The American Petroleum Institute said on Sept. 5 that it wasn’t questioning the US Department of the Interior’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species when it...
Laboratory and field research with various completion fluids helps refine procedures to reduce corrosion in coiled tubing during use of nitrogen contaminated with oxygen.
At present, one potential for additional oil recovery from Daqing oil field in northern China is the remaining oil contained in reservoirs that have undergone polymer flooding...
PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI), already under government scrutiny for alleged violations of its cost recovery claims, has forecast that production from its concessions will...
Acknowledging that they have less than 3 weeks before the next recess, congressional leaders on both sides of the Capitol said they will bring energy bills up for votes soon.
The US Bureau of Land Management issued a final programmatic environmental impact statement Sept. 4 to guide the use of public land containing oil shale and tar sands in three...
General Interest Quick TakesIEA cuts 2008, 2009 world oil demand forecastsThe International Energy Agency has reduced its outlook for 2008 and 2009 world oil demand, citing ...
National oil companies continue to head the lists of the world’s oil production and reserves leaders, according to Oil & Gas Journal’s survey of the top 100 oil and gas producers...
Oil and gas companies’ 2007 global investment for exploration and development projects totaled $402 billion—unchanged from 2006, said the latest annual upstream performance review...
New fluid cleaning system for drilling rigsThe new Enviro-Pur fluid cleaning system helps increase equipment uptime and lower overall maintenance costs by maintaining the quality...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in its latest report to Congress Aug. 29, said that of the two major projects competing to deliver natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope...
If anything can be counted on in the oil and gas industry these days, it is that the governments of Venezuela and the US are not going to see eye-to-eye on very much at all.
In response to congressional Democrats obstructing new offshore leasing until all existing leases are fully developed, I request that the Democratic National Committee put its...
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Aker Solutions,Oslo, has been awarded a $35 million contract for delivery of a deepwater drilling riser system to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The contract...
Front-month crude prices fluctuated at $111-122/bbl through most of August on the New York Mercantile Exchange but fell sharply Aug. 28-Sept. 5 primarily as Hurricane Gustav proved...
LNG terminal development requires careful assessment of both the waterway leading to the potential terminal site and the geographic conditions of the site itself.
The oil market fell subject to more tugs and pushes than usual last week as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries acted to support the price of crude and the second...
