Russia's crude-oil pipeline company Transneft, a state-owned monopoly joint-stock company, has so far retained its key position in the transport of Russian crude oil.
Full-scale burst tests performed on line pipe typical for that being installed on the Canadian-US Alliance project have validated fracture control for the pipeline system.
Since late 1997, the natural gas transmission unit of TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., Calgary, has employed a system for identifying, in terms of the company's specific needs and criteria, the best suppliers of line pipe and pipe coatings.
The response to last month's rejection by the US Senate of a nuclear test-ban treaty follows a disturbing pattern with implications for the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
Although fears about Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problems may cause the US public to buy more oil products in December, the likely demand scenarios appear to be within the supply capabilities of the US petroleum industry.
Seventeen workers at Irving Oil Ltd.'s St. John, NB, refinery were treated on site for respiratory and ocular symptoms and later taken to a hospital after exposure to sulfur dioxide on Oct. 27, according to the Calgary Herald.
Several international consortia in the Caspian Sea have formed rig-sharing groups, providing a means to fulfill production-sharing obligations with a limited number of mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs).
Effective integration of a construction management team (CMT) can enhance an operator's ability to achieve on-time, on-budget completion of an offshore project.
The $1.4 billion Bayu-Undan liquids development project in the Timor Gap has been given the green light by operator Phillips Petroleum Pty. Ltd. and the majority of its partners.
Having found that the traditional method of controlling reactor pressure during fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) start-ups had certain disadvantages, Sinopec's Shijiazhuang refinery, located in the Hebei Province, developed a new method.
Elf Aquitaine SA appears to have cornered the market for big finds with its recent string of oil strikes off West Africa (OGJ, Oct. 25, 1999, Newsletter).
Faced with the need to make unprecedented capital outlays to finance a major expansion of Russia's gas production and transportation industry, state-owned natural gas giant Gaz- prom is concerned about European natural gas prices.
Russian gas giant Gazprom has completed construction of Phase 1 of the Yamal-Europe transcontinental gas pipeline project and is preparing to take advantage of the new revenue opportunities that will arise when the system is commissioned.
Articles in the annual Pipeline Report (p. 41) in this week's issue focus on quality (evaluating supplier performance) and system integrity (along a new pipeline in North America and an aging one in Russia).
