Managing explosive growth at the technical, financial, and human level is the biggest challenge facing companies in developing a 300 billion resource in Canada's northern Alberta...
Operators are turning increasingly to sophisticated in situ techniques to tap deeper formations in the oil sands regions of northern Alberta. But surface mining operations still...
Norsk Hydro AS has employed multilateral well completions in the Troll Olje field to increase the total wellbore drainage area from the existing subsea template structures, rather...
Mild hydrocracking (MHC) provides a profitable minimum-investment route to achieve incremental vacuum gas oil (VGO) conversion while producing high quality, low-sulfur fuels from...
Variations in production rate and future tie-ins were two factors that influenced the design of large OD flowlines for carrying gas ashore from subsea-completed deepwater fields...
There's a growing sense of anticipation in the heart of Africa as Canadian independent Heritage Oil & Gas Corp. and partner Energy Africa Ltd. prepare to drill their first exploration...
There has been little bearishness in the physical fundamentals of oil markets of late, but certainly not enough to warrant the drop of more than $4/bbl in the latter weeks of ...
After formally adopting API Standard 653 for its tank inspection and repair program, Colonial Pipeline Co, Atlanta, Ga., has developed procedures based on risk-management principles...
The politics of global warming tumbled in the US but landed upright last week. First the Environmental Protection Agency provoked media delirium with a boilerplate report to the...
If US President George W. Bush had no option other than to sacrifice national interest to Florida politics and family relations, he at least should have kept his brother from ...
Spoolable carbon composite (SCC) line pipe in diameters up through 4 in. and pressures up through 7,500 psig is available from this company's new group.
They don't make Democrats like this anymore. Shortly after World War II, in choosing members to serve in an advisory capacity at deliberations of the Repar ations Commission to...
Newfield Exploration Co. has signed an agreement to acquire EEX Corp. in a deal valued at $640 million. The transaction-which will include the assumption of debt, net of cash,...
The United Nations' updated Iraq sanctions regime has no provisions to deter oil smuggling and illicit trade or to reintroduce weapons inspectors, according to an analysis by ...
The oil and gas industry is in the early stages of a cyclical upturn, with "significant upside" remaining for investors in exploration and production companies and oil field service...
Ian Lundin, president of Swedish oil and gas exploration company Lundin Petroleum AB, also has been named chairman of the company. Lundin succeeds Adolf Lundin, who is relinquishing...
US companies with languishing interests in Libya said late last month that they are growing increasingly hopeful that international and US sanctions against the North African ...
There is no "intrinsic reason" why Europe can't develop into a natural gas commodity market like the US, instead of remaining tied to long-term contracts and pricing formulas ...