Financial and operating results for 1999 of companies on the OGJ200 list of publicly traded oil and gas producing companies in the US mostly reflected improvement over a dismal 1998.
Financial and operating results for 1999 of companies on the OGJ200 list of publicly traded oil and gas producing companies in the US mostly reflected improvement over a dismal 1998.
Completion of Phase 1 of the giant Peciko gas field development off Indonesia's East Kalimantan is a major milestone in the long history of Total Indonesia.
A thorough analysis of tubing-completion design, which takes into account the differences between single and multiple strings, can reduce or eliminate planning and operational errors.
A new atmospheric gas oil (AGO) electrical-desalting process reduced the amount of chlorides in the main fractionator of a Chinese fluid-catalytic cracking unit (FCCU).
Completion in 1999 of an integrated terminal and benzene pipeline along the Mississippi River reduced tank-truck movements to and from a chemical plant in Geismar, La., and debottlenecked supply to the plant.
With the drawdown of crude oil stocks held in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve well under way, the effects that the withdrawal plan have had on oil markets are becoming more apparent. Oil prices, in fact, retreated more than $5/bbl since Pres. Bill Clinton's announcement late last month to draw down 30 million bbl of the SPR stockpile.
What happens if the US Environmental Protection Agency targets your refinery for an investigation of compliance with the New Source Review (NSR) provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA)?
The new FieldBrowser monitors any field device on a HART network, capture data for computer automated diagnostics, and sends alarms via e-mail, internet, intranet, or mobile phone.
Even before the jaw-dropping discovery this year of the elephantine Kashagan oil field off Kazakhstan, where early reserve estimates were 25-60 billion bbl ...
Despite current high oil prices and concerns over oil supply levels this winter, some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are resisting calls for an increase in the group's output.
US Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) last week asked the US Federal Trade Commission to undertake an investigation of expected high natural gas prices this winter to determine if they are the result of collusion in the market.
US Energy Sec. Bill Richardson defended the Clinton administration's energy policy in a National Press Club speech last week in Washington, denying that the release of 30 million bbl of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve last month was politically motivated (OGJ Online, Sept. 23, 2000).
The global natural gas market is about to change more drastically than most observers expect, and in directions few suspect, according to a University of Houston economics professor and industry authority.
After a year's delay, Save Domestic Oil (SDO) expects the US Department of Commerce to fully consider its complaint that four other nations "dumped" oil on the US market in 1998-99.
