War in the Middle East and economic paralysis in Venezuela give the oil market reason to worry-but not panic. Embargo threats by outraged exporters should be less troubling.
A recent study, "2002 World Light Olefins Anal ysis," from Chemical Mar ket Associates Inc. (CMAI), Houston, provides a historical perspective and an outlook for global ethylene...
Extensive laboratory testing and data analyses reveal that the oil and gas industry can reliably estimate foamed-cement sample compressive strength, if the design engineer knows...
Coiled tubing provides the means to work in live wells, allowing wellbore clean-outs, openhole-formation washes, selective-matrix stimulation, production logs, and nitrogen-kickoff...
Oil & Gas Journal's exclusive biennial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) survey shows a marked decrease in production from California steamfloods at the beginning of 2002 compared to...
Crude oil production in the Asia-Pacific region has been flat since the mid-1990s. Despite many uncertainties, the region is more likely to see its long-term production decline...
EOR production tends to be long lived, partly because of advances in technology. For example, gas processing has changed in the SACROC Unit, Scurry County, Tex. Kinder Morgan ...
Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, reported that it will spend $193 million to acquire working interests in natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico and West Texas.
World energy consumption is projected to increase by 60% over the next 2 decades, according to an annual report released last month by the US Energy Information Administration...
Mindful of how politically volatile rising gasoline prices can be in this election year, Congress and the White House are taking preemptive steps to assure voters they have the...
US gasoline pump prices for spring and summer 2002 are expected to average $1.46/gal, about 8¢ lower than last year's average of $1.54/gal, according to new US Energy Information...
Barrett is former chairman and CEO of Barrett Resources Corp., Denver, that Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, acquired last year for $2.8 billion in a move that more than doubled Williams...
White House officials and pro-industry lawmakers hope ongoing events in the Middle east and Venezuela will help build interest in a US energy policy agenda that encourages domestic...
The spotlight shines on the many advances made in handling terabytes of 3D seismic and other oil field data and manipulating it almost instantaneously in visualization centers...
I was interested to read your article on the efforts of the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry Technology Facilitator to secure funding for the development of breakthrough technologies...
Damage assessment by in-line inspection and rehabilitation of a sour-gas pipeline in Mexico revealed, among other findings, that ILI data are not always accurate and that metal...
Dallas, has elected James H. Nolan II as its 56th president. Nolan is executive vice-president and COO of Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Co., where he has spent his entire career...
