I would like to offer a different perspective on managing offshore drilling wastes from that presented in the article “Canadians evaluate technologies to manage offshore drilling cuttings”.
With the Atlantic hurricane season now well under way, many in the US are reflecting on last year at this time when one of the largest and costliest hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast region.
Fearing an attempt to make atomic bombs, the United Nations Security Council demanded that Iran abandon its uranium enrichment program by the end of August or face international sanctions.
Increases in capital spending and commodity prices yielded sharp 2005 earnings gains for the OGJ200 group of companies, while the number of firms qualifying for the group declined.
In the wake of the 2005 hurricane season that shut-in much Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production for months, industry is considering various safety and precautionary measures to limit potential damages from future hurricanes.
The US Minerals Management Service has released for comment a proposed plan for the 2007-12 Outer Continental Shelf leasing program and the associated draft environmental impact statement (DEIS).
The US Federal Trade Commission has ordered TEPPCO Partners LP to sell its interest in a Mont Belvieu natural gas liquids storage facility and associated assets by Dec. 31.
US workers’ real hourly wages have fallen because energy prices overall have climbed 80% since the end of the 2001 recession, said the National Association of Manufacturers in its 2006 Labor Day report on Aug. 28.
A Texas state district court ordered BP PLC’s Chief Executive Officer John Browne to give a deposition regarding the Mar. 23, 2005, explosion and fire at the company’s 446,500 b/cd Texas City, Tex., refinery that killed 15 people and injured 170 others.
An initial US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision to authorize a lower return on equity (ROE) from a proposed natural gas pipeline project could jeopardize future investments if it is widely adopted, according to a white paper commissioned by the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) is soliciting international exploration and production companies to participate in the country’s third lease bid round for certain E&P-sharing agreements (EPSA) covering various basins featured in the country’s EPSA IV Round 2.
Lyondell Chemical Co. will acquire Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s 41.25% interest in Lyondell-Citgo Refining LP for $2.1 billion, including the refining company’s debt.
Circle Oil PLC, London, expressed encouragement at the results of preliminary processing of a 4,800-km airborne gravity and magnetic survey on Block 49 in southwestern Oman.
OAO Gazprom has begun exploratory drilling in the giant Shtokman field in the central part of the Russian sector of the Barents Sea with Norway’s Norsk Hydro ASA.
