This is the second of three articles that describes BP’s experience with reciprocating compressor damage from liquids intrusion at two facilities, in Oklahoma and Alaska.
US House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee leaders asked Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar a basic question when he presented his department’s fiscal 2010 budget request...
Total emissions of greenhouse gases associated with Canadian oil sands exceed those related to average crude oil processed in the US by 5-15%, says a study by IHS Cambridge Energy...
China, concerned over forecasts of increased competition from Middle Eastern petrochemicals suppliers, reported plans to construct a host of domestic petrochemical plants.
Here’s a tough question for the US oil and gas industry: How much of the nightmare forming in Washington, DC, must come true before companies begin to decamp? It’s a global industry...
Total US natural gas consumption this year will drop by nearly 2%, according to the most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook from the US Energy Information Administration.
A carbon cap-and-trade bill before the US House needs to be reworked so allowances are distributed more evenly across the entire economy, American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack...
General Interest Quick TakesIndonesia, ExxonMobil disagree over tax debtIndonesia is still in dispute with ExxonMobil Corp. and Kodeco Energy Co. Ltd. over the companies’ alleged...
ExxonMobil Corp. expects the first well in Alaska’s $1.3 billion Point Thomson condensate project to cost $209 million compared with $6-8 million for a typical well in Prudhoe...
Speculation about whether greater numbers of LNG spot cargoes will come to US terminals this summer was also the subject of a recent report from Barclays Capital Research.
For a pipeline coating to be truly compatible with cathodic protection (CP), the coating should allow CP protection to the pipe even if disbondment occurs and water penetrates...
New tank for oil field chemicalsThis new tank is designed to carry a full range of oil field chemicals, and it comes with a working pressure of 2.67 bar and a test pressure of...
Quick to hire, fireI read with interest your editorial in the Apr. 13 issue, which quite rightly pointed out the recruitment problems of the oil and gas industry and how these...
Record attendance levels experienced at the Apr. 20-24 Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration farmout forum in Singapore signal an undiminished level of interest in regional exploration...
Hope for economic recovery raised the front-month contract of benchmark US crudes briefly above $60/bbl for the first time this year on the New York Mercantile Exchange before...
Petris Technology Inc.,Houston, has formed a strategic partnership with Wipro Technologies, the IT services unit of Wipro Ltd., Bangalore, India, to accelerate the deployment ...
Hope for economic recovery raised the front-month contract of benchmark US crudes briefly above $60/bbl for the first time this year on the New York Mercantile Exchange before...
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