Floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels tied to subsea wellheads or dry-tree platforms, such as spars and tension leg platforms, are slated to handle most of the fluids produced from the numerous deepwater discoveries off West Africa.
Southeastern Australia's Otway basin, so often a Cinderella to the riches of the Gippsland basin farther east, is finally emerging as belle of the petroleum ball.
In completion of oil and gas wells, cement isolates the wellbore, prevents casing failure, and keeps wellbore fluids from contaminating freshwater aquifers.
In the Niger Delta, off Nigeria, field experience based on a learning curve derived from gravel packing in conventional wells proved effective for improving gravel packs in monobore and horizontal wells.
Commercial operations for both the Alliance Pipeline from British Columbia to south of Chicago and the Aux Sable natural gas processing plant occurred on Dec. 1, 2000. The pipeline came up to its fully contracted flow of 1.3 bcfd.
Iraqi oil supply uncertainties loom Oil prices softened recently amid reports that Iraq and the United Nations soon may hammer out an agreement allowing for a resumption of Iraqi oil sales under the oil-for-aid accord, plus continuing evidence of growing oil stocks, and word from OPEC that nothing is likely to change at the group's July 3 meeting.
On May 19, 1986, Oil & Gas Journal published an address given at the 1986 annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, entitled, "The Looming Energy Crisis."
Desire Petroleum PLC, London, said Mohave Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, has plugged and abandoned the Aljubarrota 2 sidetrack (2ST) in the Lusitanian basin.
Here's a thermal desalination system featuring the pressed plate falling film system to supply high-quality fresh water for domestic and process uses aboard vessels, drilling rigs, and offshore locations.
Stiff resistance by the European Commission against a $44 billion merger of two US companies should trouble the oil and gas industry on several levels. One huge concern should be the ready exercise of veto power by an international body that doesn't represent the affected companies' home country. Activism such as this in any industry represents government misguidedness of a type now leading the US back in the direction of energy price controls (OGJ, June 25, 2001, p. 19).
As California lurches toward third-world energy status, denial of responsibility is the order of the day from San Diego to Napa Valley (OGJ, June 25, 2001, p.17). c
An Independent Petroleum Association of America panel predicts US natural gas demand will increase 1.8%/year for the foreseeable future, rising to 24.8 tcf by 2005, to 28.1 tcf in 2010, and 30.7 tcf in 2015.
A proposal to double the size and triple the withdrawal capacity of a natural gas storage facility in energy-starved California is being hampered by regulatory delays, the president of an independent Canadian storage firm said late last month.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled meetings to take public input on whether enforcement of a Clean Air Act rule is hampering investment in electric generating and refinery capacity.
Industrial logic-some commixture of synergies and corporate survivalism-would appear to make an open-and-shut case for a full-scale, three-way merger among the leading regional oil and gas companies in central and eastern Europe, namely Poland's PKN Orlen, Hungary's MOL Rt., and Austria's OMV AG.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week announced that the government's Performance and Innovation Unit would undertake a strategic review of the country's long-term energy policy to consider the roles coal, gas, oil, and renewables would play in meeting the UK's future energy supply needs.
