With the unprecedented pace of change in Eastern Europe during the past decade, local refineries must improve their technical and financial performances to survive.
Laboratory and industry-based evidence shows that recovered waters from hydrocarbon-filled formations may have higher resistivity levels than those found in nearby water-filled...
Global polyester and intermediates utilization rates will exceed 100% of nameplate capacity by 2007 if worldscale plants are not built, according to a study of polyester and paraxylene...
Thai Olefins Co. (TOC) plans to launch a $120 million project to nearly double its ethylene cracking capacity while switching its feedstock from naphtha to ethane from natural...
Recent developments in bicenter drillbit design have overcome many of the problems that once precluded their use in costly offshore operations, now allowing operators to eliminate...
BP Amoco Pipeline Co., Houston, construction manager and operator of the Main Pass oil gathering system (MPOG), successfully avoided weather-related downtime in the Gulf of Mexico...
The demand for barite along with prices are expected to rebound by 2002 after falling in response to a decline in worldwide drilling activity spawned by low crude oil prices.
Oil field service company stocks outperformed the market during this year's first quarter, but their first quarter earnings were relatively dull by comparison, say analysts Donaldson...
Spills of crude oil and refined products from tankers have declined markedly since the 1970s, despite a pronounced increase in tanker trade, according to the International Association...
Former Amoco Corp. executive Robert Sheppard has taken over the reins of the recently embattled Sidanko. Named president, he previously served as Sidanko executive vice-president...
To inspect and monitor cost effectively the seabed geometry of their newly laid pipelines offshore Nigeria, Moni Pulo Ltd. and Brass Exploration Unlimited deployed a system that...
