A flare system can safely be designed to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to the environment as well as reducing the cost of operating the overall flare system.
After almost 50 years of utilizing "modern" techniques to search for hydrocarbons in New Zealand's Taranaki basin, explorationists are only now beginning to appreciate its multiplicity of plays.
Duke Energy Field Services (DEFS) is using oxygen (O2) scavenging and ion exchange to battle oxygen contamination at its Wilcox gas plant in Lavaca County, Texas.
A recent item (OGJ, Oct. 30, 2000, p. 35) states that the Potato Hills structure of Latimer and Pushmataha counties, Okla., may be a model for structural and depositional environments of proposed astrobleme features in the Gulf of Mexico.
In listening to the hearings concerning California's energy crisis and Governor Davis' testimony, there would appear to be a cover-up of one important fact: The decision to depend on natural gas as fuel to generate electricity without a developed source of supply.
Apex Environmental Inc. Rockville, Md., has announced that Caley Parrish has joined its Urbandale, Iowa, office as project manager specializing in environmental construction.
With a political frenzy under way in Congress over energy, US oil and gas companies should stay alert to developments in the uneasy stalemate over reform of campaign finance.
Although fraught with scientific uncertainty, there is a growing consensus that our planet, probably because of natural forces and climate cycles but very likely reinforced by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is still experiencing a period of gradual warming that has been in progress since the last Ice Age.
US natural gas prices likely will hold at near current levels for as long as 2-5 years rather than fall further, as many forecasters think, the chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America said July 11.
The US Minerals Management Service is expected this week to release its proposed 5-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program for 2002-07.
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee approved an energy efficiency bill July 12 that includes a proposal to drop the phase-in period for a controversial low-sulfur diesel rule.
A proposed bill making it a felony for natural gas or electric power producers to curtail production or to sell energy "at prices above marginal cost" is now before California legislators.
Oil and gas companies' recent merger and acquisition activity involved various international transactions. BP PLC was a player in two separate deals as the British oil and gas company hones its global refining strategy.
