In the statistics section of this issue, Oil & Gas Journal introduces Muse, Stancil & Co.'s monthly Gulf Coast ethylene margins. This series will provide insight into the profitability...
Expandable-tubular technology advances as the industry extends its application from the drilling environment, where carbon-steel expandable tubulars reduce the telescopic effects...
Shell Venezuela SA recently proved the transparency and ease of deployment of a wireless data acquisition-communication system and web-based software in its Urdaneta West field...
Accurate prediction of bottomhole circulating temperature is important during drilling and completion of oil and gas wells and critical for properly designed cement slurries.
US natural gas interstate pipeline companies continue to be optimistic about demand in developing markets, according to applications filed before the US Federal Energy Regulatory...
As LNG occupies a greater portion of the gas supply flow to US markets, more details are emerging of what it costs to install, improve, or expand facilities. Here are a couple...
In 1992, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued Order 636 requiring pipeline companies to "provide open-access transportation and storage, and to separate sales from...
Industry officials praised the key findings of a draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency that found hydraulic fracturing of coalbed methane wells does not contaminate...
Chakib Khelil, Algeria's minister of energy and mining resources, is managing an overhaul of the state-owned oil and gas company and expecting further change.
A ramp-up in oil production by countries outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the short term could pose a "serious threat" to prospects for oil market ...
Even as ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries prepare for their Sept. 19 meeting in Osaka, analysts at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. have...
It is premature to assume that Saudi Arabia has abandoned plans to allow foreign companies to develop natural gas fields as part of a massive $25 billion downstream gas development...
The heads of the organizations representing the world's main oil exporters and top oil importers claimed to have found common ground anew on the issue of oil market stability,...
Congress has a lot to consider before lawmakers leave in early October to campaign for the fall elections. Of perennial interest to industry are the 13 spending bills that fund...
This year's Pipeline Economics Report that begins on p. 52 reveals, as always, the latest data on what it costs to build and operate an oil and gas pipeline in the US.
The editorial entitled "OPEC's Chall enge" (OGJ, Aug. 26, 2002, p. 17) disturbed me. It is my opinion that the Oil & Gas Journal's political viewpoints are perceived by those ...
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has strayed into dangerous territory with its proposal to limit access to information on energy infrastructure.
The current geochemical view is that hydrocarbons generated from organic matter disseminated in fine-grained sedimentary rocks and coals are controlled primarily by temperature...
Discourse breeds discord, which in a civil setting leads to compromise, enlightenment, and progress. This is how ideas are refined in such grand realms as science, politics, and...
The parlor game of the moment is: What shape will the speculated US-led campaign to oust Saddam Hussein take (which in turn presages the shape of oil markets to come)?
Utilization is up for Suezmax tankers, one of the more usefully sized vessel groups (120,000-200,000 dwt) in the oil and gas tanker industry. But the world's economic malaise ...