Operators in the US Gulf Coast region complete most wells with some kind of sand-control measure, ranging from resin-coated sand to pre-packed gravel pack screens. Resins break...
Upgraded bituminous crudes are expected to contribute more than 1 million b/d to global oil supplies this year, according to a new analysis by London think tank Centre for Global...
Several major companies are backing a Canadian pilot project to demonstrate a technology aimed at cutting the cost of transporting heavy oil via pipeline and increasing market...
Oil companies will spend $20 billion developing the deep waters off Angola during the next 5 years, positioning the West Africa nation to become Africa's second largest oil producer...
Shell Oil Co., a wholly owned member of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, has agreed to acquire Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. for $1.8 billion in cash and $1.1 billion in debt.
Kerr-McGee Corp. led into Sale 182 with announcement that it had made three oil and gas discoveries on separate fault blocks in its core East Breaks area of the deepwater Gulf...
The General Services Administration Mar. 15 suspended Enron Corp., related Enron corporate entities, several former Enron officials, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP, and...
Houston, has announced creation of their Value Added Services Group, and named Bill Ross senior vice-president to head the new business unit. Ross is a longtime member of A2D'...
Custodian C, a new low-cost four-gas monitor, offers simplified features and easy operation via a single button. One button turns the instrument on and off and resets the alarms...
CorrectionSeveral errors occurred in the article, "US Rockies 'discoveries': Analogs for the future," by M. Ray Thomasson and Fred F. Meissner (OGJ, Dec. 10, 2001, pp. 44-50)....
Companies offered $363.2 million in apparent high bids for 506 offshore tracts at Sale 182 in the central Gulf of Mexico, the US Minerals Management Service reported.
An independent power plant is to start up in south-central Tunisia at midyear, fed by gas from two marginal fields developed by a Canadian independent operator.
A small Canadian independent said it has discovered what appears to be an important oil and gas trend in a sparsely drilled portion of northwestern Ohio.
