Commercial operations for both the Alliance Pipeline from British Columbia to south of Chicago and the Aux Sable natural gas processing plant occurred on Dec. 1, 2000. The pipeline...
In completion of oil and gas wells, cement isolates the wellbore, prevents casing failure, and keeps wellbore fluids from contaminating freshwater aquifers.
In the Niger Delta, off Nigeria, field experience based on a learning curve derived from gravel packing in conventional wells proved effective for improving gravel packs in monobore...
Floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels tied to subsea wellheads or dry-tree platforms, such as spars and tension leg platforms, are slated to handle most ...
Industrial logic-some commixture of synergies and corporate survivalism-would appear to make an open-and-shut case for a full-scale, three-way merger among the leading regional...
A proposal to double the size and triple the withdrawal capacity of a natural gas storage facility in energy-starved California is being hampered by regulatory delays, the president...
As California lurches toward third-world energy status, denial of responsibility is the order of the day from San Diego to Napa Valley (OGJ, June 25, 2001, p.17). c
Stiff resistance by the European Commission against a $44 billion merger of two US companies should trouble the oil and gas industry on several levels. One huge concern should...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled meetings to take public input on whether enforcement of a Clean Air Act rule is hampering investment in electric generating...
Iraqi oil supply uncertainties loom Oil prices softened recently amid reports that Iraq and the United Nations soon may hammer out an agreement allowing for a resumption of Iraqi...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week announced that the government's Performance and Innovation Unit would undertake a strategic review of the country's long-term energy...
On May 19, 1986, Oil & Gas Journal published an address given at the 1986 annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, entitled, "The Looming...
An Independent Petroleum Association of America panel predicts US natural gas demand will increase 1.8%/year for the foreseeable future, rising to 24.8 tcf by 2005, to 28.1 tcf...
Here's a thermal desalination system featuring the pressed plate falling film system to supply high-quality fresh water for domestic and process uses aboard vessels, drilling ...
Desire Petroleum PLC, London, said Mohave Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, has plugged and abandoned the Aljubarrota 2 sidetrack (2ST) in the Lusitanian basin.
Southeastern Australia's Otway basin, so often a Cinderella to the riches of the Gippsland basin farther east, is finally emerging as belle of the petroleum ball.