San Antonio-based The Exploration Co. has a three-pronged strategy for sustaining the company's production and earnings growth, according to James E. Sigmon, president and CEO...
Research and field experience have shown that well-path control is important in many cases, not only to reach the desired coordinates, but also to arrive at the well completion...
An onshore injection well, in Brazil, is the site of an all-electronic, multizone intelligent well completion being tested for eventual use by Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras...
In response to industry conditions, Swift Energy Co., Houston, alternates between acquiring reserves and finding reserves through drilling as it strives to enhance the volume ...
As the Philippines inaugurated its first commercial natural gas field last week, President Gloria Marcapagal-Arroyo unveiled an energy strategy centered on natural gas.
Newly formed Mission Resources Corp.-the product of a merger earlier this year of Houston companies Bargo Energy Co. and Bellwether Exploration Co.-hopes to maintain the same ...
Baytown, Tex., has named Thomas E. Murdock as sales manager for oil country tubular goods. Murdock, who holds a BS in economics from Slippery Rock State University, Pa., began...
California state regulators have approved a pipeline tariff that limits competition and discourages the development of new interstate pipelines needed to directly serve California...
Global oil supplies appear to have been minimally affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and by continuing military operations.
Plano, Tex.-based Denbury Resources Inc. attributes much of its sustained earnings growth to a niche carbon dioxide flood enhanced oil recovery project it operates at Little Creek...
US jet fuel deliveries fell nearly 10% in September due to reduced air travel following terrorist attacks, the American Petroleum Institute reported last week.
Here's a new loop-powered stud mount vibration transmitter. The intrinsically safe Model 571 protects rotating and reciprocating machinery from catastrophic failure by alerting...
New business models in the petroleum industry must address intangible elements as well as the shortage of personnel, according to Calvin B. Cobb, vice-president of Cap Gemini ...
Energy markets need more, not less, price transparency. But come January traders may have even less information to go on, creating a higher risk for boom-and-bust price swings...
FieldPoint Petroleum Corp. is taking great strides to spark tenfold growth in the small exploration and production firm over the next 36-48 months through acquisitions.
Pipelay for Williams Cos. Inc.'s East Breaks project offshore Texas in the Gulf of Mexico achieved a high lay rate in its activity in late spring and summer, according to Stolt...
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, has drawn attention lately for its acquisitions of other companies, but Chairman and CEO Robert J. Allison Jr. emphasizes that Anadarko still...
Indonesia has identified a potentially lower-cost alternative for meeting its domestic demand for natural gas and its liquefied natural gas exports. The authors recently completed...
Toreador Resources Corp., Dallas, primarily sees itself as a manager of its portfolio of 1.4 million net mineral acres in the US, although it envisions expanding its exploration...
The American Petroleum Institute said last week its members are still pushing Congress to pass a comprehensive energy bill this year, although political realities may make that...