Costs for the five equipment items which make up the Nelson-Farrar miscellaneous equipment cost index were mixed in the 2000-01 period. The miscellaneous equipment index average...
A corrosion-related failure of a tube fitting on an offshore platform highlights a potential safety issue that could affect thousands of fittings currently in service worldwide...
The utilization rate of central gas processing fractionators in Alberta should improve from now until 2010. This rate of central fractionation capacity dipped in 2001, coinciding...
Preliminary results for varied temperature and pressure-loading conditions suggest that operators should analyze wells on an individual basis and apply forward-looking design ...
Before foes of electricity deregulation draw grand conclusions from an official opinion against El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline Co., they should ask why the supposed market manipulation...
The new Anchor pump 101E is an electrically operated positive displacement piston jack version with a top head drive motor suited for low flow bottom intake recovery at abandoned...
New Iberia, La., has appointed Allen C. Porter Jr. as its president and chief executive officer, as well as president of Allen Process Systems LLC; and Bill Downey as its executive...
As part of work to develop a set of functional specifications for the Angola LNG project, Angola's state oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola (Sonangol) and...
Ms. Judah's comments regarding the desirability of replacing US oil and gas technical staffs with foreign nationals strike me as ironic (OGJ, Sept. 23, 2002, p. 18).
Operators' stellar performance in more than replacing US production in 2001 revealed some interesting differences with respect to gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it will acquire Houston-based Howell Corp. in a cash deal valued at $265 million, which includes an estimated $65 million of Howell's bank debt once...
For the first time in 15 months, the near-month natural gas futures price jumped above $4/Mcf on the New York Mercantile Exchange at the end of September as the second major tropical...
Following related House action earlier this summer, the US Senate unanimously approved a measure that seeks to prohibit new drilling activity on 36 undeveloped federal oil and...
A 7-year analysis of operating expenses among 100 exploration and production firms in nearly 3,000 fields indicates "companies are responding to strong influence of economic drivers...
A 2-day workshop by offshore industry participants and government regulators in Houston late last month found "no identifiable roadblocks" barring use of floating production, ...
Government and industry officials from the US and Russia called for production-sharing agreements (PSAs), a transparent and fair tax regime, and definitive minerals rights laws...
The way federal agencies use data to form new regulations and policies changed Oct. 1, thanks to a little-known piece of legislation called the Data Quality Act. Industry proponents...
Turkmenistan is an important natural gas and oil-producing former Soviet republic of Central Asia whose potential is significant but constrained by a lack of certainty in hydrocarbon...
Curved-ray prestack Kirchhoff time migration is rapidly replacing other seismic time migration methods for focusing seismic images of subsurface structures.