In the oil fields of the Volga-Urals and Near-Caspian basin regions, Russian drillers use determinative methods and plug-back systems to treat lost-circulation zones.
Carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (EOR) may be the key to recovering hundreds of millions of bbl of trapped oil from the mature fields in central Kansas.
Williams Refining LLC, a division of Williams Energy Services, successfully implemented a major revamp to increase the capacity and yield of its fluid catalytic cracking unit ...
A new catalytic oxidation technology developed by the Saltanat Scientific Research Center removes sulfur compounds from oil and gas better than existing technologies in Kazakhstan...
The long, checkered past of Peru's Camisea natural gas exploration and development project-regarded to be of critical importance to that country's economic future-may be entering...
Royal Dutch/Shell unit Shell Philippines Exploration BV and Texaco Inc. have awarded a pipeline protection contract to Tideway BV, The Netherlands, for their Malampaya natural...
If oil companies never produce oil from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain in Alaska, US consumers will still, volumetrically speaking, have the oil.
The government ended force majeure on two of three blocks operated by Occidental International Exploration & Production Co., said Lundin Oil AB, Stockholm. Block A remains under...
3D3 Planner is a new, advanced directional borehole/well planning and survey management software program mainly used for designing 3D trajectories for oil, gas, and geothermal...
A field trial conducted on a gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico on the use of a corrosion inhibitor as natural gas drag reducing agent (DRA) has resulted in peak gas-production...
Despite higher revenues generated by higher oil prices, 1998's low-price environment and the severe impact of the East Asian economic crisis have left many oil industry players...
The outlook for North American natural gas prices remains bullish for this summer and likely to the end of the year, after gas futures prices topped $4/MMbtu last week.
During the last 10 years, there has been a great deal of excitement over the potential of China's growing energy demand to push regional and global oil markets to ever-new heights...
China now sees natural gas as a major industry and has decided to capitalize on its gas resources in order to ease pollution and provide stimulus for economic growth for the next...
Perforation operations (above) are shown under way by a unit of Texaco Inc. on its joint-venture coalbed methane exploration project in China's Huaibei area. Photo by Jack Derickson...
In December 1999, PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, obtained baseline seismic measurements for a planned time-lapse (4D) seismic monitoring program of its operated large-scale...
After 2 decades of disappointing developments in China's onshore and offshore oil sectors, a good deal of the international energy community's attention has shifted to the prospects...