Increasing casing failures in Daqing oil field have aggravated damage to wells. A new method to repair these failures removes and replaces damaged casing with a sleeve milling...
Field trials in a Middle East gas processing plant have assessed a new approach to monitoring wall thickness loss caused by corrosion or erosion processes.
Refinery fuels costs have endured an unsteady course since 2003. As shown in the accompanying table, most of the PADD residual fuels’ increases in cost occurred in 2004 and 2005...
New seal for pumps in light hydrocarbon serviceHere’s the QBQ LZ contacting-face mechanical seal, featuring Precision Face Topography and its patented wavy face seal design. The...
ChinaHusky Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to drill an exploration well in 2007 on Block 04/35 in the East China Sea.Acquired in 2003, the block covers 4,835 sq km in an average of...
“When the new Democratic Congress takes office in January, there will be a new cop on the beat to force every big oil company that is currently lining its pockets with taxpayer...
Most exploration on the Gulf of Mexico shelf off Louisiana and Texas has been based on the search for the types of traps in which oil and gas have previously been found.
Despite knee-jerk purchases that hiked the January contract for benchmark US crudes to $63.43/bbl by Dec. 15, the highest closing in weeks on the New York market, there was little...
Hard-live bottom areas affected by the 2001 construction of Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC’s 36-in., 419-mile offshore pipeline between Mobile Bay, Ala. and Tampa Bay, Fla....
“Recycle the Gulf” is a comprehensive recycling program that recovers waste from offshore oil and gas operations and shore bases and provides support for the Association of Retarded...
The drilling industry this year will use newer, more-efficient, and more-powerful rigs and tools to test new plays and develop reserves in challenging environments such as arctic...
General Interest - Quick TakesVenezuela energy minister resignsVenezuela Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez resigned after President Hugo Chavez requested the resignation of all his...
After “extremely strong growths” of 20% in 2005 and 30% in 2006, global exploration and production spending is expected to rise at a slower rate of 9% to $300 billion in 2007,...
Energy consumers and producers, including six oil and gas trade associations, have formed what former US Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) termed “a coalition of coalitions” to develop...
Technology remains key to how fast and how much of the world’s remaining oil and gas resources the industry can produce economically from the varied environments that hold most...
The boards of Norway’s Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA have agreed to merge their oil and gas operations in a deal valued at about $30 billion, creating the world’s largest offshore...
Natural gas prices are converging upward, both in conjunction with rising oil prices and across global gas markets, according to a study of gas trends by Fesharaki Associates ...
The merger of Statoil ASA’s and Norsk Hydro ASA’s oil and gas businesses will create an upstream player whose most important future international operations will be in the deepwater...