In a letter in the Oct. 15 issue, Andrew Palmer took you to task for your attack of Rep. John Dingell’s suggestion that government should take action to reduce consumption as part of a climate change policy.
Demand for skilled construction workers is great in the processing industries along the US Gulf Coast, especially in Port Arthur, Tex., where Motiva Enterprises LLC is proceeding with a major refinery expansion.
The energy plan that US Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) recently made part of her presidential campaign requires perspective available from a national biofuels program already in place, which she would expand.
>With front-month benchmark US crude touching a record high of $98.62/bbl in overnight electronic trading Nov. 7, the oil market essentially split into two main groups, said Paul Horsnell at Barclays Capital Inc. in London.
Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in the number of planned pipeline projects as well as new and expanded gas processing plants in the US compared to the previous edition of the update.
Resource nationalism is threatening the world’s economy and energy security in the long term, Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, told the World Energy Congress last week in Rome.
Energy legislation currently before the 110th Congress would cost nearly 5 million jobs and drain $1 trillion from the US economy, a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute concluded on Nov. 13.
Having been excluded from energy bill discussions, US House Republicans said they are counting on “fossil fuel Democrats” to safeguard 2005 Energy Policy Act provisions designed to increase domestic oil and gas production.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn’t standing around, waiting to resolve market manipulation jurisdiction questions with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The nation’s largest oil products pipeline system faces the impending retirement of a quarter of its workforce and competition from other industries for new employees as it prepares a large expansion of operations, its chief executive told a US Senate committee on Nov. 6.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries should devise a plan to sell oil to poor countries at prices lower than those paid by wealthy nations.
US proved reserves of gas were up 3.3% in 2006 compared with 2005, natural gas liquids reserves were up 3.8%, and crude oil reserves fell 3.6%, the Energy Information Administration reported.
Operators are shooting 1,500 line-km of 2D seismic surveys in the Fergana basin in Kyrgyzstan and starting some of the first drilling in the basin since Soviet times.
Groundstar Resources Ltd., Calgary, plans to shoot 2D seismic in early 2008 over five high-potential structures on the 42,291 sq km West Kom Ombo Block in southeastern Egypt.
Modeling and analyses indicate that as long as natural gas prices do not fall dramatically unconventional gas production will continue to expand, particularly as investment in improved recovery technology continues and as new plays and prospects are developed.
Modeling the corrosivity of liquids transported over the life of a pipeline can determine the current condition of pipelines in which in-line inspection is not possible.
