Global crude distillation capacity will increase 10.6 million b/d during 2007-129.1 million b/d of new capacity and 1.5 million b/d of capacity creepaccording to a...
The calculation method proposed in this series, using actual gear ratio for the cones, allows the designer to determine and optimize kinematic parameters of drill bits.
ExxonMobil Production Co. submitted the latest in a series of development plans for the Point Thomson Unit (PTU) gas-condensate lease on Alaska’s North Slope.
Russia’s state-owned pipeline concern OAO Transneft will begin construction for the export terminal of the East Siberia Pacific Ocean oil pipeline this month, according to company...
The US Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 27 over whether ExxonMobil Corp. should pay punitive damages arising from the 1989 crude oil spill into Alaska’s Prince William Sound...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is pulling out all stops in his effort to undermine the US, even calling on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to back his country...
US Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) could see a storm coming. The US House had just passed its latest bill to deny financial incentives to major oil companies and use the money to...
Shell Oil Co. Pres. John D. Hofmeister said his company proposes a 12-point energy plan, noting that he believes World War II was the last time the US had a “coherent, comprehensive...
General Interest - Quick TakesSenate Republicans pressed to support billDemocratic leaders in both houses of the US Congress used record-high crude oil prices to press Senate ...
The US House of Representatives passed a bill Feb. 27 that proponents said would shift $18 billion in tax breaks from major oil companies to alternative and renewable energy projects...
The global subsea oil and gas market will remain strong for the foreseeable future and is forecast to total $218 billion over 2008-12, reports Scottish Enterprise in a study to...
Traders pushed crude prices well above $100/bbl in late February, turning from equities to commodities as a haven for investments as fear of a US recession sent the US dollar ...
Petrobras’ development of Cascade and Chinook fields in the US Gulf of Mexico will use a floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel in the initial phase.
Wood Group Pressure Control,Denyko and BoisvertClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has named Will Denyko US service director and Loren Boisvert US operations manager. Denyko’s...
ArgentinaArgenta Oil & Gas Inc., Toronto, said the first well on its 100% owned Loma El Divisadero Block in Argentina’s Neuquen basin found 19° gravity oil in the Chorreado member...
New vacuum powered vessel lifterThis new high-capacity, custom battery powered vacuum lifter is designed for handling large vessels in a plant with cranes or outdoors using a ...
McMoRan Oil & Gas Corp. LLC, New Orleans, has entered into a multiwell drilling contract with Rowan Cos. Inc. that includes its reentering the ultradeep Blackbeard gas prospect...
Egypt’s gas production and exports are building with the recent opening of several pipelines, and BP PLC is sizing up its first discovery of deep Oligocene nonassociated gas offshore...
EOG Resources Inc., Houston, plans to drill seven wells in 2008 and is shooting a 36 sq mile 3D seismic survey in a horizontal play for oil in Cretaceous Niobrara in Colorado’...
Partners in Usan oil field off Nigeria are moving to develop the 2002 discovery, which lies in 750-850 m of water on Oil Mining License 138, about 100 km off the eastern Niger...