The Texas Railroad Commission (TRC) has amended well construction requirements to clarify oil and gas well construction rules related to casing, cementing, drilling, well control...
Given the option, issue managers at most oil and gas companies probably would prefer to let others fight over global warming. For them, neither side of the question is comfortable...
The LPG market in the US is experiencing a remarkable transformation due to the rapid increase in supplies being produced from both tight oil and shale gas formations.
The first article in this two-part series (OGJ, May 6, 2013, p. 94) presented four process safety examples of possible inadequate overpressure protection design in amine natural...
The most important concern for US propane producers and wholesalers going into any winter heating season—and the 2012-13 season was no exception—is the uncertain answer to two...
Facing new competition from oil and gas production elsewhere in the world, Russia is scrambling to unlock the potential of its Arctic offshore, East Siberia, and other challenging...
The progress of major shale gas developments outside North America is apt to lag the pace of the US shale gas revolution, according to a recent report from Deloitte analysts, ...
Increased flexibility for operators remains an open question in a revised proposal for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, according to a May 23 legal update by Roger ...
The US Department of Energy continues to review applications to export LNG. As of May 17, DOE reported that 26 terminal operators had applied to export nearly 30 bcfd of LNG to...
While climate-skeptics continue to snipe at those who blame human activity for rising levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and, therefore, for rising global temperatures, governments...
Bolttech Mannings Inc.,Pittsburgh, agreed to acquire Alberta-based Red Flame Industries Inc. (RFI), a specialty plant and pipeline engineering and certification services company...
Energy trade between the US and Mexico is in flux with rising crude production in the US, falling production in Mexico, and rising Mexican demand for gasoline, diesel, and other...
Measurements of productive and dry wells, when correlated with actual processed seismic data from many fields, have shown that oil and gas deposits have both increased attenuation...
In a change of market strategy with geopolitical implications, Russia is increasing exports of crude oil to China at the expense of other Pacific Basin importers.
Shale gas development in North America last year pushed up regional and global processing and fractionation capacities more rapidly in 2012 than in 2011, as reflected in Oil &...
A case study performed in a southern Iran oil field indicates that the C-value used in API RP 14E can be safely increased, enabling increased production from fewer wells and decreasing...