Safety and security concerns in the refining industry have become a greater challenge for refinery operators and contractors in the wake of terrorism threats and megadisasters...
At the International Association of Drilling Contractors conference in Amsterdam, Feb. 20-22, 2007, leaders from two of the world’s largest operating companies, the largest offshore...
Iran’s government is moving away from an oil-export based economy by increasing the priority of its gas resources development, including the expansion of its petrochemical industry...
In the energy industry, the world is not flat. Concentration of oil and gas resources in a handful of small, powerful, and resource-nationalistic governments and their respective...
This article presents an easy and simple spreadsheet procedure for custody-transfer calculations of the base compressibility factor for any pair of pressure and temperature conditions...
Expenditures for drilling, seismic surveying, and workover programs in Russia amounted to $11.4 billion in 2006 and is forecast to rise to $22.5 billion by 2011, according to ...
API Publication 353, released in November 2006, provides an organized approach to facility integrity management and provides examples of two different methods for performing a...
Government policymakers seeking to determine where new LNG terminals are to be located and how existing facilities and tankers can be protected need additional studies conducted...
General Interest - Quick TakesSenator proposes extension on 1998, 1999 leasesUS Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) reported plans to propose 3-year extensions of federal Gulf of Mexico...
US refiners are applying lessons learned from the Mar. 23, 2005, fire and explosion at BP America Inc.’s Texas City, Tex., refinery to improving existing operating practices and...
BP PLC had a “broken safety culture” at the time of the Mar. 23, 2005, fire and explosion at its 460,000 b/d Texas City, Tex., refinery that killed 15 people and injured 180 others...
Worldwide transaction values for upstream corporate and asset deals totaled more than $166 billion last year compared with more than $160 billion during 2005, consultants said...
