Economics strongly motivate operating companies to set up drilling management systems that have active feedback from post-well analysis to real-time drilling operations.
The drilling industry must be commended for finding crews, mobilizing an aging rig fleet, and generating newly built rigs, exceeding the 1997 peak drilling activity, both in terms...
A water management strategy of proactively reducing liquid loading has increased both production rates and gas recovery from multilayered, tight Cotton Valley sands.
US drilling activity has been a roller coaster ride over the past 4 years. As activity climbed steadily through 1997, it appeared the industry was returning to boom times with...
The Tucumcari basin of east-central New Mexico is an asymmetric structural depression that existed as a depositional basin from the Atokan (Early Pennsylvanian) through Wolfcampian...
Phillips Petroleum International Corp. Denmark said its Hejre-1 exploration well on License 5/98 in the northern Danish central graben found oil in sandstones of Late Jurassic...
Now on the market is a range of 4, 6, and 8 in. diameter standard or stainless steel extractor arms designed to provide plant facilities with a noncorrosive, easily adjustable...
Your feature "If global warming is real, how should humankind respond?" (OGJ, July 30, 2001, p. 24) contains any number of highly contentious propositions which the author has...
OPEC has once again taken control over the global oil supply, and natural gas production and distribution cannot meet rising demand at traditional prices.
Upon start-up in late 1997, the Troika flowline system, offshore Louisiana Gulf of Mexico, evinced poor thermal insulating properties when the arrival temperature of produced ...
An apparent coordinated terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, DC, last week is expected to have reverberating implications on US energy policy.
Two years ago, I had the privilege of speaking during career day at Cypress Creek High School in Northwest Houston, touting the virtues of petroleum engineering as an exciting...
While world oil markets are volatile for now, in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Washington, DC, and New York City, OPEC can be expected to supply added liquidity...
Oil analysts contend that last week's terrorist attacks on the US will keep world oil markets unstable in the short term, although supplies are adequate for now.
Plentiful US supplies of crude oil and refined products don't justify a sharp spike in US retail gasoline prices in the wake of terrorist attacks on US targets, industry officials...
The outlook for Congress and the White House reaching consensus this fall on energy legislation is a giant enigma, given the horrific wave of terrorism that unfolded in Washington...