Baker Oil Tools says its first-ever commercial application of a stackable splitter, Level 6, three-lateral completion in an Oklahoma gas field provided greater initial production...
Pending the completion of its acquisition of Old Greenwich, Conn.-based refiner Tosco Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co. has announced the designation of personnel to its new refining...
As part of an ongoing sourwater corrosion study, 15 major refiners and engineering service companies have identified two seldom considered parameters in sourwater corrosion: wall...
Two days before the White House was to release its long-awaited energy task force report at presstime on May 17, US House Democrats last week unveiled their own energy blueprint...
The consolidation trend between major energy companies and independent exploration and production companies would appear to be picking up some momentum.
Gas Technology Institute, the result of combining the two leading US natural gas research and development organizations, has marked progress in creating a "one-stop-shopping" ...
With its proposal to remove nearly all sulfur from gasoline and diesel fuel, the European Commission threatens to follow the precautionary principle on global warming up an economic...
China National Offshore Oil Corp. signed a production sharing contract with Santa Fe Energy Resources (China) Ltd. for Block 27/10, Pearl River Mouth basin, South China Sea.
Strong support in Congress and within industry may help restore funding to oil and gas research programs that the US Department of Energy's budget proposal would cut, administration...
Lining up Norway's 30-year-old state-owned oil and gas giant Statoil AS for partial privatization, while at the same time reapportioning a slice of the country's lucrative stake...
Common sense tells us that proper maintenance of oil and gas processing facilities is key, in today's tight energy market, to ensure continuous, uninterrupted operation.
Inertial pigging of a short section on the 323-mm (12 in. nominal) OD Norman Wells crude oil pipeline from Norman Wells, NWT, to Zama, Alta., revealed the line had experienced...
In new and retrofit applications, WORM flexible sensors for thermowell temperature assemblies replace straight sensor probes with a universal sensor strategy.
The Black Warrior basin in Mississippi has the potential for significant gas reserves in Cambro-Ordovician rocks. Evidence for this potential has been accumulating through the...
