The article “Norwegians develop new method to measures shaker screen performance” indicated correctly that the simple designation of a “mesh” size could no longer be used when describing current shale shaker screens.
The Houston offices of OGJ are moving this week. After 10 years at 1700 West Loop South, this staff and all other PennWell employees in Houston will relocate.
During Nov. 26-30, the last full week of trading prior to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ Dec. 5 meeting, the front-month contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes “suffered in absolute terms” both its largest weekly change and largest weekly decline ever, said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix GMBH, Zug, Switzerland.
Robust oil and gas prices have contributed to an abundance of capital readily available to the oil and gas industry through the public equity market, the private equity market, and bank financing.
US House Democrats are moving toward energy legislation containing stiffer automotive fuel efficiency requirements and a higher renewable fuel standard.
LNG will lead pipeline supply as natural gas leads other forms of energy to meet growing global demand through 2030, according to Tom Cordano, president of ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Inc., Houston. Cordano presented ExxonMobil’s view of global energy, natural gas, and specifically LNG to attendees of the 8th LNG Summit in Rome on Dec. 4.
Under a new presidential administration, Nigeria plans to impose greater balance between domestic gas and export projects, said Fabiyka Amakiri, group general manager for LNG and power in Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., speaking before the 8th LNG Summit in Rome on Dec. 4.
Long-term storage logistics, support facilities for sequestration, public acceptance, and consistent regulations are just as critical as technology to making carbon capture and storage (CCS) a reality, said a scientist for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
Russia and Turkmenistan have agreed to accelerate development of the proposed Caspian Gas Pipeline project following talks between OAO Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, and Deputy Prime Minister Tachberdy Tagyyev.
BP PLC will join Husky Energy Inc. in developing Sunrise oil sands field in northeast Alberta under a joint $3 billion investment plan, marking its entry into this sector for the first time.
Austria’s OMV AG has launched legal proceedings in the Hungarian courts to remove the barriers to acquiring MOL Rt., upping pressure on the company’s management to accept its $20.6 billion bid.
Offshore energy insurers have traditionally been defined by their willingness to take risk without relying on technical analysis to model or quantify their exposure.
Site clearance and verification (SC&V) comprise the last stage of offshore decommissioning in which abandoned well and platform locations are cleared of all debris remaining from oil and gas activities.
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) successfully converted an existing 38,000 b/d fixed-bed reformer in its Yanbu refinery to continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) operation.
