In the course of considering long-term technology development directions for research and development in fuels and electric power generation, we examined predictions of long-term worldwide energy resource availability, with a focus on oil, natural gas, and coal.
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)—a network of scientists, universities, and government departments—met near Paris at the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) late last month to push their strong warning that conventional oil production will peak before 2010.
The end of Saddam Hussein's presidency in Iraq marks a new beginning for oil and natural gas companies previously barred by US or United Nations sanctions from doing business in this resource-rich country.
Even as Iraq began loading its first oil for export in 3 months on June 21, saboteurs blasted an Iraqi natural gas pipeline at Hit the following day and...
Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) announced June 11 the results of its tenders for the export of 9.5 million bbl of oil currently stored at Ceyhan, Turkey, the US Energy Information Administration reported.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco early this month unanimously affirmed a lower court decision that found California did not preempt federal authority when the state banned the fuel additive methyl tertiary butyl ether.
Global demand for LPG has grown rapidly for many years. Much of this growth has occurred east of the Suez Canal, which has shifted international trade patterns.
In April 2003, Dow Chemical Co. started up a gas treating pilot plant in Freeport, Tex., to help customer operating companies minimize the risk involved in altering gas plant operations, said the company.
With worldwide natural gas production flat at the end of 2002, it's no surprise that the world's gas processing capacity showed virtually no growth last year.
