BG plc plans to invest £5 billion in development projects in a bid to double the output of its BG International division, in energy-equivelent terms, during 1999-2003.
Several Canadian and U.S. onshore drilling contractors successfully reduced drilling-fluid losses during pipe-handling operations by installing mud-bucket/spill-tray assemblies...
ARCO Oriente Inc. has taken steps to resolve, at least in the short term, the problem that all operators in Ecuador must contend with: lack of pipeline capacity out of the Oriente...
Agip North Africa BV, a unit of Italian state energy conglomerate Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), has reached a final agreement with Libya's National Oil Corp. (NOC) on the ...
Repsol-YPF SA started up the 200 MMcfd Salam gas processing plant--part of a major gas project on the Khalda concession in Egypt's western desert (OGJ, Sept. 21, 1998, p.46).
Cameroon's Societé Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) has announced the country's third licensing round, which will include unlicensed deepwater and onshore acreage.
Repsol-YPF SA and partners have made an oil discovery in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 km off Tarragona, Spain. The news comes just after Spanish firm Repsol SA acquired the former...
The Italian state energy company, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), has revealed that it achieved significant improvements in its environmental performance last year.
The Gas Research Institute and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Nyserda) have agreed to undertake a series of cooperatively funded field tests to ...
TanzaniaCanop Worldwide Corp., Calgary, let a contract to Polaris International Explorer Ltd., Calgary, for geophysical acquisition in Tanzania. Canop plans to conduct a 3D seismic...
Simulation of operations at Pdvsa Western Division's Ulé LPG complex (Zulia) indicated changes to operating pressures to expand fractionation capacities were preferable to replacement...
The number of multiphase pumping installations is increasing, and it is becoming more important that operating companies understand how to analyze these systems.
An advisory panel has urged the U.S. government to restrict the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether in gasoline "substantially," because the additive has been showing up more frequently...
In retrospect, it seems to have been inevitable. Someone got a headache after refueling an automobile with reformulated gasoline and blamed it on a new fuel additive. Questions...
Petroleos de Portugal SA (Petrogal) announced a plan to invest $800 million at its Sines refinery to meet tighter European Union fuel specifications and to improve the existing...
To put it kindly, pushing tax legislation through the U.S. Congress is a haphazard process, threatened at every step by fiscal and political complications.
I enjoyed reading OGJ's online editorial forum on oxygen in gasoline except for the fact that it was totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. In case you don't know (although ...
