M. King Hubbert was a distinguished scientist published on many aspects of petroleum geology, but he is most remembered for his 1956 work on forecasting production in which he...
Burlington Resources Inc. and Halliburton Energy Services, Casper, successfully cementing 23,644 ft of casing on the Bighorn 5-6 well in Fremont County, Wyo.
The current construction cycle for offshore drilling rigs is coming to a close. According to Offshore Data Services Inc. (ODS), from 1996 to the present, a total of 55 semisubmersibles...
A group of independents is to drill a wildcat west of the Ouachita thrust belt in central Texas east of an area where several high-flowing wells were gauged in past years.
Yolla gas-condensate field in the Bass basin 100 km off the north coast of Tasmania is finally on course for development, according to its two lead interest holders, AWE Petroleum...
The world's endowment of conventional oil remains on the rise, according to a comprehensive study being released this spring by the US Geological Survey.
North American natural gas prices, supply, and demand should remain strong through this year, said a full spectrum of industry representatives in response to Ziff Energy Group...
The US Energy Information Administration predicts that world energy use will continue growing rapidly until at least the year 2020, particularly in developing nations.
The petrochemical and plastics industry "remains on the road to recovery," with a potential return to profitability in 2001 as its global surplus is absorbed, said Gary K. Adams...
ENI SPA and Russia's Gazprom signed contracts for $1.8 billion in loans to Blue Stream Pipeline Co. BV-a 50-50 joint venture of those two firms-and to Gazprom.
Devco Cos., Tulsa, and Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. (KBR), Houston, have developed and tested new technology for better handling of asphaltene bottom products from solvent deasphalting...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging has matured during the 1990s and offers the petroleum industry a method for determining bypassed pay, hydrocarbon content, and formation...
Reducing cost without jeopardizing overall safety of an oil and gas processing facility can be achieved by careful application of state-of-the-art, unconventional design that ...
The Independent Petroleum Association of America has filed a lawsuit to overturn an oil royalty valuation rule that the US Minerals Management Service issued last month.
The US Geological Survey's recent world resource assessment contains much important information about future oil and gas volumes that might become recoverable.
We fully agree with your comments (OGJ, Mar. 27, 2000, p. 25), except to observe that the wintertime carbon monoxide needs are not really a "smaller program."
When it comes to energy, the past year has demonstrated to the oil producers that $10 oil is too cheap and to the consumers that $35 oil is too expensive.