Working through the night, the US Senate approved a legislative package including its OCS leasing reform bill early Dec. 9 and sent it to the White House for President George ...
Worldwide oil and gas reserves rose in 2006 as oil production posted a small increase from a year earlier, according to Oil & Gas Journal’s annual worldwide survey of production...
A compositional program in a dynamic mode simulated multiphase flow through porous media and predicted condensate formation in a gas-condensate reservoir in southern Iran’s Aghar...
AustraliaOil production began Nov. 18 from Callawonga-1, which operator Beach Petroleum NL, Adelaide, describes as the most westerly output achieved in the Cooper/Eromanga region...
New personal airline systemHere’s the new NIOSH approved supplied airline respirator with a 5 or 10-min self-contained air cylinder for emergency entry or escape in potentially...
As demand for hydrocarbons continues to rise, it becomes increasingly important not only that new sources of supply are found and developed, but also that the resulting production...
The January natural gas contract registered the lowest closing price in 10 weeks on the New York futures market after the Energy Information Administration reported the withdrawal...
Elevated exploration and production activity has driven up costs for operators. This was bound to lead to a slowdown in companies’ ability to continue to drill and profit at the...
General Interest - Quick TakesGazprom may buy half of Shell’s Sakhalin-2 stakeRoyal Dutch Shell PLC, under stepped-up pressure from the Russian government, is close to making ...
A federally funded technology that could change the way oil and gas wells are drilled was successfully demonstrated in the US Midcontinent, the US Department of Energy said.
We never imagined-never for a minute-that Chinese officials would react so swiftly to our comment last week about the increasing use of biofuels and the upward pressure that puts...
Existing state gas-storage statutes and regulatory frameworks should govern future carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, says an Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission task...
The US Senate passed an amended pipeline safety bill by voice vote on Dec. 7, following House passage of the measure on a similarly expedited basis (OGJ Online, Dec. 7, 2006)....
Although most companies in a sample of US-based oil and gas firms posted moderate third-quarter 2006 profits or losses, big earnings gains by a handful of large operators propelled...