Oil companies’ growing use of digital technologies could boost world oil and gas reserves, but the industry must overcome barriers to gathering, managing, and sharing data, participants agreed at a recent roundtable discussion.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to storm-water regulations under the Clean Water Act that would exempt oil and gas exploration and production.
Energy demand, driven by economic progress and population growth, will increase about 50% from the current 205 million boe/d level to 335 million boe/d by 2030, reported ExxonMobil Corp.
That a geographic pattern of opinion has become part of the controversy over global warming suggests a what-if mind experiment that might be illuminating.
A new brochure, yours free for the asking, offers PTFE, FEP, and PFA convoluted tubing in a variety of designs and configurations in sizes of 1⁄8-4 in.
Energy futures prices continued to climb Dec. 30, the last trading day of 2005, with the February contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes gaining 72¢ to $61.
Saudi Arabia, a significant global producer of commodity petrochemicals, will increase its position in the global market during the next 5 years due to five growth strategies: diversifying the product portfolio, establishing more joint ventures with industry majors, placing greater emphasis on research and development, endorsing a larger role for private sector, and diversifying into downstream.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has completed excavation of a tunnel under central Tokyo Bay and is ready to lay the Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline through it, linking the LNG receiving terminal at Futtsu thermal power station in Futtsu City, Chiba prefecture, with the Higashi-Ogishima thermal power station in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture.
