Unconventional designs using high-integrity protective systems (HIPS) are increasingly used to lower the investment cost of new oil and gas production developments or to minimize the cost of debottlenecking existing plants.
The New WJAF hammer union pressure transducer is designed specifically for use with 1502 and 2202, 2 in. wing unions in onshore and offshore drilling installations.
Without the deepwater royalty relief program, the US risks suffocating its most promising oil and gas province at the very time it is struggling with what the nation's policy should be with regard to oil and gas.
Oil and gas companies slow to realize the speed at which e-commerce applications are changing business-to-business (B2B) transactions are in store for a grueling uphill climb-if they survive at all.
The massive gulp with which Phillips Petroleum Co. has swallowed ARCO's Alaskan businesses has yielded some organizational changes at the Bartlesville, Okla., company.
O ne of the hallmarks of the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration has been a drive to increase public information about actual and potential pollution sources.
Alberta Energy Co. Ltd.'s AEC Oil & Gas partnership said it could recover 25-50 million bbl of oil ultimately from lands it acquired in April on the active Suffield Military Range in southeastern Alberta.
On May 11, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) will introduce the Electronic Compliance and Approval Process (ECAP), an electronic commerce system that eliminates paper by capturing, storing, and transmitting oil or gas well permitting information electronically.
Horizontal-well applications in Saudi Arabia have many objectives, such as controlling oil and gas coning in relatively thin remaining oil columns, improving waterflood sweep efficiency, improving productivity rates from thin and tight reservoirs, and saving development costs.
Alto Mar Girassol last month was slated to begin construction of an innovative system of heavily insulated flowline bundles and rigid riser towers for development of TotalFinaElf SA's Girassol deepwater giant oil field development project off Angola, in 1,350 m of water.
The supply of natural gasoline in Mont Belvieu is gradually being diverted from refinery feedstock and the gasoline blendstock pool to ethylene feedstock.
On May 1, Colonial Pipeline Co., Atlanta, and TransMontaigne Inc., Denver, started up a new barge dock near Baton Rouge, La., that will, say the companies, enhance their ability to deliver and receive shipments throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river regions.
Since mid-January 2000, the Clock Spring pipeline repair system has been included under revised wording of US regulatory rules covering pipeline repair.
A little over a year after it was officially launched, the UAE Offsets Group's ambitious $8-10 billion Dolphin gas supply project is developing a more concrete shape.
