The oil and gas industry has many contrasting realities, from operations in hostile environments and remote frontiers to the local project, and from the latest high-tech tool to the tried-and-true.
To the debate over US President George W. Bush's proposal for a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, the history of energy regulation offers a useful question: How much does it matter to energy conditions in the US that in 1977 the government created the cabinet-level Department of Energy?
Jalalabad field on Block 13 averaged 83 MMcfd of gas and 1,000 b/d of liquids in 2001, including 55 MMcfd and 700 b/d net to Unocal Bangladesh Ltd., the operator.
Dallas, has announced that its founder and managing director, Edward W. Blessing, has been appointed vice-chair of the Independent Petroleum Association of America Wild catter's Fund. Blessing will work with IPAA member companies to provide tools to communicate issues important to the industry, and to encourage employees, retirees, and their families to participate in the political process.
Refiners are a grim lot these days, and with good reason: It's a low-margin business to begin with, and the near-term outlook is for those margins to stay shrunken.
Since the 1970s the International Energy Agency, through its World Energy Outlook publication, has provided the most reliable energy projections of the world's energy future.
A national effort is needed to find and retain petroleum professionals in the US, according to a new report by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. said it does not support a pending US Senate proposal that calls on the company to pay the US government $1 million for future costs connected with improving security of a Colombian oil pipeline frequently subject to guerrilla attacks.
Russian and US energy officials will meet in Houston Oct. 1-2 to help solidify an energy cooperation pact made between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush last month in Moscow.
Heritage Oil & Gas Corp. and partner Energy Africa Ltd. are poised to drill their first exploration well in the Albert graben of western Uganda in August 2002.
The petroleum industry must develop oil and gas reserves where it finds them. Exploration and development drilling have moved to harsher environments and deeper waters, and developing reservoirs that are deep below the mudline creates severe operational and well design challenges.
In a deepwater field test, Shell Exploration & Production Co. says it demonstrated that low-dosage hydrate inhibitors (LDHIs) provide effective flow assurance.
A hydrocarbon condensate pump in Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd.'s Uran, India, processing plant was experiencing considerable rotodynamic instability. During many pump modifications from December 1995 to May 1999, a honeycomb-type wear ring proved to increase pump rotodynamic stability better than plain or serrated wear rings.
Comparative tests of commercially available corrosion inhibitors revealed that a new corrosion inhibitor, IMP-ICCA-9710, presented a higher protection efficiency in corrosion protection.
