BP Amoco Pipeline Co., Houston, construction manager and operator of the Main Pass oil gathering system (MPOG), successfully avoided weather-related downtime in the Gulf of Mexico in September 1999 by reeling 8.5 miles of 85/8-in. OD pipe in water depths to 1,130 ft from the Chickasaw reel pipelay barge.b
Recent developments in bicenter drillbit design have overcome many of the problems that once precluded their use in costly offshore operations, now allowing operators to eliminate many nondrilling activities, such as bit trips, while improving drilling performance.
A long-simmering dispute over a maritime boundary in the southwestern Caribbean, a region thought to hold potential hydrocarbon reserves, broke into an angry argument between Honduras and Nicaragua at the end of last year.
Ramco Energy PLC, Aberdeen, Scotland, set production casing on its first new well in giant Muradkhanli field, one of Azerbaijan's largest onshore fields.
Laboratory and industry-based evidence shows that recovered waters from hydrocarbon-filled formations may have higher resistivity levels than those found in nearby water-filled formations.
The demand for barite along with prices are expected to rebound by 2002 after falling in response to a decline in worldwide drilling activity spawned by low crude oil prices.
With the unprecedented pace of change in Eastern Europe during the past decade, local refineries must improve their technical and financial performances to survive.
Global polyester and intermediates utilization rates will exceed 100% of nameplate capacity by 2007 if worldscale plants are not built, according to a study of polyester and paraxylene by Tecnon (UK) Ltd., London.
Thai Olefins Co. (TOC) plans to launch a $120 million project to nearly double its ethylene cracking capacity while switching its feedstock from naphtha to ethane from natural gas.
To inspect and monitor cost effectively the seabed geometry of their newly laid pipelines offshore Nigeria, Moni Pulo Ltd. and Brass Exploration Unlimited deployed a system that tracks the progress of a pig as it moves along the line.
China 's Hainan Province is seeking foreign investment jointly to build and operate the second and third segments of an integrated natural gas pipeline grid.
Spills of crude oil and refined products from tankers have declined markedly since the 1970s, despite a pronounced increase in tanker trade, according to the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko)
Oil field service company stocks outperformed the market during this year's first quarter, but their first quarter earnings were relatively dull by comparison, say analysts Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Former Amoco Corp. executive Robert Sheppard has taken over the reins of the recently embattled Sidanko. Named president, he previously served as Sidanko executive vice-president.
