Increased competition and rising regulatory pressures and public expectations, especially in North America, have driven many of the technological developments in pipelining in recent years.
Use of a new type of test that employs a continuous in-line, particle-droplet monitor has helped South Georgia Natural Gas Co., Birmingham, Ala., quantify the moisture content and size distribution of water droplets at one of its compressor stations.
Use of a new type of test that employs a continuous in-line, particle-droplet monitor1-3 has helped South Georgia Natural Gas Co., Birmingham, Ala., quantify the moisture content and size distribution of water droplets at one of its compressor stations.
Use of a structured approach to damage assessment after a major process plant fire minimized reconstruction costs and the time necessary to resume production.
At the end of July, LG-Caltex, Yosu, South Korea, commissioned its new aromatics recovery unit, one of the largest single-train extraction units in the world, with a capacity of 900,000 tonnes/year of benzene and toluene.
Malaysia's petrochemical industry has defied all odds and emerged from the Asian economic crisis unscathed; no major project was cancelled or even suspended.
BP last month ordered from South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. two new LNG tankers and secured options to buy three more vessels in an order worth more than $300 million.
For the third time this year, OPEC has agreed to boost production, but there is near-unanimity that the volumes offered won't suffice in the near term.
State oil companies let a contract to Petroleum Geo-Services ASA for a 1,500 sq km reservoir characterization project covering giant Zakum oil field in the Persian Gulf.
Newly developed Balance software incorporates a graphical user interface that allows the user to simply "drag and drop" weight changes to a machine and perform "what if" balancing calculations ranging from simple to complex.
The 11 member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last week put their names to a middle-way agreement that will raise collective output of crude by 800,000 b/d starting next month, although this hike is unlikely to do more than arrest the spiraling oil price in the short term.
Even before the 11 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries heads of delegation began to emerge, one by one, from their closed-door meeting on production increases in Vienna on Sept. 10, the world's brokers and analysts had already beaten them to the punch.
It's become a matter of "catch as catch can" as oil and gas companies take advantage of record-high energy commodity prices to strengthen their balance sheets and hone their asset portfolios.
