[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 143 (Friday, July 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 40108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19650]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--NMR Project Participation Agreement Joint
Venture
Notice is hereby given that, on June 20, 1997, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301, et seq. (``the Act''), Western Atlas Logging Services
Division of Western Atlas International, Inc., on behalf of he
participants of the NMR Project Participation Agreement joint venture
has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney
General and with the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the
identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the
venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b)
of the Act, the identities of the current parties in the joint venture
are: AGIP Petroleum Company, Houston, TX; Amoco Production Company,
Houston, TX; Arco Exploration and Production Technology, a unit of
Atlantic Richfield Company, Plano, TX; Chevron Petroleum Technology
Company, a division of Chevron, U.S.A., La Habra, CA; Conoco, Inc.,
Houston, TX; Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, TX; Marathon
Oil Company, Littleton, CO; Mobil Exploration & Technology Company,
Dallas, TX; NUMAR Corporation, Houston, TX; Phillips Petroleum Company,
Bartlesville, OK; Schlumberger Well Services, Sugar Land, TX; Shell Oil
Company, Houston, TX and Western Atlas Logging Services Division of
Western Atlas International, Inc., Houston, TX.
The nature and objective of this joint venture performed in
accordance with a Cooperative Agreement is to establish a procedure for
the participants to administer and scientifically conduct an integrated
logging and core study using nuclear resonance (``NMR'') techniques
concerning the permeability and producibility of carbonate reservoirs.
The Project has two primary goals: (1) To improve NMR predictions of
permeability and producibility in carbonate reservoirs from NMR logging
data; and (2) to improve predictions of permeability and producibility
in carbonated reservoirs by integrating NMR and other logging data. The
NMR Project objectives are: (1) Acquiring additional small coring plug
samples from a known test well; (2) analyzing the small coring plug
samples taken from the test well; (3) logging the test well using
current commercially available NMR logging techniques; and (4) making
available all previously conducted logging and standard coring data
from the test well, the data from the small plug coring analysis and
the NMR logging data obtained from the test well to all participants of
the Project for their interpretation and analysis to meet he goals of
the Agreement. It is not the purpose of the joint venture under this
agreement to produce a product, process or service.
Information regarding this joint venture may be obtained from
Darryl M. Springs, Western Atlas Logging Services Division of Western
Atlas International, Inc., Houston, TX.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-19650 Filed 7-24-97; 8:45 am]
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