Merlin Production Inc., in cooperation with Costain Oil, Gas & Process Ltd. and Moss Maritime AS, has demonstrated that an economically viable floating LNG plant can be designed...
Significant casing-job planning and modeling, with a dynamic-surge model, enabled BP PLC successfully to run and cement the 135/8-in. intermediate casing, in the subsea development...
Problems of corruption in the oil and gas sector of the business world stood out in a recent survey commissioned by Transparency International (TI), a nongovernmental organization...
Pecten Cameroon Co. (PCC), an operating unit in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, extended the existing supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) infrastructure at offshore ...
The North Sea (for purposes of this article the UK, Norway, and Denmark) produced about 6.5 million b/d of oil in 2001, representing about 14% of non-OPEC (Organization of Petroleum...
The US can claim credit for taking a strong legal and moral lead against transnational bribery by passing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in 1977 and, more recently, ...
Interests were almost evenly divided between shallow and deep waters at the federal oil and natural gas Lease Sale 184 held last week in New Orleans, which drew apparent high ...
Williams Cos. Inc. is continuing to divest itself of certain assets in an effort to shore up its balance sheet. Earlier this month, the Tulsa-based energy company announced a ...
Houston-based independent oil and gas exploration company Panaco Inc., Tag Oil Ltd. of Vancouver, BC, and Chinese company CNOOC Ltd. have all recently named new leaders.
The possibility of military conflict between the US and Iraq has boosted oil prices nearly 10% in recent weeks and could trigger increased US demand for natural gas, said Christopher...
The world is drawing down its oil reserves at an unprecedented rate, with supplies likely to be constrained by global production capacity by 2010, "even assuming no growth in ...
The most interesting finding in a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) study of financial reporting by oil and gas companies isn't how much invest- ors wish they knew about companies...
I thought you might be interested in learning about a variation on the forestry theme that the Planktos Foundation is introducing. Since the world is more than 70% ocean-and within...
Pittsburgh, Pa., has appointed Peter Tedesko as managing director of international sales and marketing for its Cutler-Hammer business. Tedesko had most recently served as director...
Three new SensAir personal gas detectors for carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and oxygen deficiency come with standard vibrating, light, and sound alarms for low and high alarm...
GeoSphere Exploration Ltd., Wellington, and Thomasson International Ventures Inc., Denver, were awarded 3,124 sq km PEP 38223 on the southernmost South Island.
A host of national and international codes and standards usually comprises a list in a shipbuilder's contract specification for a new LNG carrier. Prospective owners must review...
It should be easy to predict what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will do when ministers meet Sept. 19 in Osaka, Japan. Under normal circumstances, the group...
As LNG continues its resurgence as a means of moving natural gas between supply and market areas (OGJ, Aug. 12, 2002, p.56), another oceangoing technology has moved closer to ...
Operators made 173 new oil field discoveries and 162 gas discoveries outside North America in 2001, down from 2000 totals, reported IHS Energy Group, Epsom, U.K.
A group led by Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has made the first commercial discovery to produce from the deeper, underexplored Paleozoic reservoirs in the Monkman area in the...
Alaska's Coastal Policy Council (CPC) voted July 24 to approve new regulations streamlining the permitting process for projects affecting the state's coastal uses or resources...
Oil production is exceeding expectations, and development and exploration programs are advancing, said a member of the Sudan consortium Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co.