Volume 101, Issue 1

Aramco Services Company

Are oil markets approaching a "perfect storm" in terms of oil prices—where a sudden confluence of factors creates conditions for oil prices reaching levels that can be described...

Here's a new year's wish: less wishful thinking about energy. Wishful thinking scrambles energy governance. Yet it's inevitable.

Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to drill one exploratory well on each of four blocks as part of a companywide record $660 million capital spending program in 2003.

The oil and gas business is about to get better. Indications of this happy circumstance come from the popular view that 2003 will pretty much duplicate 2002.

Aberdeen, has announced the appointment of Gary Broiles as CIS area manager, Hassan Farshbaf as country manager for Algeria, and Bruce Campbell as UK country manager, all with...

I have been an avid and loyal reader of Oil & Gas Journal for virtually my entire career, which now approaches a half-century. During that time I have noted that the Journal routinely...

There has never been a better time to be in the business of communicating with a professional audience.

In a swap for future crude oil deliveries from Venezuela, Petroleos Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has provide 520,000 l. of gasoline to Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) to relieve...

If US-led forces remove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, then the administration of US President George W. Bush must make it clear to the world that the US has no desire to become...

Despite recent surveys revealing that exploration and production companies' worldwide E&P spending for 2003 will be flat to slightly elevated compared with last year, a recent...

US producers expect to increase their North American production of natural gas this year, but even at today's higher commodity prices, oil field service companies see no signs...

US policymakers are worried that the widespread strike by Venezuelan oil workers could impact US energy markets if the situation isn't resolved soon.

Invest-Oil—an affiliate company acting in the interest of Russian oil firms Siberian Oil Co. (Sibneft) and Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK)—has bid for and won a 74.95% equity stake in OAO...

Escalating Middle East tensions are not tempering industry interest in the region, especially in Saudi Arabia and Iraq where the potential for profit is high.