Electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) play an important role in Oman because the pumps lift about 46% of the 780,000 bo/d of oil and condensates produced in the country.
Bayernoil Raffineriegesellschaft MBH recently revamped a diesel hydrotreater in its Neustadt refinery to produce ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD)—one that contains
US drilling activity, especially on land, increased rapidly during the first few months of 2003 as exploration and production companies stepped up their drilling programs to take...
Removal of 13-year-old sanctions by the United Nations Security Council on May 22 represents an important step for beleaguered Iraq. But it's only one advance among many...
Even as they approved on May 22 a reduction in income taxation estimated to save taxpayers $330 billion over 10 years, US lawmakers were considering a 30% hike in the gasoline...
This article highlights the results of a recent reappraisal of the petroleum geology of the South African offshore Cretaceous Durban and Zululand basins.
It was good to see James R. Schlesinger, former secretary of both the US Department of Defense and Department of Energy, at a recent energy industry outlook conference...
Even as they hailed the lifting of sanctions against Iraq, US officials in that country again have underscored the need to improve security in an effort to ramp up production ...
The development of a "digital oil field" model has become the latest area to gain the greatest amount of research and development for oil and gas exploration and production companies...
Foreign oil companies "will probably have to abandon their preoccupation with PSAs (production sharing agreements)" as a means of acquiring oil and gas reserves in Russia...
Resource development by the oil and gas industry of the former Soviet Union faces many obstacles. Keys are access to and control of export infrastructure...