengths of...

MOVES AND PROMOTIONS..20820736/vv96/pp68(1)/lPEREW19980623/tMOVES AND PROMOTIONS.
February 2, 1998... Tulsa Winch, Inc., Tulsa, Okla., has named William R. (Bill) Jones manager of new product development. Jones was previously associated with Gear Products, Inc. where he served as vice president of engineering. Before that, he was with Funk...

American Precision Industries Inc..20820
February 2, 1998... American Precision Industries Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., has completed the formation of a new company named API Heat Transfer Inc. This new structure organizes and combines what were API's Basco Div. and Air Technologies along with the entities...

Compagnie Generale de Geophysique.s Inc.
February 2, 1998... Compagnie Generale de Geophysique will expand into the Dallas exploration services market. CGG has reached an agreement in principle to acquire substantially all of the assets of TLC Data Processing Services, Inc., a Dallas area provider of...

Exploration progressing in Southeast Turkey areas.
February 2, 1998... Aladdin Middle East Ltd., Ankara, is boosting its exploration and development activities in southeastern Turkey. The company has boosted production in Zeynel field in the Adiyaman area and is moving toward exploration in the Mardin area near...

U.S. drilling costs set 5 year high in 1996.
February 2, 1998... Operators spent $10.9 billion to drill and equip oil and gas wells in the U.S. in 1996, the American Petroleum Institute reported. The 1996 Joint Association Survey on Drilling Costs said the $10919 billion was up 3.6% from 1995 and was the...

Equatorial Guinea..20820741/vv96/pp70(1)/lPEREW19980623/tEquatorial Guinea.
February 2, 1998... A group led by CMS Nomeco Oil & Gas Co. is conducting extended tests of a potentially commercial mid-1997 discovery off Bioko Island. The Luba East well initially flowed 18 MMcfd of gas and 2,100 b/d of condensate from a sand at 3,900 m. It is...

Kentucky.p70(1)/lPEREW19980623/tKentucky.
February 2, 1998... The Kentucky Geological Survey proposed to form an industry funded group to conduct a comprehensive geologic study of Knox and pre-Knox formations in the Rome trough of eastern Kentucky (OGJ, Feb. 19, 1996, p. 52). An organizational meeting was...

New Mexico.3/vv96/pp70(1)/lPEREW19980623/tNew Mexico.
February 2, 1998... Caulkins Oil Co., Denver, opened Cretaccous Gallup production in Rio Arriba County in the San Juan basin. The 377 Breech, in 23-26n7w, flowed 2.478 MMcfd of gas on a 48/64 in. choke with 163 psi FTP from perforations at 6,455-6,892 ft. It is 3...

Ecuador.p72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tEcuador.
February 2, 1998... Oryx Energy Co., Dallas, plans to drill two more wells this year on the Yuralpa structure on Block 21 in the Oriente basin. Its first well on the block, 95 miles southwest of Quito, encountered oil bearing sands in three zones at 6,4007,400 ft,...

North Korea.5/vv96/pp72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tNorth Korea.
February 2, 1998... Taurus Petroleum AB, Stockholm, plans to farm out and possibly drill a well this year on an 11,000 sq km block in West Korea Bay. Taurus reprocessed 3,500 km of seismic and in mid1997 acquired 1,000 km of new seismic. Soviet-Korean drilling...

Arizona.p72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tArizona.
February 2, 1998... Ridgeway Petroleum Corp., Calgary. tested another delineation well in its carbon dioxide accumulation in eastern Arizona. The 11-21 Arizona State well on the St. John's anti-cline in Apache County flowed 1.56 MMcfd from 2,268-2,396 ft in Riggs...

California.8/vv96/pp72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tCalifornia.
February 2, 1998... Equity Oil Co., Salt Lake City, said it has participated in 41 exploratory wells on nine 3D geophysical surveys in the Sacramento basin that resulted in 26 gas discoveries. About 35 more locations remain on the surveys. Equity completed a gas...

Colorado.p72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tColorado.
February 2, 1998... A Colorado agency approved Barrett Resources Corp.'s request for 20 acre well density on 2,830 net acres in Grand Valley and Rulison fields of the Piceance basin, opening up about 100 drilling locations. Barrett has four rigs working and...

Kansas.p72(1)/lPEREW19980623/tKansas.
February 2, 1998... Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, acquired 430 sq km of seismic data in the Hugoton embayment last year and plans to acquire 200 sq km more this year. It drilled nearly 200 wells on its 550,000 lease acres there in 1997. A recent completion,...

Western U.S. producers acquiring refineries.
February 2, 1998... Oil producers in two western states are purchasing small refineries to run production from their fields. The refineries involved are Chrysen Refining Inc.'s 12,500 b/d unit at Woods Cross, Utah, and Petro Source Refining Corp.'s 3,500 bid...

Louisiana.2/vv96/pp73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tLouisiana.
February 2, 1998... Comstock Resources Inc., Dallas, has completed four wells in a Cretaceous Hosston redevelopment program in Ada field producing a combined 11 .5 MMcfd of gas. The most recent completion, Hamner 4 Alt., in Bienville Parish, was producing 6.383...

Mississippi.3/vv96/pp73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tMississippi.
February 2, 1998... Benz Energy Ltd., Houston, completed a Cretaceous Paluxy redevelopment well in Reedy Creek field, Jones County. The 1 Herrin 9-7 flowed 244 b/d of oil. It is the first of six wells located on 3D seismic data.

Montana.p73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tMontana.
February 2, 1998... Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. staked 15 horizontal delineation wells to Ordovician Red River B in Fallon County on the Cedar Creek anticline. The bottomhole locations are in 4- and 15-5n-61e; 31- 6n-61e; 6- and 17-7n-61e; 2-, 6-, and...

Ohio.p73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOhio.
February 2, 1998... Newstar Energy USA Inc., Zanesville, Ohio, staked two wildcats to evaluate Ordovician Utica shale in Hardin County. The wells are projected to 3,000 ft in Precambrian about 4-5 miles southwest of Kenton, Ohio, P1 reported. They are 4 miles...

Oklahoma.p73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOklahoma.
February 2, 1998... Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, and Texaco North American Production, Denver, completed a development well in Sho-Vel-Tum field that has produced more than 165,000 bbl of oil equivalent in 5 months. The 1-27H Lorre, in Stephens County,...

Texas.p73(1)/lPEREW19980623/tTexas.
February 2, 1998... Panhandle Corlena Oil Co., Amarillo, plans to drill a delineation well in second quarter near a Dalhart basin discovery. The 2A Smith Ranch, in Hartley County midway between Proctor Ranch and Proctor oil fields, yielded 321 bbl of oil, no...

API IMPORTS OF CRUDE AND PRODUCTS.p73(1)
February 2, 1998... API IMPORTS OF CRUDE AND PRODUCTS Districts 1-4 District 5 1-23 [1-16.sup.*] 1-23 1998 1998 1998 ...

API CRUDE AND
February 2, 1998... API CRUDE AND PRODUCTSTOCK -Motor gasoline- Blending Comp.(+) Crude oil Total PAD I ...

API REFINERY REPORT--JANUARY 23, 1998.
February 2, 1998... API REFINERY REPORT--JANUARY 23, 1998 REFINERY OPERATIONS Total Input refinery Crude to crude...

OGJ CRACK SPREAD.1/vv96/pp75(1)/lPEREW19980623/tOGJ CRACK SPREAD.
February 2, 1998... OGJ CRACK SPREAD [1-23-09.sup.*] [1-24-97.sup.*] Change % $/bbl change SPOT PRICES Product value 19.12 27.97...