Nova Chemicals Corp. used a holistic, best-practices approach to help sustain and improve the performance of control system assets at its Joffre, Alta., ethylene plant.
Proper procedures in the design of clear brine completion fluids combined with proper handling of the fluids can mitigate annular environmentally assisted cracking (AEAC) in wells...
Without accounting for likely attrition of older units, the world’s supply of jack ups will expand more than 16% by 2009, adding 61 jack ups now under construction, in addition...
In a bid to move Japan toward energy self-sufficiency, the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry is promoting technologies to provide new fuel sources, among them...
General Interest - Quick TakesHostages released from Nigerian Shell facilityMost hostages taken Oct. 10 from a Royal Dutch Shell PLC facility in southern Nigeria have been released...
The oil and gas industry faces a huge paradox as executives from its biggest companies gather in Washington, DC, for the American Petroleum Institute’s 2006 annual meeting Oct...
The global oil market is suffering now from a lack of investments in the 1990s when oil prices were low and refining margins poor, said analysts at Fesharaki Associates Consulting...
Water produced with oil and gas can help relieve pressure on surface-water resources, witnesses told a US House Resources subcommittee hearing Sept. 26.
The US Department of Energy could have saved about $590 million from late 2001 through 2005 if it had used a steady dollar value of crude oil over time to assure that more purchases...
In a surprise move, Russia’s OAO Gazprom announced on Oct. 9 that it will develop giant Shtokman (Shtokmanovskoye) natural gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea without foreign...
The November contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes fell $2.35 to $58.68/bbl Oct. 3, the lowest front-month closing on the New York Mercantile Exchange since Feb. 16.
ArgentinaGold Point Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, took farmouts from APCO Argentina Inc., Tulsa, Okla., and Antrim Energy Inc., Calgary, on the Capricorn License (Yacimiento Norte...
Baker Hughes Inc.Houston, has appointed Frank M. Davis as president of Baker Hughes Russia Inc., William P. Faubel as vice-president of enterprise marketing for Baker Hughes oilfield...
Suspension-based drag-reducing agents (DRAs) have proven to be an alternative to gel-based technology for ConocoPhillips Pipeline Co.'s US crude pipelines.
New scroll vacuum pump-compressorThis new semihermetic scroll vacuum pump-compressor comes in a variety of materials, with appropriate seals, that allows it to handle almost any...