Volume 100, Issue 46

Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, acquired several US companies to solidify its position in the Ordovician Trenton-Black River gas play fairway in the northern Appalachian basin,...

Japan Vietnam Petroleum Co. Ltd., operator and 46.5% interest holder in Rang Dong field on Block 15-2 off Viet Nam, has achieved first oil from two new wellhead platforms.

The resource potential of the Scotian slope on a risked basis doubles the gas potential and triples the oil potential for Nova Scotia's portion of the overall Scotian basin, according...

American Cast iron Pipe Co.

An exploration group is gearing up to acquire a 3,000 sq km 3D seismic survey in 2003 that will represent the first exploration in the Fustercasas-Hesperides basin off northwestern...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries faces daunting challenges in managing oil markets in the short term as well as the long term.

An important document called the Inter-American Democratic Charter deserves new attention. In it, 34 nations from North, South, and Central America acknowledge the essentials ...

The administration of US President George W. Bush would do itself a favor and the world a service by directly addressing a point of high suspicion concerning Iraq.

Lafayette, LA, has announced the opening of a new technology center in Lafayette, and has completed construction of a $2 million upgrade of its Port Fourchon facility.

Covering the worldwide petroleum industry has taken Oil & Gas Journal editors, well, worldwide: from eastern Oklahoma to southern Russia to western Colombia to the northern North...

Mexico will be increasingly reliant on imports to meet its natural gas supply needs, despite its best efforts to boost domestic gas production, says a top executive with that ...

Both the Alaska natural gas pipeline and the Mackenzie Valley pipeline will be built, with the Mackenzie line likely to go first, says a senior Canadian pipeline executive.

The American Petroleum Institute reported late last month that its weekly statistical bulletin will be released at 9 a.m. EST each Wednesday, beginning Jan. 8, 2003.

Oil and gas companies operating in the world's deep water, as well as Russian oil majors, ascended to the higher tiers of the third quarter ranking of the world's largest energy...

John Dielwart has been named chairman of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Dielwart succeeded Jim Simpson, who resigned from the position effective Nov. 1.

Norway's Statoil ASA has gained access into the US LNG market through the purchase of El Paso Merchant Energy LP's capacity rights for LNG from the Snøhvit project for $210 million...

As Congress prepares for more debate over a new Department of Homeland Security, two foreign policy think tanks warn that the public and private sectors still talk past each other...

The relative success of Mexico's efforts to open to outside investment its Burgos basin later this year will serve as a "litmus test" for that country's energy strategy, according...

Natural gas trade groups urged the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Oct. 25 to be mindful that energy markets and the financial community need "appropriate" price signals...

The pace of North American drilling will have to increase just to maintain current natural gas deliverability, panelists from several regions told a Ziff Energy Group conference...