Expandable-profile liners have successfully isolated and protected permeable hydrocarbon zones in Russian oil wells, minimizing formation damage from invasion of drilling fluids...
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.
US effects of Venezuela's month-long strike, aimed at ousting President Hugo Chávez, became more evident last week as the American Petroleum Institute reported US oil stocks fell...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the last two decades, results obtained from structural reliability analysis (SRA) have increasingly led to formation of strategies for future safe operation of corroding oil...
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...
The new Ultima X gas monitor series features the latest mechanical and electrical technologies and is designed for performance in virtually any gas detection use.
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.
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.
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...
