A new empirical correlation can help engineers size chokes for controlling gas-condensate production and predicting the performance of flowing wells under different conditions...
The Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC), which moved massive volumes of equipment to help oil and gas producers and pipeline companies restore operations after two 100-year storms...
Burgeoning activity in the worldwide construction of oil and natural gas pipelines looked set to continue this year and beyond as 2006 began, based on reports from the world’s...
The government issued preliminary approval for a unit of Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary, to explore the 83,264-acre Aretusa Permit (d348 C. .R.-VG) on the Ragusa plateau in the Mediterranea...
Isolationism is neither sound nor achievable as a route to energy security. Yet it’s the path toward which US President George W. Bush says he’ll steer his country.
The new Scanner family of wireline measurement services promises to deliver more simultaneous radial measurements-in true 3D-at multiple depths of investigation to help users ...
Crude and natural gas futures prices peaked in intraday trading Feb. 1 at their highest levels in weeks before spiraling down among mixed market signals.
Just read your editorial "Abramoff and Energy" (OGJ, Jan. 16, 2006, p. 17). You zero in on the many abuses that the lobbyist culture has heaped on individuals and businesses in...
Most US petroleum industry sectors remain unconcentrated or lightly concentrated despite mergers that have occurred in the last 20 years, a Federal Trade Commission member told...
The “destructive impact” of up-spiraling prices could slow world demand for natural gas, especially LNG, cautioned Marie-Françoise Chabrelie, Secretary General of Paris-based ...
Despite gas-market deregulation, Europe remains “a patchwork of markets, each retaining its own gas-use specificities,” a Cedigaz official told Institut Français du Pétrole’s ...
The Chadian experiment is faltering. Landlocked, poor, and fractiously governed, Chad was supposed to refute the paradox economists call “the resource curse.
Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali I. al-Naimi has dismissed the idea of mandating costly alternatives to oil in the name of a cleaner environment, saying such a move could actually...
The role of geopolitics has “made a significant comeback on the oil and gas scene,” said Institut Français du Pétrole Pres. Olivier Appert at a press conference in Paris before...
Cambridge Energy Research Associates recommends that the US Securities and Exchange Commission rely on Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) methods for oil and gas reserves definitions...
The oil industry’s lack of knowledge about current world demand for crude and its subsequent growth “is probably the weakest link in our efforts to understand the future,” said...
Senate energy leaders said they will introduce a bill to finally open Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 181 acreage in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas development-with...
Indonesia is unlikely to raise its planned output to 1.3 million b/d of crude oil by 2009 due to the lack of exploration and development, according to Cyril Noerhadi, finance ...
A further drop in Russian exports of natural gas to Europe is expected due to severely cold weather, according to a Jan. 20 statement from East European Gas Analysis, Malvern,...
The US should not overlook its oil and gas resources as it tries to develop energy alternatives, two trade association executives said in response to the energy research initiative...
Short-term prospects for the UK oil and gas industry remain strong, but proposed changes to the country’s tax policy have heightened industry concerns about the durability of ...