Conoco Inc., Houston, and Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla., completed their $15 billion merger into the third largest US-based integrated oil firm Aug. 30 just hours...
Consolidation within the energy industry has again abbreviated the OGJ200 list of publicly traded US oil and gas producers. The list now comprises only 176 firms.
As part of an overall environmental strategy initiated 2 years ago to reduce its environmental "footprint" worldwide, Noble Corp., Houston, has targeted its diesel-powered drilling...
This edition of the OGJ100-Oil & Gas Journal's look at the top 100 oil and gas producing enterprises based outside the US-reveals that while output increased last year, profits...
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has marked further progress in readying new floating production facilities for installation in the deepwater Campos basin off Brazil.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has targeted a major increase in oil and gas production and reserves from the deep and ultradeep waters of the Campos basin off Rio de Janeiro by the end...
A diverse coalition of energy and environment stakeholders have agreed to support a US Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored initiative designed to reduce global urban air...
Debate over production quotas at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' upcoming ministerial meeting Sept. 19 in Osaka, Japan, should provoke "more fireworks" than...
The United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development advanced from a position of early triumph to end last week with laudable self-restraint. As already noted here, the ...
A broad coalition of stakeholders pledged support for a variety of clean energy initiatives at a United Nations-sponsored summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg, South...
The concept of sustainable development was accorded the status of competitive differentiator for the oil and gas industry of the future at the 17th World Petroleum Congress in...
Mergers and acquisitions are the key to the shrinking of the OGJ200 list of publicly traded US oil and gas producers, as profiled beginning on p. 70. This consolidation of the...
The world's increasing thirst for oil and gas received more attention at the Offshore Northern Seas Conference in Stavanger last week than the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change...
Having lived in Alaska for nearly 25 years, I've explored the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge many times, including the area that has been proposed for oil drilling. My book, ...
Mechanical damage is a leading cause of significant failures in pipelines and the number one cause of pipeline incidents reportable to the US Department of Transportation. It ...
Chatsworth, Calif., has announced the promotion of Hal Koyama to senior vice-president of sales and marketing, and Jeff Willis to senior vice-president of engineer ing.
"…When a country that emits 25% of the world's greenhouse gases acts as an uninterested, sometimes hostile bystander in the environmental debate, it looks like unbearable arrogance...
