A committee report from the Ohio Oil & Gas Association (OOGA) gives an interesting look at crude oil production and refining in the northern Appalachian basin in 2001-02.
Middleton, Mass., has appointed Greg Jones distribution group territory manager. Jones is a graduate of the University of Akron, and oversees sales and related marketing efforts from his base in Ohio.
The first well of a planned six deep play exploration wells on License 260 D1 in the South Turgai basin provided encouragement, said Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd., Calgary.
The Energy Charter, an intergovernmental organization devoted to promoting East-West energy cooperation among its 51 European and Asian member states-including all the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU)-is currently developing a new multilateral framework agreement, the Energy Charter Protocol on Transit, establishing new rules on energy transit issues under international law.
The financial fall of Enron Corp. and resulting legal scandal hasn't changed how oil and gas company corporate attorneys operate, but it does emphasize the fundamental basics "of what we've been doing all along," said a panel of six energy attorneys last week in Houston.
Industry and government sources said Feb. 25 that California Gov. Gray Davis (D) is "likely" to delay a proposed ban on the fuel oxygenate methyl tertiary butyl ether based on the recent results of a study commissioned by the California Energy Commission.
A key part of the White House's energy strategy is to bolster ties with the US's own oil-rich neighbors, including Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina.
El Paso Energy Partners LP-which is 28% owned by El Paso Corp. (EPC)-signed a letter of intent to acquire certain Texas midstream assets from EPC for $750 million, marking El Paso Energy's biggest acquisition to date.
Senators from Louisiana and California introduced legislation in late February to close a decades-old, billion-dollar dispute between industry and California over offshore oil leases. The California Coastal Protection and Louisiana Energy Enhancement Act also directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide oil companies holding California leases with a swap of equivalent value in the Gulf of Mexico within 30 days of the bill's passage.
Development of deep and very deep oil in waters beyond the 200-mile economic zone will raise some difficult geopolitical questions, the Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP) has been told.
The first seismic survey vessel to be launched under the WesternGeco joint venture was to begin a large multiclient survey in an unspecified area the Gulf of Mexico this month.
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) has completed the first phase of an accelerated project to develop Saudi Arabia's deep gas potential. The company has drilled and completed a large number of new gas producers, with many additional wells planned.
Simulating the effectiveness of different design options can optimize investment and appraise reliability of a grassroots project or plant expansion. TotalFinaElf SA has developed a specific methodology that evaluates effectiveness for any sizeable investment.
By year end, Russian crude oil may be moving out of a deepwater terminal on the Mediterranean Sea into world export markets, thanks to a tariff accord ratified in late 2001 by Ukraine.
Numerous independents have acquired sizable acreage in low producing or nonproducing countries in West Africa, and several have advanced to discovery and production stages.
Deepwater structures at the basinward edge of African salt basins display very different geometries, some of which are directly comparable to the deepwater Mississippi Fan and Perdido foldbelts of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
To develop their deepwater West Africa discoveries, several operators have opted for a hybrid architecture that includes a dry-tree floating structure, such as a tension leg platform (TLP), adjacent to a floating production, storage, offloading (FPSO) vessel.
