Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) has initiated a hydraulic fracturing program to enhance productivity and reduce or eliminate sand production from the unconsolidated sandstone...
Although the future of gas to liquids (GTL) is promising, the industry seems to be over-doing it with grandiose plans. About 300,000 to 400,000 b/d of GTL diesel may be in the...
In today's upstream exploration and production industry, companies are placing much greater emphasis on improving collaboration between asset teams to more efficiently evaluate...
Abu Dhabi Marine Operations Co. (ADMA-OPCO) awarded a major gas injection project to expand the output of Zakum oil field, one of its main fields off Abu Dhabi.
Successful cement jobs, providing good zonal isolation and adequate casing and wellhead support, become difficult goals to achieve at water depths grea ter than 2,000 m.
As part of a 5-year investment program the Mexican government approved in early 2001, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is aggressively developing Mexico's hydrocarbon producing regions...
Industry executives and analysts apparently are convinced that both international oil and US natural gas markets will rebound in the second half of this year.
A new bipartisan $14 billion US energy tax bill has passed the Senate Finance Committee. Lobbyists say it is unclear where the budget offsets will come to pay for the measure,...
The stage is being set for another standoff between Russia and OPEC over production cuts. A bigger question might be whether any potential market share war will come before US...
For the second consecutive quarter, Houston energy banks and the active middle market of those companies acquiring reserves are in agreement on near and midterm expectations for...
Lower oil and gas prices caused weaker year-on-year results for a sampling of Canadian producers, while earnings for other firms in Canada's petroleum industry fared much better...
Hidden away in a clearing in the UK's Sherwood Forest, the home of the legendary Robin Hood and his merry men, is a striking memorial statue to a group of more real-if less famous...
The administration of US President George W. Bush stepped into a trap this month with its proposed alternative to the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
