Experience in 2008 with various marketed process simulators modeling Suncor’s Simonette gas plant showed that predicted results differed widely from actual operating conditions...
Front-month crude contracts jumped June 30 to “fake” intraday highs of $73.38/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange—the highest this year—and $73.50/bbl on the International...
General Interest — Quick TakesImpacts estimated for hydraulic fracturingUS economic strength would be reduced by several billion dollars in the next 5 years if hydraulic fracturing...
Various forecasters have lowered their expectation for increases in bitumen production from Alberta oil sands, but most still see a sizable rise during the next decade, with bitumen...
Consulting engineers arrived at a best estimate of 67.3 tcf of gas in place in the overpressured Carboniferous Frederick Brook shale in the Sussex and Elgin subbasins in southern...
Australian Worldwide Exploration Ltd., Sydney, is looking at drilling three or four exploration play types in its summer exploration in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin.
Russia’s OAO Gazprom and South Korea’s Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) have signed a memorandum of understanding to study the possibilities of supplying Russian natural gas to South Korea...
International oil companies (IOCs) have largely rejected terms offered by Iraq in the country’s first bidding process for more than 30 years, with one bid awarded for an oil field...
Showa Shell Sekiyu KK’s wholly owned subsidiary Showa Shell Solar KK and Saudi Aramco have agreed to explore “the possibility” of engaging in a small-scale electric power generation...
Nigeria’s militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), reiterating its long-standing demands that international oil companies leave the oil-producing Niger...
If you believe Chinese oil and gas officials, ethnic clashes in the province of Xinjiang—where 150 people are reported to have been killed—have not affected any operations at ...
US Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis plans a construction safety initiative in Texas to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities, she told a meeting of the American...
Some refineries and their contractors are receiving a high number of violations as a result of the National Emphasis Program (NEP), US Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Natural gas’s position as a cleaner form of energy and possible bridge to renewable and alternative sources isn’t insulating it from closer environmental scrutiny.
Alaska Gov. Sarah H. Palin listed her efforts to begin constructing a massive natural gas pipeline as one of her main accomplishments when she announced her resignation on July...
The latest forecast by the International Energy Agency states that global oil demand will rise 0.6%/year during 2008-14, pushing demand to average 89 million b/d in 2014 from ...
Energy and climate change are important topics. And because energy production and use are sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the two are linked.
New controls on emissions of greenhouse gases will raise the costs of petroleum supplied from oil sands by amounts that depend on the extent of regulation and on progress in abatement...
Producers in Alberta’s oil sands region rightly worry about one of the worst ideas in the rich stew of energy-policy poison now at high boil in the US.
As one reads the editorials of June 1—on the mind-numbing subsidies for renewable energy—and June 9—on the costs of “cap and trade” and “energy reform that will asphyxiate itself...
