Two US Senate Democrats plan to introduce legislation detailing appropriate conduct for government employees dealing with oil and gas producers in response to misconduct in the...
A composite carbon-fiber material bonded directly on the pipe surface provides an alternative for obtaining standoff for completion and drilling tools, production riser systems...
Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) continues its Phase 2 and 3 carbon dioxide projects for validating the feasibility of sequestering CO2...
Recommendations and findings in a groundbreaking 2007 report still apply more than a year after they were issued, members of the National Petroleum Council said at their 2008 ...
US Sec. of Energy Samuel Bodman, concerned about Russia’s use of energy as a tool of foreign policy, said he would take up the issue with officials at a meeting next week in Vienna...
Faced with the prospect of a presidential veto of a continuing resolution, congressional Democrats deleted language dealing with US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing...
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in mid-July reclassified a futures trader as “large noncommercial” (speculator-investor) from its former designation as “large...
Sedimentary basins in the US appear to contain a volume of technically recoverable unconventional gas that is 10 times the ultimately recoverable volume of conventional gas.
Japanese firms are stepping up their involvement in Vietnam’s oil industry, entering both upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing.
Perhaps it was because of the proposed multibillion-dollar Wall Street bailout that the expiration of US Outer Continental Shelf leasing moratoriums on Sept. 30 went largely unnoticed...
The oil industry may think it can breathe a sigh of relief now that authorities in Somalia have called for help in getting rid of pirates infesting its waters. But think before...
General Interest Quick TakesSenate rejects oil shale moratoriumThe US Senate on Sept. 26 defeated by 52 to 42 votes an economic stimulus bill containing a provision to extend...
The estimated vast unconventional resources hold much promise for substantially adding to the world’s energy needs, but developing these resources entails overcoming many restraints...
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 18 approved the first new LNG terminal and related send-out pipeline in the Pacific Northwest after a 31⁄2-year review.
Oil and gas industry expenditure on work-class remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) operations is likely to total $1.6 billion in 2008, and the market is set to reach $2...
Hurricane Ike, 600 miles in diameter, devastated Haiti and Cuba then came roaring into the Texas Gulf Coast in the wee hours of Saturday, Sept. 13, and gave the Galveston-Houston...
I get so tired of reading such one-sided, biased letters as Jeff Temple’s on the question of global warming and his conclusion that it is the oil industry that is primarily responsible...
T.D. Williamson Inc.,BinkleyClick here to enlarge imageTulsa, has promoted Bruce Binkley to president and CEO. Binkley replaces Dick Williamson, who has led the company for the...
On its last day of trade Sept. 22, the October contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes shot up $16.37 to $120.92/bbl in the largest 1-day price jump ever on the New York...
A modified Ln-Sec equation should replace the original Ln-Sec equation for all grades of pipe through X80 with full-size Charpy energies of 15 ft-lb and higher.
The inspector general’s report that’s knocking over desks at the US Minerals Management Service recalls for this writer an encounter years ago with a petroleum engineer employed...
The onshore and offshore portions of the Eastern Mediterranean basin (Fig. 1) have proven to be a prolific hydrocarbon producing area. As of December 2006, oil reserves are 15...
A credit implosion threatening US prosperity magnifies the costs of errors in energy policy, of which the federal government has committed far too many in recent years.
New cable withstands downhole temperature to 300° C.This new high performance SureSight fiber optic distributed temperature cable withstands extreme heat and operates in high ...
