A Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) project has demonstrated that the industrial gas industry can design and construct central hydrogen fueling stations for fleet applications.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Transportation and Technologies sponsors many fleet studies to evaluate the performance of alternative-fuel vehicles (AFVs) in real-world applications.
Vanco Energy Co., Houston, let a contract to Western Geophysical Inc. to acquire 2,000 line km of 2D seismic survey, effectively blanketing the 5,004 sq km Block CI-112 some 30 km off westernmost Ivory Coast. Water is 100-3,000 m deep.
The August contract price for light, sweet crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange exceeded $20/bbl at times last week. At midweek in London, dated Brent Blend sold for $18.50/bbl, Dubai crude for more than $17/bbl. Just a few months ago, these prices languished in the $10-12/bbl range.
The Canadian petroleum industry must satisfy growing public demand for more and better information on its aims, operations, and economic contributions, says Pierre Alvarez, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
The recent decline in oil prices has had a drastic effect on the oil and gas industry, and industry is restructuring itself accordingly. While making its way through this "strategic inflection point," industry also must continually evaluate what role information technology (IT) will play in the newly formed landscape.
London-based environmental consultant Sustainability Ltd. is about to publish a report on how the petroleum industry reports on environmental and social issues.
The Renewable Energy Working Party of the International Energy Agency, Paris, has called for the energy industry to speed the rate of adoption of renewables.
The American Petroleum Institute is challenging a U.S. General Accounting Office study that alleged the oil and gas industries are lagging in their Year 2000 computer problem readiness.
DGN de La Laguna-Durango,a unit of Sempra Energy International, San Diego, was awarded a permit by Mexico`s Energy Regulatory Commission to distribute natural gas in the La Laguna-Durango region of north-central Mexico (OGJ, Apr. 19, 1999, p. 44). The area includes the cities of Torre?n, Coahuila, G?mez Palacio, Ciudad Lerdo, Victoria de Durango, and Durango. DGN will spend $34.4 million to install a 1,030-km gas distribution system to transport 38.5 MMcfd to a customer base that will gro
Two long-time California oil producers have divested key producing assets, resulting in the complete exit of one of the companies from offshore California production.
Coastal Corp. has signed joint operating agreements with Petroleo Brasileiro SA and other partners to begin exploration of two blocks in the Camamu basin off Brazil's Bahia state.
With Asian refining profits remaining weak because of still-depressed demand for oil products, Royal Dutch/Shell is looking to sell its 45,000 b/d refinery at Lutong, Malaysia, in order to cut costs.
Caltex Corp., the Asian joint venture of Chevron Corp. and Texaco Inc., is interested in buying stakes in Indonesia's oil refineries to gain entry into the markets of the world's fourth most populated country.
Experience in the Tunu field, Kalimantan (Borneo), as well as published case histories show that top-of-line corrosion (TLC) results from water condensation in wet-gas pipelines when the flow regime is wavy-stratified flow.
A new patented catalyst loading system for fixed bed tubular reactors is designed to reduce the time spent loading catalysts to 3 days from 2 weeks (using a manual method). All the components are made of stainless steel to help prevent corrosion and increase machine life.
