More research into the long-term effects of chemical dispersants is needed despite their apparently successful use in fighting the massive oil spill from BP PLC's Macondo well...
The new European Union 10-ppm sulfur fuel regulations present various challenges for operating and controlling refinery desulfurization units. Repsol-YPF, Madrid, has been using...
Plutonio is a low-sulfur, medium-gravity crude oil from Angola's deepwater Block 18. Greater Plutonio consists of five oil fields from water depths of around 1,300 m: Plutonio...
Slurry oil is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply. Generally, it is mixed into heavy fuel...
Growth of global LNG production in 2010 is again poised to underperform expectations, as a cascade of maintenance outages at some of the world's largest liquefaction trains and...
A systematic approach for understanding and evaluating reservoir conditions and use of high-end technology has provided Saudi Aramco the means for developing and managing deep...
Modern seismic methods support a "drilling machine" raising oil production in a UK North Sea field that, measured by discovery date, is just a decade shy of qualifying as an antique...
Cementing of BP PLC's ill-fated Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico took place after extensive tests, followed the operator's specifications, and showed no signs of problems in...
Fuels made from Canadian oil sands have lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than many commonly cited estimates, said IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA) in a ...
As US President Barack Obama's commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began its Sept. 27 hearing, it became apparent that its work was entering a new, and potentially...
The oil and gas industry developed containment technology to deal with an oil spill in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, and new collaboration between industry and the US government...
Nigeria's Parliament is expected soon to pass into law the Petroleum Industry Bill, Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke told participants at the Rice...
US departments and agencies responding to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico treated it as a catastrophe from the beginning, officials told the independent commission established...
Growing natural gas consumption can help drive US economic recovery and job creation, ConocoPhillips Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Mulva said Sept. 27 at Rice University...
If you're aware that you're part of something that will be remembered as important, a watershed moment, there's a tendency at times to stop and try to appreciate the significance...
New hydraulic fracturing technique boosts well outputRecently released HiWAY flow-channel hydraulic fracturing technique helps maximize production and hydrocarbon recovery through...
Petris Technology Inc.,MarinHouston, has named Jerry Martin vice-president, Western Hemisphere, and appointed two new product managers, Greg Palmer and Stephan Dumothier, and ...
A "general Wall Street myth" that a second round of "quantitative easing" of the economy (QE2) should prove bullish for oil through the lower dollar index may prove bearish instead...
A federal agency busy bringing industrial America to heel will get mathematics wrong from time to time—especially, it seems, when the calculations relate to costs of its manipulations...
Characterization studies including destructive testing have improved protection of remote corrosion-monitoring devices in use on hydrocarbon pipelines against high-energy surges...
China is moving quickly on construction of its Phase II strategic petroleum reserve and FACTS Global Energy believes most SPR Phase II sites will come on stream by 2012-13, doubling...
