[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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