Fatalities, injuries, near misses, and uncontrolled releases of potentially hazardous fluid may result when two of the most widely used high-pressure hammer unions are accidentally...
In a 1915 book, The Oil Scouts: Reminiscences of the Night Riders of the Hemlocks, author J.C. Tennent tells why the Oil Scouts group was founded and how it helped stabilize the...
Famfa Oil Ltd., Texaco Inc., and Braspetro, the international arm of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, reported early results of a wildcat drilled on deepwater OPL Block 216 about 70 miles...
Enron Offshore Services & Technology, a division of Enron Engineering & Construction Co., Houston, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp., has joined with Horizon Offshore, ...
A proprietary foam insulation was used on the 6-mile oil flowline for Shell Inc.'s King subsea project in Mississippi Canyon Block 807 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Italy is still coming to terms with the existence of an estimated 1.02 billion bbl of recoverable reserves tucked beneath the rolling hills of its southern Apennines.
Certain areas in Southeast Asia continue to attract the attention of oil and gas companies looking for exploration opportunities despite fallout from the economic crash of 1997...
Repsol SA, Madrid, which signed an offshore E&P contract with oil regulator Perupetro SA in March 1995 for Block Z-29 offshore in the Trujillo basin, has returned the area to ...