More than 3 decades after its discovery, Alaskan North Slope operators are beginning to unlock the huge commercial potential of the slope's viscous heavy oil resource.
The political furor that has erupted over proposals to allow exploration and development on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge soon will reach fever pitch.
Phillips Alaska Inc., inheritor of the ARCO Alaska Inc. legacy and assets, has quickly made its own mark in assuming ARCO's mantle as the largest oil producer in Alaska.
Phillips Petroleum Co. loaded the first cargo of Alaskan North Slope crude oil in mid-July on the first double-hulled tanker built specifically for the Alaskan trade under new federal oil spill prevention rules.
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. continues to push the envelope on advanced drilling and production technology to sustain oil production in the greater Prudhoe Bay area.
Shell Exploration and Production Co., Houston, recently installed the world's first expandable liner hanger (ELH) system in a field trial well in South Texas.
Computer modeling techniques for fire and gas detection systems can optimize the number and position of detectors for both land and offshore installations, as shown by the application of this technique on the Shell Philippines Exploration BV-operated Malampaya deepwater gas project, off the Philippines.
Last June, the largest and heaviest nonconcrete structure in the North Sea was refloated and towed to Aker Offshore Partner AS's Stord facility in Norway to await final disposition (Fig. 1). Phillips Petroleum Co. UK Ltd. operated the 110,000-tonne steel, gravity-based Maureen Alpha platform in UK Block 16/29a.
The electrical power shortages in California will compel the state's refining industry to re-evaluate its existing power conservation and supply policies.
Pilot testing in 2000 of an optical interface detector (OID) on a Colonial Pipeline Co. stubline in Georgia has indicated that the detector cannot by itself identify a product type flowing in a pipeline.
What a delicious bit of irony I found in OGJ (June 25, p. 10), with the letter "Another dry hole" from reader Max Edison placed just a few pages from the opinion piece "Californicus Energeticus."
The last time this editor revisited the subject of his former West Coast beat, it was to analyze the often contradictory behavior of the strange beast known as Californius energeticus (OGJ June 25, 2001, p. 17).
Some of the US's closest allies insist the Kyoto climate change treaty is not dead, although diplomats and environmentalists fret that the long-term prognosis for the world's first greenhouse gas agreement is still shaky.
Some of the US's closest allies insist the Kyoto climate change treaty is not dead, although diplomats and environmentalists fret that the long-term prognosis for the world's first greenhouse gas agreement is still shaky.
