Nova Chemicals Corp., Calgary, is nearing completion of a $1.4-billion (US) expansion that will make its Joffre petrochemical site in central Alberta the largest ethylene and polyethylene complex in the world, according to the company.
Titan Petrochemicals Sdn. Bhd., the largest petrochemical company in Malaysia, commissioned a new 330,000 tonnes/year (tpy) ethylene unit in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, in October 1999. The cracker can also produce 165,000 tpy of propylene (Fig. 1).
The results of a wildcat well, located in the Voring Plateau of the Norwegian Sea, show that coordinated management and planning from the service company, drilling contractor, and operator can improve drilling performance over other regional wells.
The main keys for determining how to redevelop the Romashkinsky field include proper characterization of the volume and location of the remaining oil reserves and implementation of technologies for recovering these reserves.
Design and construction of the Scottish Power generating station at Knapton, North Yorkshire, placed environmental considerations ahead of economic ones in important process decisions.
Statoil's comprehensive, pipeline-integrity management system for buried onshore systems accounts for the unique operation and environmental characteristics of various systems.
"The lay-off legacy," OGJ's June 19, 2000, editorial, incorrectly (in my view) identifies "wildly variable oil prices" as the key determinant of employment in the oil and gas industry.
The formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1960 was one of the great ground-breaking events of the last century, but the organization today is faced with a series of new challenges, says OPEC conference Pres.
US reaction to the decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase oil production has ranged from a guarded welcome to yet another call for wielding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a market weapon and thus reduce gasoline prices.
The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development has called for the breakup of Gazprom in order to encourage competition in Russia's gas supply sector.
