In the Alba field, UK North Sea Block 16/26, a well-by-well analysis established whether diagnostic tests can identify which wells should be treated conventionally for scale formation and which require special attention.
French authorities awarded Planet Oil Ltd. an exclusive exploration license that covers most of Guyana's offshore basin from the 12-mile coastal limit to the 3,000-m water depth contour.
Operators now have access to rigsite chemostratigraphy (chemical stratigraphy) to provide timely information for formation evaluation, picking formation tops, and identifying horizons for coring or casing points.
A polyethylene liner rehabilitated corrosion pitted, 6-in. carbon steel water-injection lines in the La Ventana oil field, Mendoza province, Argentina. The lines had been in continual use for 30 years, according to ASTRA Repsol-YPF SA, operator of the waterflood.
As part of a major upgrade and expansion project for the Cantarell oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, Petroleos Mexicano (Pemex) Exploración Y Producción is installing more than 400 km (about 250 miles) of new pipelines.
Plainfield, Ill., has appointed Richard E. Goodrich as executive vice-president and chief financial officer. Goodrich, who joined CB&I in 1998, will be based in the company's Houston office.
In an atmosphere of increasing partisanship, the nonpartisan General Accounting Office has been thrown into the public spotlight because of volatile energy debates in Washington, DC.
Iran's thriving oil industry in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s-when its daily crude oil production reached the highest in the Middle East in 1 year and subsequently remained the second highest within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-suffered massive losses during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Continued US government funding of oil and gas industry technology research is still needed, an invited panel of 18 industry representatives told the US Department of Energy this month.
European gas consumers could save up to $2 billion/year (£4 billion/year) by 2005 if gas markets were deregulated to the same extent as the UK market, according to a new study.
