The oil and gas exploration business has advanced because its people exercised unconventional thought, and more strides are possible, a Chevron Corp. official told the American...
While purely financial players have become increasingly prominent in energy commodity markets and new regulations appear likely, stronger evidence is needed that they created ...
US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) asked US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates for his reaction to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's plan to expand federal oil and gas leasing in...
A tenet of energy thinking in Europe and the US holds that innovation will rescue developed economies from their dependence on fossil energy and should be encouraged to do so....
The US Geological Survey will review information about the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, including studies by other scientific organizations, to help guide federal oil and gas policies...
The lack of a comprehensive guidebook, combined with high staff turnover in recent years, potentially handicaps the US Minerals Management Service's Alaska regional office's efforts...
US funding for basic enhanced and improved oil recovery research and development is as scarce as it's ever been, says Dwight Rychel, general chair of the biennial Society of Petroleum...
Paris-based gas association Cedigaz, in its 2010 survey of global underground gas storage (UGS) capacity, noted that the number of UGS facilities has jumped to 642 from 610, with...
General Interest — Quick TakesBLM, MMS to review federal royalty regimeThe two US Department of the Interior agencies that handle federal oil and gas leasing will jointly review...
The Bureau of Land Management office in Billings, Mont., said Apr. 8 that it delayed some oil and gas lease sales pending BLM's completion of environmental reviews on possible...
Refiners have more pressing regulatory issues with the US Environmental Protection Agency. But they still paid attention to its Mar. 30 proposal to revoke its January 2009 rule...
The American Petroleum Institute expressed concerns about greenhouse gas regulations being included in a new rule the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation...
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On Apr. 1—April Fools Day—in response to "one of the first major directives" of the administration of President Barack Obama, the US Department of Transportation and the Environmental...
In "Oil market uncertainty," what your economics editor and the Centre for Global Energy Studies seem to have forgotten is that the existing OPEC production base is in decline...
Carbon dioxide injection and steam injection process as shown in Oil & Gas Journal's exclusive biennial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) survey, p. 41, account for most of the enhanced...
Gasoline produced in a fluid catalytic cracking unit has elevated octane rating, but its olefinic structure makes it less chemically stable than other gasoline components.
It is "now quite definitely a $80-90/bbl world" for crude prices, "and within that world $90 may well prove to be a relatively elastic upper bound," said Paul Horsnell, managing...
New interactive pen display for geophysicistsThis firm's first full HD interactive pen display, the DTU-2231, has direct pen-on-screen input.It is designed to optimize efficiency...
FMC Technologies Inc.,Houston, has appointed John T. Gremp president and COO. He will succeed Peter D. Kinnear as president. Since joining the company in 1975, Gremp has served...
Listening to the Obama administration discuss expanded Outer Continental Shelf leasing is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything seems backwards.
Real CO2 streams—those from CO2-capture plants likely to contain impurities as opposed to pure CO2 streams—will likely contain at least 95 mole % CO2 but will also contain impurities...
