The most recent arctic blast across much of the US and Canada has led many to wonder: could natural gas prices be rescued from their sagging levels during an otherwise forgettable heating season?
Your editorial "The energy-economy link" (OGJ, Dec. 17, 2001, p. 17) has some terminology that is undoubtedly and unnecessarily offensive to many, probably most people. Writing about the prospect for oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, you refer twice to "hikers and gawkers."
Melrose Resources PLC, London, had an indicated discovery at its El Mansoura-3 well in the Nile Delta onshore within 10 km of East Delta field production facilities.
Denver, has promoted Edward M. Portaro to vice-president, power; and William E. Ward to vice-president, oil and gas. Both men have been instrumental in the growth of the firm's energy business unit in recent years.
In Mexico, we are living in times of change, with new demands being voiced by society. At all levels of government in Mexico programs are being developed to respond to this demand.
The fiscal 2003 budget proposed by the administration of Presiden George W. Bush would require the Department of Energy to overhaul the way it funds oil and gas research.
Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.), chairman of the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, last week said her agenda for this year will complement the White House's energy blueprint.
Alaska is "resource rich" but too "cash poor" to buy in as part owner of a proposed pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas to the Lower 48, said the head of the state's Department of Revenue.
Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alas.) said he wants federal legislation directing Alaskan North Slope producers and pipeline companies to build an arctic gas line that parallels the oil pipeline to Fairbanks and then the Alaska Highway to British Columbia.
President George W. Bush's first State of the Union speech Jan. 29 gave US oil companies the clearest indication yet that the administration is not yet prepared to allow American investment in Iran.
The UK's oil minister is also responsible for other energy sources and is rather proud that he has just inaugurated the world's largest straw-fired power station, a 36 Mw, $100 million dollar project in rural eastern England (OGJ, Oct. 22, 2001, p. 20).
The Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) has accepted a refinery workers' contract offer from Shell Oil Co. that is expected to set a pattern for other US refineries.
Petro-Canada, Calgary, leads recent upstream acquisition news with its plan to buy the international oil and gas operations of Veba Oil & Gas GMBH for $3.2 billion (Can.) in a deal that will make Petro-Canada the largest Canadian integrated oil and gas company.
Houston-based energy marketer Dynegy Inc. took temporary possession of Enron Corp.'s Northern Natural Gas (NNG) pipeline Jan. 31 and named Dan Dienstbier as the pipeline's president.
Major and independent producers in West Texas are quietly using horizontal drilling technology to tap tight natural gas deposits in the Montoya and Devonian formations in what's shaping up as a potential boom in the Permian basin.
A diverse group with different technical backgrounds and from different organizations successfully solved problems that had plagued past attempts to revitalize sour-gas production from the Carter Creek field in Wyoming.
Underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations maintain the net pressure exerted by drilling fluids in the annular space between the drillstring and the formation being drilled at values less than the formation pore pressure, as explained by D. Brant Bennion and F. Brent Thomas of Hycal Energy Research Laboratories Ltd., Aberdeen.
The latest addition to the stimulation-vessel fleet working in the Gulf of Mexico, is the BJ Blue Ray, owned by Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc., Mandeville, La., and operated by BJ Services Co.
The Indian petrochemical industry has grown substantially over the past decade, with annual average consumption growth greater than 15% in many product segments. Market growth, however, has been surpassed by even more rapid capacity growth, which has led to a supply surplus in a number of key products.
World tanker earnings for 2001 were in near free-fall, dropping by more than 70% from January to December. And no end seemed in sight for this the third drop-and by far the steepest-in 10 years, according to the December report from Clarkson Research Studies, London.
For the first time in 50 years, the Mexican government is planning to invite oil and gas companies to participate in international tenders for developing Mexico's onshore natural gas fields.
Economic projections point toward a gradual recovery of industrial production activity in Mexico in the next few years. A prerequisite for this growth, however, is the timely availability of energy supplies for the production units.
