A 0.2-b/d fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) using a downer reactor has demonstrated the ability of its high-severity process to enhance gasoline and light olefins production...
The state of New York is studying the feasibility of using LNG as a back-up fuel to help ease disruptions in New York's rapidly growing natural gas market.
Air emissions have delayed commissioning the 4,500-b/d first stage of the Stuart oil-shale pilot facility in Queens- land, Australia. Start up is now expected at yearend 2000 ...
During 2000-10, supermajor ExxonMobil Corp. will surface as the most prolific upstream gas producer in Australia, according to a recent report by Wood Mackenzie Consultants Ltd...
At the end of the first quarter this year, Big E Drilling Co., Bellaire, Tex., completed construction of its Rig No. 5, bringing to five the number of rigs the company has working...
Development in Norwegian offshore areas is undergoing a shift from mature areas, which are becoming increasingly marginal, to the new "frontier" areas of Mid-Norway and the Barents...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a remotely piloted airship at Chandler downtown airport in Bakersfield, Calif., that will be used this winter to gather data on ...
Offshore Europe has seen over 30 years of continuous exploration and development activity, culminating in these record numbers: 438 fields in operation, producing about 6.5 million...
Despite the maturation of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), there remain substantial reserve volumes yet to be developed, according to Wood Mackenzie Consultants Ltd., Edinburgh...
Oil companies in the North Sea have saved operating costs through use of innovative completion equipment such as full-bore isolation valves (FBIVs), placed in the tubing string...
The UK upstream sector is in transition from a focus on asset divestment to an emphasis on traditional exploration and production and high-grading portfolios.
TotalFinaElf SA unit Total Oil Marine PLC was recently supplied with two variable-speed drive packages to control multiphase pumps on its Dunbar platform in the UK North Sea; ...
During the Q&A session that followed Royal Dutch/Shell's announcement recently in London of record half-yearly results, Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of the Anglo-Dutch group's ...
The Mafia Deep Offshore basin (MDOB) of southern Tanzania is one of several East African basins that resulted from the break-up of the Gondwana continent from the Middle Jurassic...
One of the world's largest bottom-pull installations, a 4.5-km pipeline bundle for Shell Eastern Petroleum, was completed in May in the busy Singapore harbor.
Three of the world's largest petroleum and chemical storage and terminal lessors and service providers-Oiltanking, Vopak, and GATX-have expanded their Singapore operations this...