A New Jersey Superior Court judge approved a $225-million environmental settlement between the state and ExxonMobil Corp. to resolve environmental damages over several decades...
FUGROFugro has extended its integrated survey services to help improve efficiency in coastal management and enable more informed decision-making. A new agreement with global specialist...
Unconventional oil and gas resource development has raised unexpected taxation questions that potentially could strain federal, state, and local government relationships, a public...
Eni SPA expects accelerated development of what it describes as a "supergiant gas discovery" at its deepwater Zohr prospect offshore Egypt. The company will immediately appraise...
Disclosure of what might be a supergiant gas field off Egypt further complicates the geopolitical tangle confronting development of an expanding hydrocarbon treasure in the eastern...
Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) has let a series of contracts to groups of oil and gas service providers to build the planned 615,000-b/d Al-Zour refinery complex in southern...
US crude oil production in June totaled 9.3 million b/d, a decline of 100,000 b/d from the revised May figure, according to the US Energy Information Administration's Petroleum...
The basins along the eastern African margin and Madagascar contain proven petroleum systems where hydrocarbon discoveries are classified either as stratigraphic traps or as having...
Fresh water used in hydraulic fracturing contains microbes that can proliferate in storage tanks under the right conditions. These microbes degrade guar-based fracing fluids, ...
Oil & Gas Journal's latest look at the top 100 oil and gas producing companies based outside the US shows that profits were down worldwide last year, weighted by the sharp decline...
This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum continues a discussion of safety and also...
Net income for the OGJ150 group plummeted 17.48% in 2014 to $73.98 billion. This was the worst performance in dollar terms for annual profits for the OGJ group since 2010.
Combining circumferential stresses with additional stresses produced by fluid seepage creates a new model which can be combined with the conventional model to fully describe in...
A study released Sept. 1 by the US Energy Information Administration was apparent cause for celebration for several oil and gas industry groups, which took its findings as confirmation...
The US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers began to implement their controversial Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in all but 13 states on Aug....
The White House quietly refused to rule out oil and gas development in Alaska as US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, and other top officials prepared ...
Egypt has finalized a series of joint agreements with a subsidiary of Technip SA, Paris, to provide work on projects designed to upgrade and modernize operations at two of the...
Before anyone snickers too loudly that the "comprehensive" energy bill the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee planned to mark up on July 28 contained no significant...
In reaction to Russia's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, the European Union and the US have launched two-pronged sanctions against the Russian oil sector.
Permitting problems and delays affecting North American LNG export projects could combine with an overhang of LNG supply to make it difficult for North American LNG projects that...
Our previous installment on US refining industry concentration examined how frenzied mergers, acquisitions, other partnerships, and shutdowns that occurred from 1995 to 2005 consolidate...
Gasoline processing operations, with a focus on safety, blending, and reforming issues, garnered considerable attention during the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers...
Greater information-sharing and a new operational framework will help the oil industry mitigate project delays and overall risk. This article looks at how such a framework has...
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has plunged boldly-or accidentally-into the treacherous mists of energy taxation in a manner potentially useful to the oil and gas industry.
Low and ultra-low permeability sandstones account for much of the increase in gas reserves in China. Effectively developing these reservoirs has been a research focus in the region...
Let's stay homeAs President Obama readies a new surge in Iraq, we can sense the eerie similarity with Vietnam. In each case we intruded on a civil war; Iraq has two or three. ...
US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced legislation that would end the ban on US crude oil exports, and establish federal Outer...
The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a voluntary methane reduction program for the natural gas industry that would allow companies to make commitments and track their...
JSC Gazprom Neft has gained final approval from Russian government regulators to begin construction on its long-planned combined oil refinery unit (CORU) upgrade and modernization...
US Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said it would be geopolitically, economically, and strategically absurd for the US to maintain outmoded oil and gas export restrictions...
Iran's resumption of oil and gas exports, once sanctions are lifted under the recently negotiated nuclear limits agreement, probably won't flood global markets initially, the ...
Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, increased 4.2% from June 2014 to average 19.6 million b/d last month. In the second quarter, demand gained 3.7% compared with...
Congressional committee debate over the 40-year ban on exporting US-produced crude oil continued to break largely along party lines as the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing...
The steep decline in oil prices has led to deep capital spending cuts in the oil and gas industry. Integrated oil companies and the larger independents have announced cuts of ...
Quantum Energy Inc., Tempe, Ariz., said it will form a joint venture with Native Son Holdings LLC (NSH), The Woodlands, Tex., to build North Dakota's third refinery.
