Pressure-depth plots are powerful methods to visualize the wide array of industry pressure data and aid interpretation for safety, drilling, and exploration purposes.
Development of new LNG facilities is the only way to reduce prices and volatility in the North American natural gas market, and development must begin in 2008, said Michael Zenker, a senior director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, in testimony Sept.
Iraq’s oil ministry currently is actively engaged with a number of projects on which it had already embarked or which it needed to tackle after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has begun to examine whether it might reassert jurisdiction over offshore natural gas gathering operations.
The oil industry is Iraq’s most efficient wealth-creating instrument. Recent and near-term future oil prices, which have reached $50-60/bbl and above from $22-28 last year, are providing high income for the country, particularly in view of Iraq’s low discovery cost of about 50¢/bbl and its development cost of 50¢-$1/bbl.
Oil and natural gas production is slowly returning from the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Katrina, but it could take at least until the end of 2005 before onshore transportation and distribution is fully restored, US Minerals Management Service Director Johnnie Burton said Sept.
In the oil and gas industry, times are surely changing. Once, energy leaders looked for elephant fields, but now it seems more of them are checking out the possibilities of elephant grass, to say nothing of saboo dam.
Tony Van den Brink is a self-made Canadian businessman, a tool pusher who survived and prospered through many decades in the North American drilling industry.
The present US and Canadian energy price escalation can be relieved by maximizing available sources for natural gas and enhancing the efficiency of the delivery infrastructure to market centers.
Five Louisiana residents filed a class-action lawsuit against 10 major producer and pipeline companies, claiming damage inflicted by those firms on the coastal marshes in southern Louisiana was a cause of “all, or almost all, of the loss of life and destruction of property that resulted from Hurricane Katrina.”
Information obtained through neutron examination techniques complements that obtained by other techniques (x-rays, TEM, SEM, and magnetic flux leakage) and can reveal significant properties of investigated materials for pipelines, optimizing performance and reliability of components during fabrication, installation, and maintenance.
