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(3/3/2008) New risks triggered by Colombia incursion into Ecuador (2/18/2008) Dollar down but not out as denominator of oil (2/4/2008) Chukchi Sea Sale could spell end to polar bears (1/21/2008) Barnett Shale lessons: closer wells, longer laterals & more fracs (1/9/2008) Kenya violence threatens oil investment (11/26/2007) Billions in Niger Delta development funds past due (11/19/2007) Talking points at the OPEC summit (11/13/2007) World Energy Congress talking interdependence (10/29/2007) US strike on Iran could trigger worldwide chaos (10/15/2007) Alberta may back away from roundly opposed royalty hike (10/1/2007) Is oil supporting Burma or Myanmar? (9/24/2007) This year's SEG a must (9/10/2007) North America's gas future unconventional (8/27/2007) A PR bone to pick with repeat offenders (8/6/2007) Another African standoff in the making? (7/18/2007) Flush with cash industry M&As abound (7/4/2007) Kremlin claiming North Pole - and its oil (6/18/2007) BP's Statistical Review of World Energy (6/4/2007) US Congress needs to learn basic facts about oil industry (5/21/2007) Is a new Nigeria on the horizon? (5/7/2007) Global warming conundrum for oil & gas industry (4/30/2007) OTC: transforming the industry (4/16/2007) Oil and human rights (3/26/2007) Non-terrestrial hydrocarbons on horizon (3/19/2007) Who benefits from Iraq's hydrocarbons law? (2/19/2007) Dearth of skilled oil workers industry's own fault (2/5/2007) No end to Niger Delta violence (1/22/2007) US Democratic Party launching anti-oil agenda (1/12/2007) Poverty & petroleum's promise (10/23/2006) Chavez woes the world's hearts & minds (9/25/2006) Kremlin wants to scuttle Russian PSAs (9/11/2006) Out of oil again? Hardly (8/28/2006) Kurd petroleum law another Iraq flashpoint (8/14/2006) North Sea prospects changing (7/30/2006) An Inconvenient Truth (7/17/2006) Mideast conflict may push oil beyond $100 per bbl (7/10/2006) China & India competition for oil expanding (7/3/2006) Time to open US Outer Continental Shelf to E&P (6/26/2006) The Mexican presidential hat dance (6/5/2006) Discovering oil at the North Pole (5/22/2006) Oil supply threats - not just Iraq, Iran & Nigeria (5/8/2006) OTC's new technology spotlight (4/24/2006) Energy Forum facing daunting challenges (4/10/2006) Global warming threat greater than terrorism (4/3/2006) We were down but for good reason (3/20/2006) Three years and counting (3/6/2006) Three industry failures: Nigeria, Ecuador, Pakistan (2/12/2006) Further division by a Danish cartoon (2/6/2006) Bush asks the impossible in state of union (1/30/2006) Iran's nuclear ambition - energy or bomb (1/23/2006) Major oil & the Gulf of Guinea (1/16/2006) Where does exploration go from here? (1/9/2006) Chad thumbs nose at World Bank (12/5/2005) Now's not the time for divisive drilling (11/28/2005) Deng Xiaoping's dream for China emerging (11/14/2005) What to do with windfall profits (10/31/2005) Oil & the world's most corrupt governments (10/24/2005) South American populism focused in oil industry (10/17/2005) Norway's Red & Green to continue Barents E&P (10/10/2005) Time for change in platform design criteria (9/26/2005) Katrina & Rita spawns of global warming (9/12/2005) The Katrina catastrophe (8/15/2005) Natural gas prices soaring, too (8/8/2005) Rig demand outpacing supply (8/1/2005) Oil-hungry Asian NOCs moving in (7/25/2005) Inject depleted fields with greenhouse gases (7/3/2005) US needs UK's fallow field program (6/27/2005) CNOOC buying Unocal (6/20/2005) Baluchistan deserves recognition (6/6/2005) The EU constitution & the oil industry (5/23/2005) Mexico's dilemma: MSCs for oil E&P (5/16/2005) It's time for the oil industry to be cool (5/9/2005) National oil companies taking center stage (5/2/2005) My 36th OTC (4/25/2005) Controversial energy bill passes US House (4/18/2005) The sordid tale of Sudan & Darfur (4/11/2005) World economies weakened by negative perceptions of oil industry (4/4/2005) Oil at center of Iraq power struggle (3/16/2005) Will Shell & Gazprom swap interests? (3/7/2005) Yuganskneftegaz a new state-owned company (2/28/2005) Managing maturity (2/21/2005) Japanese-Chinese animosity growing (2/14/2005) Kyoto is law (2/7/2005) ONGC & CNPC vying for Yuganskneftegaz stake (1/31/2005) A vote for peace or civil war? (1/24/2005) Majors buying not exploring for new reserves (1/17/2005) Sudan accord a beginning but Darfur rages (1/5/2005) Oil industry aid flows to Tsunami victims (12/13/2004) $1.4 trillion set for offshore E&P by 2015 (12/6/2004) China expanding E&P worldwide (11/29/2004) Carbon sequestration comes to Texas oilfields (11/22/2004) Just who is to develop Shtokmanovskoye? (11/15/2004) High wellhead gas prices need more to stir exploration (11/8/2004) Obasanjo, it is time to share the wealth (10/25/2004) Oil and the US election (10/4/2004) Russian approval to make Kyoto Treaty law (9/27/2004) OPEC out to buy political favor in USA (9/20/2004) Another Putin putsch for power (9/6/2004) Iran is not Iraq (8/23/2004) Oil the political football (8/16/2004) Chavez wins: time to end disruptions (8/12/2004) The