We have read your review article "Product sulfur specs will determine future refining configurations" (OGJ, Oct. 18, 2004, p. 48). Haldor Topsøe AS is a supplier of ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) catalyst and technology, and we have some comments that we believe will be of interest to the readers of OGJ.
A US District Court for the District of Alaska effectively opened the northwestern part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to exploration by denying an injunction requested by groups seeking to increase wildlife protections.
New lifting service helps pump's run time
Recently launched Axia lifting service is designed to help improve overall performance of a well's lifting system.
Dubai, UAE, and Aberdeen, UK, has announced the addition of well services specialist Tim Eley, and well support expert Ahmed Al Mashgari to its consultancy.
Sudanese peace pact important but not enough
Sudan took a step toward the 20th Century Jan. 9 with the signing of an agreement halting 22 years of civil war.
Analysts J. Marshall Adkins and James M. Rollyson, in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc., recently listed 10 surprises that could upset energy markets this year.
Serious days lie ahead for the United Nations. The Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) investigating the UN's Oil-for-Food Program soon will issue its first interim report.
The high price of oil has become a dominant subject of interest not only for the international oil business but also for the global economy and the economies of most countries.
Japan's Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, on a visit to Moscow that began Jan. 13, was expected to confer with Russian officials about their recently announced decision to construct an $11.5 billion oil pipeline from East Siberia to the Pacific coast.
Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinoro Ono, on a swing through Southeast Asia, has urged Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore to do more to protect oil shipping through the Malacca Strait from piracy and terrorism.
As everyone knows, Japan and China are racing neck and neck to secure ever greater supplies of oil and natural gas to keep their economies from sputtering.
Red Cavaney, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, called for major changes in US energy policy in a Jan. 18 address to a forum of the US Energy Association of public and private energy-related organizations, corporations, and government agencies.
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has said that, effective Feb. 1, satellite fields surrounding Prudhoe Bay oil field no longer will be allowed to take advantage of a state tax break called the Economic Limit Factor (ELF).
Employment in the US upstream oil and gas industry gained along with total nonfarm employment for the first time in many years in 2004, preliminary data show.
Now that the US energy community has had nearly a month to consider a Sandia National Laboratories report on identifying and managing risks of importing liquefied natural gas, how have LNG proponents and regulators reacted (OGJ, Jan. 3, 2005, p. 30)?
Several US independent exploration and production companies have reported acquisitions or proposed acquisitions that would bolster their oil and natural gas operations.
The main objective of BPZ Energy Inc.'s initial project in northwestern Peru is to develop natural gas reserves that until now had been overlooked and treated as "stranded" gas, because it had no commercial market.
A Calgary independent has sharply boosted heavy oil production and plans more heavy oil development this year on properties at Seal, Alta., 190 miles northwest of Edmonton.
This article presents the results of a correlation that accurately estimates the adsorption capacity of activated carbon for removing oxygenated petrochemicals in water.
