I note the letter from David Archibald. As a chemical engineer I found this objectionable for its misuse of specific research data and its general attempt to cloud the issue of global warming with misleading and spurious arguments.
During the course of a normal work day, OGJ editors typically receive many press releases via e-mail publicizing new products of technological developments.
On Aug. 29, just 3 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina came ashore in Louisiana and devastated New Orleans, Tropical Storm Gustav was over open waters of the Caribbean and predicted to intensify into a hurricane and make landfall west of that same city, possibly Labor Day, Sept. 1.
Refiners are applying safety lessons while BP PLC responds to recommendations from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) following the deadly Mar. 23, 2005, explosion at BP America Inc.’s Texas City, Tex., refinery.
Inspection teams from the US Department of Occupational Safety & Health Administration are visiting refineries as part of the National Emphasis Program (NEP).
Republicans adopted a 2008 national campaign platform on Sept. 1 that included a call to “aggressively increase our nation’s energy supply in an environmentally responsible way.
Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate could give Republicans a way to more effectively make energy the primary 2008 presidential campaign issue.
The Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States on Aug. 28 charged that governmental red tape and environmentalist hindrances are the primary causes of lease development delays, and it urged Democrats to cease the inflammatory and erroneous claim that US producers are just “sitting on” 68 million acres of leased land as the fall campaigns get under way.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed that his country’s actions in recent hostilities with Georgia “did not in any way damage energy facilities”—including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
The search for oil and gas takes humankind to some of the farthest reaches of the globe, and there are times when the search may take them into areas that are more controversial than dangerous.
The Iraqi Ministry of Oil, renegotiating an agreement first signed more than a decade ago, has approved arrangements that will allow state-owned China National Petroleum Co. to develop Ahdab oil field.
Oil production has started from Vincent field in the Carnarvon basin production license WA-28-L off Western Australia, reported Woodside Petroleum Ltd., the field’s lead joint venture partner.
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd., Denver, has approved binding agreements with PetroHunter Energy Corp. to acquire shares in two PetroHunter projects in the US and Australia.
Field evaluations quantified the benefits and costs of various alternatives for complying with government regulations for controlling volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in Colorado.
Establishing critical parameters in screening for siting LNG terminals helps focus eventual development on the objectives of the principal stakeholders: developer, supplier, and end users.
