Gas hydrates are a flow assurance problem in flowlines, but when found in natural accumulations in the ground, methane hydrates represent a potentially vast energy resource.
In a showdown looming in Congress over gasoline chemistry, a new report by the Energy Information Administration on California's experience will be helpful.
US House congressional leaders earlier this month sharply criticized the United Nations' management of oil revenues under its Iraq oil-for-aid program and called for strong US involvement in controlling future oil receipts.
The American Bar Association May 1 said it anticipates it will soon send a postconflict team to Iraq to make an independent legal assessment of what needs to be done to attract investment and protect civil liberties.
Fierce lobbying helped water down a 2-year-old white paper proposal of European Union policy on the manufacture and importation of industrial chemicals into more "workable and manageable" draft legislation earlier this month that protects health and environmental safety without sacrificing the industry's ability to compete, proponents said.
Associazione Generale Operatori Carboni (Assocarboni), a Rome-based organization representing companies in the Italian coal industry, has challenged the European Commission's energy scenario for a continent increasingly dependent on natural gas.
Producers moved one step closer toward expanding coalbed methane drilling in the Powder River basin under a recent decision by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management.
The US Department of the Interior this year will take a closer look at its heavy oil and stripper well royalty relief programs to see if they are stimulating domestic production in a cost-effective manner, department officials said May 16.
Industry officials hope that recommendations from an upcoming National Petroleum Council natural gas study will bolster their case that comprehensive energy legislation is needed.
Congress may soon pass a sweeping tax stimulus proposal, possibly in late spring. Corporate America generally likes both House and Senate versions, although oil companies are unhappy with a key Senate provision.
Advances in sampling and analytical techniques now permit the isotopic analysis of very small amounts of hydrocarbon gases in air that are collected from the circulating mud stream during drilling.
A multistage treatment successfully stimulated a well in the deep, hot, and naturally fractured volcanic rock of the Minami-Nagaoka field, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
with a C2+ or C3+ separation facility can receive LNG feeds with varying compositions, meet stringent calorific value export gas specifications, and decrease capital and operating costs.
PetroChina Co. Ltd.'s West-to-East natural gas pipeline project has been under construction since October 2001 and is proceeding toward a 2004 completion of the approximate 3,800 km, 1,016-mm (40-in.) mainline.
The energy landscape of China has drastically changed since China's first Pipeline Bureau delegation visited Calgary in 1974. Today China needs and wants high international standards for pipeline design, project financing, management, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and the myriad of pipeline related activities.