Kremlin's bewildering logic (8/2/2004) The continuing Timor Sea standoff (7/19/2004) US wants military role in Nigeria to secure oil (7/12/2004) Caspian coercion for Kashagan stake (7/5/2004) Ambivalence on Independence Day (6/28/2004) The growing dependence on Russia (6/21/2004) Sandline mercenaries protecting oil ops in Iraq (6/14/2004) Saudi Arabia unsafe for Westerners (6/7/2004) Most US federal oil & gas leases unproductive (5/31/2004) Should Indonesia resign from OPEC? (5/24/2004) What lies at the end of "Operation Rainbow"? (5/17/2004) North Sea: use it or lose it (5/10/2004) Geophysical phoenix arising (5/3/2004) Ode to Joy for world's largest trading bloc (4/26/2004) SEC in U-turn on oil reserves reporting (4/19/2004) Time for Law of the Sea in Australia-East Timor (4/12/2004) Missionary warfare (4/5/2004) Arctic wars (3/29/2004) Is the US Gulf being depleted? (3/22/2004) Shell's diminishing reserves a signal to others for accuracy (3/15/2004) Entangled Sibneft shares up for sale - or not (3/8/2004) Tilting at windmills (2/23/2004) Jeopardizing oil & gas supply from Venezuela (2/16/2004) Industrywide environmental management system (2/9/2004) Do you speak Chinese? (2/2/2004) SPE: our industry in microcosm (1/26/2004) Kerry campaign hyperbole aimed at oil (1/19/2004) Kremlin vs Yukos saga continues (1/12/2004) Giving new life to old fields growing (1/5/2004) The approaching Euro supremacy (12/1/2003) The Quandary of Colombia (11/17/2003) A new OPEC Secretary-General (11/10/2003) Obasanjo's Transparency Initiative (11/5/2003) Khodorkovsky (10/27/2003) Beating up on Halliburton (10/20/2003) Bolivian LNG project needs rethinking (10/13/2003) Schwarzenegger wants to pump you up (10/6/2003) Mile high technology at ATCE (9/29/2003) Australia continues to drag feet (9/22/2003) $54 billion for flowlines in next five years (9/15/2003) Now it's Libya's move (9/8/2003) Statehood for Iraq (9/1/2003) Industry advocate lost in Igor Farkhutdinov (8/25/2003) Worm viruses, spam & the Nigerian scam (8/18/2003) Lockerbie agreement moot for US operators (8/11/2003) Concentrating on predictable prospecting (8/4/2003) Terror trading courtesy US DOD (7/28/2003) Khodorkovsky vs the KGB (7/21/2003) Sao Tome coup: the mouse that roared (7/14/2003) The Azadegan dance card (7/7/2003) Everyone wants a piece of the pie (6/30/2003) Bush's African safari (6/23/2003) Going for greater transparency (6/16/2003) Gracias to Pemex (6/9/2003) Iraq & the 4th Geneva Convention (6/2/2003) Another round of aquatory battles (5/25/2003) Galina Pavlova & Sakhalin (5/19/2003) And now the Congo (5/12/2003) New frontiers in the extreme offshore (5/5/2003) The tenth crusade (4/28/2003) Offshore Technology Conference a must (4/14/2003) Timorous times in Nigeria (4/7/2003) Seabed logging a boon to geoservices (3/31/2003) Texas running out of oil (3/24/2003) The repercussions of this war (3/17/2003) To what purpose the renewed Iran sanctions (3/10/2003) Oil & the inevitable war (2/24/2003) Australia dragging feet on Timor Treaty (2/10/2003) Subscribe to the Times (2/3/2003) Lessons learned from the Venezuelan strike (1/27/2003) Extending subsea tiebacks (1/20/2003) Saudis don't deserve the bad rap (1/13/2003) Pocketing the spoils of war (1/6/2003) 2003 Outlook: Not a bad year for E&P (12/30/2002) The US double standard re. North Korea & Iraq (12/23/2002) Time for Chavez to throw in the towel (12/16/2002) Kyoto to take effect in six months (12/9/2002) Time for OPEC to face reality (12/2/2002) Are there any more places for big discoveries? (11/25/2002) Oil industry needs peace in the Middle East (11/18/2002) Australia, Indonesia & East Timor ignoring West Timor (11/11/2002) Time for remote service provision (11/4/2002) Where will new oil men & women come from? (10/28/2002) Land seismic layoffs indicative of lag in technology (10/21/2002) Oil security (10/14/2002) A tale of two presidents (10/7/2002) IntelliPipe a major intelligent wells breakthrough (9/30/2002) Is militarization of West Africa necessary? (9/23/2002) 2 ½ weeks to a major change in government in Brazil (9/16/2002) Regional perception: Bush seeks hegemony over Iraqi oil (9/9/2002) Who's dancing at Osaka? (9/2/2002) New deepwater slender wells (8/26/2002) International gasline projects proliferating (8/19/2002) Is Russia another point on Bush's axis of evil? (8/12/2002) Pragmatism and the golden rule (8/5/2002) Is West Africa to replace Mideast as oil source? (7/29/2002) Harken back to yesteryear (7/22/2002) Is Nigeria quitting OPEC? (7/15/2002) Considering the end to Iraqi sanctions (7/8/2002) Should drilling occur now in Eastern Congo? (7/1/2002) Rethinking OPEC quotas (6/24/2002) Arthur Andersen (6/10/2002) Did Mesozoic man live in Russia's Urals? (6/3/2002) Brother, can you spare about $235 million? (5/27/2002) Time to bypass Iran and get Caspian pumping (5/20/2002) Finding a way to make CBM less environmentally offensive (5/13/2002) Russian prospects change - investors at the door (5/6/2002) Welcome to the Offshore Technology Conference (4/29/2002) Is the oil weapon on the horizon? 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