This is the second of two parts on the status of Argentina’s underexplored basins in the South Atlantic Ocean, only one of which has commercial hydrocarbon production.
The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and other industry groups have urged a House subcommittee to consider reauthorizing the Pipeline Safety and Improvement Act of 2002 for 5 years instead of 4.
Independent producers are back fighting what has become an annual spring battle to preserve federal support for domestic oil and gas research and development.
Deepwater work continues to be the “driving force” behind the Gulf of Mexico’s production and potential growth, according to the US Minerals Management Service.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined his legislation encouraging investment in refining capacity to attendees at the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Refiners, although facing numerous challenges in 2006, will be able to maintain supplies of transportation fuels, according to William Klesse, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association chairman and chief executive officer of Valero Energy Corp.
High oil and gas prices and improved refining and marketing margins, amplified by hurricane-related disruptions to processing capacity, bolstered quarterly earnings of US oil and gas companies in the fourth quarter of 2005.
LONDON-Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing last week on a visit that Chinese officials hoped would lead to a firm commitment over the route of an oil pipeline from Eastern Siberia.
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) has introduced a bill that would give Gulf Coast states 50% of federal offshore oil and gas revenue from their portions of the Outer Continental Shelf for hurricane protection, including construction of stronger levees and comprehensive coastal restoration.
A comparison of different methods for generating pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) properties of volatile oil and gas-condensate reservoir fluids determined that PVT properties generated with the Whitson and Torp method agree the best with full equation-of-state (EOS) compositional simulation.
