Petronet India Ltd., a nongovernment holding company set up to implement pipeline projects, is planning to lay four multiple-product pipelines in India in the next 3 years, through...
To ensure that exploration wells deliver maximum value, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla., has developed MaxWell ("Maximize Well Value"), a set of well-management processes...
As oil and gas prices rebound and deep offshore reservoirs beckon operators, timing could not be better for new additions to the deepwater rig fleet. Several successful- and some...
Award of a $4 million, 2-year line pipe coating contract has prompted British Steel Ramco Pipeline Services Ltd. (BSR), Hartlepool, U.K., to undertake a major upgrade at its coating...
Elf Exploration Angola and partners made another oil discovery on Block 17 off Angola (see map, OGJ, June 7, 1999, p. 33). Orquidea 1, drilled to 2,500 m TD in 1,200 m of water...
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' successful efforts to rein in production are keeping oil prices at 2-year highs-and poised to go higher-but are also setting...
Several dozen operators are forging ahead in the burgeoning Powder River basin coalbed methane play, one of the largest U.S. drilling programs in terms of number of wells.
This article is adapted from the author's comments during a joint conference of CGES and Oil & Gas Journal on the oil price challenges of the next century, held Sept. 9-10, 1999...
After decades of selling and transporting natural gas as a single, bundled service, Mexico's state-run petroleum company Petroleos Mexicanos has begun to separate out transportation...
The world's largest semisubmersible drilling-production platform has been handed over to Petroleo Brasileiro SA, after 2 years of modifications in a shipyard at Davie, Que.
The much-discussed U.S. federal budget surplus could be endangered by an economic slowdown stemming from efforts to comply with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
The area west of the Shetland Islands was the U.K.'s hottest play for some years, but a paper presented at the recent Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen confirmed that things...
At the beginning of 2001, BASF Corp., Mount Olive, N.J., and Fina Inc., Dallas, will own the largest single train olefins capacity in operation in the world.
The high pressure and temperature nature of the Shearwater field, offshore U.K. North Sea, presented significant engineering challenges as well as those inherent in producing ...
A subdued suggestion that global oil production be managed on the basis of reported inventory levels deserves more attention than it probably will receive. It came from an unidentified...
ENI units and Enterprise Oil plc look toward eventual gross production of more than 100,000 b/d of oil from the Val d'Agri development in the southern Appenines.
