Willbros International Inc.’s unit Constructora CAMSA SA used the bottom pull method recently to install pipelines in the expansion of an existing sea-island marine shipping terminal...
April 2005 saw the loadout of the production-drilling-quarters (PDQ) semisubmersible platform for the BP PLC operated Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico.
Now that building a new fifth-generation semisubmersible would cost more than $400 million, the upcoming $250-million upgrade of Victory-class semisubmersible Ocean Endeavor appears...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has called for dialogue between Japan and China to help settle their growing disagreement over oil and gas drilling rights in disputed...
On Apr. 22-Earth Day-Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream subsidiary of Unilever NV, protested the long-standing proposal to drill the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by creating...
Russian natural gas giant OAO Gazprom will resume receiving supplies of natural gas from Turkmenistan after the countries ended a 17-week stand-off over the price.
Escalating demand for crude in the China Rim region-comprising China and 18 surrounding countries-will outstrip supply over the next 5-50 years and precipitate a crisis of “economic...
Official corruption, sabotage, and oil smuggling are costing Iraq billions of dollars each year, according to officials from the Oil Ministry and the State Organization for Marketing...
US refiners will need to supply motorists with increasingly clean fuels produced from increasingly sour crude oil, and it won’t be easy, experts warned during an US Energy Information...
Large projects recently completed or under way in Saudi Arabia represent production capacity of 3 million b/d of crude oil, the kingdom’s energy minister said at an Apr.
The months preceding the 1973 embargo witnessed a marathon of negotiations over prices, taxes, and shares between governments of the oil-producing countries and the international...
The phrase "oil weapon" almost universally calls to mind the October oil embargo of 1973, although various countries have used oil as a political weapon in recent history.