Costs for the five equipment items that make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed during 2010-11. The miscellaneous equipment index average rose ...
A number of fields in Egypt are expected to undergo one or more enhanced oil recovery methods in the near future. This article summarizes an investigation on the applicability...
This final of three articles that present selections from the 2011 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 9-12; San Antonio) highlights crude...
US refining industry's compliance with the current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) appears impossible in the near future and could result in massive fines by the US Environmental...
Researchers derived five corrosion rate distributions from different pit growth models and used them to perform reliability analyses of underground pipelines from synthetic and...
The US oil and gas industry has good reasons to question heavy subsidization by the federal government of vehicles powered partly or wholly by electricity.
Construction of an Alaska in-state natural gas pipeline is feasible at any of three flow rate scenarios: 500 MMcfd, 750 MMcfd, and 1,000 MMcfd. Selection of a particular rate ...
On May 24, President Barack Obama visited wind turbine blade manufacturer TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa. While there, he announced that his "to do list" for Congress included...
Oil prices fluctuated widely in mid-September as analysts and traders tried daily to interpret market indicators from a flood of economic data. The result was an energy market...
Horton Wison Deepwater Inc.,Houston, named Gregory Navarre president of the company and a member of its board of directors, succeeding Jim Maher who recently resigned to pursue...
New current-sensing switchThe ASXP current-sensing switch is now available with a user-adjustable set point of 1-80 amp.Units are powered versions of the company's current switches...
ExxonMobil Corp. agreed to buy Bakken formation assets in North Dakota and Montana covering 196,000 net acres from Denbury Resources Inc. for $1.6 billion.
US Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced a bill on Sept. 20 designed to expand the use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery...
Western-led sanctions against Iran's oil exports aiming to push Tehran to return to negotiations on uranium enrichment have displaced from the market more than 1 million b/d of...
US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, decreased by 4.3% in August from a year earlier to 18.6 million b/d, according to the latest monthly statistics from American Petroleum...
Chesapeake Energy Corp. and most other companies having stakes in Ohio's Utica shale say they remain optimistic about the emerging play's potential, but one company, EnerVest ...
Four US House Energy and Commerce Committee members—Republicans Pete Olson (Tex.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Democrats Gene Green (Tex.) and Jim Matheson (Utah)—introduced...
Global LPG trade, generally supply-driven in the past and likely to continue to be, is nonetheless seeing sharp changes in its dynamics, according to a report recently compiled...
US Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said he will introduce a bill, the Empower States Act, to ensure that states remain primary regulators of hydraulic fracturing and similar oil and gas...
Former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freduenthal (D) urged the two major parties' presidential nominees to more specifically outline their energy policy plans if they win the 2012 election...
At the heart of the Marcellus shale natural gas development debate in Pennsylvania lies a basic question that John H. Quigley feels hasn't been satisfactorily answered: Does gas...
Natural gas and oil from unconventional resource plays, rightly characterized as "revolutionary," will supplement but not necessarily dominate a market for transportation fuel...