A survey of 30 of the largest US gas producers indicates that US gas production declined by 1% sequentially in the third quarter and likely will be down 6% for the year as a whole, analysts at Raymond James & Associates Inc., St. Petersburg, Fla., reported last week.
Sinopec Corp. of China won a contract from Sonatrach and the Energy & Mines Ministry to enhance recovery from giant Zarzaitine field in east-central Algeria.
Here's the new DPG-6700 digital pressure gauge/transmitter, a unit that combines pressure transducer technology with multitemperature calibration routines to provide stable process operation measurements.
Berea, Ohio, has appointed Gerald M. Pierman as sales and marketing manager. Pierman is a graduate of Cleveland State University with a BBA in marketing, and held a variety of sales and management positions during his 29-year career with TW Metals/Williams & Co.
Even as Congress moves to mandate the use of ethanol as part of the US clean fuels mix (see related story, Clean fuels spec part fo shifting US political landscape), government agencies and environmental pressure groups are stepping up efforts to curb US fuel ethanol plant emissions.
Encouraging use of more diesel-powered passenger vehicles in the California market could reduce fuel consumption in that state by 141 million gal/year in 2010, according to a new report by M.Cubed, an economics and policy research firm in Davis, Calif.
Refiners that rely only on FCC feed hydrotreating or mild hydrocracking1 2 (i.e., use a cat feed hydrotreater [CFHT]) to meet 30-ppmw gasoline pool sulfur specifications must minimize CFHT feed contaminants and ensure that their FCC units have the flexibility to undercut gasoline to meet the sulfur limit.
While big international companies seek production-sharing agreements (PSAs) for billion-dollar oil and gas projects in Russia, smaller companies are prospering with smaller projects under other business structures.
Complying with the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change would "trigger a migration of capital investment out of Canada," said Murray Smith, Alberta minister of energy, in a keynote speech late last month to the International Pipeline Conference in Calgary.
The impressive gains of natural gas in the world's energy supply will falter as the century moves toward 2050, according to Gerald Doucet, secretary general of the World Energy Council, speaking Oct. 2 in Calgary to the International Pipeline Conference.
The US Congress's ambivalent treatment of comprehensive energy reform legislation is an obvious industry distraction. But an even more immediate concern for oil and gas interests is what role the federal government plays in protecting critical infrastructures such as pipe- lines, refineries, and fuel storage tanks from terrorists.
Worldwide energy demand is set to grow by 1.7%/year to 2030, but there are abundant oil, gas, coal, uranium and renewable resources to meet this growth.
A future that encompasses a global "sustainable development" cannot come to pass without a massive effort to make low-cost, conventional energy available to the world's poorest people.
Calls for oil importing countries—particularly the US—to reduce their dependence on Middle East oil by securing their supplies elsewhere or by switching to other fuels don't jibe with reality, a top industry analyst told the International Association of Drilling Contractors annual meeting late last month.
The Energy Information Administration said US crude oil and natural gas proved reserves increased in 2001, replacing production by substantial margins.
Unocal Thailand Ltd., a unit of Unocal Corp., said it will purchase all of the shares of Amoco Thailand Petroleum LLC, the Thai unit of BP America Production Co.
Charles A. James has been named vice-president and general counsel for ChevronTexaco Corp. James succeeds Harvey D. Hinman, who will retire. James's new position becomes effective Dec. 9.
Before this decade is out, Turkmenistan, a leader among the former Soviet republics in terms of hydrocarbon resources, intends to make a giant leap in raising production and export of oil and gas.
With the emergence of short and ultrashort-radius horizontal wells, tubular failures have become increasingly common. Such wells encounter severe bending stresses that well designers may not have considered when calculating tubular collapse strength.
A tension cut and pull subsea wellhead retrieval system has reduced the time required to abandon subsea wells, according to the service provider Baker Oil Tools.
