This second, concluding article discusses the impact of fines in delayed-coker feedstocks and the steps that can improve reliability and profitability of the coking operation....
Planned pipeline construction to be completed in 2013 jumped 73% from the previous year, with sharply higher levels of planned crude and products pipelines more than countering...
Statoil late last year published an update to its 2010 assay of Aasgard Blend (OGJ, Apr. 4, 2011, p. 94). To the existing blend from Smorbukk, Smorbukk South, Midgard, Mikkel,...
The composition of China's new Politburo and its members' views about large, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have profound implications for the country's socioeconomic trajectory...
About one third of the worldwide supply of crude oil costs less than $10/bbl to produce, and nearly 90% costs less than $20/bbl, according to a study arguing that production costs...
The oil and gas mergers and acquisitions market is expected to remain resilient during 2013 even though many geopolitical and economic uncertainties from 2012 continue, said an...
It's widely recognized that more natural gas will be used to generate electricity in the US. Accomplishing this won't necessarily be easy, however. The devil, as always, is in...
Atlas Copco Rental,Houston, the US and Canadian arm of the specialty division of the Atlas Copco Group, Stockholm, named Dan Dorran vice-president of its new seismic rental business...
The fatal 4-day siege at the In Amenas gas production plant in eastern Algeria near the Libyan border that left 81 people dead "heightens concerns over protecting infrastructure...
More US oil and gas associations are expanding their federal advocacy efforts beyond Congress and the Obama administration. Washington staff members still plan to brief new House...
Executive Branch activism took a punch to the gut in a Jan. 25 court ruling calling on the US Environmental Protection Agency to accommodate rules to reality. What's needed now...
Your Jan. 7 issue contained two valuable items on global warming and the Keystone XL pipeline (OGJ, Jan. 7, p. 22; p. 24). They touch on some important truths, but it would be...
Forecasts of global demand for oil, always sensitive to economic fate, weather, and geopolitical surprise, are especially fragile this year. Economic growth depends extraordinarily...
A group led by Petrodorado Energy Ltd., Toronto, plans to drill a new wellbore to evaluate "a younger and exceptionally thick sand-prone sequence" that has never previously been...
Casing wear is an increasingly typical problem that leads to a decrease in collapse resistance in deep wells, ultradeep wells, horizontal wells, and extended reach wells.