A new generation of integrated personal computer (PC) software is changing oil company workflows by replacing expensive workstations, eliminating separate software for each step...
South Korea's Samsung Fine Chemicals let a contract to MDC Technology, Teesside, UK, for a model-based predictive controller, to be installed at Samsung's methyl amine plant at...
As part of the work associated with its 540,000 b/d Jamnagar, Gurajarat, India refinery, completed in 1999, Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) installed the catalyst-regeneration ...
Rising product prices helped earnings of China's listed petrochemical firms recover in 1999, but high crude oil costs have narrowed margins, say analysts.
Oil and gas companies are stymied from developing new leases off the California coast because of state and federal moratoria, but that doesn't mean they're sitting on their wallets...
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development granted Frontera Resources Corp., Houston, a $10 million loan for development of onshore oil fields in Azerbaijan and Georgia ...
Construction of the Villano flowline in eastern Ecuador has proven that a major pipeline can be built on a 4-m wide ROW through virgin rain forest with minimum environmental impact...
Houston, Tex., an energy and general commodity industry logistics provider, has been acquired by ASCo Group Ltd., a U.K.-based international logistics company. The acquisition...
Visitors to OGJ Online's free news site last week no doubt were slightly startled to see a distinctly nonpetroleum photo gracing the opening page: that of heavily armed members...
Oil prices remain well above $30/bbl, which is starting to boost non-OPEC oil supply and squeeze demand, yet the signs from OPEC are that it seems to be unwilling to budge on ...
A natural gas pipeline from Bangladesh appears to be the most viable alternative to LNG for supplying India's burgeoning energy needs, according to Wood Mackenzie, Edinburgh.
The environmental challenges facing the global petroleum industry emerged as a major theme at the first plenary session last week at the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary.
A novel approach has been employed in construction of one of the world's biggest LNG storage tanks, part of the Dabhol LNG power project that is India's first.
Use of diluted bentonite water-base mud systems and a turbulent flow regime throughout the nonreservoir sections of Dukhan field, Qatar, has improved penetration rates and costs...
Field trials of a new burner for gas flaring indicated that it significantly reduced NOx, CO, and unburned hydrocarbon emissions, according to Expro International Group PLC, Aberdeen...