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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
General Interest - Quick TakesVenezuela energy minister resignsVenezuela Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez resigned after President Hugo Chavez requested the resignation of all his...
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...
“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...
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....
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...
