China is looking for workers with engineering or technical skills or otherwise able to provide specialty energy services to a country experiencing explosive economic growth and zealously seeking the energy to fuel it.
Fear that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would undersupply peak market demand for crude in July and August increased the price at which refiners were willing to draw down crude stocks and inflated oil prices in June and July, the International Energy Agency in Paris said in its Aug. 10 monthly report.
After 10 years of indecision, China is building a strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) to protect against possible oil supply cutoffs and is addressing the companion issues of securing sufficient oil and improving the country’s pipeline and refining infrastructure to accommodate the reserves.
US energy policies should diversify sources, lower carbon intensity, improve energy efficiency, and encourage investments in new technologies, recommended ConocoPhillips Chief Executive James J. Mulva in a July 19 luncheon address at the US Chamber of Commerce.
The US Senate voted to confirm James L. Caswell as US Bureau of Land Management director on Aug. 3 after Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) removed the hold he had placed on the nomination.
Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s new president, has taken on the responsibilities of the energy ministry and has appointed three junior ministers to support him in the role.
Is oil diplomacy driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez over the edge? If I compared myself with Jesus, most people would think me a candidate for a straitjacket.
Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger hope to start gas exports via the proposed 18-25 billion cu m/year Trans-Sahara gas pipeline (TSGP) in 2015, Algeria’s energy minister, Chakib Khelil told OGJ at the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline Conference in Brussels July 9.
Shell Canada’s conversion of the sour-gas treating solvent at its Burnt Timber gas plant from a Sulfinol-D solution to methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) increased processed sales-gas volumes and heating value, improved sulfur-recovery-unit performance, and reduced CO2 and sulfur emissions.
A new pipeline wireless sensor network system used by Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica is improving operational efficiency and safety and should help reduce theft and sabotage.
