Federal environmental officials reported water sampling tests tentatively identified chemical contaminants—possibly from natural gas operations—in drinking water wells near Pavillion...
Raising supplemental bond requirements damages the profitability of small independents while reducing liabilities for previous lease owners in the Gulf of Mexico.
Refinery demand for processing catalysts will continue to flatten over the remainder of 2009 and into 2010 as the global recession winds out and energy prices remain soft.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who recently launched a major new oil field, has been told that state-owned pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft is on schedule with construction...
In years of oil scarcity and high prices (particularly in 1979 and 1980), international oil companies (IOCs) competed fiercely among themselves and were forced to accept very ...
US refining investments could plunge because of soaring business costs if clear air legislation that the US House passed in June becomes law, a study commissioned by the American...
Evidence grows in support of the longstanding suspicion by many oil and gas operators that trading of financial instruments related to crude oil, oil products, and natural gas...
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on a visit to the town of Igarka in Krasnoyarsk Territory, boasted that the region will eventually provide more than 115 million tons/year...
General Interest —Quick TakesNorway eyes $2 trillion oil industry expenditureNorway hopes to tap into $2 trillion of the oil industry's expenditure over 2009-13, according to ...
The Natural Gas Supply Association and American Gas Association responded differently to proposed new federal requirements requiring the daily posting of the scheduled flow of...
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court's decision that the US Minerals Management Service did not need to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement before conducting...
A proposed 302-mile natural gas pipeline from a site near Gillette, Wyo., to an interconnection in Morton County, ND, would have some adverse environmental impacts that could ...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who recently launched a major new oil field, has been told that state-owned pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft is on schedule with construction...
Back in the 1930s during the Great Depression, humorist Will Rogers once cracked that Americans are the only people in the world to drive themselves to the poor house.
The editorial "Politics and fuel choice" hit a point with me as you noted, "Energy choices are best left to free markets, fully informed" (OGJ, Aug. 10, 2009, p. 18).
Tool offers clearer picture of formationsThe new GEM elemental analysis tool offers rapid and precise evaluation of formations with complex mineralogies.As the newest addition...
Transocean Ltd.,NewmanZug, Switzerland, has named Steven L. Newman, president and COO, to succeed Robert L. Long, who will retire as CEO in first quarter 2010. Newman was appointed...
Gas-on-gas supply competition is accelerating in the US gulf region and competition with Rocky Mountain natural gas supplies on the Rockies Express pipeline will only accelerate...
StatoilHydro's Hammerfest LNG plant on Melkoya Island in northern Norway will be shut down on Aug. 15 for upgrading and maintenance for as long as 3 months, the company announced...
LNG will not reach Pakistan before 2015, with pipeline gas from Iran not expected before 2014, according to the new brief "Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Deal: Future Role of Gas and ...
The United Steelworkers Union has called for a nationwide phaseout of hydrogen fluoride alkylation units at refineries, saying solid-state catalysts offer promise as a safer alternative...
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd., Denver, plans to reenter, deepen, and test the Shenandoah-1 exploration well in the Beetaloo subbasin of Australia's McArthur basin, where a resource evaluation...
Denver independent Venoco Inc. sees 2010 as the year it begins to exploit California's Miocene Monterey shale in earnest and believes more than 10 billion bbl of original oil ...
