Field tests in Canada demonstrated the effectiveness of a downhole desander to protect electric submersible pumps (ESPs) from failure caused by the production of formation sand...
A scenario in which the ethylene lifecycle matures and enters decline within the next 30 years is plausible and is ignored in long-term planning at one's peril.
US land and marine drilling rig fleet utilization hit a 20-year high of 93% in second quarter 2001, up from 74% last year, according to the 49th annual Schlumberger Ltd.
Carlyss, La., has named Eddie J. Evans as vice-president, health and safety; James F. Gallagher as area vice-president, West Africa; and Richard D. Porter as area vice-president...
Under auspices of the European Union, two studies of pipeline transportation out of Caspian Sea producing areas have concluded that such systems are technically, economically,...
The petroleum industry should prepare for a future in which relations between the oil market's two behemoths differ sharply from what they were before international terrorism ...
The 10 members of OPEC currently bound by production quotas, which excludes Iraq, agreed to reduce output by a total of 3.5 million b/d, or 13%, on three separate occasions earlier...
Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, and three other companies have spent 4 years and about $5 million to conceive and design a diverless, deepwater hot-tapping system that will undergo...
With the discovery of giant Crazy Horse and Atlantis fields, as well as Mad Dog, Holstein, and Trident, the ultra deepwater Gulf of Mexico play has become front-page news.
A subsea intervention system with a standardized connector system, currently being developed by Paragon Engineering Services Inc., Houston, will allow remediation of subsea flow...