Shell Expro, in partnership with key contractor companies, has introduced a new concept for delivering continuous performance improvement in well operations through a step change in partnering and real-time database systems.
Two separate surveys on the motivation for outsourcing the maintenance function were recently held in The Netherlands; one (NIPO, 1994) addressing maintenance staff; another (Ernst & Young, 1998) asking for the opinion of executives.
A new approach for calculating the dome pressure for nitrogen-charged, gas-lift valves placed in deepwater wells provides more general and precise numerical values than previous correlations.
There is growing evidence that the key to a successful joint venture or production-sharing agreement in Russia may lie not in Moscow but with committed and progressive-thinking regional leaders.
California's Santa Barbara County has approved transfer of Chevron Corp.'s 26% ownership in the Point Arguello project to Plains Resources Inc. but by mutual agreement named a Plains subsidiary as the project operator instead of Torch Operating Co.
Nigeria is planning to more than double its daily production by 2010, according to Presidential Advisor on Petroleum Matters Rilwanu Lukman. Lukman indicated production would rise to 5 million b/d from the current 2 million b/d, a level constrained by the production cutback agreement signed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and some key non-OPEC nations.
The Joint Authority for the Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation has approved the development plan for Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Bayu-Undan gas recycle project.
Determining the average catalyst-bed temperature by applying an Arrhenius-type rate equation gives a closer to isothermal temperature than other methods.
The national oil and gas companies of Denmark and Poland are considering building a new pipeline at a potential cost of 350 million euros to transport natural gas from the Baltic Sea to mid-European markets.
Imaging satellites are used every day to design seismic surveys, find least-cost pipeline routes, to site, build, and maintain facilities, to do corridor maintenance, and to help us work smarter in every phase of exploration.
Turning around Russia's oil industry poses challenges as huge as that nation's alluring potential must seem to the foreign majors that would pursue investment there.
Turning around Russia's oil industry poses challenges as huge as that nation's alluring potential must seem to the foreign majors that would pursue investment there.
Already competing for capital with the "dot-com and e-everything" internet companies that are the new darlings of Wall Street, energy companies soon may be vying for customers against new competitors with little or no experience in the energy industry, experts predicted.
Already competing for capital with the "dot-com and e-everything" internet companies that are the new darlings of Wall Street, energy companies soon may be vying for customers against new competitors with little or no experience in the energy industry, experts predicted.
After a 10-month pursuit, NiSource Inc. has agreed to acquire Columbia Energy Group in an $8.5 billion cash, stock, and debt deal that will create the largest US natural gas company east of the Rockies.
US Environmental Protection Agency ordered Sunoco Inc., Philadelphia, and affiliate Sun Pipe Line Co. to restore the environment at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Philadelphia, where crude oil that leaked from a cracked joint in one of Sunoco's buried pipelines was discovered last month.
Just-CGM, newly released software, gives the Windows/NT user a means of viewing, converting and plotting CGM seismic image files. It also ensures that any valid CGM, CGM+, and CGM-PIP file will be handled correctly, the company says.
The comment I heard most often during my years as managing editor of OGJ (1964-78) was: "I don't see how you do it every week!" My response usually was, "There are weeks when I wonder myself."
Western Geophysical, Houston, Tex., has named Mike McCormic vice president, marketing. He will be responsible for developing marketing and sales strategy, as well as worldwide account management.
