BP Amoco's Whiting, Ind., refinery saved millions of dollars by avoiding the purchase of a new power-recovery turbine expander (PRT) to replace its existing one, which experienced...
Depending upon the final 2005 fuel specifications, the necessary European Union (EU) refining investment could be huge-as much as $9 billion, says a study by Nexant Ltd., London...
The state joint stock company Chornomornaftohaz has begun to prospect the North Kazantip gas deposit in the southern Azov Sea, according to press reports from Kiev.
Jørn Berget has been named vice-president, production, for Royal Dutch/Shell's US exploration and production unit Shell Exploration & Production Co. Berget replaces Steve McVeigh...
US-based exploration and production companies are scrambling to acquire more assets to bolster their portfolios amid a robust oil and gas price environment.
Unseasonably warm weather had taken the wind out of the sails of high gas prices earlier this month, but that trend was abruptly reversed in the past week or so.
The coincidental overlap in the staging of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP-6) in The Hague and International Energy Forum (IEF) in Riyadh last week could ...
Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles said his state will push for construction of a gas pipeline from the North Slope to Alberta, paralleling the oil pipeline and Alaska Highway.
A rising chorus of Western politicians has called for further production increases from oil exporting nations, notably the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, as OPEC...
The US Department of Energy says energy efficiency savings could enable the US to comply with the goals of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change without harming the domestic economy...
Laboratory analyses of a section of 8-in. pipe in heavy-fuel-oil service revealed failure from damaged coating and thermal insulation and from inefficient cathodic protection ...
The OGJ Oct. 23, 2000, editorial, p. 19, "Ethanol backer bashes oil," observes that the government forgoes federal tax amounting to $0.54/gal to make it possible for ethanol producers...
Statoil, after tests on its Gullfaks Satellites Phase II project, has adopted a new subsea tool that allows flanged piping to be assembled in deep water without diver assistance...
Peru's state oil agency Perupetro released a generalized timetable starting in early 2001 of licensing rounds for offshore blocks left pending since 1999.
Algeria's Sonatrach has opened its first competitive exploration and production licensing round and commissioned a marine seismic survey along the country's entire Mediterranean...
Texaco China BV has signed production sharing contracts with China United Coalbed Methane Corp. in Beijing to explore three blocks in northwestern China for coalbed methane.
The state joint stock company Chornomornaftohaz has begun to prospect the North Kazantip gas deposit in the southern Azov Sea, according to press reports from Kiev.