Environmental stewardship and employee safety ranked high among issues major oil companies addressed in the lengthy, nonfinancial disclosures for 2006 that some companies call...
A company’s safety performance and avoidance of catastrophic events is a direct result of the organization’s corporate culture, according to Carolyn Merritt, Former Chairman of...
For the past several years, a study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed procedures for independent estimation of flared gas volumes...
Onshore oil and gas activity in the Rocky Mountains is threatening public health and the environment in producing areas, witnesses told a US House committee on Oct. 31.
China and India are expected to continue using coal as a major source of energy supplies, which would greatly increase the world’s carbon emissions, with drastic consequences ...
Producers should seek to double oil recovery efficiency worldwide and pursue the target through effective use of technology and wise management, says a former head of reservoir...
General Interest - Quick TakesKuwaiti oil minister quits after 8-day tenureBader Mishari al-Humaidhi, Kuwait’s oil minister, has resigned after only 8 days in office because opposition...
For the oil industry, the news from Sudan is anything but good. Indeed, while using the Darfur problem to keep his grip on the country’s oil-rich south, Sudanese President Omar...
New offshore capsule holds as many as six personsThe Frog-6-a higher-capacity version of the original, three-person Frog-3 (OGJ, Apr. 9, 2007, p. 67)-is designed to move as many...
A former US senator who helped formulate federal deepwater leasing incentives in the early 1990s warned that imposing price thresholds now on 1998-99 Gulf of Mexico leases could...
US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) said he does not expect to see a reworked 2007 federal energy bill to appear before the Senate takes...
Wood Mackenzie Ltd., Edinburgh, expects 13 million b/d of crude distillation capacity to be built within the next 5 years out of the 20 million b/d proposed worldwide.
Eighty-five dollar crude oil is obscene! The traders on the New York Mercantile Exchange are gambling with the economic health of the US and the world.
Crude prices swung sharply during the trading week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2, fluctuating at record levels of $93-95/bbl that had many analysts anticipating $100/bbl oil within weeks....
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corp.Falls Church, Va., has announced the appointment of David Cunningham as vice-president and general manager of the company’s Valve Systems Div....
