In the past, abandoning fields on land was relatively easy, with the major consideration being to seal wells to prevent contaminating freshwater aquifers.
Negotiations between the Saudi government and multinational companies over a natural gas development plan worth over $25 billion are taking a more serious turn this summer.
Critical for properly designing cement slurries, drilling engineers must accurately predict bottomhole circulating temperatures (BHCT) during drilling and completion of oil and...
Some Gulf of Mexico operators have eliminated their well abandonment, facility-decommissioning liabilities by selling properties close to the end of their producing life to a ...
The end is fast approaching for Frigg, a giant natural gas field with associated condensate that straddles the median line between the Norwegian and UK sectors of the North Sea...
Mild weather and high storage volumes pushed down US natural gas futures prices to levels not seen since March on the New York Mercantile Exchange early last week.
An interagency group has given the White House a new greenhouse gas emissions plan that calls on regulators to encourage a standardized way for industry to voluntarily reduce ...
Carlyss, La., has appointed Craig Milburn as operations manager for Global Divers, based in New Iberia, La.; Bill Alexander as business development manager-North America, based...
In an earlier article, we addressed the issue, "How we can map the natural open fractures and the porosity zones by using elastic nonlinear measurements of the reservoir rocks...
A method to determine safe and cost-effective intervals for conducting future intelligent pig inspections has been developed and validated with pipeline details and inspection...
The administration of US President George W. Bush has objected to two of the three most obnoxious provisions of energy legislation under consideration by a House-Senate conference...
The oil price graph curve seems to be flatlining these days. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Oil prices scarcely budged in the first week of July-albeit at a robust level ...
A new United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report deals sternly with Arab nations about important issues many of them would rather ignore. No less vital are messages it bears...
