As presidential candidate, and president-elect, Vicente Fox emphasized the need for greater participation by private industry in the energy sector of Mexico.
As presidential candidate, and president-elect, Vicente Fox emphasized the need for greater participation by private industry in the energy sector of Mexico.
Aggressive exploration and development of the Burgos basin in northeastern Mexico is expected to result in substantial increases in nonassociated gas production over the next 2 decades, according to a report published by Gas Technology Institute, Arlington, Va.
A surface geochemical exploration survey in eastern Egypt detected hydrocarbon microseepage from reservoirs overlain by 8,000 ft of evaporitic salt and anhydrite sequences with interbeds of shale.
Oil prices are surging again, so the market focus again has fallen on how well OPEC will micromanage oil supply to sustain its unofficial $25/bbl target price.
If you are involved in any aspect of the offshore industry, then you needed to be at last week's Offshore Technology Conference hosted at Reliant Park (formerly Astrodomain), here in Houston.
This firm's line of Pneudri desiccant air dryers was called into use recently by an operating oil company to supply a solution for the cement transfer facility on a North Sea offshore platform.
For the International Energy Agency, conflict with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries comes naturally. IEA began life as a response to the targeted export embargo by Arab oil-producing countries in 1974.
Deepwater cost containment, US lands access, global environmental concerns, and the standardization of safety and environmental practices were the dominant themes that emerged at last week's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
Operators financing long-term deepwater projects must build trust relationships with bankers just as they build relationships with contractors, a Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Co. official told an Offshore Technology Conference breakfast May 1.
Petroleos Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) plans to restart oil production from Roncador oil field, site of the worst offshore oil industry accident in recent years, in second half 2002.
The East Coast of Canada will be a growing exporter of oil, natural gas, and electric power to US markets within the next few years, the premiers of Nova Scotia and of Newfoundland and Labrador provinces said May 1 at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
Oil companies can usually rely on a lawmaker from an oil-producing state to endorse their legislative agenda, but that support is far from unconditional.
To judge by several of the presentations made at the recent Interna tional Oil Summit in Paris, the claim repeated at various government and industry gatherings over the last year that the world's oil producing and consuming countries were entering a new era of understanding-or even solidarity-risks looking increasingly shaky (See Editorial, p. 17).
The first commercial Pretreat unit, started in July 1999, was built as part of the second ethylene unit project of Companhia Petroquimica do Sul (Copesul), in Triunfo, Brazil.
