New tool sizes, detects corrosion features in pipelinesThe GEMINI system is a new range of combo tools that provide caliper, metal loss, and mapping information in a single tool...
General Interest — Quick TakesAnadarko hikes spending to $5.6 billion for 2010Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on Mar. 2 said it plans capital expenditures of $5.3-5.6 billion this year...
Transocean Ltd.,Zug, Switzerland, has named Steven L. Newman CEO. He succeeds Robert L. Long, who is retiring. Newman is a candidate for the Transocean board. He previously served...
As parts of the US and elsewhere experience one of most relentless winters on record, it's only human nature to entertain thoughts of warmer-weather activities, such as walking...
Unlike most producers outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the US "put up remarkably strong oil production growth of 7.1% in 2009" after "a nearly nonstop...
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended plans to increase oil and gas royalties and fees on federal leases as he testified Mar. 3 before a US Senate committee on his department...
BP PLC on Mar. 2 outlined its annual strategy presentation in which Chief Executive Tony Hayward said the company hopes to boost its profits before taxes by more than $3 billion...
Second-half 2009 saw sustained recovery for the US petrochemical industry, even as broader economies continued to experience credit crises and economic recession.
Norway, while warning of the potential for espionage directed against its oil and gas industry, has launched its 2010 oil and gas licensing round for predefined areas (APA).
Uganda's oil production target could more than double to 350,000 b/d by 2018 from the current target of 150,000 b/d in 2013 if the right business plan is adopted, according to...
A project team has begun to inject carbon dioxide into Alabama's Citronelle field as part of a $7.9 million pilot project to determine whether the field is ideal for simultaneous...
US Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) urged House Natural Resources Committee leaders to schedule hearings on the economic costs of continued delays in offshore oil and gas development...
Nobel Propagandist Al Gore has reemerged to dogmatize again about global warming, responding this time to the collapse of scientific arguments for abandoning fossil energy.
His position hasn't won him many friends among coastal property owners where he lives, but Bruce Allen still says that the best way to reduce pollution from oil seeps in the Santa...
Energy commodities regulators worldwide will need to move carefully and cooperatively if they expect to make global oil markets more transparent, US Commodity Futures Trading ...
For some oil and natural gas producers, fourth-quarter 2009 earnings improved from a bleak quarter a year earlier, but feeble demand for products hurt refining and marketing results...
