It's only a matter of time before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will be forced "to revisit the dilemma of high price vs. market share," said Luis E. Giusti...
Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo conducted a study to evaluate the effects of high nitrogen levels on gas processing operations. The results show that the diethanolamine (DEA) ...
1. Drilling mud weighted with bentonite or other heavy material is used to create a hydrostatic head pressure that keeps the well under control by overbalancing the formation ...
Capping a 5-year joint effort with Baker Oil Tools, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) installed a deepwater all-electric completion in a Marlim Sul subsea well, in the Campos...
Banc of America Securities analysts last month pointed out a disturbing trend�natural gas production added per year, per rig in the continental US has been declining since 2000...
The US Minerals Management Service increased its estimate of "technically recoverable" deep natural gas reserves on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico to 15-55 ...
Pakistan soon plans to invite expressions of interest for the sale of 51% of its state-owned exploration and production company, Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDCL), to a strategic...
Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions growth is a "huge" issue for the energy industry as it works to fulfill a global energy demand that is expected to rise 40% by 2020, an ExxonMobil...
Futures prices for oil and petroleum products plummeted Nov. 24 as Geneva-based Petrologistics estimated that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeded...
Oil companies will have to invest a whopping $5.3 trillion over the next 30 years to supply the world's increasing demand for oil and natural gas, Paris-based International Energy...
Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, has transformed itself from a US Midcontinent and Gulf Coast niche player in the early 1990s into an international company with operations in Argentina...
US Senate Republican leaders late Nov. 24 decided to drop a pending energy bill nearly 3 years in the making because they could not secure enough votes to cut off debate on the...
Although their forecast numbers differ, John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood Ltd., Canterbury, UK, and Paul Hillegeist, president of Quest Offshore Resources Inc., Houston, both ...
DOT: Deepwater focus turns to smaller fields The focus of deepwater oil and natural gas production technology (in 2,000-3,000 m of water) now is on less costly and less risky ...
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and six colleagues Nov. 18 introduced a bill that restricts Saudi diplomats' travel in the US and discourages US companies from exporting certain defense...
I read with interest your article "R&D programs yield advances in drilling technologies" (OGJ, Nov. 10, 2003, p, 55), in particular the sections on TTRD and coiled tubing.
Lafayette, La., has appointed James Moore as vice-president of engineering, and Yancy Williams as manager of projects, both located in Comm's Houston office.
The recent development of X-120 high-strength steel line pipe (nominal yield strength of 120 ksi)1 enables gas producers to realize significant savings in the total cost of long...
The House-Senate conference committee that disgorged the omnibus energy bill the Senate rejected on Nov. 21 made half of a good decision on a pipeline that would carry natural...
