Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd. (PARCO), Karachi, Pakistan, achieved a 33% increase in capacity on a 16-in. OD multiproducts pipeline by using drag-reducing agents (DRAs) rather than more conventional methods.
Although slant drilling is a technology that has been in use for many years, the latest generation of slant rig designs enables newer rigs to do more than drill at an angle.
The current efforts in the US to ban the use of the gasoline oxygenate methyl tertiary butyl ether underscores how overzealous and wrong-headed enforcement of US environmental regulations continues to damage the country's economy.
World production of oil and other petroleum liquids is growing by 1 million b/d per year and will reach 3 million b/d per year by 2004-05, providing ample fuel for the short term, Cambridge Energy Research Associates officials said at the energy conference in Houston earlier this month.