Access recently became available to a web site that can assist oil and gas field operators in sorting out the many available methods for handling water production.
A central motive of energy policy-making in the US is anger at oil companies. The sentiment expresses itself in bills passed this year by both houses of Congress.
For all of the initial fears it generated among traders and Gulf Coast residents, Hurricane Dean inflicted apparently little damage to or disruptions of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
The combined second-quarter 2007 earnings of a group of US-based producers and refiners slipped almost 10% from a year earlier, largely because of rising costs.
Upstream investments worldwide increased 45% to $401 billion in 2006 compared with 2005, according to the 2007 Global Upstream Performance Review released Aug. 29 by John S. Herold Inc. and Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Ltd.
World Bank division International Finance Corp. has agreed to invest $15 million to help a Houston overseas producer develop coalbed methane resources in China.
As Labor Day 2007 approached, the most persistent question within Washington, DC’s energy community was what Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) is planning.
The US Department of Justice will not challenge a proposal by a group of oil and gas producers, oil field service companies, and the University of Texas at Austin to jointly research and develop nanotechnology applications for oil and gas exploration and production.
Operators are consolidating acreage positions in the Columbia River basin as EnCana Corp.’s US unit drills its third subbasalt wildcat in the nonproducing area since 2004.
India has dramatically reduced the estimated size of recent gas discoveries in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin of Andhra Pradesh, which could diminish the area’s attraction to the world’s top energy players.
From an emerging resource 1 decade ago, and a mostly overlooked resource 2 decades ago, unconventional gas is now a core business of many large independent producers and a growing number of the major oil and gas companies.
US oil pipeline operators saw their net profits rebound in 2006, the more than $3.7 billion earned marking an increase of almost 18%, following a more than 7% dip in 2005.
