More robust science is clearly needed in federal offshore oil and gas planning, several witnesses told US President Barack Obama's independent commission on the Gulf of Mexico...
China began exploring for and using coalbed methane in the 1990s, but the proven portion of the resource was still very low at the end of 2009, a study by FACTS Global Energy,...
Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corp., and Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced in July plans to engineer, construct, and deploy equipment designed to improve capabilities...
Costs for recovering bitumen with in situ methods continue to decline, and new technologies are bound to reduce costs further, according to Harbir Chhina, executive vice-president...
A method to improve design criteria commonly used to size hot-gas bypass systems has been developed through the investigation of the heat transfer that takes place at the gas-...
The 2009 financial results for the OGJ150 group of companies were off sharply from a year earlier, although the group's oil and gas production and reserves totals mostly climbed...
Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the 100 leading oil and gas producers based outside the US reveals that for 2009, most of the firms posted much weaker financial results from 2008...
Russian leaders continue to play political games with their country's oil and gas, now using a new pipeline to China as a means of rattling the oil weapon.
A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural...
Choppy seas delayed BP PLC's plans to retrieve the Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer (BOP) with two pieces of pipe inside it and to install...
Drilling costs and operating expenses in the Gulf of Mexico are apt to escalate in the aftermath of the explosion on Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible and the...
Criteria to demonstrate levels of cathodic protection are important but should not be the only consideration during the ongoing review of NACE SP 0169, the association's document...
Offshore oil and gas safety programs must be continuous as well as robust, a former US Department of the Interior official told President Barack Obama's independent commission...
GENERAL INTEREST — Quick TakesCFTC fines ConAgra for false oil-price maneuverThe US Commodity Future Trading Commission fined ConAgra Trade Group $12 million for allegedly causing...
The evolving sentiment as the president's oil spill commission heard testimony on Aug. 25 in Washington was that offshore oil and gas activities require more frequent and effective...
Amid indications the economic recovery is slowing, the front-month crude contract price fell for five consecutive sessions to an 11-week low of $71.63/bbl Aug. 24 on the New York...
Properly specifying and selecting a distributed fiber optic sensing system during a pipeline's design stage and developing a rapid-response team to react to any third-party threats...
Expro International Group Ltd.,Reading, UK, has appointed Charles Woodburn CEO, replacing Graeme Coutts, who reverts to the position of chairman, a role he had held until February...
NEW SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO HELP INDEPENDENT PRODUCERSDigital oil field express (DOX) is a new service delivered on line and designed to bring exploration and production business...
Emergency spending by the US government in response to financial crisis has received hesitant validation from economists, and supporters of the Obama administration can't understand...
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A new nonlinear predictive approach allows natural gas pipeline reciprocating compressors to respond rapidly to changing processes by omitting undesired or dangerous operating...