The Calcasieu refinery at Lake Charles, La., recently replaced its pneumatic control system with a Foundation fieldbus system that uses the PlantWeb open field-based architecture...
BP Canada Ltd., a large gas well operator in Can ada, installed a wireless web remotely to monitor and control wellsites in an inaccessible area so that it could produce gas at...
Synergistic multidisciplinary teams that use advanced integrated interpretation software and project workflows are critical in the development of an accurate shared-earth model...
The US Minerals Management Service has proposed that wells with subsea wellheads completed after Jan. 1, 2005, have the means for monitoring casing pressures.
One-time financial and energy giant Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Dec. 2 and sued former suitor Dynegy Inc. for $10 billion for alleged breach of contract...
The US has embarked on a massive operation to weaken terrorists globally-with the support and approval of a multilateral coalition of unprecedented size and diversity. On Oct....
Accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers late last month said it has been appointed administrator of Enron Corp.'s London-based European operation, after the Houston energy giant...
UN approval to extend the Iraqi oil-for-aid program for another 6 months would, at first glance, seem to deflate any expectations of a supply disruption.
Before President George W. Bush announced last month that the US would fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with federal royalty oil from Gulf of Mexico fields over the next 2...
US Senate Democrats last week introduced an energy bill plan they claim is more balanced than a pending Republican proposal that passed the House last August.
Russia last week may have averted the possibility of a damaging market share war with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries by telling OPEC it will increase its proposed...
The successful management of the oil and gas industry's vast data and knowledge resources is a topic receiving a lot of fanfare lately-and for good reason.
The recent drama involving Kvaerner AS, at 148 one of Norway's oldest and proudest companies, and OAO Yukos, Russia's second largest oil company and an aggressive and acquisitive...
A study of methods to determine the saturation level and saturation rate of organic vapors in the vapor space of floating roof tanks during tank turnover examined oxygen-combustible...
Des Plaines, Ill., has named Albert Sherman as vice-president, commercialization and investment division. Sherman earned a BS in aerospace and mechanical sciences at Princeton...
Here's the new 35 Series three-piece, enclosed-bolt design, standard-bore, lever-operated ball valve, available in WCB and CF8M investment-cast bodies.
An assessment of the resource pyramid appropriate for the Greater Rocky Mountain Region demonstrates a basis for predicting a large amount of potentially discoverable and exploitable...