Moore Process Automation Solutions, Spring House, Pa., has named William B. Moore vice president of business development and Peter F. Schiano to replace him as vice president of systems research and development.
In reference to "PC program estimates TEG circulation rate, number of trays" (OGJ, June 21, 1999, p. 36): Why would someone write a program for estimating circulation rate when this can be easily and quickly achieved on spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel or any other spreadsheet software?
The press is full of reports on how oil industry mergers and acquisitions are affecting operating companies, service-supply firms, workers, and local economies. But no one mentions how the deluge of such deals affects the journalists who write those stories.
The "production profile predictor method" (3PM) is a new engineering technique designed to provide dynamic multiphase production logging, well optimization, and reservoir management information. Downhole tools are not required.
Isramco Inc., Houston, said a seismic survey mapped a number of gas prospects on the southern part of the Med Yavne Marine license which it operates in the Mediterranean.
Slow negotiations, contrary to assertions of a U.S. official visiting Ankara last week, represent the least of the problems facing a proposed oil pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, Turkey. Much higher on the project's list of troubles is aggressive meddling by the U.S. government.
Venezuela is in the midst of a campaign to reform its domestic energy policies. Among the planned changes are an overhaul of the operations of state firm Petroleos de Venezuela SA and a bid to woo foreign investment into the natural gas and petrochemical sectors.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil ministers gathered in Vienna on Sept. 22 to discuss output quotas and were expected to maintain current levels despite recent strong oil prices.
Peru has passed a detailed set of natural gas regulations under its Law for the Promotion and Development of the Natural Gas Industry that essentially sets the rules for the massive Camisea natural gas project.
Delegates at the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, Sept. 7-10, were treated to updates on the development of new technologies in sectors ranging from offshore exploration to deepwater pipeline installation.
The $1.03 billion Malay-Thai gas infrastructure project that includes a binational pipeline network and a world-class natural gas processing complex appears poised to launch.
Thailand's consumption of natural gas looks set to increase and substantially back out demand for oil as an important source of fuel in the next several years, according to the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT).
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board recommended that the provincial government approve the proposed $500 million (Canadian) expansion of Imperial Oil Ltd.'s oilsands operations at Cold Lake, Alta.
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is offering to consult with gas pipelines to resolve problems before the lines file applications to build or abandon facilities.
Four U.S. pipeline companies have developed and implemented a unique, joint, internet-based information and communication system that enables customers to nominate, schedule, and confirm transportation of petroleum products online.
This is one of three 36-in. single gimbal expansion joints installed earlier this year by ARCO Products Co. in the polypropylene process at its Long Beach, Calif., refinery.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has announced an important oil discovery on Block BS-500 in the Santos Basin off Brazil. The field is in the northeast of the basin, about 165 km southwest of Rio de Janeiro.
Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., is quickening recompletion and drilling programs aimed at gas in low permeability Mississippian Barnett shale in the Fort Worth basin in North Texas.
Growing worldwide demand for lighter and cleaner petroleum products will be met through refining capacity increases in the rapid-growth areas of Asia-Pacific, South America, and the Middle East.
Nigeria LNG Ltd.'s $3.8 billion, 5.9 million metric ton/year liquefied natural gas plant at Bonny, Rivers state, has started production and will load its first LNG shipment the first week in October.
Amid the continuing furor over the Nigerian government's cancellation of exploration and production licenses, foreign operators are moving forward with projects.
A single-stage, shear-sensitive plugging fluid (SSPF) treatment, which allowed Canadian operators to cure lost circulation zones in 10 wells, provided distinct operational and economic advantages over conventional reactive and temperature-activated methods.
This 90 m by 25 m floating production facility (FPF) is moored off Nigeria in 6 m of water, near the mouth of the Calabar River and will handle production from the Abana field, operated by Moni Pulo Ltd.
Even with the exit of some companies and merger of others, the total number of refining catalysts has stayed about the same since OGJ's 1997 refining about catalyst survey.
