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Articles in Jan, 2006 issue of World Oil

• GOM discoveries summary
  by Perry A. Fischer
• Business-risk management: an essential tool: on technically complex deepwater projects that require large sums of capital expended over long periods of time, there is no substitute for closely monitoring costs, assessing financial risks and implementing m
  by Richard Yale
• European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
• Industry at a glance
• Total E&P USA, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Shell Exploration & Production in which Total will convey its interests in four onshore fields in South Texas for Shell's 17% interest in the deepwater Tahiti field in the Gulf of Mexico
• ConocoPhillips acquires Burlington in staggering deal
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Jordan signs first PSA in eight years
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Fungible vs. strategic asset—what CNOOC tells us
  by Jeff Moore
• Reef Exploration, Inc
• "Supercomputer-friendly" version of Windows
• The Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline System website has been launched
• PSAC sees well boom
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• OPEC maintains status quo on output for near-term
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Rumsfeld, IPAA spar over eastern GOM
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Oil as a strategic asset
  by Jeff Moore
• Peak Solution Systems
• Production choke valve.
• Opinion
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Predicting earthquakes
  by Perry A. Fischer
• Pride International, Inc
• Pressure/stress database
• Senator worries about China oil conflict
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• BJ Process and Pipeline Services has created a new global business development group reporting to Andy Barden, division technical manager
• Meetings & events
• Rock and fluid characterization
• Tubing wear prevention
• Bolivia has new minister
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc., has agreed to acquire the hydraulic well control business of Oil States International, Inc
• Calvalley Petroleum Inc
• Editorial comment
  by Perry A. Fischer
• Saudis plan big jump in drilling activity for 2006
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Firms agree to new Venezuelan JVs
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Unconventional coiled tubing operation restores a Brunei offshore well: pioneering gate valve milling saves time
  by Nasser Al- M. Araimi
• Salamis
• Premium Drilling
• Mud pump brochure
• Oil is fungible
  by Jeff Moore
• Causes of underground blowouts: it's incumbent on drilling personnel to identify common UGBO causes to develop prudent control and prevention methods
  by Neal Adams
• TSBR, an alternative solution to bundled hybrid riser designs: top sliding bundle riser eliminates submarine flexible risers for HP/HT offshore wells
  by Pierrick Sauvage
• Access Exploration Corp
• Baker Hughes Inc. has acquired all of the outstanding share capital of Zeroth Technology Ltd , a privately owned company based in Aberdeen, Scotland
• Peru inks six contracts
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Downhole power
  by Victor Schmidt
• Remote equalization device saves recovery costs for operator: particularly effective in highly deviated wells, a remote, intelligent equalization device allows the operator to have maximum pressure testing flexibility while avoiding tricky retrieval probl
  by Mike Reid
• Coiled tubing, horizontal underbalanced drilling has advantages in British Columbia: operational ease, safety and reduced damage are among reasons for using this method in underpressured, compartmentalized carbonate reservoirs
  by Trevor Dufresne
• Energy Information Administration
• Schlumberger
• Hooped ladder safety system
• Mechdyne Corporation will acquire VRCO Inc., a developer of interactive 3D visualization software
• Exxon Mobil Corporation. Humphreys appointed
• Stream selector system
• Standard & Poor's lowers price projections
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• How to save loads of money on well control
  by Les Skinner
• Unique intervention safeguards platform after kick-induced gas broach: after a seabed gas broach occurred under an offshore platform, a relief well intersection technique protected it while replacing a severed production well
  by John Wright
• Harrison Lovegrowve & Co
• Back pressure regulator
• Ekofisk area is online
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• BP forms alternative energy subsidiary
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Demand leads contractors to reactivate rigs
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Tubing reference tables 2006: listings for pipe sizes to 5 in. OD
• Baker Hughes Inc
• North Sea Communications AS, a TeliaSonera subsidiary, has made interconnection agreements with both TampNett AS and Central North Sea Fibre Telecommunications Company Ltd , thereby linking all companies' fiber optical networks in the North Sea
• Guidelines for use of global positioning systems