Advocates of clean coal are pushing that technology in the UK as the ideal solution to carbon management and the answer to Europe’s need for a diverse energy portfolio.
New Jersey’s US senators asked President George W. Bush to initiate dispute proceedings against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries through the World Trade Organization in response to dramatically climbing retail gasoline prices.
Citing rising gasoline prices, US Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) suggested that some refiners may be keeping plants off-line as they switch to summer fuel blends to push prices even higher.
Canadian oil sands will advance Alberta’s status as a North American oil and gas hub beyond generally held expectations, says David Perez, chairman and chief executive of Surge Global Energy Inc.
CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US Oil and gas companies operating in countries that have defaulted on sovereign debt.
If the arrest, trial, and sentencing of former OAO Yukos Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky have had any meaning whatsoever, it has been lost on most people in the oil industry.
I am probably Nashville’s only reader of “Oil & Gas Journal” and no doubt the only one who has submitted articles published there about cutting-edge techniques in oil exploration.
Attention on pipeline integrity management first approached current levels in the 1970s when debate surrounding the 800-mile Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System unleashed activism previously unseen in the pipeline industry.
Since the voluntary environmental performance tracking initiative Pipeline Performance Tracking System began in 1999, the petroleum pipeline industry has reduced both the number and volume of crude, refined product, and highly volatilile liquid (HVL) spills. Improved testing and repair techniques, improved integrity-management practices, and an increased emphasis on managing pipeline risk have led to these reductions.
Drilling contractors, technical service companies, and operators share concerns in today’s marketplace over staffing, financial performance, and planning.
In multilateral wells where high costs, shallow depths, and long step-outs present completion difficulties, the use of swelling rubber packers (SRPs) enables operators to manage annular fluid flow, control solids-shale production, and achieve cost-effective zonal isolation.
At its Indian Basin gas plant, Marathon Oil Co. is using molecular sieve for primary mercaptan removal and Selexol for treating the regeneration gas to meet pipeline specifications. The gas streams meet pipeline specifications and the NGL stream recovered downstream from mercaptan removal also complies with pipeline sulfur specifications without further treating.
This is the third and final part of a three-part article that addresses the question: Does the Hubbert method provide a reliable means of predicting future oil production?
