In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration has lowered its projections for oil and natural gas demand in 2009-10 as the global economic...
A pattern recognition-based anomaly detection system for bottomhole assemblies can determine whether the tools in the BHA are operating in a nominal or degraded mode.
A recent study quantified the economic incentive for extraction vs. saturation to lower the amount of benzene in a typical US refinery gasoline product.
Falling crude prices could upset the symmetry between duties on crude and products in Russia, potentially changing the incentives and actions of refiners there, according to a...
Petrobras In January took delivery of the world’s first floating storage and regasification vessel, the Golar Spirit, following commissioning tests on the vessel’s regasification...
This down-cycle for oil and gas will be “deeper and longer than most expect, with oil consumption falling for 3 years—the longest period since the early 1980s,” warned analysts...
Baker Hughes Inc.,Houston, has appointed Martin S. Craighead senior vice-president and COO effective Apr. 30. Craighead, currently president of Baker Hughes’s drilling and evaluation...
If you’ve never worked with radar, you can’t fully appreciate the contribution oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico are making to the safety of air transportation….
The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major...
A recent Deutsche Bank analysis finds that in the short term, oil prices likely would have to fall to $20/bbl and below for nonmembers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting...
The global financial crisis is hurting eastern Africa’s efforts to find oil and gas as prospectors cut back on investment and activities, according to one energy official from...
A Rice University think-tank said the US government should require the oil industry to maintain “average minimum gasoline inventories” to prevent emergency supply shortages and...
General Interest Quick TakesGPA09: Gas recovery coming sooner, not laterRapidly declining US natural gas rig counts and prices are setting the stage for a recovery in both sooner...