Eighteen field trials of a new polymer-free viscoelastic diverting acid (VDA) in Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) wells restored production and increased reserves from both new and existing...
Natural gas may be one of the cleaner sources of energy, but the petroleum industry's challenge in the well-construction process is to drill and complete wells to produce it safely...
Successful troubleshooting combines a thorough understanding of the process and equipment, application of chemical engineering basics to problem solving, and good field techniques...
The Middle East is the Asia-Pacific region's largest energy supplier, currently satisfying a demand for oil that must keep pace with the region's continued economic growth. This...
Oil traders seem to be on a bear hunt these days. Or maybe it's a snipe hunt. Phantom signs of market bears keep popping up among the members of the Organization of Petroleum ...
Environmentalism is tripping over its own obstructionist tendencies. Recent stumbles highlight a schism of motive festering deep within environmental politics.
Seneca Falls, NY, has appointed Robert J. Pagano Jr. as president. Pagano, a certified public accountant and certified management accountant, graduated magna cum laude with a ...
US economic policy advanced on two legislative fronts last week, the less significant of the two being enactment of a tough corporate-fraud law. More important to economic health...
New US regulations, CFR Part 195 Section 195.452, require that special integrity assessments be made to address potential seam-defect problems in low-frequency, electric-resistance...
In addition to cutting and beveling in-line pipe and tube, this new MS, or midsize, clamshell is capable of boring, flange facing, outside diameter turning, ring tool joint grooves...
I read with interest the editorial entitled "Time to Pick Sides" (OGJ, July 8, 2002, p. 19). I've long had the opinion that the global warming debate was suffering from a plethora...
Many organizations have long sought ways to commemorate their pasts while emphasizing to new generations the importance of work still to come. Symbols are needed to mark important...
Non-US companies continued to dominate the top spots in the second quarter ranking of the world's 50 largest energy firms, while natural gas-power merchant firms continued to ...
Thomas J. Webb has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of CMS Energy Corp., effective Aug. 5. Webb succeeds Alan M. Wright, who will leave the ...
The US natural gas and wholesale power trading sector, along with the power-generating sector, is presently facing a period of "extreme stress," according to Richard Hunter, managing...
Fuel marketers say there is a good chance the White House will sign into law this fall a Senate proposal that accelerates underground storage tank cleanups. That could in turn...
Oil and gas companies including integrated firms, independent refiners, and pipeline operators, urged the US Environmental Protection Agency in comments made public July 25 that...
Injections of natural gas into US underground storage show no signs of slowing, despite sweltering summer heat, and could reach capacity before the heating season starts, putting...
US energy merchants-struggling to gain the capital they need to reduce debt and shore up their battered balance sheets-are divesting themselves of some of their key assets in ...
After reviewing industry bids this summer, the US Department of Energy said it will sign new leases with the same storage terminal operators that currently manage the government...
The first direct oil shipment from Russia to the US was lightered last month from a supertanker to ExxonMobil Corp. refineries in Baytown and Beaumont, Tex., in a pilot program...