Interest in LNG regasification terminals and storage capacity is gaining momentum in the US. Several projects, either new-builds or expansions, are under serious consideration.
How often have you uttered those words on learning the price of a winning bid for an oil and gas producing property, especially one you have evaluated or even submitted a bid?
Nearing completion at Jose, an industrial complex on Venezuela's eastern Caribbean coast near Barcelona, is a heavy crude upgrader that is part of a $4.2 billion integrated upstream and downstream project. One-third of the investment is for the initial 250 wells and main production station near San Diego de Cabrutica in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt, while the other two-thirds are for the upgrader, storage, and export facilities at Jose.
Shell UK Exploration and Production, London, saved time and money last year when Furmanite International modified and strengthened an O-ring configuration on an offshore platform in less than 24 hr.
Government officials from Azerbaijan and Georgia signed an agreement late last month in Baku that signals another important step toward construction of a gas export pipeline into Turkey.
Government officials from Azerbaijan and Georgia signed an agreement late last month in Baku that signals another important step toward construction of a gas export pipeline into Turkey.
The new TM8GPS trunk mount combines a global positioning system and mobile communications together in a system that provides the user with two-way communication capabilities and a GPS receiver.
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, negotiated in December 1997, calls for industrial economies such as the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan (Annex B countries) to reduce their collective emissions of six greenhouse gases by an average of 5.2% from 1990 levels by 2008-12.
The vast Chinese energy market is about to move to the center stage of world oil industry activity and senior oil company executives are likely to be spending the coming months signing contracts running into billions of dollars.
Keeping pipelines operating safely and bolstering national security are not mutually exclusive goals, but given the US government's budget limitations, they could be.
