A multidiscipline team, assembled by BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., completed a successful four well, coil-tubing drilling (CTD) pilot project to drill long horizontal multilateral...
Major advances in sand-control tools, gravel-packing methods, and drilling and completion fluid technology have made horizontal gravel-packed openhole completions, in some cases...
A comparison of LNG processes for tropical conditions showed that Shell double mixed refrigerant (DMR) process is a competitive alternative for the propane mixed refrigerant (...
Optimization of oil and gas assets within a portfolio requires analysis and techniques that go beyond the efficient frontier favored by the traditional portfolio theory developed...
Oil and gas companies continute to grapple with controversy over access to US federal lands. As Congress tries to hammer out a comprehensive energy bill that President George ...
Countless energy companies' business practices will be forever changed by the fall of and subsequent investigation into beleaguered energy merchant Enron Corp.
Now that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has extended its production quotas through the third quarter, industry analysts are focusing on potentially tight market...
Congressional leaders late last month officially began talks designed to reconcile differences between the House and Senate energy bills with both sides calling for a spirit of...
Ongoing worries by Wall Street and the public over corporate misconduct within and outside the energy business have led lawmakers to reexamine the role federal regulators play...
The Minerals Management Service's Gulf of Mexico regional office predicted in a June 10 report that leases held on the Outer Continental Shelf will be producing oil and natural...
The prospect of using hydrogen as a viable and safe transportation fuel has never quite fully recovered from the Hindenburg dirigible disaster that occurred on May 6, 1937.
The FloBoss 103 flow manager measures static and differential pressures to a reference accuracy of up to ±0.075%. Gas flow is calculated for volume and energy in accordance with...
Tulsa, has announced the opening of its new Technology Center in Tulsa. The new facility provides pipeline owners, operators, and technicians with hands-on training and qualification...
The earth is a gigantic heat engine. A tremendous amount of heat is constantly transported from its center to the surface by thermal convection and conduction.
A simple-to-use correlation has been developed which better predicts liquid holdup in gas-condensate transmission, two-phase flow pipelines. Research for the correlation is based...