A new technique used to evaluate apparent wettability has allowed Chevron Inc. to custom-design surfactant and spacer packages with 50% savings on costs and surfactant volumes.
The recently completed $155-million expansion at Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd.'s Point Lisas, Trinidad, plant has nearly doubled inlet capacity and more than doubled capacities to produce, store, and export NGL (OGJ, Apr. 26, 1999, p. 30).
Shell International Oil Products is looking to convince gas processors that a new bacteria-based sulfur removal process is as reliable as conventional methods.
Leaded gasoline will no longer be on sale in European Union countries beginning Jan. 1, 2000, as Brussels continues to tighten legislation in pursuit of cleaner air in big cities.
The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) warned members to offer no guarantees when insuring their operations against Year 2000 software problems.
Bill Richardson, US Secretary of Energy, has announced 10 new demonstration projects for helping US independent producers acquire new tools for recovering oil that might otherwise be left in the ground.
Industry and government leaders, energy buyers and sellers, investors, and consultants have a new measure by which to check progress and monitor changes in energy investability among countries over a relatively short time.
National Petroleum Refiners (Pty.) Ltd. (NATREF) is not a state refining company, as incorrectly reported in the first paragraph of an article about its planned Sasolburg refinery upgrade (OGJ, Aug. 30, 1999, p. 48). NATREF shareholders are Sasol Ltd. and Total South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., as stated in the article's fifth paragraph.
Sales of US oil and gas properties during second quarter 1999 reached $28.2 billion with 148 transactions, bringing the first-half total to a record $43.2 billion, according to Randall and Dewey Inc., Houston. That's the key finding from a recent review of selected global merger, acquisition, and divestment (MA and D) activity, based on transactions announced in first-half 1999 (Fig. 1).
LG-Caltex Oil Corp.'s 600,000 b/d refinery at Yocheon is one of the world's largest and represents a ten-fold increase in the joint venture's refining capacity since it started up 30 years ago.
The steel hull of the semisubmersible Aasgard B floating production unit arrived in Stavangar, on Aug. 31, 1999, aboard Dockwise NV's Mighty Servant 3 heavy transport vessel. The hull's 6-week voyage from Daewoo Heavy Industries' Okpo, South Korea, yard included passage through the Suez Canal.
The US Department of Justice said Koch Industries Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to environmental charges in Minnesota federal court and pay $8 million in fines.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., Royal Dutch/Shell, and Chevron Corp. signed a $20 million joint venture agreement in late September to join in construction of the West African Gas Pipeline.
A new natural gas pipeline interconnect, linking Mexico's pipeline system with the US network of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., was inaugurated on Sept. 27 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, along Mexico's border with Texas.
The Australian government has withdrawn its proposed downstream petroleum industry deregulation plan, following the failure of the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) to accept a key element in the package.
As the oil and gas industry tries to regain its composure from the latest pricing crisis, many will begin to look for drilling opportunities. Mississippi has a share in what has been reported as a 7 billion bbl recoverable oil play.
The elation that followed the September OPEC meeting-a result of OPEC's assurances that oil markets would not soon be laden with excess supplies-was short-lived.
And unlike the general public, our understanding of the oil industry goes a lot deeper than naming the three fuel grades that are available at the gasoline pump. Or does it?
The wonderful article on "Unlikely heroes in war-torn England" by Drilling Editor Dean E. Gaddy told the neatest story any industry has ever performed (OGJ, Sept. 20, 1999, p. 19).
The Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association has announced that due to changes within the Association's Executive Committee, Peter D. Kinnear (FMC Corp.) has moved up to the position of chairman for the 1999-2000 term.
Listed are major construction projescts by processing and pipeline categories. Contractors, estimated completion date and added capacity are provided when available
Listed are major construction projects by processing and pipeline categories. Contractors, estimated completion date and added capacity are provided when available.
