When the 110th Congress begins to examine the US Department of Interior’s proposed budget for fiscal 2008 in a few weeks, it will evaluate programs in DOI agencies.
A 500-kw solar photovoltaic project, Solarmine, provides daytime electricity to Chevron Corp.’s part of Midway-Sunset heavy oil field in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Federal officials recognized the possibility that increasing royalty rates could reduce future initial deepwater oil and gas bonus bids, a Department of the Interior official ...
Promoting biofuels as an alternative to petroleum products, the Chinese government has set a goal of producing 2 million tonnes/year of biofuels by 2010 and 10 million tonnes/...
US President George W. Bush has set ambitious goals for displacing gasoline with renewable fuels and has announced plans to double capacity of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ...
The administration of President George W. Bush supports repealing certain tax provisions favoring oil and gas and encouraging holders of deepwater Gulf of Mexico leases issued...
Integrated oil and gas companies have established subsidiaries to research and develop alternative and renewable energy sources, anticipating a global need for diverse new supply...
GuineaHyperdynamics Corp., Houston, was attempting to interest potential farmees in a 31,000 sq mile concession in the Atlantic off nonproducing Guinea that it has held for several...
Adeputy speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament last month said his country is a guarantor of energy stability and energy security for Asia-Pacific countries.
According to environmentalists and a growing array of politicians, biofuels are going to dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil supplies, replace dirty fossil energy...
US House members on Jan. 18 passed HR 6, which would repeal selected oil and gas federal tax incentives, pressure holders of deepwater leases issued without price thresholds to...
General Interest - Quick TakesUK N. Sea operators eye international marketsA growing number of UK North Sea operators are focusing on building their businesses in international...
In the article published in the Aug. 21, 2006, issue of Oil & Gas Journal, p. 38, entitled “Smarter clocks automate multiple well plunger lift,” the author wishes to clarify that...
Supply and demand balance reports issued by Bentek Energy LLC, an energy analyst based in Golden, Colo., have indicated in recent weeks a significant drop in North American natural...
Knowledge SystemsSteve HobartClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has made several appointments to fill new software and service positions created as part of the company’s recently...
