The global ethylene industry added only 245,100 tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity in 2006, a large decrease from the 2005 addition of 4.4 million tpy, according to the latest Oil ...
An option available to petroleum producers for protecting facilities in high-lightning-risk areas is to install lightning-prevention arrays such as developed by Lightning Eliminators...
Increasing scrutiny this year of TNK-BP’s Siberian natural gas assets and actions subsequently taken follow unsettling patterns of behavior in the way the Russian government has...
Ecuador is taking steps to boost the country’s production of oil after output from state-run Petroecuador declined 14% during the first half of this year compared with the same...
Amid the current clamor for biofuels development came cautions from a number of speakers at the first International Biofuels Conference in Brussels July 5-6 that biofuels are ...
The US Department of the Interior issued a research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) lease June 28 to Oil Shale Exploration Co. LLC of Mobile, Ala., for 160 acres of public...
Bolivia Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera has given assurances that his country will make every effort to meet Argentina’s rapidly increasing needs for natural gas.
General Interest - Quick TakesTexas officials order abandoned rig removedTexas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson ordered the immediate removal of a derelict jack up, Zeus, that...
The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) needs more funding and authority if it is to be truly effective, witnesses told a US Senate subcommittee July 10.
US drivers continue to harbor the notion that they can have it all: gasoline prices that won’t affect their driving habits, less carbon dioxide emissions, and a broader menu of...
In the article entitled “Ridgeway to delineate CO2 field, eyes Permian EOR” (OGJ, May 28, 2007, p. 41), the statement was made that none of the 26 wells has encountered oil or...
Increasing global demand for crude and natural production declines have diminished the excess productive capacity of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its ...
Turner Mason & Co.Dallas, has announced the appointments of John R. Auers, Thomas R. Hogan, and James W. Jones as senior vice-presidents. Charles L. Miller has been named vice...
Filtration system aids process plant lube reservoirsThe new VURSA Series of high-performance filtration systems is suited for refinery and petrochemical operations.Designed to...
Tanker market earnings for the half-year ended March 2007 were largely unchanged even while market rates eroded as the fleet expanded, leading to forecasts of softer market conditions...
As if rising sea levels and malaria plagues weren’t frightening enough, the world has another malign effect of global warming over which to panic: poison ivy.
PakistanThe Dewan Group was to start production at 15-20 MMcfd in late June from two wells in Salsabil, formerly Rodho, gas-condensate field on the Safed Koh block in Pakistan...