The Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) has asked to delay the purchase of incremental natural gas supplies from Myanmar's Yetagun field in the Gulf of Martaban due to a slowing...
Sometimes the biggest risk for an oil company operating in a high-risk area is the attendant fallout from negative publicity associated with that operation.
Analysis of developed models suggests that no fundamental or theoretical reason exists to prevent relatively deep microholes from being drilled with hydraulic motors deployed ...
A recent article in Oil & Gas Journal illustrates that even a well-intentioned publication friendly to the petroleum industry can unwittingly serve the purposes of those hostile...
Qatar General Petroleum Corp. has revealed plans to drill 270 wells in three of its producing oil fields over the next decade in a bid to increase Qatar's productive capacity....
Tuskar Resources PLC, Dublin, announced first oil from ...is exceeding the expected 4,000 b/d and will be transported via the Crystal Sea floating production, storage, and off...
Since the early 1990s, oil operators have focused attention on the deepwater part of the Niger Delta (Fig. 1), where the first exploration licenses were attributed in 1993 and...
Hard work and the mid-1999 crude oil price rebound seem to have transported Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd., Calgary, from virtual insolvency to profitable current operations as an...
The Gibraltar 1 exploration well site is located in Colombia's eastern mountain range in a highly disturbed area where the primary vegetation has almost completely disappeared...
Under Production Milestones on p. 68 of the Dec. 13, 1999, special issue of the Oil & Gas Journal, it was reported that the first electric power used for pumping an oil well occurred...
Singapore Aromatics Co. Pte. (SAC) recently mothballed a 3-year old Singapore aromatics plant, but the $1.1 billion (Sing.) venture could resume operations as early as next August...
NKK Corp., Taiheiyo Coal Mining Co., and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. say they synthesized dimethyl ether (DME) from coal-bed methane in October 1999.
Singapore Refining Co. says it will be forced to run at 70% capacity this year, as excess supply of oil products continues to undermine profitability in the sector.
Rentech Inc., Denver, and Republic Financial Corp. Aurora, Colo., have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sand Creek Chemical's 25 million gal/year methanol plant at Commerce...
The US Minerals Management Service has issued a revised oil royalty reform rule that gives industry some, but not all, of the changes it had requested.
Chilean national oil firm Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) is seeking joint venture partners to help it reactivate mature oil and gas fields in the Magallanes basin, also ...
Despite the disclaimer following the chart on pp. 39 and 40 indicating that the "milestones" may reflect the bias of the sources from which they were collected, one cannot help...
