Coiled-tubing drilling (CTD) has been successfully used by ARCO, BP Amoco PLC, and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to access hard-to-reach, overlooked, and depleted reservoirs from existing wellbores.
Schlumberger Oilfield Services' well-intervention business unit expects a new coiled-tubing unit design, called CT Express, to reduce rig-up time, improve safety, and significantly improve efficiency and reliability of such operations as nitrogen lifts, sand cleanouts, acidizing, and fracturing.
Development of technology to drill small-diameter boreholes and the imminent marriage of this technology with micro-instrumentation can result in low-cost, deep wells for both exploration and instrumentation access.
Could giant fields remain to be found in Pakistan's basins? The first part of this two-part article introduced the question (OGJ, Jan. 3, 2000, p. 56).
The US Department of Energy said a successful horizontal well it helped sponsor in the Green River basin of southwestern Wyoming could encourage nonconventional gas exploration in the Rocky Mountains.
Further demonstrating its Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) prowess, Sasol Synthetic Fuels installed the last of eight new reactors using the Sasol Advanced Synthol (SAS) process in its Secunda, South Africa, plant early this year.
Since 1995, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Orange, Calif., has used a cable-sensor system to improve leak detection from its aboveground storage tanks.
Taiwanese state oil firm Chinese Petroleum Corp. and the Chiayi County government have signed a letter of intent calling for CPC to build Taiwan's eighth naphtha cracker.
China's energy policy has gone through major changes in the last a few years, from a strategy based on self-reliance to one of aggressively seeking oil and gas supplies abroad.
Much to the chagrin of environmentalists, Shell Canada Ltd. and its partners are immediately beginning construction of a $3.5 billion (Can.) oilsands project in northern Alberta.
Natural gas is the fuel of the future, with new technologies on the threshold and projections that demand will double by 2010, says Richard Flury, chief executive of BP Amoco PLC's new Gas Marketing & Power unit.
A combine of UniSuper and National Australia Asset Management acquired the Moomba-Botany ethane pipeline in Australia from Orica Ltd, Melbourne, for $124 million (Aus.).
A US Public Television series not long ago showed how small discoveries or insignificant events from history have led to current achievements and inventions.
Algoma Steel Inc. of Canada, and Siderca S.A. of Argentina, one of the DST companies, have signed a preliminary agreement...would lease and operate Algoma's seamless steel pipe manufacturing facilities in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Global oil markets dipped slightly just before the end of the year in response to news that OPEC had stepped up production to prepare for possible supply problems associated with the Year 2000 computer bug.
