Volume 99, Issue 1

Three international companies have formed a joint venture to explore the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea region of Canada's Arctic.

India launched its second oil and gas licensing round in mid-December, putting up 25 land and offshore blocks in 13 basins.

An apparent gas discovery with probable gas reserves of 300 bcf or more would not make big news in many parts of the world, but in the Canadian Maritimes it is important.

Greenland authorities and Statoil have released more details on the Qulleq near-Arctic exploration well drilled on the Fylla prospect off the southwest coast.

Creation of an extensive pipeline-incident database has helped designers improve safety in Europe's gas pipelines.

It looks as if OPEC can keep oil prices from crashing only by keeping the world on the brink of a shortage.

One of the most critical challenges facing producers today is assuring oil and gas flow through complex and costly long subsea tiebacks.

Drilling contractors expect to drastically reduce cycle times as operators gain experience handling the automated drilling equipment installed during the current deepwater construction...

Future worldwide refining investment will be in response to three trends in the industry: heavier and increasingly sour crude oil processing, greater need for desulfurization,...

Oil markets are likely to cool off in 2001 from their superheated levels of second half 2000.

Can it last?

For US oil and gas pipeline companies, events of 1999 and 2000 make for sober prospects for 2001.

Exploration and development organizations enter a new millennium with unprecedented amounts of subsurface and surface data, experienced if aging geoscience staffs, impressive ...