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  • Volume 105, Issue 30

    • Volume 105, Issue 30

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    New Plants

    SPECIAL REPORT: Dynamic simulation useful for reviewing plant control, design

    Aug. 13, 2007
    While plants continually become more complex, chemical engineers, with the advent of computers and commercial off-the-shelf simulation software, can now successfully redesign ...
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    General Interest

    SPECIAL REPORT: Fieldbus developments improve process control system operations

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus ...
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    Companies

    ESTIMATING DRILLING COSTS-2: Indices describe complexity of drilling directional, extended-reach wells

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Using indices to describe and compare drilling complexity and analyzing the efficiency of the energy applied to formations while drilling can improve performance.
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    New Plants

    Petro-Canada updates Fort Hills oil sands costs

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Petro-Canada expects the first phase of the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta to have a capital cost of $14.1 billion (Can.) and produce through mining 160,000 b/d of bitumen...
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    Companies

    Technology drives methane emissions down, profits up

    Aug. 13, 2007
    The extent of methane emissions worldwide is significant and indisputable. The economic benefits from containing such emissions are equally compelling.

    More content from Volume 105, Issue 30

    Companies

    US House passes energy bill amid Republican protest

    Aug. 13, 2007
    The US House of Representatives passed a pair of energy bills Aug. 4 that Democrats said would greatly accelerate energy efficiency and alternative development efforts.
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    Companies

    OGJ Newsletter

    Aug. 13, 2007
    General Interest - Quick TakesMarathon unit to pay fine in oil-price caseMarathon Petroleum Co. LLC agreed to pay a $1 million civil fine to settle a US Commodity Futures Trading...
    Home

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Russian subs and arctic oil

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Money, they say, is the root of all evil, but these days a lot of evil is being committed in the name of oil.
    Refining & Processing

    Analyst sees end to Iranian gasoline crisis by 2012

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Iran’s potentially destabilizing shortage of gasoline will ease by 2012, according to a veteran observer of the country’s oil industry.
    LNG

    CRE sees no massive shift to open natural gas markets

    Aug. 13, 2007
    The July 1 opening of gas and electricity markets in Europe jumped to 12 million from 680,000 the number of French customers who can select their gas suppliers, but the Energy...
    Refining

    BP to revamp company after disappointing earnings

    Aug. 13, 2007
    BP PLC must improve its operational performance to boost its profits, said BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, at a press conference in London to present the company’s second-quarter...
    Refining

    API: US gasoline production, demand break records

    Aug. 13, 2007
    US gasoline production and demand broke records during this year’s first half despite higher prices and several unplanned refinery breakdowns, the American Petroleum Institute...
    Capacities

    Oil market divergences

    Aug. 13, 2007
    There have been a couple of interesting divergences concerning the oil market recently.
    Refining & Processing

    Loss followed record high prices

    Aug. 13, 2007
    The front-month crude contract ended the trading week through Aug. 3 with a 2% loss after setting record highs in earlier sessions on the New York market.
    Companies

    Area Drilling

    Aug. 13, 2007
    AlgeriaA group led by Repsol YPF SA has found gas in an Ordovician formation in the Reggane-6 (RG-6) appraisal well on block 351c and 352c in Algeria’s Sahara Desert.The well ...
    Exploration & Development

    Services/Suppliers

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Knowledge Systems Inc.Houston, has elected Jamey Webster as chief executive officer. Webster, who served as the company’s chief operating officer for the past four years, succeeds...
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    Pipelines

    Waxy crude shutdown method yields savings

    Aug. 13, 2007
    A new method for determining the maximum shutdown time of a waxy crude oil pipeline is not only more accurate and flexible, but can also yield substantial savings in heating costs...
    Government

    Real heroes make their own fuel choices

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Why can’t movie stars at least try to live up to their on-screen heroism?
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    Home

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    Aug. 13, 2007
    New motor mount encoder helps reduce downtimeThe new Dynapar HSD35 motor-mount encoder is designed to reduce large motor downtime via a shaft seal, unbreakable code disk, and ...
    Refining

    House energy mischief

    Aug. 13, 2007
    The Democrat-controlled House has given Republicans the chance to act once again as though they believe in the fundamentals of their party.
    Companies

    Print Ad Index

    Aug. 13, 2007
    American Petroleum Institutewww.api.org/meetingsBaker HughesHughes Christensenwww.bakerhughes.com/fastmaxBCCK Engineering Inc.www.bcck.comChevronDeltaValve USAwww.deltavalve.comDuPont...
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    Companies

    More operators eye Maverick shale gas, tar sand potential

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Gas potential in the overpressured Cretaceous Pearsall shale has drawn two of the world’s largest oil and gas companies to South Texas and the Maverick basin, a province almost...
    Companies

    3D seismic guides Arkoma basin Fayetteville play

    Aug. 13, 2007
    Drilling and 3D seismic surveying are ramping up in the Arkoma basin Fayetteville shale gas play in Arkansas.