Mounting regulatory pressures and rising service and supply costs are pushing the pipeline industry toward a more preemptive approach in ensuring pipeline integrity.
A revamp of the crude unit in ConocoPhillips’ Ponca City, Okla., refinery has allowed the refiner to process a lower-cost slate and increased overall refinery profitability.
Low water-cement ratios, heat-insulating additives, and expanded vermiculite work together to prevent formation of defective cement sheaths in Arctic wellbores.
National Iranian Gas Co. plans steady expansion of transmission and processing infrastructure in a program that envisions increases in imports and exports of natural gas.
Bolivia President Evo Morales’s decision May 1 to take control of the country’s oil and gas fields has prompted Brazil to seek alternate gas suppliers.
General Interest - Quick TakesDomenici calls hearing on BP Prudhoe troublesUS Congress has scheduled a second hearing to discuss BP PLC’s pipeline problems on Alaska’s North Slope...
New software helps improve process unit throughputPetro-SIM Express, the latest addition to this firm’s software solutions, can be used to help improve unit throughput, monitoring...
Alaska Atty. Gen. David Marquez said a taskforce is reviewing the state’s legal rights regarding the partial shutdown on Prudhoe Bay oil field and the extent BP Exploration (Alaska...
The Aug. 16 western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 200 was “the best in 9 years,” said US Minerals Management Service officials, despite a federal judge’s warning that pending court...
The US Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office, which expected to have significantly greater interest in its Aug. 15 oil and gas lease sale than a year earlier, leased 86% more...
US Federal Trade Commission monitors of gasoline and diesel fuel prices have detected sudden price increases for diesel during the last 2 weeks in the Mississippi River Valley...
Shipping Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Mexican, or Saudi crude to the US West Coast to replace Alaskan North Slope (ANS) crude makes no economic or logistical sense.
Crude prices tumbled Aug. 14-17, dropping a total $4.29 to a 2-month low closing of $70.06/bbl on the New York market after a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire in Lebanon went...
China’s unsuccessful bid for a US oil company last year bodes ominously for American fiscal health, argues Laurence J. Kotlikoff, a Boston University economics professor.
AzerbaijanEurasia Energy Ltd., Aberdeenshire, Scotland, plans to start negotiating with State Oil Co. of the Azerbaijan Republic in November 2006 to develop a 600 sq km shallow...
