In a 1915 book, The Oil Scouts: Reminiscences of the Night Riders of the Hemlocks, author J.C. Tennent tells why the Oil Scouts group was founded and how it helped stabilize the oil industry in the 1870s and 1880s by keeping tabs on drilling and production.
Italy is still coming to terms with the existence of an estimated 1.02 billion bbl of recoverable reserves tucked beneath the rolling hills of its southern Apennines.
Famfa Oil Ltd., Texaco Inc., and Braspetro, the international arm of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, reported early results of a wildcat drilled on deepwater OPL Block 216 about 70 miles off Nigeria's central Niger Delta.
Repsol SA, Madrid, which signed an offshore E&P contract with oil regulator Perupetro SA in March 1995 for Block Z-29 offshore in the Trujillo basin, has returned the area to Perupetro after drilling two dry holes last year.
Certain areas in Southeast Asia continue to attract the attention of oil and gas companies looking for exploration opportunities despite fallout from the economic crash of 1997 and the oil price collapse in 1998.
Fatalities, injuries, near misses, and uncontrolled releases of potentially hazardous fluid may result when two of the most widely used high-pressure hammer unions are accidentally mated.
Field tests conducted by three major operators show that gas-bubble formation in deepwater drilling risers, filled with water-base mud, is governed through dispersion rather than slug-type behavior patterns.
A novel seawater-based, polymer-free, fluid improved the operational efficiency of 23 frac packs in Eni Agip's Giovanna field, off Italy in the Adriatic Sea.
Most US refineries and many product terminals can expect exceptionally large costs in refinery and distribution investments within the next 6 years if recently proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions-control policies are implemented as scheduled.
Japan's refining and petrochemical companies are pressing ahead with integration of their production facilities under the Ministry of International Trade & Industry's (MITI) petrochemical industry restructuring program, the so-called Renaissance Project.
Enron Offshore Services & Technology, a division of Enron Engineering & Construction Co., Houston, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp., has joined with Horizon Offshore, Houston, to install six pipelines for Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the Bay of Campeche.
A proprietary foam insulation was used on the 6-mile oil flowline for Shell Inc.'s King subsea project in Mississippi Canyon Block 807 in the Gulf of Mexico.
